Minutes


6th Meeting 3-7 July 2013 - Castiglione del Lago/ Italy 

Minute 6th International Meeting – Castiglione del Lago, Italy –
2nd-6th July 2013

2nd July
Arrival of Uk delegation composed by 3 persons, Vensa and 2 more learners.

3rd July
With the UK partners we went to Montepulciano, discovering the Tuscany landscape, tasting very good wine, visiting an ancient Vinary. Before to do it we visited the exhibition of Giorgio de Cherico, “De Chirico & Portraits” in the Fortezza Poliziana. A very impressive exhibition, nice and the location was amazing.
In the afternoon, Vensa and Co. visited Castiglione del Lago, the lakeside and the environment that surrounded the peninsula.
All the partners are coming and we celebrated our first ensemble dinner in Castiglione del Lago.

4th July
Located in Hotel Aganoor, in the historical centre of Castiglione, all the parters are ready at 9:30 to start our work for the final report. The session work was very productive and stimulated; people who didn’t attend the session enjoyed their morning in the lakeside.
At 13:30 we came all together to Ristorante la Cantina, trying our typical food products. After the lunch we continue to work to our final report.
At 16:00 we started the guided visit of the ancient renaissance palace, object of several research and works in this project, and the medieval fortress. After it we went to visit the frescoed and suggestive small church of San Domenico.
After the guided visit, free time for the group and then all together at the dinner in Ristorante la Cantina.

5th July
9:30 - All the partner involved in the workshop called “QRHUNT” treasure hunt in the Historical centre of Castiglione del Lago through mobile device using the free public wi-fi.
Participants divided in groups.
Italian partner prepared a questionnaire with questions about history, architecture, culture, nature and culinary aspect of Castiglione del Lago and a map with the QR code disseminated in the town. It’s was very funny and for us (Italian team) responsible for this project (QR) in our town, it represented a good test and feedback.
For lunch we visited a farm “Az. Agricola Bittarelli”, in the countryside between Umbria and Tuscany, testing their typical products and wines. They showed us how they work the fields, technics, tools, timing and different products. After we made the Route of Fagiolina el Trasimeno, a guided tour focused on the typical product “The Fagiolina”, From Etruscan product, to popular food, to expensive typical product.
After we went to Perugia, visit of the city centre, underground Etruscan city, panoramic views and ice-cream.
Dinner at “La Quercia del Pentimento” another farm located between Umbria and Tuscany, tasting typical products.

6th July
Morning with the partners, discussing about the final report and talking-self-evaluation.
Departing of participants.

5th Meeting - ** February 2013 - London / UK 

Wednesday, 27th  February

ARRIVAL DAY…



Thursday, 28th  February

10.30 am, Meeting at V&A in the main hall with part of the participants. After the visit of the V&A we moved around the neighbourhood… sightseeing tour and then we moved at 1:00 pm in V&A again in the main hall. All the participants are arrived so we had lunch in one of the museum restaurants.

In the afternoon we moved to Piccadilly, Soho and Covent Garden markets. Very nice experience walking immersed in the colours and the scents of the markets. We visited also the Chinese district.

At 7:00 pm, Dinner at The Anchor Pub, London Bridge, 34 Park Street. The old and original English pub situated along the riverside of the Tames. Testing of the “Best Fish&chips” you can find in London.



Friday, 1st March

10:00 pm project meeting in Fulham, 33-35 Dawes Road, London SW6 7DT, Underground: Fulham Broadway.

- Introduction of Mrs. Vesna Petkovic about the local project developed by CoArt&Pro.

- Presentation of the works made by the learners in each partner country. The main subject was Food and Culinary Culture.

Several learners of CoArt&Pro arranged for us a nice light lunch.

After the meeting we visited the City of London – St Paul’s Underground station and to walk to the Bank, The Leadenhall market, Liverpool Street, Spitalfiled Market and Brick Lane where we tasted a good “happy hour” in one of the best club (for me it was).



Saturday 2 March

10:00 am meeting at Portobello Market, a morning spent in the middle of the market, tasting foreigners foods and having shopping. After we went to Notting Hill Gate taking the lunch from the market stalls.

1pm – Free time: someone visited to the British Museum and Embankment (South Bank) others come to shopping at Oxford street and some other participants in Camden Town Market.

The last dinner was in Camden Town Market, I was already in the airplane!

You can find some picture in the “PHOTOS SECTION” of our project web site. 

4th Meeting  - 28 November  – 2 December 2012, A Guarda/ Spain

Prepared by: Rok Vukčevič
Thursday 29th 2012
1.      All present welcomed by host partner (E)
2.      Presentation of activities implemented by partner organizations between 3rd and 4th transnational meeting (June 2012, Austria to December 2012, Spain)
a.      Presentation Spain
b.      Presentation Austria
c.       Presentation Italy
d.      Presentation Slovenia
e.       Presentation Great Britain
3.      Presentation of the meeting’s schedule and arrangements by hosting partner (E) – talking about Friday 30th and Saturday 1st (trips to Tui, Valença do Minho and Santiago de Compostela).
4.      Planning the dates for the next mobility to London. Taking into consideration Cypriots’ e-mail in which they let us know, when they’re not able to travel.
5.      Reaching agreement on the time for meeting in London, which will take place from March 6th to March 10th 2013.
6.      Discussion about the topic of mobility to London, which is food / culinary. Vesna expressed that the project and presentation of each partner should be about food we eat in our regions and how we perceive the diversity in culinary.
7.      Vesna presented the brief programme of the London mobility, which will be centred on the London food markets.
8.      Vesna asked the partners to let her know as soon as they can the number of rooms they would need to accommodate the participants of mobility. In that way she’ll be able to reserve the rooms in advance. We talked about the importance of accommodating all participants in one hotel.
9.      Agreement on the final report preparation. RIC Novo mesto as the coordinator will invite all partners to share drop box folders in which will gather learning outcomes, projects presentations, brochures, articles etc. RIC as the coordinator will examine the project application and monitor the work done, in that way we will be able to centre our energies on materials, reports and outcomes we still need to accomplish.
10. Setting the dates for the meeting in Italy from July 3rd – July 7th 2013
11. Filling out the participants’ list.
12. Non-formal discussion
14. Departure for cultural program

3rd meeting - 21-24 June 2012, Vienna / Austria 

Present: see attached list of participants
Minutes of meeting Friday 22, 2012  / 09.00-10.30
1.     All those present welcomed by hosting partner (AT)
2.     Αll those present welcomed by project coordinator (SL)
3.     Presentation of the meeting’s schedule and arrangements by hosting partner (AT) and discussion
4.     Ice breaking games
5.     Departure for cultural program
Minutes of meeting Friday 22, 2012  / 15.00-18.00
1.     Introduction to meeting by hosting partner (AT)
2.     Presentation of activities implemented by partner organizations between 2nd  and 3rd transnational meeting (February 2012, Cyprus to June 2012, Austria)
a.     Presentation Austria
b.     Presentation Cyprus
c.      Presentation
d.     Presentation
e.      Presentation
f.       Presentation
3.      Discussion of presentations
 Saturday 23, 2012  / 15.00-18.00
1.     Additional presentation by Italian partner
2.     Discussion of interim report
3.     Composing of interim report
4.     Coordinator announces change of contact person starting September 2012. The contract of Maruša Bajt will be terminated by her employer, the Slovenian partner (RIC Novo Mesto) and she will be substituted by Maja Regina
5.     Discussion of this announcement, the partners expressed their reservation towards this plan and discussed the problems that might arise for the project from this substitution.
6.     Discussion of schedule and arrangements for next meeting (4th transnational meeting) in Spain. The Spanish partner presented accommodation and flight opportunities and the program for the visit was discussed by all partners
7.     The Spanish partner will send detailed information to all partners via email
8.     Discussion of dissemination measures
9.     Discussion of other projects resulting from the partnership
10.   Evaluation of the meeting

2nd Meeting - Nicosia, Cyprus - 8-12 February 2012

 Thursday, 8th
Arrival of all delegations. List of participants:

Austria Andrea Király
Zsolt Kurinyecz
Slovenia Maja Regina
Maruša Bajt
Marko Poplašen
Nina Grdun
UK Vesna Petkovic
Ksenija Wilding
Italy Simone Petrucci
Caterina Sciuto
Michele Broccoletti
Spain Alberto Manuel Viso Outeiriño
Susana Salvador Díaz
Ana Luísa Pereira da Cruz
José Alén Costa
Víctor Álvarez Coballes
Jordi Treinta de Jesús
Cyprus
(Host country)		 Anna Kyritsi
Athina Kyriakou
Christodoulos Papavarnavas
Eleni Christou
Kalli Christoforou
Friday, 9th
 Meeting at Lykeio Palouriotissas.
 Anna Kyritsi introduced the two projects which are taken place in Nicosia:
1. Youth in Action: Documenting tradition with new technologies  (Cyprus and Crete)
Presentation about the History of the Lykeio Palouriotissas, situated on the Green Zone of Nicosia, by two students of this institution.
Presentation about traditional weeding clothes in Crete, by the Lykeio of Heraklion.
Traditional dances from Nicosia, with students from the Lykeio Palouriotissas.
2. Grundtvig: EU Treasure Hunt
Presentation about the Lake Trasimeno, by Simone Petrucci (Italy)
Presentation about Austrian Musicians, by Andrea Király (Austria)
Presentation about Novo Mesto and activities at RIC Novo Mesto (PLYa Programme), Maruša Bajt (Slovenia)
Presentation about Handcrafts, José Alén Costa (Spain)
 Visit to the school: foundation, history and special location. Guided tour accompanied by two teachers of the Lykeio Palouriotissas.
 Saturday, 10th
 9-11 Visit Cypriot Folk Art Museum.
11-16 Lefkara / Guided tour. Presentation about broderies.
Sunday, 11th
10.00 Presentations at the Centrum Hotel:
 Spanish team:
Handcrafts in the Portuguese border with Galicia, by Ana Luísa Pereira (Grundtvig Language Assistant)
Women fishing nets manufactures in A Guarda, by Víctor Coballes (adult learner)
Slovenian Team:
Novo Mesto, local tv documentary about the first meeting in Slovenia.
Brochures about the project.
British Team:
Popular Markets in London.
The local coordinator gave the evaluation sheets.
Votes for the Project logo: the winner is Tommaso Lesti, from Italy.
11.00 Meeting of coordinators. Conclusions:
Tasks for the next Meeting (Austria): Each partner must prepare a documentary about the most representative part of his local History.
Dates for the 3rd meeting in Wien: 21st-24th June
Dates for the 4th meeting in A Guarda: 29th November-2nd December
Updating the Blog of the project: in one month, each partner must upload the products of the second meeting and communicate to the other partners - about the progress of the project in his institution.

 

Kick off meeting - 10-12 October 2011 – Novo Mesto/ Slovenia

Present:
Slovenian delegation = Coordinator: Marusa Bajt, Zvonka Potocar, Mojca Zrimsek
Austria: Andrea Kiraly, Zsolt Kurinyecz
Cyprus: Anna Kyritsi
Italy: Mariella Morbidelli, Simone Petrucci, Mario Morellini, Franco Marchesini
Spain: Alberto Manuel Viso Outeirino, Nuria Vazquez Garcia, Carlos Alonso Rey
UK: Vesna Petkovic, Sara Kokot
10- 12 October
1.  The Agenda was adopted and a coordinator’s country presented their activities and plan on how to proceed with the proposed project.  Each partner organization presented their activities and talked about their view on the project. The Coordinator collected all presentations and after a short break we talked about the project  itself, our experience in the previous European projects and about the best way in how to organise our new mobilites.
2.  We decided jointly to change some dates related to the initial plan and the Italian partner offered to host the last meeting in Castigllione de Lago, when we have to finalise Report and EST . Initially, this was not an option. All partners agreed that this meeting should be in June 2013.
3. We also changed slightly the dates of our mobilites, because we decided that it would be more practical and beneficial if we go together with our learners to all the mobilites at the same time. Some organisations had exams planned at the initially planned dates or other obligations so the new dates are as follows:
                     Slovenia: 10-12 October 2011   (Kick off Meeting)
                     Cyprus: 9-12 February 2012     (Arts and Craft)
                     Austria: 21-24 June 2012           (History and Heritage)
                     Spain: 4-7 October 2012           (Architecture)
                     UK: March 2013                      (Food and daily culture)
                      Italy: June 2013                        (Final Report)
4.  We decided that at each meeting the host partner should present one of the proposed themes (in brackets), and all other partners will prepare something interesting from their countries related to that team. We also decided that it would not be rigid so if we have some ideas on how to enrich these meetings with some cultural event, related to the theme or bit wider, we should organise it and present it as the joint outcome of that meeting. We plan to take film and photographs of these events and put it on the website. At the end of the project we plan to do a CD/DVD with all four meetings, events and cultural presentations. 5.  We also planned the most urgent activities and how to share responsibilities between the partners in relation of the project. So, the following partners accepted to work on the following tasks during the project:
Slovenia: to collect all information, to organise the meetings and agendas, to coordinate all the mobilities and to receive all partner’s proposals related to the presentations during the mobilities or hosting the mobility.
Cyprus and Italy: will work jointly on the website and other online facilities, including downloading of the photographs to Piqassa. In fact the Cypriot partner have done already a basic design and registration of the Blog-website which we all agreed to use and to update and promote. Italian partner will organise Youtube and Picassa for the download of the photographs. All partners will place their information, feedback, dissemination and other relevant topics on their country’s page and the Coordinator will maintain the general home page related to all of the partners activities.
6.  We also agreed to translate all activities in our native languages and the UK partner will edit English versions for all. We decided to encourage young people to learn languages and to promote their own in spite of its limited use across Europe (like some small countries do not have their languages widespread).
7.  Slovenia presented their examples of Good Practices and projects which they already run or just finished. We discussed which good practice we can apply in our project because each country work with something specific, so combination of our experiences will be probably one example of good practices among our different partnership. We talked how to keep documents and all relevant information regarding the project, to send information after the meetings to the coordinator and to keep a list of people who attended the mobilites. Also to record all activities, invite media and TV if possible to record and help to disseminate the project. We shall have all records kept from the beginning of the project and to keep all minutes, also on the website, where they would be accessible to all partners at any time. Activities:
8.  Our host organised visit to the Art Gallery where Slovenian best artists were displayed. The gallery is in the house of the most famous 19/20th century painter Bozidar Jakac, whose work we could see and follow his professional development through his endless travels. After being inspired by art we were invited to attend an artist’s led workshop, where we were given canvases, paints and brushes to create a logo for our Project. It was fun and definitely discovery of the talents we never knew we possessed. We congratulate our coordinator, and two real artists who helped us paint, on such good idea. Photographs of our paintings are kept with the coordinator and may be used for some purposes in the future.
9.  The following day we visited one of the most interesting archaeological museums and definitely one of the most important for Dolenjska region. We learned a lot about the region, its early history from the Neolith and Bronze age and arts and crafts, which is unique not only for Slovenia but Europe too.
10. After the visits we gave our views on the project and what we think we could do with our learners during the mobilities or when host our meetings. It was very constructive and original discussion and many possibilities presented themselves inspired by the partners brainstorming session. We were really satisfied with this meeting, and we are going home with the clear aims about the project.
11. We also visited a small church in the mountains, St George-16th century, restored to its original look by the local people’s contribution. There we visited the Matjaz’s Home, a farmhouse with vineyard and beautifully restored small alpine shale style cottage, meant to be the tourist attractions and to support sustainability of the local community. They have an original art and craft, also prepared tasty and unique dishes and served a famous vine Cvicek, which is acclaimed as the only Slovenian domestic product registered as commodity.
12. The last day was a meeting to decide the final details of our talks and the Slovenian partner had organised a special event -TV and press  conference - where they introduced the project to the regional viewers and the Italian, UK and Spanish partners talked about their organisations and why they join Slovenia in these activities. It was a nice banquet after the conference which sealed our partnership and shown us that we shall work on it jointly and with enthusiasm. The outcome of our meeting is also forging more friendships and  better communication among the partners.
Minutes taken by Vesna Petkovic UK
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