Partnership MEETING REPORT

Present Partners:

Zebra Formations asbl, Hannut, BE

• EXCUSED

Epimorfotika Kentra Lefkossias, Nicosia, CY

• Marıa Yiannouri
• Constantinos Stavros Asprıs

Asciacion de Alumnos y Exalumnos de la Universidad Permanente

de Alicante, Alicante, ES

• Inma Belmonte
• Isabel Capitan    
• Consuelo Onate
• Maria Luisa Mataix

Casa Albergo per Anziani  “ Villa Fabiola “ , Monterosso calabro, IT

• Salvatore Rao
• Rosetta Brasca
• Antonietta Pontorıero
• Luciana Figliucci
• Rossana Bova
• Elisabetta Carioti

Dobeles macibu centrs, Dobele, LV

• Evija Kalnina
• Venta Narvaisa
• Liesma Savica

Club Senior Nordstad, Ettelbruck, Luxemburg, LU

• Barbara Wiesen – Pankratz
• Pascal Balthasar
• Christianne Mergen
• Maggy Schoos – Moes
• Ingrid Denel
• Christiane Zeyen

Fundacja Pomocy Niewidomym, Lomianki, PL

• Magdalena Kielczewska
• Robert Kielczewski

Agrupamento de Escolas D. Sancho I, Vila Nova de Famalicão, PT

• Ana Paula Silva
• Artur Passos
• Maria Sousa

Manisa Nihal Alçura Otelcilik ve Turizm meslek Lisesi TR

• Ali Şahin Sarizeybek
• Mustafa Akdeniz

Wednesday 13th November 2014

The meeting of the Project partners held in the Hotel “Vecchia Vibo” in Vibo Valentia

The Italian representatives made an opening speech and welcome all the participants from partner countries.

1.  Short presentation of the meeting programme.

Barbara Wiesen, coordinator of the Project welcomed all partners and excused Daniel Oddie and Monique Regnier from Belgium. They were not able to take part in the meeting, because of an unfortunately illness. Barbara Wiesen introduces all partners into the meeting agenda for the next two days. She explained some details about the program which has been received by all the partner countries by e-mail before the meeting date.

2.  Review of Tasks after the last meeting.

Latvian partner prepared the meeting report from Cyprus meeting in May 2014. The 9 exemplary of the meeting report gave signed during the meeting and distributed to all Key persons.

Other tasks from the last meeting were:

Synthesizer:

Synopsis Paper for case studies from Latvia and Luxembourg presentation made by Poland before the presentation of the solutions

During the meeting in Villa Fabiola the following tasks were assigned to the partner countries:

3. Feed back from Intermediate Report

Project coordinator  Barbara Wiesen gave a Feed back about the Intermediate Report. The Luxemburg National Agency, sent this Feed back to the coordinator. The Feed back was written in French and gave translated into English to all participants by  Barbara Wiesen. The result was really positive. The project got a green appreciation from the NA. There was only one point of critic concerning the webpage. The EU Commission mentioned not to forget to use the logo of the EU and to mention that the project is funded by the EU Commission.

Barbara Wiesen gave a copy of the Feed back to all partner countries.

4. Update of the webpage by Spain

It is reported that Spanish partner did their best for the Project web site. The Italian partner made a projection of the site on the screen to have a look on it together. Antonio fills the site with the information getting from the Google Drive platform. Isabel from Spain asked all the partners some questions about accessing the web page. She proposed to create an access for the Coordinator to give the possibility of uploading material on the web. Barbara answered that she did not need such an access. Antonio is the Webmaster. There was another question about translation into national languages. For the moment the project description , options and aims is translated into 9 national languages. Barbara Wiesen thought that it is not necessary to translate all case studies into national languages. English is Project language.

5. Presentation of the Communication base by Portugal.

Paula from Portugal presented the Folders on the Google Drive Platform. She explained where the documents should be uploaded by all partners. She mentioned what kind of documents are complete and what kind of documents are missing. All partners could have a look on it by projection on the screen. Barbara announced that all the partners should use the correct templates deal with their countries colors. Some countries already used the new templates but some others didn’t yet. They should  renew if the partners didn’t complete the new versions of paper A , paper B and Synopsis This is very important for the preparation of the SYLLABUS. There was a Remarque from one partner, that it takes long time for the upload of pictures. Isabel from Spain told us with Google plus it goes much better.

6. Solutions for the case study – Latvia

Magda from Poland made the Synopsis presentation as synthesizer country. All partners could remember the cases and after this, the presentation of the solutions could start. The presentation were given by all partners. Daniel sent the Belgium presentation work to Italy by Google Drive. Antonietta  from Italy read the Belgium’s presentation to all partner countries. Luxemburg had prepared some playful activities for the Latvian case and the delegation demonstrated several Energizing games: 1. Fingers and Numbers, Flying Balloons, Exercise in mindful eating, Classroom Yoga. Partners from all countries played these games.

7. Solutions for the case study – Luxemburg

The presentation were given by all partners. Antonietta  from Italy read the Belgium’s presentation to all partner countries. All partners also uploaded their presentations to the Google drive. The working for the first day finished at 13:00. After lunch all the partners went to visit the Villa Fabiola in  Monterosso / Calabro.

8. Playful activities with learners in Villa Fabiola

We visited the organization and met the senior people (learners) waiting for us with their trainers. One of the staff involved in the organization made a speech about the senior people and how important such a kind of project is for them. Then we were introduced into the handcrafts, made by the learners. The guests could choose between 3 different playful activities:

• Plastic flowers
• Pasta Decoration
• Objects with clothes pegs

The trainers thought us how to make some simple objects. After that we danced and sang some songs all together in order to spend good time with the learners. We spent almost 2 hours there.. Nearly at the finish the vice mayor from Monterosso Calabro comes to welcome the Project participants and to hand over the certificates to all participants. Unfortunately the weather was really bad but we were invited to visit the museum of Monterosso/Calabro. After this interesting visit we went to a typical Italian Pizza Dinner  in Monterosso Calabro

Friday 14^th  November 2014

9.  New cases from Poland , Portugal , Turkey

The next working day started with the 3 new cases. Magda from Poland presented Poland’s study case. Şahin from Turkey presented Turkey’s study case and Paula from Portugal presented Portugal’s study case. After all presentation partner countries asked some questions in order to make clear the case. All questions were answered by the presenters in details. All delegation got 15 minutes after all case presentation time for brainstorming All the partners explained their point of view regarding the problem.

Poland’s case

A new case explained by Poland. People that were either born blind or have recently lost the ability to see and are still not very independent. The problem is how to teach about perfecting the usage of the household appliances, Teaching and enforcing the rules of health nutrition and Compiling a cookbook filled with recipes from all over the world and including tips for visually impaired people

Portugal’s case

The problem brought forward by the Portugal partners in order to give strategies to teachers who work with students of very distinct age groups, in order to make it possible for them to allow every student to feel welcome and connected to the activities. The students of different age groups work together in the same class.

Turkey’s case

A new case explained by Turkey. The problem is promoting use of sport activities and cognitive development of older adult men and  women in Manisa and its suburb. what activities and programmes can be planed for older people attracting them to any physical activity programme ?

10. Project and Partnership Evaluation

(Results from the previous meeting)

Project evaluation was prepared by Daniel from Belgium. He already uploaded the results to Google drive where our project data exist. Antonietta from Italy

downloaded the preparations from the project web site for the evaluation and read for the partners. Every partner country had an idea about the results from the previous meeting. Spain rates were quite different from all the other countries and project coordinator ask Spain to learn about these huge differences. Spain answered, that the question have been answered by persons who did not took part into the meeting.

Project coordinator advices all partners, that the evaluation form has to been filled by persons who took part into the meeting.

Generally the results were satisfied.

11. Syllabus

      The Spanish partner sent the design of the Syllabus to the coordinator. After this Spain will not continue in working on the Syllabus. It is decided that the draft of the Syllabus will be done by Luxembourg until the next meeting. Also draft of Final Report common part will be prepared  by Luxembourg and Belgium.

      The following decisions are also agreed.

Until 20^th December 2014:

• Uploading of all papers that are already presented during the meetings - by all   Partners
• Meeting Report – by Turkey
• Synapses of new cases from Poland , Portugal and Turkey – by Latvia

Until 15^th April 2015

• Uploading of all new Paper B for the cases from Poland , Portugal and Turkey on Google Drive – by all partners
• Evaluation Questionnaire of Italian Meeting – by Luxembourg and Belgium

12. Preplanning of the next meeting in Spain

Isabel from Spain made a presentation for next meeting. She introduced us the organisation where they work, the city and the other details. The followings decided.

Until the 5^th of December 2014

Reservation of Accommodation for the Spanish Meeting in order to get the best conditions (our Spanish partner will do the reservation for us if we could inform them until this date)

Fixed Meeting Dates in Alicante:

Monday 29^th and Tuesday 30^th June 2015, Additional day 1^st July 2015

Meeting place: ALICANTE

There is an airport called Alicante which is the same name with the city.

14. AOB: any  other matter

Italy was not really happy about the changed meeting dates in Spain, but finally they

accept and try to arrange to come to the meeting , although it would be difficult

for them. We say thank you for this cooperation to our Italian partner.  After all the meeting working program finish, host country Italia gave some information about afternoon visits.

After lunch we visited Vibo Valentia. First we visited a castle and a museum inside, then we were taken to a museum of Vibo Valentia which is called Museum of farmer of civilization. In the museum we have seen old style objects and how to produce fabric from a kind of plant. After these activities we gathered at a restaurant for goodbye dinner in Vibo Valentia.

Saturday 15^th of November

      The next day on 15^th of November it was cultural visit time for the partners who would like to take part. In the morning we were taken to the beautiful village Tropea. We could enjoy the view of the sea and buy some souvenirs. In Vibo Marina we had lunch on the beach. Some participants tried to walk into the water of the sea. In the afternoon we visited Pizzo. The village of Italian ice cream. We enjoyed the typical Tartuffo Negro. After this visit we said Good bye to our Italian partners and we could thank them a lot for their fantastic host.