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