Tuesday, 24^th September 2013

Luxembourg  welcomes all the partners to the KICK-OFF Meeting in Luxembourg.

The coordinator Barbara Wiesen introduced Mrs. Franziska Rieder , representing the national agency of Luxembourg, to all partners. Mrs. Rieder welcomed also all partners and congratulated the organizations for their participation in this new project.

She gave interesting informations about the project assessment by the evaluators.

Barbara Wiesen informed all partners that the project had been written by Daniel Oddie (Belgium) and that they had been working together to prepare the first meeting. Barbara Wiesen thanks a lot to Daniel and Monique for their engagement. Daniel Oddie summarizes the idea of the project for all partners and described the objectives of the project

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Introduction : reminder of the « philosophie » and the objectives of the project

CreatingCaptivatingTeaching Strategies for Vulnerable Learners

- Learner / Staff oriented

- Socio-emotional aspects and socialisation activities in organisations.

- Discuss new ideas and methods.

- EXPLORE (not test) training techniques based on playful activities ( Think Tank /

  Structured seminars)

- End result = Syllabus of practices to be tested (later)

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Presentation of the partners

Barbara Wiesen invited all participants of the meeting to introduce theirself with a few words. After this table round each organization presented itself by illustrating power point slides and photos. Or just with a short speech.

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Icebreaker

After the coffebreak the luxembourgish delegation invited all partners to take in some playful activities. In an additional conference room of the hotel they prepared a “Game-Parcours” with 5 play-stations.

1. Memory-Game “Nanu” – Ravensburger Spiele http://www.ravensburger.de/shop/spiele/mitbringspiele/nanu-23063/index.html

2. Tridominos

http://www.amazon.de/Noris-Spiele-606104603-Domino-Deluxe/dp/B0002LIGNK/ref=pd_bxgy_toy_img_z

3. Card Game “More than one story”

http://www.ifsnetwork.org/IFSEurope/IFSEuropeSpotlightOn/MoreThanOneStory/tabid/2502/Default.aspx

4. Wooden board game “Kugeljagd”

http://www.toyjoy.de/pd308781073.htm

5. Wooden board game „PUSH“

http://www.connexxion24.com/Boardgames/Steffen-Games/PUSH::709.html?language=en

All partners could try the 5 games. 10 minutes playing on all table. Different types of games with different experiences and different pedagogical objectives.

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List of tasks and choice of responsable persons

KEY person            - Who is responsable for each organization ?

The following persons are the Key-Persons for each organization:

Belgium Monique Regnier: moniqueregnier@yahoo.fr

Cyprus Pambos Pikrides: eupambos@gmail.com

Italy Antonietta Pontoriero : antpontoriero@libero.it

 Latvia Liesma Savica: liesma.savica@gmail.com

Luxembourg Barbara Wiesen: wiesen.nordstad@pt.lu

Poland Magdalena Kieczewska: m.kielczewska@gmail.com

Portugal Paula Silva: anapaulasilva@gmail.com

Turkey Sahin Sarizeybek: sarizeybeksahin@hotmail.com

 Spain: Conception Bru Ronda upua.intercultural@ua.es

The following countrys take the tasks :

Coordinator :          - Luxembourg

E-T Rep                    - Evaluator - Belgium

COM Rep                 - Communication Base Manager  - Portugal

WEB Rep                 - Webmaster Spain

R-T Rep                    - Meeting Reporter 

SAT-D Rep :                        - Synthesizer 

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Project - and Partnership Evaluation

E-T Rep

Belgium explained how we planned to realize the project – and partnership evaluation to the Think Tank project. The evaluator will create after each meeting a questionnaire, which should be answered by one person of each country.

The questions should belong to the activities and the content of the meetings and they will be created individually after each meeting. Daniel Oddie showed a model paper of such a questionnaire.

After this point the first working meeting was finished and the group took a light lunch in the restaurant of the hotel.

After Lunch the group went to ETTELBRUCK, in the north of Luxembourg, where the Club Senior Nordstad is situated.

At 4 o’clock the delegations were invited in the town hall of ETTELBRUCK and had been welcomed by the deputy mayor of the city of Ettelbruck. Several politicians joined this reception. A photo and an article were printed in the national Press “Luxemburger Wort”.

After a promenade through the main street of Ettelbruck, the group visited the office of the hosting organization Club Senior Nordstad.

Then the group went to the dinner place in NIEDERFEULEN. The Club Senior organized an evening with a typical luxembourgish dish and dancing music. Also a group luxembourgish volunteers were invited and could come in contact with the international guests.

Wednesday 25^th september 2013

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General presentation of the project evolution

The meeting began with the presentation of the project evolution by a graphical model.

Two project years are structured with 5 meetings and 4 intervals between the meetings.

Belgium made a presentation of paper A and paper B.

Daniel Oddie explained, that each country has to write a study-case on paper A

The solutions for this study case have to be written on paper B

So for  each study case there will be 8 solutions.

The collection of all paper A and all paper B and all paper C will be the product of our project , the SYLLABUS.

The SYLLABUS contents after the project finish:

9 Paper A – case studies

72 Paper B – solutions

9 Paper C – Synapsis

Totally: 89 pages

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First presentation of a case example

Presentation from Belgium

Daniel Oddie presented one problem of his association and ask partners to find a solution.

After his presentation we gave 10 minutes time to all delegation to collect ideas. Then we made a brainstorming table round and Cyprus took notes for the Synapsis (Paper C)

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Alpabetical order of countries for the presentations of study cases for the next meetings

1.Meeting: Belgium

2. Meeting: Cyprus, Espagne, Italy

3. Meeting: Latvia, Luxembourg

4. Meeting: Poland, Portugal, Turkey

For the next meeting each partner should bring an idea for the paper A , exept Cyprus, Italy and Espagne. They have to present their study –case on paper A.

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Synapsis

This is Paper C. It should be a Summarization of the collected ideas (on 1 page DIN A4). This collected ideas are the results of a brainstorming, open table round after the presentation of the case study.

After coffee break :

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Preplanning of the second meeting in Latvia (presentation by Latvia)

Meeting dates, Meeting place, Travel information, Accomodation,

Latvia started by showing a film with impressions from Latvia.

One day is planned to visit Dobele. This takes one hour 15 minutes driving time from Riga. The transfer costs about 25 €

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Approximate calendar for the future meetings

Cyprus : 21^st – 25^th May 2014

Italy : 13th -14^th  November 2014

Spain :end of May 2015

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AOB : any other matter

The partner form Turkey needs the Meeting Report signed by all partners. We will

Do this during the next meeting, when the Report is approved by all partners.

Spain will present first ideas for the webpage for the next meeting in Latvia.

Culture:

After the lunch break the group leaves to visit the city of Luxembourg.

We visited the most interesting places of the capital of Luxembourg.

The delegations had some free time.

Then we had a common dinner in a famous typical Restaurant “Am Dierfgen”

Thursday 26^th September 2013

The delegations of Spain, Poland, Portugal, Belgium, Turkey left Luxembourg on Thursday morning

Together with the delegations of Latvia, Italy and Cyprus the luxembourgish delagation spend a day in the luxembourgish regioun witch is called “Mosel”.

They visited “SCHENGEN” and the European museum of Schengen.

After lunch they visited a traditional winery and the vineyards.