Europe Mobility: raising the quantity and quality of work
placements abroad
Place: Germany
Date: 02 – 03.06.09
The host partner of the meeting was: YES Forum. It took place in Stuttgart, Germany in a Diakonisches Werk der EKD e.V. All partners arrived: CSCS: Giovanni Crisonà, Stefano Tirati, Ikaslan:Iñaki Konde Zubiaurre, Miren Bastida Echeverria, PwC: Reinout van Brakel
EfVET: Edi Fanti , AVIVA: Konstancja Szymura, Dominika Szymura,YesForum: Annett Wiedermann, SOL: Faten Urso, Caroline Townsend Jones (external evaluator) and
Martin Harsch (Yes Forum).
During the meetings, partners discussed monitoring and evaluation systems for the project, along with interim report and financial aspects issues.
Concerning Monitoring system and Evaluation aspects (internal and external), partners discussed and reached specific agreement. There was a presentation given by Caroline Townsend Jones from Adastra Consulting company who explained the evaluation methodology which is going to be adopted.
Also, partners presented dissemination activities accomplished so far, using also evidences, such as: screen shot of web sites, press releases, meeting registration sheets, pictures
As a part of the meeting, the partners discussed the video contest voting system, dissemination plans (paying attention to the newsletter, web site articles etc.), decided on the advertising materials which will be essential for the mobility fairs and briefly talked about the system of Toll Free Number (the procedures concerning the TFN were slightly delayed)
On the last day of the conference, Reinout van Brakel (PwC) has presented the first draft of the Guidebook for youngsters who want to go abroad in order to get vocational training in foreign companies. In addition, partners presented their opinions about educational programme should be accomplished by mobility coordinators during the testing phase which is about to be conducted by IT, PL, ES.
Partners discussed also next steps and action plans, such as 3rd meeting which is scheduled to be in Wrocław in December.
First meeting for the project:
Europe Mobility: raising the quantity and quality of work
placements abroad
Place: Italy
Date: 20 – 24.11.08
First meeting and for now last meeting that will take place in 2008 began as usual with meeting our partners. This EU project gathered people and organizations from six European countries: Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Belgium, Germany and Spain.
The aim and main objective of the project is to stimulate both quantity and quality of mobility in VET, by promoting awareness on the as well as on the tools, methodologies and solutions available. The project is based on the results of the MoVe-iT research which
will be transferred to the wide audience of VET professionals, students and enterprises involved, or potentially involved, in mobility.
Today we have met in person for the first time, before we were able to communicate only remotely – but it is how the contemporary world functions. The project assumes that all partners will cooperate for the next two years and meet on multiple occasions, as every one has to host at least one meeting.
It will take some travelling around Europe – but after all it all goes about mobility!
The host of the meeting, and chief organization of the project quickly showed us that the project will be one of the most demanding and complex we’ve ever had chance to take part in.
Task and aims of the project are many and diverse – I will just name some of them here:
- creating a web portal
- newsletter
- organizing video contest
- developing disseminations plans for each country
- organize mobility fairs
and most importantly – create a new guide book for (VET) internships abroad, that would make It easier for interested people to take the chances EU creates for them
On the first meeting we had gained access to special interned powered e-ware platform, that will be a virtual meeting place for all the partners. It allows to upload and download all the materials that all the partners wish and are obliged to put there. It is great solution for maintaining clear and simple remote communication between all the involved organizations.
First meeting ended, and we left Italy loaded with things to do in the nearest future. The schedule that organizers introduced is very tight so there is no time to laze around.
We will meet again in Jun 2009. |
