GRUNDTVIG LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS FINAL REPORT For Partnerships approved in 2007 (grant agreement period 1.10.2007 31.7.2008 or 31.7.

2009)

Please send this report to your National Agency, duly completed and signed by 30 September 2008 (for 1-year renewals) or 30 September 2009 (2-year renewals and new Partnerships). This report is considered as your request for payment of the balance of the grant. Please check Annex III of your grant agreement for a detailed explanation of the calculation of the final grant amount. The questions in part A concern the Partnership as a whole and it is recommended that the participating institutions agree together on the content of that section. Part B concerns the individual participating institution. General information: Grant Agreement Reference No.: 07-NOR01-GR04-00045-1 Partnership title: People and Politics Partner countries: Norway; Denmark; Sweden; Hungary; Romania; Spain Your Partnership is X New (2 years) Renewal (1 year) Renewal (2 years) Your institution is: X The coordinator A partner Name of your institution: Unit for Sustainability, Department of Communuty and Cultural Affairs, Sagene municipal district. Address: Postboks 3460 Bjlsen , 0406 Oslo Telephone: +47 23 47 49 90 Name of contact person: Susan Guerra Telephone: +47 23 47 49 90 E-mail: susan.guerra@bsa.oslo.kommune.no

PART A (concerning the Partnership as a whole)

1. Partnership content: Partnership summary: (please give a brief description (max 250 words) of the Partnership carried out; please note that this description may be used for publication) The partnership People and Politics was a learning exchange concerning methods for citizen participation in local community development cases. The partnership arranged four meetings. At each meeting case studies were presented and discussed, local politicians, citizens / volunteers and staff were gathered to dialogue about working with citizen participation, including themes within intercultural / multilingual challenges and the different contexts within the involved countries. Each meeting contained concrete exercises of methods to secure a hands-on learning for the participants. Each meeting also contained study visits and evaluations. The partnership planned and made a website which contains a menu to include a background of information on Community Development practices in general, a Toolbox of techniques and methods for participation and a grid for analysis of the contexts within which facilitators can study own practice. There is also links to local, national and international resources and a presentation of the project and the partner organisations. The final meeting established informal networks among the participant organizations and local groups to continue international collaborations.

2. Partnership aims and results: 2.1 Partnership aims Please summarise briefly the main aims of your Partnership
The aim of the partnership is to provide learning exchanges between citizens, local politicians, citizen organizations and trainers, as well as local administrators working for a sustainable community development. The focus is to provide examples of methods and activities which have been used to create dialogue between politicians and people which led to changes in community issues. Each partner will provide at least one example of participatory methods in which forms for intercultural dialogue and decision making for local change was achieved. All partners will therefore take care of involving local partners and describing how they worked in multicultural / multilingual communities. The partnership will set up a website for the dissemination of these methods which will be used for pedagogical purposes and to stimulate cooperation throughout European agencies on common community issues. The website will present more than descriptions of methods but also describe how social and economic contexts determined which methods were chosen. In addition, each partner will disseminate information and results from People and Politics in his/her home country and networks. The partnership and website may serve as a link to a European context for the revitalization of local democracy. Each host country will create an activity in which representatives from neighbourhood organisations gather with decision makers. Such gatherings include for example a Social Forum, a citizens festival and conference or a democratic dialogue workshop.

Some activities will also include adult education organisations, politicians, researchers and the facilitators for community development. All involved persons will be learners and at the same time experts contributing with their own experiences.

To what extent were Partnership aims as indicated in the application form achieved? (Tick as appropriate below. Please note that 1= to a very small extent; 2= to a small extent; 3= to a high extent; 4= to a very high extent; 5= totally accomplished)
1 2 3 4

In case you ticked 1 or 2, please explain which aims were not achieved and for what reasons:

2.2 Outcomes of the Partnership Which of the following types of products were achieved? (Please tick as appropriate) Book/leaflet

X Web page - please indicate the address:

___www.pepol.eu_____________________

Performances (theatre, music, sports)

X Pedagogical material (a grid for analysis of process and factors important for the use of CD-ROM participatory methods in local development X Video ( from individual country with work) subtitle and a photographic illustration of Strategic/policy papers partnership working in group exercises, etc. Other objects or tools, please specify on website ) Art objects - a translation of the curriculum for the study of Community Development from the Civil College in Kumbabony, Hungary. - informational power points on partnership - Small brochures on the project in individual countries and languages. Were all the results and products planned at application stage achieved (compare with table "Expected results" of the application form)? X Yes No If your outcomes were different to those indicated at application stage, please explain the reasons for these changes:

3. Communication and cooperation 3

What communication and working language/s were used at Partnership level? English was the working language. Individual participants posed as simultaneous interpretors for those of their group who did not have a fluent knowledge of English. Some dvd materials were subtitled in English.

How would you describe the cooperation between the participating institutions? Were all institutions equally involved? Excellent! Some organisations were more active than others in the preparation of the meetings while all provided the case study materials and took active part in group work and evalutaions.

4. Evaluation and monitoring Please indicate how you monitored and evaluated the progress and impact of the Partnership (e.g. regular evaluation sessions, questionnaires for participants, etc). We provided regular evaluation sessions and questionnaires were also used to evaluate and comment upon the process and efficiency of the meetings. Some e-mail exchanged was used to ensure partners input to the preparation of the following meetings.

What were the main conclusions and consequences of the monitoring and evaluation? The agendas for each meeting were ambitious and contained a bit too much material to cover. Most agreed that they wanted more time to go in depth, more group work and discussions, more hands-on learning of techniques by the learning-by-doing approach and we provided these measures at each meeting. The consequences were that each meeting adapted its form to what was evaluated at the last meeting.

5. Specific measures (if applicable): If your Partnership planned at application level to address the theme of intercultural dialogue, please specify any concrete measures and activities undertaken, at local as well as at Partnership level: The theme was addressed as an integrated part of the common factors we discussed as relevant to working with participatory methods in multilingual / cultural community contexts. We could learn from each others experiences and approaches as presented in the case study. 4

During the case studies and working with the grids to analyze the case study, we were able to discuss the difficulties and solutions in regards to intercultural dialogue as relevant to our national, local and the international contexts. Feks: facilitators doing intercultural work in Hungary in rural communities with Roma families had much benefit from the intercultural work done by facilitators in Denmark with the Asian minorities living in urban neighborhoods. We also regarded ourselves in the partnership as a living laboratory of the experience of being an intercultural group, aware of how we worked with our own different perspectives and what we did to overcome some communication difficulties. We also experienced the expansion of our understanding by listening to others and how they expressed their experiences.

If your Partnership planned at application level to address one of the 2007 Grundtvig priorities of the European Call for proposals (see list at the end of this form), please specify any concrete measures and activities undertaken, at local as well as at Partnership level:
actively involve adult learners throughout the Partnership (planning, implementation and evaluation) All partners involved local associated groups to be a part of the organizations choice of a good example for a successful method for citizen participation and in its presentation of the case study. The staff of the partner organizations participated in exchanges as well as representatives from the local associated partners, local politicians and colleagues outside the organisation from other instituions. The partnership made specific measures at the first exchange to ensure adult learners are part of the educational and evaluation process. These measures include concrete excersizes, planning meetings and follow-up meetings after each partnership meeting. help people with a disability or other special needs to take part in the Partnership The exchanges took place at places without physical barriers so the facility is accessible. Auditory equipment was also proved for those with hearing impairments. help promote the participation of learners or organisations / institutions disadvantaged for socio-economic, geographic or other reasons The partnership included volunteers from disadvantaged groups at the meetings and particularly in the local activities. make sure that women and men have equal access to the Partnership Gender awareness was a feature of this project. Equal access was maintained throughout the programme.

PART B (concerning your own institution)

6. Quantitative data Please indicate in the table below the total number of staff and learners from your institution, as well as the number of representatives of associated partners (and accompanying persons in the case of mobility) from your institution involved in Partnership activities and mobilities: Participation in local activities Total number of staff Total number of learners Staff with special needs Learners with special needs Total number: Female 2 35 0 0 37+ 4 Male 1 3

Participation in mobility Total number of staff Out of these, staff with special needs Total number of learners Out of these, learners with special needs Representatives of associated partners Accompanying persons (in the case of mobility involving persons with special needs) Total number: Female 3 4 3 of learners Male

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7. Partnership activities What concrete activities were carried out by your institution (at local level and during mobilities1)? Date 081007 Activity description 1. meeting in our local P&P-network Actors involved CSS, Volunteer Centre, women from local migrant networks CSS, Volunteer Centre, unions, communities and networks of migrant men and women from local area 2 staff members CSS, Volunteer Centre, unions, communities and networks of migrant men and women from local area CSS, Volunteer Centre, unions, communities and networks of migrant men and women from local area A politician from the Danish parliament and extended P&P network, 35 participants Mayor of Copenhagen and extended P&P network, 35 participants 2 staff 2 learners

091007

Seminar and workshops, where P&P are introduced and activities discussed

Find dato 221107

Mobility/Barcelona Planning meeting in P&P network

150108

Planning meeting in P&P network

Find dato

Social Forum

260208

Social Forum

280508300508

Mobility/Malmoe Sweden

P&P network meets with local municipality employees and politicians planning an Open Space social dialogue between the politicians and school classes (7. 10grade) from the 2 local areas Mobility/ Hungary DK presented our cases Mobility Oslo

2-4 from P&P nw, 2 elected from local municipal assemble and 2 employees from the secretariat.

2 staff and 3 learners 2 staff and 2 learners (plus 1 learner who had to cancel his participation)

Add lines if necessary

More detailed information on mobilities is requested in section 12

Were all the planned activities accomplished? x Yes No If no, please explain what activities were not accomplished and for what reason. Please also explain the extent to which this affected the Partnership development:

If some of the activities carried out are different from those planned at application stage, please explain why: Our youth Social Form/Open Space arrangement will take place in October 2009 it was planned to take place in march 2009, but for a lot of different reasons (for instance to fit within the schools plans) we had to postpone the date of this event.

8. Partnership impact What impact did the Partnership have on the actors involved in your institution and in the local community? Impact on learners x increased language skills increased ICT skills x x increased social skills increased motivation increased self-confidence x increased knowledge about partner countries and cultures x other impact, please specify: Cross - Culture competences

Please comment: Learnt about communicating cross culture and with few common languageskills. Learners obtained the experience to participate active in dialogue with politicians.

Impact on staff x increased language skills increased ICT skills x increased pedagogical skills x increased motivation 8

x increased project management skills x increased knowledge about partner countries and cultures other impact, please specify

Please comment: We learnt a lot about how to participate in a EU project, which we felt very useful and appreciate a lot. Also how to organize activities and forums where citizens and the political level can have a dialogue in a relaxed context.

Impact on the institution/organisation changes to the curriculum x changes to organisational arrangements increased support of the institution/organisation management x increased cooperation among staff x other impact, please specify: We increased our experience in how to coop through internet and website

Please comment: On the organizational level we got important experience of the kind of outcome we get from a project like this. We achieved a very good cooperation with our local partner, the Volunteer Centre and with the local municipality assemble of Vesterbro and Kongens Enghave and with the networks and club for migrant women in these areas. Impact on the local community support and participation of family members x increased cooperation with other local institution/organisations x increased cooperation with local companies Please comment: Please describe any other impact you have noted: In Denmark have CSS and The Volunteer Centre (Vesterbro and Kongens Enghave) been main active on an equal level, but the local assemble of Vesterbro and Kongens Enghave has been increasing involved. In Denmark the participating organisations and networks have evaluated on a regular basis as special sessions in our network-meetings. 9 X increased support and participation of other local/regional actors other impact, please specify :Increased a more stabile participation and network with and among migrant women groups

1. The evaluation was an important tool to keep focus on our aims for this project so many other issues were in the queue 2. The evaluation helped to identify out the most important values of participating in the Partnership and the project as such

9. Dissemination and use of results Please indicate how you have informed your institution/ other institutions / the local community of the results of your Partnership? By e-mail, personal contact (phone), through seminars and the P&P-website

How do you think that the results and products of your Partnership could be used by others?

It is an important result for us to have experienced, that different languages as the major marker of culture do not have to be a barrier in the contact as it is often announced to be and that this barrier can be broken down by low-technical intervention. The P&P website with the toolbox is a good dissemination tool.

10. Problems/obstacles encountered What problems/obstacles did you encounter at Partnership and local level during the implementation of the Partnership and how were they solved? Late grant agreement / payment High administrative workload Communication problems Lacking support within participating institution/organisations Lack of time for project work Organisational problems within the institution/organisation Language problems Lack of funds Organisational problems with partner institutions/organisations Other problems, please specify:

Please comment: Mostly lack time to prepare and plan activities and mobilities and to write reports 11. Suggestions/recommendations Please provide any further comments and suggestions for the improvement of Grundtvig Learning Partnerships: 10

It has required a lot of time to full fill the results of this project in order to keep up the engagement and commitment among learners/our networks and to write the reports and to prepare our participation in the mobilities. In Denmark we have brought learning from new activities into this project and not communicated old cases. It has been a very learning process for the core group of learners and staff be part of this project and all of us have felt that it brought us closer to be Europeans and to the idea of European community. Now this project has come to and end we also feel better prepared to cross cultural/cross national cooperation but I do not know if we have the capacity to participate in a new project.

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12. Mobility activities Type of grant awarded: 2 mobilities 4 mobilities 6 mobilities x 12 mobilities

Reduced mobility number: ___

Please fill the following table for each trip carried out (one table covering all persons that took part in the same trip): Copy the table as many times as necessary i.e. one table for each trip.
Host organisation (partner institution/organisation or event organiser) Receiving country and location Starting date (dd/mm/yy) Duration (days) Nr of learners Nr of staff1 Nr of persons from associated partners 1 Total number of persons 2 Out of which nr of persons with special needs

Catalonia, Spain Desenvolupment Comunitari

071107

Mobility description (aims, activities and outcomes of the mobility activity): To share examples To make common guidelines for the casestudies and in general to adopt the design of presentations

Name of each participant: Rikke Posborg Stine Kamstrup Knudsen

Position: Staff, leader of volunteer Counseling in CSS Leader of Volunteer Centre

Age (for learners only)

Host organisation (partner

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Receiving country

Starting date

Duration

Nr of

Nr of staff1

Nr of persons

Total

Out of which nr

In the case of mobility involving persons which special needs, enter accompanying persons such as parents, guardians or carers in this column

12

institution/organisation or event organiser)

and location

(dd/mm/yy)

(days)

learners

Cesam Malmoe, Sweden 28052008 Mobility description (aims, activities and outcomes of the mobility activity):

from associated partners 1

number of persons 4

of persons with special needs

Presentation of case studies and to create ties between trainers and organizations. To participate in a intercultural dialogue.

Name of each participant: Rikke Posborg Helle Gerber Nielsen Helen Munch-Petersen

Position: Staff, CSS Staff, Volunteer Centre Learner, CSS

Age (for learners only)

Host organisation (partner institution/organisation or event organiser)

Receiving country and location

Starting date (dd/mm/yy)

Duration (days)

Nr of learners

Nr of staff2

Civil Kollegium Foundation

Kunbabony, Hungary

260908

Nr of persons from associated partners 1

Total number of persons 5

Out of which nr of persons with special needs

Mobility description (aims, activities and outcomes of the mobility activity): Study visit and participation in closing seminar of Citizen Participation week. To present case study and to learn from presented case study. To discuss evaluation. To prepare toolbox- contribution from each partner to be disseminated on our website.

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In the case of mobility involving persons which special needs, enter accompanying persons such as parents, guardians or carers in this column In the case of mobility involving persons which special needs, enter accompanying persons such as parents, guardians or carers in this column

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Name of each participant: Rikke Posborg Helle Gerber Nielsen Fakhra Sultana Helen Munch Petersen Julie Fischer-Nielsen Host organisation (partner institution/organisation or event organiser) Sagene Samfunnshus/Oslo Kommune Receiving country and location Starting date (dd/mm/yy) Duration (days)

Position: Staff, CSS Staff, Volunteer Centre Learner, CSS Learner, CSS

Age (for learners only)

Nr of learners

Nr of staff1

Oslo, Norway

030609

Nr of persons from associated partners 1

Total number of persons 4

Out of which nr of persons with special needs

Mobility description (aims, activities and outcomes of the mobility activity):

Presentation of case study, present all the toolboxes from the partners and evaluate the whole project and prepare final report Name of each participant: Rikke Posborg Helle Gerber Nielsen Fakhra Sultana Peter Bjrntoft Position: Staff, CSS Staff, Volunteer Centre Learner, CSS Learner, elected member of ass. Of Kgs Enghave Age (for learners only)

43 34

11

In the case of mobility involving persons which special needs, enter accompanying persons such as parents, guardians or carers in this column

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13. Grantholder's declaration to be signed by the person legally authorised to sign on behalf of your institution and by the Partnership contact person in your institution: "We, the undersigned, certify that the information contained in this Final Report is correct to the best of our knowledge and we herewith request the balance payment of the grant awarded";
Date: 240809 Place: Copenhagen Name and position of the contact person: Rikke Posborg, staff Signature of the contact person: Date: 240809 Place: Copenhagen Name and position of the Head of institution: Johannes Bertelsen Signature of the Head of institution: Stamp of the institution/organisation (if applicable)

****** 2007 European priorities for Grundtvig Learning Partnerships:

actively involve adult learners throughout the Partnership (planning, implementation and evaluation) help people with a disability or other special needs to take part in the Partnership help promote the participation of learners or organisations / institutions disadvantaged for socio-economic, geographic or other reasons make sure that women and men have equal access to the Partnership

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