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Minutes of Lingue in Piazza first meeting
6th December, 2005
The representatives of the partners of the
Socrates Lingua 1 project Lingue in Piazza
gather in the medialab of the Faculty of
Foreign Languages of Catania at 9:05. Mr.
José González and Ms. Cristina Pérez attend
the meeting for the Spanish partner Escuela
de Negocios Pau Casals. Mrs. Christa
Bleiklom attends the meeting for the Autrian
partner Schulungszentrum Fohnsdorf. Mr.
Mariusz Olêdzki attends the meeting for the
Polish partner Wyzsza Szkola Gospodarki
Euroregionalnej im. Alcide De Gasperi. Mrs.
Sandra Rowley attends the meeting for the
British partner York College. Mrs. Emilia
Saulescu attends the meeting for the
Romanian partner Romanian Society for Life
Long Learning. Mr. Osman Nuri Çömez and Mr.
Sertaç Keskin attend the meeting for the
Turkish partner Giresun Lisesi.
The Dean of the Faculty Professor Nunzio
Famoso welcomes all our partners. Then the
Head Accountant and the staff of accountancy
are introduced to everybody. We read the
objectives of our project and the work plan.
Some partners consider that it will be
difficult for them to do the events in a
square on May. So we all decide that each
country can chose a different date to do the
events between April and June. We all decide
to promote all the languages of the
countries involved according to the public
interest and try to encourage people to take
up a minor language. Ruth Halstead presents
the contains that the website should
include. She shows some examples of
websites. Emilia Saulescu shows us the
website of another project and suggests
using a password for each partner for a part
of the website that will be used only by
partners. We decide to include a forum in
our website. We decide to send the
interactive lessons contains by e-mail and
all the partners will translate it in their
own language with a CD recording. Each
country page will show the sample of its own
language. If a person wants to learn Turkish
he clicks the Turkish page and he can find
the same page in his own language. The
Polish partner suggests collaborating with
embassies to prepare the events in the
squares. The Turkish partner suggests to
putting up a stand with magazines and
newspapers in other languages that can be
sold. Sandra Rowley from York College
suggests more flexibility in the dates and
to make publicity of our events in free
magazines. We have a coffee break and at
11:30 we go on with the meeting. All
partners decide that the Faculty of Foreign
Languages of Catania will pay in advance the
hotel for the representatives of the
partners. The hotel will do a separate
receipt adding the name of the client that
represents each partner. The Polish partner
will send in March, to all the other
partners, the check list of activities to be
done in the squares. In the Piazza events we
will promote seminars and tasters of
languages. We will arrange to promote the
next events in autumn with seminars and we
will write so in the brochures. The English
partner suggests organizing taster sections
of languages inside the seminars that we
will run in autumn. There will be 1 or 2
taster sessions of 1 or 2 hours for each
language partners want to promote. Probable
contents:
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a taster of the language and culture.
·
Information about independent learning of
that language.
These seminars will be held in autumn 2006
so that people can enrol on courses if they
wish. We will provide indications of the
seminars in Lingue in Piazza activities. The
Austrian partner suggests doing the
internal evaluation through the reports of
each partner. The Spanish partner suggests
preparing a model for each partner to make
the financial intermediate report. England
and Romania will work together to prepare
the dissemination in an international
conference. Our Faculty suggests several
designs for the logo of the project. We
choose the round one. We go on with the
meeting at 15:35. All the partners will have
to send us the swift code of their bank.
Each partner will send us a financial report
every 3 or 4 months with legal photocopies
of all the receipts and bills. We have
decided to make a break-down of the direct
costs. We approve the subdivision of the
budget and we will enclose this for the
partners’ agreement. Then the Faculty of
Foreign Languages of Catania will send each
partner the break-down of each cost with the
agreement. The meeting ends at 17:00. All
the partners are guided round the
ex-Monastery of the Benedictines.
7th December, 2005
All the partners start the meeting at 9:30.
Sandra Boeme reads the minute of the
previous day’s meeting. Everybody agrees
with it. Ruth Halstead starts clarifying the
subdivision of direct costs. We discuss the
fact that the partners won’t be able to do
the TV ad and they want to change the way
of advertising but before they have to ask
the co-ordinator for permission by fax or
with a letter by post. They can’t change
anything before they receive the
coordinator’s permission. The Spanish
partner needs money to design the poster so
they will use the money of the translation
to design the brochure. Ruth Halstead
explains that all partners will receive 40%
of the grant now and they will have to pay
in advance for many things before we receive
the second pre-financial payment. The
Romanian and Austrian partners says that
they can’t decide about costs because they
are not competent and that they need an
accountant so it will be better to prepare a
break-down of costs with the accountant and
send it to them. Emilia Saulescu says that
the brochure must contain: the name of the
project, the logo, the aim of the project,
and the target group. We agree that the
brochure must contain a flyer inside with
the address of the places where they can
access to language learning material and
courses. Each partner will do these flyers.
The Romanian partner will send us the
brochure model in English by the beginning
of April. The coordinator will send the
email addresses of everybody to all the
partners. The poster will contain: the
project name, and logo, the name of the
partner institutions with their logo,
address and date in which they will do the
events in the square, a list of activities
that will be run in the square, the European
flag and Socrates logo. The questionnaire
will not be long. It should include a
question about the events in the square. It
should be a multiple choice type of
questionnaire. York will do the square
events in July and send its report to
Austria later on. Poland will send a check
list to everybody to monitor the square
events. The meeting ends at 12:15 and all
the partners are guided around the library
of the ex- Monastery. |
