The MyVA national piloting sessions have taken place in the November -- December 2022 period. In all partner countries young and future entrepreneurs have tested the Mini MBA course, the platform, which is the developed open educational resource for future Virtual Assistants. Alongside useful information about how to set up an enterprise, the MyVA resources play an important role in understanding the use of the platform and the developed materials.
In **Söderhamn**, Sweden at Staffangymnasiet on the 8 December, five, 19-year-old students have tried out the MyVA developments together with two VET trainers. Following a brief introduction of the project and its objectives, the MyVA materials have been presented. The students were interested and curious and took the tasks with enthusiasm. Some of them rather focused on the structure of the website, whilst others were more engaged with its content. Positive feedback has been received, even though it has been highlighted that there is considerable amount of information. Nevertheless, participants also think that the platform content would be useful in case they decide to open up solopreneur businesses.
The piloting sessions in the **Czech Republic** were implemented in a combined way. The sessions have been started jointly on the 23 November where participants and trainers got to know each other and the MINI MBA course was presented. Together with the course, the MyVA resources and other tools, the online platform was also presented to the audience. After assigning certain tasks to the participants, on the basis of which they could reflect on their own form of podcasting as a VA, individual meetings have been scheduled with all 5 participants between the tutor and the trainee. Everybody was satisfied with the outcomes of the sessions, they find the materials user-friendly and easy to use, even though a considerable number of documents had to be consulted. Positive feedback was received.
In the **United Kingdom**, five 5 young people (Millennials) and two VET teacher/trainers with a keen interest in on-line enterprises such as a Virtual Enterprise, took part in several piloting activities. In addition to completing the MyVA Mini MBA learning programme, they also evaluated and used 5 -- 6 MyVA template tools. The learner's feedback was positive and complimentary -- they did comment that the quantity of resources and tools was a little 'overwhelming'. With this feedback in mind, Exponential Training is already considering how it will adapt the MyVA programme to provide a longer, more supported learning experience as part of its longer-term exploitation plans.
In **Denmark**, even though the recruiting process proved to be quite challenging, a successful piloting session has been put in place after all. There were six participants involved who got to live through the MyVA experience. Deep talk and counselling on participants' own business idea, combined with the tools to keep notes and to give structur