Wednesday 7 November 2012

First meeting between the countries participating in the project

In the month of October, in the first meeting Piélagos all participants in the European project to promote entrepreneurship among young people.

Piélagos Mayor, Enrique Torre Bolado, and the Councillor for Social Services, Eva Arranz, are the representatives of Slovakia, Bulgaria, Poland and United Unido.El Piélagos Adult Classroom, directed by María Jesús Cayon, represents Spain in this new program of the European Union, which has been granted the City with financial support from the Ministry of Education, Government of Cantabria and European Projects Agency.

The four representatives of Piélagos are responsible for coordinating the project which lasts two years, and whose main tasks enhance English; find and display good business practice to introduce young people safe and practical way of entrepreneurship in the participating countries, and engage students in the preparation of the graphic elements for the promotion of youth entrepreneurship culture.

In recent days Lithuania was incorporated as part of the project, bringing the six countries.




Monday,15th October

1)     Project welcome and partner’s introduction whom were welcomed by the Mayor of Piélagos.
2)     Visit to a big Enterprise from the municipality (Saint Gobain), where glass is made.
3)     Visit to the municipaty school “Antonio Robinet”, where it is explained how the education system Works in its diferents stages: childhood, primary and secondary education.

4)      Meeting project: from 16:00 to 20:30 h.
All the members participated, Slovakia came at 18:30 h.
a)     There was an agreement where all of us said that Spain is the coordinator (since that was in the National Agency criteria). 
b)     It was establish as main way to contact between us the e-mail( each member have to give 2 adresses and a telephone number as well). 
c)      We set an Schedule with the next meeting in United Kindom(from 27th January to 2nd of march 2013). The meeting’s duration is going to be of 3 days, during these days all the partners will be there. 
d)     We set our aims to create and design the website. 
e)     Slovakia members were joined. 


Tuesday 16th october
1) Project meeting: from 16:00 to 20:30 h. All the partners participated.
a) Welcome and introduction to the members from Slovakia who arrived late the day before.
b) Meeting and debate about the website preparation: criteria for the common part’s elaboration. (We decided the website is going to have 3 parts: Project description, geographic description and educational centre description. It will have photos and the newspaper’s articles from when the meetings were hold. All the information will be sent in Word format and the images in JPG.The  Interviews to enterprising people from the region that are well-known due to their brilliants careers will be post too.
Tasks distribution to elaborate the material for the website. (Spain will send before 15th November to each country the Schedule that has to be followed with the diferents contests, like this each partner can follow the model with the purpose that each member follows the model to have the same structure all the countries. Slovakia will send some proposals with diferents logos and in December we all will choose the best one. The closing date to send to Spain all the contests will be 15th January.
c) Debate of the criteria to prepare the good practises guide. We agree to lay down a model that all the partners have to follow to make the guide of good practises.
d) During the meeting in Wales the format and design will be decided and it will be the same for all, in this meeting Spain will provide the index and the contest proposal.
e) Next meetings dates. We set the calendar with the 5 encounters:

COUNTRY
MONTH
DATES


ARRIVE
MEETING
CULTURAL
SPAIN
OCTOBER 2012
14
15-16
17-18-19
U K
FEBRUARY- MARCH 2013
27
28-1
2
BULGARY
OCTUBER 2013
16
17-18
19
POLAND
APRIL 2014
2
3-4
5
SLOVAKIA
JUNE 2014
11
12-13
14
The meeting will be held during 3 days, in that time all the countries will participate.
 Write all the presentations project letters:
1. Spain.
2. UK.
3. Bulgary.
4. Poland.