Project meetings/Intalniri de proiect/Incontro di progetto/Proje toplantısı

Third project meeting

Place: Fano, Italy

Period: 1-2 octombrie 2010

Participants:

-Pro Xpert Asociation (Ramnicu Valcea - Romania): Silvia Petre – president, Daniel Petre – secretary, Daniela Conea - trainer, Cristi Florica - learner

-The Mosaic Art and Sound Ltd (London – UK) – Paolo Cremona – director, Teresa Dello Monacao – EU project manager

-Training 2000 (Mondavio – Italy) – Elmo de Angelis, Kylene de Angelis

-Samsun Public Adult Education Center (Samsun – Turkey) – Ozgur Karademir – Project coordinator

Friday, 1 October
Starting of the meeting
- introduction of the partners and students – All partners
- Agreement on the agenda – open discussion – All partners
Welcome form the hosting organization and introduction of each participant.
Project development in each country - All Partners
UK partner :The target groups are immigrants . Connection with a group from Ghana together with a English singer and they will train other people who would like to exploit their own folk songs which will be sang at the final concert in London in June 2011. In the final concert, Turkish partner will also bring their singers. Romanians will bring 3 musicians and singers , The Italian partner will bring one musician and a group of folklore dancers. Partners have a brief discussion about the arrangement of the concert. Mosaic Arts and Sounds will be sending a programme for the final concert. Accommodation will be arranged in the centre of London, to include breakfast.
Turkish partner – They are executing trainings for Roma people in the their Centre, but Roma people often do not attend the training sessions. Now, some courses will be open near where the people live. They would like to select some Roma to come to the final show in London.
At the same time they will bring other musicians to play specific traditional folk instruments and involve Roma in the organisation’s activities.
Romanian partner: Some problems with Roma community. The level of Literacy is lower than all other people. The partner has managed to involve Roma people in basic literacy courses. European citizenship is promoted through formal sessions. Training takes place with psychological elements, to identify their personal interests. The next step will consist in developing creative writing activities with Roma people.
Italian partner: the target groups are associations of immigrants and individual people working for community integration via music, folklore dance and international food preparation. Common activities in Sant’ Angelo in Vado have started from may 2010 with workshops experiencing food preparation and folklore dance from different countries ( partner’s countries)
Instructing the students to walk in Fano – TRAINING 2000 (Walking, Watching, Talking and Reflecting (Intercultural WaWaTaRe)
During the morning, students have been walking in the city of Fano to interview immigrants and also Italian responsible for integration and training. Some of the interviews have been recorded, together with pictures. Interviews will be presented in the next day, together with videos and pictures.
Presentation of the research/survey in partner’s countries – All partners

Italy
Presentation of the results in Italy with 8 questionnaires
UK
Needs to subministrate the questionnaire
TURKEY
Needs to collect the data
Romania
22 questionnaires have been filled in by the target groups

Partners have agreed that at least 10 questionnaires should be collected by end of October 2010 by each partner.
To have the data comparable from each country, Survey Monkey will be used to collect the data. TRAINING 2000 is responsible to install/manage the tool and to provide links to the partners for own use.

Analysis of the immigrants situation in the Marche Region- Training 2000
Training 2000 has presented the overall situation in the Region, and further presented the numbers and the nationalities of immigrants ( North Africa, Moldova and China are the most numerous groups). San’ Angelo in Vado has the highest percentage of immigrants working in the textile and fashion sector. For this reason, the meeting will be moved to Sant’ Angelo in Vado for the second day.

Communication and dissemination tools
-e.group – by Kylene
Partners will write a message at least 3 times a month. They also agree to reply to messages within 5 days.

-web site – by Silvia
Partner will translate the project information in their languages to be uploaded on the blog site by the end of October 2010

-leaflet – by Paolo
Open discussion about on the leaflet
Paolo and Teresa (UK) will write the text of the leaflet – 15th of October 2010
Final feedback from partners - 21st of October 2010
Final leaflet in English language - 25th of October 2010
Partners need to translate the text and print their own leaflet.

- CD/DVD – by All
Partners will send their videos and music to Paolo for assembly . Requested to be careful on copyright issues.

The DVD will contain videos of the performances, which will be held in Italy, Romania and UK to be concluded by the end of the project.

- Establishing common framework (comparative report) for the research/survey task regarding the European dimension, European values and European citizenship – by Silvia

- Workshops and training – All partners

Questionnaire in Survey monkey will be finished by end of November 2010

Final reporting responsibility - by the coordinator.

Report: we will have the comparative analysis and have final conclusions written by Silvia by the end of December 2010.

Feedback – reporting from students (plenary session)
The session was postponed to Saturday morning at 10:00. Each group from TK and RO have interviewed an average of 5 people with video recording and pictures taking.
In general we have received information about: easier life in Italy, no full integration, the system is ready for full integration providing service training and assistance; immigrants are not really informed about all services available to him/her, immigrants fill lonely and missing home. The region is organized with Associations from different countries, cooperating with local administration offices.

Workshop 1 - Walking, Watching, Talking and Reflecting (Intercultural WaWaTaRe) – Please bring video camera to take pictures and videos
The objectives of the workshop:
1. Walk, Watch immigrants, Talk to immigrants, Reflect
2. To increase knowledge about immigrants integration in Italy.
3. To make contacts with immigrants
4. To learn new methods of learning for immigrants
5. To learn more about immigrants culture in Italy
6. To provide feedback to all partners and colleagues from the project.
To create of common product to transfer on CD/DVD

a. We found a street boy from Nigeria; he was unemployed; he first started in a centre selling broken cars.

Students have continued their WAWATARE in the centre of Fano.

Saturday, 2nd of October 2010
List and feedback of achieved results in the first year according to the project outline – by the Coordinator and All partners
Plan for the second year: activities, products, meetings dates – by Silvia and All
- Report from each partner on the project development ( Dec. 2010 – January 2011)
Please see the ANNEX - table 6.3 reported below:

Presentation of the Mayor and the deputy of social affairs.
Presentation of social affairs for immigrants in the Municipality of Sant’Angelo in Vado. Services provided to minority group immigrants and others to Chinese community.
Local data have been presented by the major and vice major ( Settimio Bravi and Fabio Gostoli). Partners have been presented with the new publication of Zuccari – A New dynasty of Artists for Sant’ Angelo in VadoWorkshop 2 – International Folklore dance – with the participation of local groups
The workshop started on time in the local theatre of Sant’ Angelo in Vado. Participants are the students from lower high school, teachers and trainers, parents, experts from the social service offices, representatives of local and mountain community of Medio Alto Metauro, immigrants, partners from the project. (Approximately 200 people)Workshop 3 – International food preparation and tasting – with the participation of local population and immigrants, social services
Lunch meals have been prepared for approximately forty people with traditional food and Cuscus from the local Moroccan community of immigrants.Social activities and cultural visit to Roman city from Augustus Emperor ( 100 a.c.)
Visit to the Domus Tifernum Mataurense and historical churches

Second project meeting

Place: Samsun, Turkey
Period: 21-22 Mai 2010
Participants:
-Pro Xpert Asociation (Ramnicu Valcea - Romania): Silvia Petre – president, Daniela Conea – trainer

-The Mosaic Art and Sound Ltd (London – UK) – Paolo Cremona – director

-Samsun Public Adult Education Center (Samsun – Turkey) – Ozgur Karademir – Project coordinator

Friday 21 May

The meeting began with a welcome from the host Organization, represented by Mr Özgür Karademir.

The meeting started with the visit to Samsun Public Adult Centre where the group met the Director of the Centre. He introduced the activities held at the Centre and presented some statistics and figures about Roma people – underlining the cooperation with Canik Municipality where most of the Roma people live.

Then the group met the instructors and some learners in the classrooms – especially those who attend knitting, web design, IT and hairdresser courses.

After lunch the group visited the place where Roma people live and discussed the report made by Özgür Karademir about Roma people in Samsun.

The next step was the visit to the District Directorate of National Education where the group met the Director Davut NUMANOĞLU – who gave them a short presentation about the historic significance of Samsun and about the situation of Roma people.

In the last part of the first day the group – together with Kylene (Italy – Training 2000 SNC) who joined via Skype – discussed the partial results of the research on the weight of European dimension, European Values and European Citizenship concept in adult education

• promote equal opportunities between women and men;

• contribute to the fight against racism and xenophobia;

• promote social and economic cohesion;

• promote language learning and linguistic diversity;

• tackle the future challenges to education and training systems and lifelong learning.

At the end of the day each partner gave a brief presentation of the activities developed with the learners by now and underlined some main points to be reached in the Interim Report from June 2010.

In the evening the Project team went to a music cafe to listen to Turkish folk music where university students were playing Turkish folk and gypsy music. The musicians were very talented and they played some of gypsy repertoire. They project team member enjoyed very much. We were invited to a private concert given by Mr. Suat ZOR, a traditional Turkish music instruments player. He played ney and saz, which are very known instruments in Turkish music. They played some old Turkish melodies by ney and saz, reflecting Turkish

old traditions and philosophy. The performer, Mr. Zor is a researcher of Turkish music and old Turkish Traditional folk songs.

Saturday 22 May

The second day began with the preparation of the draft agenda for the mobility to Italy.

Kylene (Italy – Training 2000 SNC) joined again via Skype. The period for the next project meeting to take place in Italy was established between 30 September – 3 October 2010 – 30 September and 3 October as travelling days, 2-3 October as working days. All partners fully agreed with this period.

Kylene (Italy – Training 2000 SNC) took responsibility for establishing all the details (activities/workshops for learners, organizational issues – flights, transport from the airports, accommodation etc.) and delivering the final agenda by the end of June.

The coordinator also presented the project blog at http://clear-eu.blogspot.com/ and partners decided to upload information about their work and activities with their learners by the end of June. The coordinator will give administration right to the Turkish and UK partner – as the Italian partner already has it.

The Coordinator will send the text for the completion of the leaflet to the English partner and The Mosaic Art And Sound (UK) will provide for the graphic lay-out by the first week of June.

The project team members, Silvia Petre, Dana Conea and Paolo Cremona were hosted by the students, Cemalettin KÖMÜRCÜ, Çağdaş KESKÜR, Kenan ASLAN, Çiğdem

KARADEMİR, Nebahat KÖMÜRCÜ and project contact person, Özgür KARADEMİR from Samsun Public Adult Training Center.

They were invited to a special music concert at the house named ACEM TEKKESİ. Acem is a name given to İranians. Tekke means Dervish Lodge in old Turkish traditions. In this lodge, a group of Turkish folk music organized a Traditional Turkish night and performed songs (Türkü, folk music) from different part of Turkey including gypsy music and some of the project partner guests played together with the students.

The group members were from different jobs such as teacher, engineer, performer etc. A music teacher, Mr. Suat GÜLER from secondary school attented as a solo perfomer and sang very nice Turkish folk songs.

The special guest for this night was Miss Pelin YOLCU, a ney perfomer from the Directorate of State Opera and Dance. Her performance was realized with Teoman KURU, the guitar player. They gave a special ney concert for the invited guests who has been very happy for the performance.

After the performance, the project partner asked about the instruments and their story.

There was a conversation with the music group of the night and it was unanimously suggested that they would come to London for a concert which will be organized by the UK partner in the framework of the Clear Project.

First project meeting

Place: Rm. Valcea, Romania
Period: 8-9 octombrie 2009
Participants:
-Pro Xpert Asociation (Ramnicu Valcea - Romania): Silvia Petre – president, Daniel Petre – secretary, Maria Popescu – psychologist, Cristina Maria Ciuca – volunteer.

-The Mosaic Art and Sound Ltd (London – UK) – Paolo Cremona – director, Teresa Dello Monacao – EU project manager

-Training 2000 (Mondavio – Italy) – Kylene de Angelis

-Samsun Public Adult Education Center (Samsun – Turkey) – Ozgur Karademir – Project coordinator

The meeting began with a welcome from the project coordinator, Silvia Petre.

Each partner introduced in details the organization they represented.

The partners then started to review the Application, establishing clear understanding of the project’s aims, activities and target learners.

It was decided that each partner will invite its learners to travel to the country of another partner when this will organize the local activity.

For example, when the UK partner will arrange the music activities with migrants in London or when the Italian partners will perform the folklore dances and cuisine with groups of immigrants in Urbino, Italy, or when the Romanian partner will set the theatre play.

It was decided that the next meeting in Turkey is not suitable for learners’ mobilities since no local activity can be arranged at this still early stage of the project.

A journalist visited the group during the first day of the meeting and some articles are about to appear in the local newspaper.

It was proposed that a common template to gather all dissemination activities would be produced and each partner will fill it according to the dissemination activity undertaken. 

Next day, in the morning, the group went to visit Horezu, a town well-known as an ethnographic centre and an ancient folk pottery centre.

The town emblematic activity is pottery. Horezu is considered the capital of the Romanian folk pottery.

The partners visited two workshops and were able to see the pottery making in action. This was a unique experience, very interesting and beautiful, perfect to get in contact with the Romanian folklore.

The partnership went then to visit the Mayor of Popesti and introduced the project and the envisaged outcomes, as part of the dissemination activities.

A visit to the Horezu Monastery followed. This was one of the country’s main cultural centres during the Renaissance and found by Constantin Brancoveanu. It is now a UNESCO heritage item.

The lunch was offered by Pro Xpert Asociatia, the project coordinator, at the Monastery, in a splendid, peaceful terrace.

The rest of the afternoon and the evening were spent in the countryside with the Romanian project target group, a Rom group with whom the partners danced and sang together, around a succulent barbecue in a joyous atmosphere. Local musicians were present and a wonderful singer who is also a writer and a radio programme producer. The project was introduced and a fruitful cooperation started.

Some pictures here