Pics from 2nd Meeting, Nov 23, 2009, Netherlands

Dear all,
it was great to meet you in Den Bosch, having an outdoor team building exercise in the rain storm :-) and experience the Critical Mass exhibition ‘Do you think outside of your INBOX’. A big thank you to our hosts!

These are some pics of our meeting:
The 16 partners at the meeting - staffers, volunteers and learners

Introduction to Critical Mass’ train-the-trainer concept, with a focus on intercultural competences and conflict resolution skills for mentors. We used an "inner circle / outer circle" poster to group the feedback.

See you in early 2010 in Paris,
Anne

The Association of Disabled Women ONE.pl/Stowarzyszenie Kobiet Niepełnosprawnych ONE.pl

Dear Partners,

Let me present a short overview of our Association.

The Association of Disabled Women ONE.pl (Stowarzyszenie Kobiet Niepełnosprawnych ONE.pl) was founded in 2004 as the first and the only non-governmental organization in Poland of this kind, which sets out as its goal & mission the work for women with disabilities in regards to 3 main fields:

the systemic changes and solutions; the direct assistance; education and activation.


The Disabled Women Association ONE.pl began as an initiative of active women with different disabilities & representing different professions (including lawyer, social politics graduate, IT specialist, journalist, psychologist, sociologist, cultural studies graduate, musician) & with experience both in non-governmental sector, public administration and academic work.

Even though our main focus are disabled women, membership in ONE.pl is not limited to females only. On the contrary, everybody is welcome to join.

CURRENT & PAST INITIATIVES & ACTIVITIES:

- expert level: ONE.pl members serve as experts to various advisory organs (including MISARN, UNDP, Committee for Social Dialogue Regarding Disabled Women at the Warsaw City Hall)

- project of sheltered flats: conceptualising the project concerning a network of flats at housing estates where persons with disabilities can function normally and, if needed, they will have access to organized assistance, cheaper than normal (assistants, transport)

- building national coalition within the sector: creating a strong lobby of disabled persons in Poland cooperating with local governments and parliamentary agencies

- informative initiatives: participation in public debates on double discrimination of disabled women (publications in newspapers, taking part in radio and television programs); taking part in panel discussions and conferences

- educational-informative publications: putting together a first handbook for disabled women in Poland which was created fully by experts who are at the same time disabled persons

- communication platform: creation of an internet website tackling issues concerning disabled women in Poland: www.onepl.org.pl

- strengthening the community of disabled women by creating a first in Poland interactive website “Open House” (www.domotwarty.org.pl) which offers different consulting services and web-based mentoring for disabled women in Poland, their families, friends and co-workers. “Open House” offers online fora, chats, and scheduled online meetings psychologists, lawyers, social workers et al.

See you soon in Amsterdam!

till later,

Magda Szarota

The Association of Disabled Women ONE.pl

E-Tools Survey

Hello Everybody,
there are just three days left - and then we will meet in Den Bosch.
But then we will also have to discuss e-tools. :-)
Please make sure to submit your information through our e-tool survey at:
https://humanityinaction.wufoo.com/forms/grundtviglearning-partnership-etool-survey/
Please find the password in your email inboxes.
See you soon,
Antje

Dear all,

As we agreed during our launching meeting in Berlin, we would like to collect some further information relevant to our partnership.
The questions refer to:
a) how we define learners and mentors in our organization,
b) strategies we employ to foster the learner to mentor transition,
c) and the e-tools we already use to transform learners into mentors. This information will serve as a good base for our discussions and exchange of ideas.

In order to collect this information in an efficient way, we created a Wufoo form.
What is Wufoo? Wufoo is an easy way to collect information over the Internet. It is an HTML form builder that helps create contact forms, online surveys, and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without writing a single line of code.
(Thank you Tara for the little tutorial!)

Please visit our little survey at and fill out the form by November 19, 2009:

https://humanityinaction.wufoo.com/forms/grundtviglearning-partnership-etool-survey/

We look forward to your input and to meeting all of you in Den Bosch very soon,

Tara Dickman (Humanity in Action France) and Antje Scheidler (Network Migration in Europe)

Agenda of 2d meeting, in The Netherlands on Nov. 23, 2009

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This publication/communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Grundtvig Learning Partnership Project
„Mentor Development Programmes: Transforming learners into educators supported by e-communication tools”
German Project No.: 2009-1-DE2-GRU06-018171

Duration: 1. August 2009 – 31. July 2011
Project Blog: www.mentordevelopment.blogspot.com



Partner Organisations:
- Association of Disabled Women ONE.PL, www.one-pl.pl (Magda Szarota)
- Cercle Passeport Télécoms, www.passeport-telecoms.com (Benjamin Blavier)
- Foundation Critical Mass, www.criticalmass.nu (Bas Gadiot and Eline van der Noord)
- Humanity in Action Germany., www.humanityinaction.org (Anne Stalfort, Frithjof Wodarg
Ulla Bisgaard)
- Humanity in Action France, www.humanityinaction.org (Tara Dickmann)
- Network Migration in Europe, www.network-migration.org (Antje Scheidler)

Agenda for the Launching Meeting in Den Bosch, Nov. 23, 2009, 10.00-18.00
(following the draft in the grant application)

1. Welcome and getting to know new participants
2. Updates on any organisational changes or progress related to the project
3. Check of progress in agreements of the first meeting in Berlin:
- Contracts
- Grundtvig logo and project info on organisations’ websites
- Organisational portraits and information on the blog
- Dissemination of the project
i. Media coverage, website etc. (external)
ii. Informing learners, members, volunteers, staffers etc. on the project
- Wufoo form (Tara Dickman and Antje Scheidler)
- Input/ideas for success stories (for our brochure ‘How I became a mentor’)
4. Evaluation of the efforts made to establish regular consultations with learners at home
5. Experiencing the Critical Mass exhibition ‘Do you think outside of your INBOX’ and the use of multimedia installations
6. Q&A
7. Introduction of Critical Mass’ train-the-trainer concept, with a focus on intercultural competences and conflict resolution skills for mentors.
8. Q&A
9. Informal exchange with drinks

The meeting is hosted, logistically and contentwise prepared by Critical Mass Foundation.
The meeting is documented (draft) by the host of the next meeting, the French partners Humanity in Action France and Telecom Passport Circle Association.

Location of the meeting:
INBOX Exhibition by Critical Mass. Located in former factory, De Gruyter Fabriek, Veemarktkade 8A, Den Bosch (`s-Hertogenbosch).

Short info on Humanity in Action Germany

Dear Learning Partners,

here are some basics about Humanity in Action Germany (Humanity in Action Deutschland e.V., to use our full legal name):

Humanity in Action (HIA) Germany is part of an European and international educational network with a focus on human and civic rights. HIA promotes the growth and development of young professionals dedicated to these rights, and aims to build a multi-national, intergenerational network of present and emerging leaders in diverse professional fields who share these commitments.

More details at our website!

Grundtvig Infoday Dec 7 in Brussels - live webstream!

Lifelong Learning Infodays 2010

The Executive Agency will organise two Infodays on the centralised actions of the Lifelong Learning Programme, for which it is responsible under the 2010 General Call for Proposals.

What are the possibilities for European funding in the field of Lifelong Learning for the coming years?
What is the latest news on the European Union's Lifelong Learning Programme?
How can you increase the chances of getting your project selected?
How can you find partners from other Participating countries?

Click here for more info!

Come to Helsinki on November 23 OR to Brussels on December 7!

Network Migration in Europe

Dear partners,

Let me briefly introduce the work of the "Network Migration in Europe" to you.

In the broadest sense, the Network is an interdisciplinary forum for people who are interested in or work in the area of immigration and integration, i.e. experts and academics, opinion leaders, NGO members, students, journalists... We cover topics such as (forced) migration, refuge & asylum, integration processes in immigration societies, and human & minority rights in European, transnational and global contexts. In cooperation with organizations from civil society, education, culture and science we are committed to dialogue, knowledge transfer, and the exchange of learning approaches and action models.

We focus on three areas of expertise:
1. Sharing Knowledge and Networking (Newsletter "Migration and Population"; experts database "Migration");
2. Education and Culture: e-learning, training seminars, projects;
3. Dialogue Platform: conferences, summer schools, workshops, publications, scientific monitoring, evaluation.

Towards the end of the year we will relaunch our website (http://www.network-migration.org/) and include an English version.

We are very much looking forward to our next meeting in the Netherlands end of November!

Best greetings from chilly Berlin,
Antje

Hello everyone!

Hello everyone!

Nice meeting you online, and it will be even better getting to know each other live in Berlin within two weeks! I think everything is being arranged for really well, thanks to Anne and colleagues!

So what’s Critical Mass and who’s writing?

Critical Mass (http://www.criticalmass.nu/) is a foundation based in the Netherlands. It seeks to share knowledge of social processes that underlie (violent) conflict. Our aim is to provide people with a set of skills, enabling them to prevent, to signal and to defuse conflict. At this point eight people are employed by Critical Mass, and besides we can count on a great and active pool of about 50 volunteers.

We target a variety of adolescents and adults, mostly in Dutch society. One of our main and growing activities is training (young) adults working with youth or youth-related themes. We aim to equip them professionally with adequate approaches and methodologies, including video and audio material for conflict training and online seminar tools.

Bas Gadiot and I will attend the launch meeting in Berlin. Bas is one of the founders and directors of Critical Mass, and together we organize and develop our training activities for adult learners.

Ok, we’ll exchange more in Berlin! Looking forward,

Regards, also on behalf of Bas,

Eline van der Noord

Important Forms for Download

Dear all,

for your reference:
here are the links to download some important documents/report forms for our Learning Partnership:

- the interim report form (we have to write this one together until June 30, 2010)
http://www.na-bibb.de/uploads/grundtvig/gru_lp08_progressreport.doc
(this is still last years form, ours will be available soon and will look more or less the same)

- the final report form (we have to complete this one together until September 30, 2011)
http://www.na-bibb.de/uploads/grundtvig/gru_lp08_final_report.doc
(this is also still last years form)

-a handbook for Grundtvig project management
http://www.na-bibb.de/uploads/grundtvig_mobilitaet/handbook.pdf

- and a brochure with Grundtvig project success stories og the past years (what can we learn from others? What could be our plans for the future 2011ff within the Grundtvig framework?)
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/publ/pdf/grundtvig/success-stories_en.pdf

I´ll bring some printouts to our Launching meeting, so we can have a look.

See you soon,
Anne Stalfort

Introduction to the learning partnership members -HIA France

Dear all,

I am very much looking forward to seeing you all in Berlin on September 1 st; Thanks Anne for all your work in coordinating this.

HIA-France belongs to a multinational network of non-profit organizations who focus on Human rights and minority rights education in a historical, comparative and action-oriented perspective. As well as running activities for various target groups (grassroots, academic, professional, etc.), our activity consists in running summer programs in parntership with other HIA organizations for students who show a particular interest in this field, and in contributing to maintaining an active, multigenerational and multidisciplinary network of social innovators in the field of human rights and minority rights across the world.

I'll be joining you with Martine Alonso Marquis, Vice President of the French Senior Fellow Network - the French branch of the 800-wide network of those who have participated in an HIA program since the first editions in Denmark and The Netherlands 10 years ago. We have been working on how to better use technology to improve targeted communication and collaboration throughout the network this past year, so I very much look forward to hearing from your experiences as we move forward in this Learning Partnership.

Until then, I wish you all a very happy summer!
Warm wishes,
Tara Dickman

Agenda Launching Meeting Sept. 1, 2009 in Berlin

Grundtvig Learning Partnership Project

„Mentor Development Programmes: Transforming learners into educators supported by e-communication tools”

German Project No.: 2009-1-DE2-GRU06-018171

Duration: 1. August 2009 – 31. July 2011

Partner Organisations:

Association of Disabled Women ONE.PL, www.one-pl.pl (Magda Szarota)

Cercle Passeport Télécoms, http://www.passeport-telecoms.com/ (Benjamin Blavier)

Foundation Critical Mass, http://www.criticalmass.nu/ (Bas Gadiot)

Humanity in Action Germany., http://www.humanityinaction.org/ (Anne Stalfort)

Humanity in Action France, http://www.humanityinaction.org/ (Tara Dickmann)

Network Migration in Europe, www.network-migration.org (Antje Scheidler)

Agenda for the Launching Meeting in Berlin, Sept. 1, 2009, 11.00 – 19.00

(following the draft in the grant application)

1. Welcome and Getting to know each other
2. The basics of complying with the grant regulations: (Feasibility check: Each partner agrees with the workplan and the number of mobilities; Each partner has signed the grant agreement and sent it back to the national agency; Each partner puts the Grundtvig logo and project info on the organisations´ website; Each partner archives travel tickets and certificate of participation as a proof; Each partner collects ANY media reports on the GV LP for the final report to the EU)
3. Recent developments in the partners´ respective adult education programmes since Feb 09 which might be of relevance to implementation of the learning partnership into our regular workplan at home
4. Contribution of each partner to the project blog, which will work as our project diary, discussion forum and “institutional memory” of the learning partnership
5. Format for the result of the learning partnership, the booklet with success stories “How I became a mentor”. This collection of success stories is continued until the end of the learning partnership,
6. Practical examples how each partner will involve relevant learners and staffers in the organisation at home, as well as identify persons for the “success stories”,
7. Schedule of meetings (mobilities), activities in between and potential consultative visits of one or the other partner.
8. Monitoring and evaluation standards (based on the criteria given in the Grundtvig Navigator guidebook and in the report forms downloadable on the website of the Grundtvig agencies.

As a result of this launching meeting, all partners will – hopefully - commit themselves to an updated agreement defining the distributions of tasks, the concrete contribution of each partner and an updated schedule for meetings and activites between the meetings.

The meeting is hosted and logistically prepared by NETZWERK MIGRATION IN EUROPA.

The meeting is contentwise prepared and moderated by HUMANITY IN ACTION GERMANY

The meeting is documented (draft) by the host of the next meeting, the Polish partner One.pl.

Location of the meeting:

Humanity in Action office and seminar room (see red circle on map below)

Kollwitzstr. 94 (at “Haus der Parität, office at 1^st floor, seminar room at ground floor), 10435 Berlin

Directions:

1. From Berlin main train station (Hauptbahnhof):

Take any S-Bahn going east to station „Alexanderplatz“ (3^rd stop), take either tram/streecar M2 from station „Alexanderplatz“ to 6th stop „Prenzlauer Allee/Danziger Straße“, then walk 5 min.

Or take Metro U2 from Alexanderplatz to station “Eberswalder Straße”, then walk 10 min.

2. From Tegel Airport:

Take the airport bus TKL either to station „Alexanderplatz“ (40 minutes ride) or to station “Hauptbahnhof” (20 minutes ride), then follow directions above.

3. From Schönefeld Airport:

Take any S-Bahn (you might have to change at station “Baumschulenweg” or Treptower Park” or Regional Train (direct) going to „Alexanderplatz“ (30-40 minutes ride), then follow directions above.

See you soon!

Launching Meeting Grundtvig Learning Partnership

Dear all,

After initial phone conversations with many of you, here is a suggestion:
Let´s met in Berlin on Sept 1, 2009, 11.00-19.00. We can have our Grundtvig
Learning Partnership Launching Meeting at the Humanity in Action seminar room
(district Prenzlauer Berg, postal adress below).

Does that work for all of you? It is sufficient for the moment, if just one person from
every involved partner organization joins this launching meeting, but of
course there more persons are warmly welcomed (according to the number of
monbilities you indicated in the application), especially your collegues and
learners who cooperate with you throughout the two years of our
Learning partnership.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to call me or write. If this
meeting date works for all of us, I will follow up with directions and a
draft agenda.

All the best and see you soon,
Anne

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Anne Stalfort
Humanity in Action Deutschland e. V.
Kollwitzstr. 94-96
10435 Berlin
Tel.: +49 - (0)30 - 44 30 82 71
a.stalfort@humanityinaction.org
www.humanityinaction.org