Grundtvig partnership Everybody can do it!

(ECDI) Newsletter 3 Third Project meeting Vaslui, Romania

On 5th-9th June 2013, High School "Stefan Procopiu was the host for the third project meeting held in the Grundtvig Learning Partnership "Everybody Can Do It "(ECDI). There were about 40 people (staff and learners) of the 8 partner countries. One day of the meeting was devoted to promoting local community project and presentation of Romanian traditions. The meetings with the Mayor of Vaslui, Mr. Vasile Pavl with Mayor Drnceni Mr. Gelu Pecheanu and Pdureni mayor, Mr. Diaconu Themistocles, represented, for each partner, an opportunity to present information about the partnership "Everybody Can Do it ", and to make contact with various aspects of Romanian culture and civilization. On the occasion of outdoor activities held at the Village Hall Drnceni, Ghermanesti and with the support of the Romanian team and learners, the European partners have come into contact with Romanian food and folk traditions. Romanian traditional dishes, all prepared with great skill by Romanian students, enchanted the partners and the welcoming of the guests with bread and salt has sparked interest. Salt and bread is perhaps the most ancient custom of hospitality of Romania, being a symbol of harmony and friendship. The meeting with representatives of Town Hall Pdureni represented another opportunity for the European partners to come in contact with Romanian traditions and customs. Here folk "Stejarelul" sparked by the performance delight and applause was repeated among European audiences who have also made contact with Romanian folk music with srbele, hore and our movements uppity, but precise, with the beauty of traditional costumes.

Meeting Objectives
to establish the work plan and responsibilities for the next meeting; to organise a conference to disseminate the results and the activities of the first year of project and to share best practices, experiences, methods regarding adult education and gender equality; to review the results and outcomes for the first year of the project; to discuss about: ways of dissemination and evaluation, Decalogue of good practi ces on lifelong learning coeducation, the booklet We are equal! Guide of good practices on gender equality and work-shops We are equal to present the ways of posting material by each partner, up-dating the projects site;

Project Meeting Programme

Project agenda also included the following activities: exhibitions "Women who inspire Europe" and "Nobel Prize Awarded Women"; learners workshops on gender equality; conference to disseminate the activities and results of the first year of the project was an opportunity to exchange experiences and best practices in adult education and gender equality; work sessions in which were discussed the following: "Decalogue of good practices on lifelong learning coeducational", the brochure "We are EQUAL! Guide of Good Practices on Gender Equality " ,workshops" We are equal "arrangements for dissemination, valorization and monitoring the partnership, shared responsibility to the project meeting in Estonia was decided to develop a database with the presentation of books and films on the theme of the project, and making a video to mark November 25th ("International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women"); project evaluation meeting.

Project Meeting Evaluation

Analysis of evaluation questionnaires completed by staff and learners revealed that they appreciated the good organization of the project meeting, the optimal joint of socialization and intercultural communication activities with workshops and discussions on partnership, elements of Romanian civilization and interaction between people from different countries.

Work-shop We are equal!

PARTICIPANTS- 32 / 5 working groups MADE EXERCISES: 1. Knowing each other exercise- WE ARE DIFFERENT 2. Exercise THE PORTRAIT OF THE PERFECT HUMAN BEING( MANOR WOMAN) (exercise proposed by Celina and adapted to the working group) 3. Evaluation exercise 1. Knowing each other exercise We are different Description : The moderator offers the possibility to the learners to choose a sheet of paper for a set of collared sheets and presents the rules that must be fallowed during the exercise: Fallow the instructions and do not ask the moderator any question. You do not have to look at what your colleague does. Instructions: Bend the sheet. Tear the right up corner. Tear the sheet Bend the sheet once again Tear the right down corner.
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Turn the sheet Tear the sheet in the middle for 1 cm. Open the sheet and look at the sheets of all present.

Interpretation: What do you see? Possible answers: "All sheets are perforated and torn at the edges, but different." / "I'm different.", "Very few are alike." Although the workload / instruction was the same and each participant performed the task, the results are different. This result does not mean that participants were wrong. The result indicates that each of us interpret differently the information they receive. This result demonstrates that people are different, not better or worse than others but simply different. As men and women are different, and therefore need to communicate and learn to accept as they are -different.

2. The portrait of the perfect human being (man or woman) Description: The moderator/facilitator enables students to choose a marker/color of a set (yellow, red, green, brown and orange) and students are grouped according to the chosen color. Each group receives a set of materials created for use: markers, flip-chart sheets. To each group created is specified the task - the portrait of a perfect woman (3 groups) or a perfect man (2 groups). Instructions: Time work-20 minutes. The members of each group can use all the materials to make the task- the portrait of the perfect man/woman. To make the portrait the learners can draw or write. . At the end of the 15 minutes, all the portraits will be posted in front of the room. Interpretation: Question asked by the moderator/facilitator: What/whom do you see in this image? Do you see yourself in the portraits you made or the ones made by the other groups/ Are your friends, mothers/fathers or girlfriends/boyfriends like this? Are there characteristics which are encountered also in the portrait of a man and also of a woman? Is it ok to have a perfect life partner (man/woman)? The result of the activity: recognition that there are not perfect people (women/men); every man (man/woman) has both strengths and weaknesses; traditional features, female or male, are present worldwide in a mixed mode.

3. Evaluation exercise:

Description: To each participant is stuck a white sheet on his back. Instructions: Each participant, using the marker he chose at the beginning of the activity/meeting, has to write/note on the back of each participant, a thing that he liked at that person. Activitys results: At the end of 10 minutes, each participant/participants takes the sheet on his back and reads. Interesting was that each of those present, tried to identify if one of the words marked/written on paper are found in the portrait of perfect man/woman (portraits of the 5 group.

Next meeting
Next project meeting will be held in Estonia (30th September-4th October); according to the application form, the main objectives of the project meeting, must be: completion of the following documents necessary to conduct the second year of the project: the activities plan, monitoring and evaluation plan, dissemination plan, communication plan; discussion on improving weak points identified following the evaluation work carried out in the partnership during June-July 2013; workshops for staff and learners; discussion on updating the site; discussion on organizing the next meeting of the project; evaluation of the fourth project meeting, evaluation tools used: questionnaires and discussion; dissemination of the project;

The Grundtvig Partnership

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