Sunday, October 28, 2007

First Reunion - Photos




































Baia Mare 25-28 Oct 2007

Minute of the Meeting

THE ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN WOMEN’S LIFE
2007-2009
Grundtvig Learning Partnership Project
http://entrepreneurshipforwomen.blogspot.com/
Baia Mare Project Reunion
25-28 October 2007

Participants:

Info Project, Baia Mare, Romania, Coordinating institution
Mariana Gabriela Hudrea – Project coordinator
Simona Zachia
Florentina Baciu
Laura Szebeni
Cristina Ambrus

CIDF, Marseille, France
FrancoiseTeissier
BettyLaborel
ChristianeBillon
Patrick Perge

SITE 23, Budapest, Hungary :
Fazekas Katalin
Fazekas Andras

Aims and Objectives of the meeting:
Presentation of the partners
Reorganizing the planning and project activities according to the new partnership
Elaboration of a common questionnaire
Official launching of the project

October 25th 2007

The teams from France and Hungary reached Baia Mare on October 25th.
The three teams met for the first time at the Mara Hotel .
The participants discussed about the program of the meeting so as the reunion should be most efficient.

October 26th 2007

The three teams met at Millenium .
The discussions started according to the program. The content of the project was read line by line and the necessary corrections were made. As the partners from Bulgaria, Italy, Spain and Sweden had not been accepted in the project, it was necessary a new planning of the activities, mainly the project meetings.
Thus, the next project meeting will take place in Budapest , Hungary in May 15-18, 2008
and the third meeting will take place in Marseille, France, in October 23-26, 2008.
All the activities will be developed according to the initial planning.
The team from Hungary will design the project website. For that, two people from the Hungarian team will come to Baia Mare until the next project reunion to work together with the coordinating team.
The coordinating team will get a website address for the project website.
In the afternoon the three team drafted the common questionnaire meant to collect information about the existing situation of women unemployed or unsatisfied with their job, women aged 45-55.
When the questionnaire will get the final form it will be sent to all the other teams to be reviewed and then translated in the languages of the partner countries: French, Hungarian and Romanian and to be given to the target group.

October 27th 2007

The teams met again at Millenium and received the guests invited for the launching of the project.
Besides the 9 members of the three teams the other participants were:
Camelia Polgar, Baia Mare Municipality, the NGOs Department
Diana Ionescu, librarian, Vasile Lucaciu NC
Cornelia Dumbrava, teacher, Gh. Sincai NC
Draga Radu, associate professor, Baia Mare North University
Viorica Parja, journalist, Graiul Maramuresului
Monica Dumitras, journalist, Glasul Maramuresului
Ioana Fechete, interpreter
Mihaela Manarazan, manager, CPPC Baia Mare
Maria Dascalescu, ING consultant

Mariana Hudrea, the project coordinator, presented the main content of the project and the proposed outcomes.
Then, the three teams introduced themselves and presented the institutions they belong to.
The presentations were followed by an animated talk about the project and about the opportunities to be involved in such projects.
The guests seemed very much interested in the project and they expressed their will to be kept informed.
There was a unanimous opinion regarding the utility of such projects meant to answer a need existing in all European countries: women in difficulty need help from the qualified people and from the people willing to do that.
In the evaluation sheets the participants expressed their appreciations upon the idea of the meeting and upon the utility of the project.
In the afternoon the three teams evaluated the three days activities and drafted the minute of the meeting. The final version will be sent to them by the project coordinator.
The three teams also took the decision to upload all the documents in the e-group:
activeteam@yahoogroups.com .
The project coordinator is supposed to create a new e-group for the target group:
g2entrepreneurship@yahoogroups.com

October 28th 2007

The teams from France and Hungary left for their countries.
To conclude, this first meeting proved to be a most successful one.
All the participants expressed their satisfaction for this new partnership and for the content of the project.

Mariana Hudrea
Project coordinator


Wednesday, October 24, 2007

First Project Meeting

The first project meeting will be organized in Baia Mare, Romania, on the 25th -28th October 2007.

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Project presentation

Entrepreneurship is one of the 8 Key Competences meant to assure the building of the European Knowledge Based Society.
To what extent are the European citizens aware of the opportunities open to them by acquiring entrepreneurship competences?
What is to be done in order to make them willing to acquire new skills and competences when they reach a certain age? Which are the most affected categories by lack of key competences?
Our partnership is meant to answer some of these questions by studying the actual situation of women aged 45-55 who are either not satisfied with their actual job or who are unemployed.
For this we will elaborate a survey related to the complexity of this situation in all partner countries aiming at getting a panoramic view of the causes that had led these women to the position of not fully successful persons.
We will also try to find out, within this European partnership, the best ways to help them regain the self esteem and to successfully integrate on the labour market.
The results will be presented during an international conference on the theme “ Women’s Integration on the Labour Market”, a product of this partnership.

Partners

Info Project SRL – International Centre for Adult Education –Baia Mare, Romania is an institution that has as main object of activity adult education.It was set up in April 2004 with the strong belief that long life learning is inseparable to anybody’s wish to be strong, informed, creative and adapted to the society he/she is living in.The projects promoted by the company, the training courses and the events organized are directed to those who wish to better meet the requirements of the 21st century. Info Project promotes European citizenship, skills and competencies in the field of ICT, skills and knowledge necessary for professional reconversion . It stimulates the study of foreign languages and the cooperation with similar institutions from Romania and abroad . Info Project is today an Authorized TOEIC /TFI Testing Centre, TOEIC/TFI and TEF Training Centre, ICT training Centre and an Authorized Translation Center ( English & French).It is also member of Maramures Chamber of Trade and Commerce. The employees and collaborators of Info Project are people with experience in coordinating European projects. They have also proved competences in creating and working in international networks.

SITE23 Limited, Budapest, Hungary, is an enterprise established in 1999 with the following objectives:
·to collect expertise in distance teaching and multimedia development in the field of language teaching and to organize traditional and online courses in IT English
·to serve as a centre for teaching material design and development and to design and develop new language examination systems for accreditation procedures etc.
In the past period the company has carried out activities like publishing language learning materials, participating in projects on developing online materials, organizing language courses and doing theoretical research in the field of LLL and multimedia design. Its research activities focus on methodological issues related to digital material design and self-evaluation methods applicable in online environment. Its past involvements in EU projects have greatly enhanced the staff’s experience in issues like international cooperation, educational policy priorities and human rights.


The Centre d’Information du Droit des Femmes Phocéen, (CIDF)(FR) is an Information Centre on women’s rights. It’s a non profit association based in Marseille (France) which belongs to a national network.
Its aim is to support women in any kind of subject they need. Principally, the CIDF, with 21 people working, give information on laws and employment. It’s always looking to improve women’s conditions of life.
The organization has been involved in several European projects concerning issues related to a better integration of women on the labour market.