Das Projekt

Die Projektpartner haben sich vorgenommen, das Selbstwertgefühl und Selbstvertrauen von Menschen, die sozial und wirtschaftlich benachteiligt sind, zu stärken.

Barbara Ryszka's picture

Greetings and meeting in Poland

Submitted by Barbara Ryszka on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 22:18

In the New 2010 we wish all of  you a lot of happiness, healthfulness, prosperity and of course new ,great and succesful projects.

We would like also to inform ,that planned term of the meeting in Poland is 28-29  May  2010.

Lidia and Barbara  in the name of Mine of Art  Assotiation

Christine Graf's picture

Closing eduate.eu

Submitted by Christine Graf on Fri, 08/01/2010 - 17:38

I have the impression that there are some unsaid accusations about our withdrawal form the project.

We are sorry for the inconvenience the closing of eduate.eu has for the project group. It is right, we also had to terminate another learning partnership project, telenovel as a result of our decision, but we can continue our work in a multilateral project, doing2learn. There was no other choice as the learning partnership projects are contracted with the national agency, the multilateral project with EACEA.

We definitely left Germany and therefore we can't be a German partner anymore and a transfer to another NA is not possible.

 

Ian Ball's picture

Withdrawals

Submitted by Ian Ball on Wed, 16/12/2009 - 10:55
Hello everyone
 

Trust all is well and that we are all looking forward to the final months of the project.

It was very disappointing to receive the news from Germany – or is it France? – about the withdrawal of our German partner before the end of the project. Maybe the recession is worse in France – or Germany – and the money required to complete the project has simply ‘dried up’ as we say in the UK – one of the wettest places in Europe……?

 It would be helpful to know why this unfortunate situation has arisen.
 

For some of us the loss of a German meeting will have an impact not just on our mobilities but on opportunities to deepen our understanding of Europe.

John Fazey and I had both been fascinated by the development of the German project. It had allowed people whose lives had been lived under the impact of two horrific authoritarian regimes an opportunity to discover, maybe for the first time, a relatively unbiased view of recent history.
 
Consequently John and I were greatly looking forward to meeting the participants and hearing their stories and sharing with them some of our understandings – and misunderstandings. Umberto Eco, the Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist stated ‘to survive you must tell stories’. The project has provided them with a chance to explore their own stories – but what a shame that we will not be able to share their discoveries.
 
The great Romanian poet, Lucian Blaga wrote:

We carry without tears a sickness in the chords
And  go on without end towards the setting sun

We all are products of our childhood background and culture. We may try to move away, or deny our personal origins – but it is not possible. We are marked by where we came from – and others can always see what we sometimes think we have hidden.

 

 

Thus the project has allowed the German group an opportunity to know their individual and social ‘selves’ a little better. We can only hope that those who were engaged have felt the benefit and have been given support that allows their personal exploration to continue.
 
 
 
John and I are now working together on the management issues relating to this withdrawal. As Moelyci is the official project coordinator John has spoken with our National Agency and found them very supportive. He has now sent them a message explaining the background.
 
The UK National Agency has advised that all other partners inform their National Agencies that a partner has withdrawn. We are each required by our contracts to provide our National Agencies with such information. The UK agency has also stressed that each National Agency has a duty to support its local partners and offer appropriate advice.
 

When John wrote to the UK National Agency copied the statement that Christine put on the web site. This statement provides the easiest means of letting a national Agency know – and if a web reference is given then each Agency can see it for themselves.

As coordinators we are advised that we need to know what the impact of the withdrawal will have on your local project. Please could you report directly to me. John and I can then create a joint report which our NA (technically ‘the coordinating agency’) will receive.
 
 
 

I also trust that we will hear more of the background to this withdrawal. It is the first time that we in the UK have experienced such a situation – and we understand from our NA that it is unusual. I notice that eduate have withdrawn from another project (Telenovel) – but that one other (Doing2Learn) seems still to be operating. Curious! 

John and I look forward to hearing from you all

best wishes

Ian

Christine Graf's picture

eduate.eu

Submitted by Christine Graf on Sat, 05/12/2009 - 12:46

Europe offers the great possibility to move easy from one country to another, to change living and working environments. The main staff of eduate.eu has been moved to France and will continue their work under the roof of cocoate.com.
cocoate.com is an independent management consultancy company working all over Europe. The company specialized in the development of strategies for the implementation of Content Management Systems, in coaching for developing management and leadership skills and in the development of educational projects, which were so far mainly developed and managed via it's branch in Germany, eduate.eu.
As cocoate.com works all over Europe, it will be a logical step to centralize its actions on the educational sector and, therefore, completely include eduate.eu at the end of 2009. This is a consequent development, the same staff which is engaged for cocoate.com is carrying out the work for eduate.eu and the activities are often overlapping.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to finalize our work in the greenlight project, as we can't transfer the contract from one NA to another.
Therefore, we will terminate our project work at greenlight per 31th December 2009.
We will keep the website open at least until one year after finishing the project and support you, whenever you need our help or advice.
Thank you all for the good cooperation, we wish you success for finishing the project!
Christine, Isabell & Hagen

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