LDV Partnership Project
C.A.S.E.S
WORK
Collaborative and Social Enterprises
as a New
Model of Economic Activity
and WORK Opportunity
Minutes Cases Work
Groningen, 11th of April 2013
Welcome from
Ian as a technical coordinator.
Maud
gives an explanation of the program.
Meeting
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Turkey introduces their organization with a powerpoint and gives everyone a
gift from Turkey.
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Short introduction from everyone because of the
new faces.
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Poland shows the draft of the website. The
costs are 80 euros per country. Tomorrow a decision will be made about this
subject.
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The to do list has been checked. Things
that remain are noted below.
To do list
Ø
Leaflet graphic Poland Belgium, text Hungary: finish, complete and spread by email
Translation into your own language before the next meeting in Iceland
> Logos: finished, beautiful!
> Facebook, website/ linkedin-
Spain (and Poland) financial
adds in the discussion
> Evaluation on google,
fill on evaluation, discussion for Iceland.
Short evaluation in the last 10
minutes of the meeting. Later on better evaluation.
Ø Internal
agreement - Austria
will arrange this this meeting.
Subgroups
Four groups to discuss what has been done in the time. Presentation 15
minutes per group tomorrow.
* 1 Theme: Cooperative and coworking
Partners: Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and
Bulgaria
Leader: Netherlands
2 Theme: crowd founding, open source, government
service
Partners: Poland, Spain, (Turkey joint them)
Leader: Spain
3 Theme: Alternative energy, production, rural
economy
Partners: United Kingdom, Portugal, Lithuania
and Iceland
Leader: Lithuania
4 Theme: Cooperative transport service (bike,
travelling...), fare trade, education
Partners: Austria, France, Hungary
Leader: Austria
Plenair
Oscar is
proposing to send the powerpoints from the subsgroups to collect them in a pdf
as concrete outcome.
Appointment:
logo of Leonardo da Vinci (Cases Work) should be on the front.
To be
questioned; can we get the money for three years maintenance?
Tomorrow we
will decide about the finance.
All presentations will be put on the
Google Group.
Program Students
The
students heard and viewed a presentation from Henk ten Brinke about dropouts
from (high)school at the office CMO Groningen.
Globe
A nice and
Dutch lunch is provided by Globe, a social enterprise. 400 homeless and other people with a distance to the labor
market are employed within the restaurant and other departments.
Iederz
We continue
our journey on our bikes to Iederz, a
social enterprise. The manager public affairs tells about the enterprise before we get a
tour through the building with different sheltered departments. Iederz needs to make a profit just as
any other company. The deals are made throughout the world. The biggest
challenge is to get work because the employees have a job security for life. People
cannot be fired unless something really exceptional takes place. During our
tour we get different impressions from the work that is done and the joy that
employees experience during their work. ‘Packaging is my passion and my life!’
Ø Speech of the
manager of public affairs
Ø http://www.iederz.nl/ (DUTCH)
Dinner at Noorderpoort
In the
school for Hospitality a nice dinner is prepared by students and offered by
students in the age of 15 to 20. This is an example of vocational education.
Between the dishes we are enjoying Cultural performances from the UK, Portugal,
The Netherlands and the UK again. The train is taking everyone back to the
hotel or to the city center.
Ø http://www.noorderpoort.nl/en/Paginas/default.aspx (only parts are in English)
Groningen, 12th of April 2013
Presentations has been given by all the four subgroups. See Google
Group (please send it).
Project issues
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A one to one visit is a mobility as well.
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Host a meeting does
not count as a mobility.
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Poland and Bulgaria
exploring cheap possibilities for the website.
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The leaflet can be
used.
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The group picture will
be send by email
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The agreement has been
signed by all partners
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The good practice
guide will be discussed at the next meeting
Next meeting Iceland
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26th and 27th of
September. Capacity for 27 persons is fine. When extra people want to come,
this is possible but needs some more preparation. Also tickets have to be
booked early because of the prices.
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In the UK there is going to be a problem with
accommodation, so maximum 30 peoples can come there.
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In Portugal is enough preparation. Portugal
proposes a date by mail.
Ø Presentations
Students
The
students from Hungary, Czech and Portugal visit with Maud a High School in Appingedam and talked and discussed with two classes dutch students about similarity
and differences between their homecountry in the
education/schoolsystem and in the Netherlands.
Lunch de Gasterij (Delfzijl), social enterprise
Renee Blaauw has developed a project whereby the vulnerable
people have founded a restaurant and a second hand shop on a voluntary base, a
short presentation about the Buurt de Baas was given
in Pares. We are offered a typical Dutch lunch with a Kroket
and Mosterdsoep. Alderman Thea van der Veen welcomed every member of
the Eu-delegation, also
there is a journalist present.
Ø Speech volunteer
Secondary school het Hogeland in Wehe den Hoorn.
The teacher
explains something about the school within 3 topics.
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Organization, one the 3 secondary schools within
the schools.
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Dutch education system, provides 3 main streams. After the
primary school a test is being made where the choice is being made for three
levels. The three levels are a preparation for Vocational education, for the
University for applied science (higher professional education) or University. A
discussion rises about the early selection that has been made.
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Entrepreneurship in
the school. This
school for the level that prepares for vocational education makes good use of
experimental learning in cooperation with entrepreneurs within the region. A
dinner for parents has been organized, a holiday fair, a visit to a hotel, etc.
The students are organizing this as a way of learning with input from
entrepreneurs whereby the teacher functions as a coach.
Ø Powerpoint
presentation
Ø http://www.hogeland.nl/ (DUTCH)
Castle and the sea
After this
visit of the school, we go on are way back to Groningen via a castle (Verhildersum) and the Eemshaven
where we take a view of the sea. Half of the group ends this fantastic meeting
in a restaurant.
Thank you
all for this fantastic two days!
See on Google group (send
it please)
Powerpoint presentation Turkey
Powerpointpresentation Poland
Speech of the manager public affairs
of Iederz, a social enterprise
Ladies and gentlemen,
On behalf
of the management, but more especially on behalf of our 1600 employees, I would
like to welcome you to Iederz in Groningen. I like to present my colleague Bert
Verheek, account manager sales. I am Nick de Zwart, manager public affairs. Bert and I are your hosts
during your visit this afternoon. Both we hope you have a pleasant stay in our
city of Groningen.
And yet
you’re visiting Iederz, a municipal corporation. Since it was founded almost 60
years ago, the Iederz-company has been at the service to people who lack the
resources to enter the labor market without help.
Often
because of a physical disability they
were certainly not accepted in the workforce. This meant that working for
companies operating in the field of sheltered employment was founded. In early
days, there was a way in but not a way out. Just as long as
the management continued to provide in work. That was the goal.
While
society was relieved of the problem of the handicapped,
and employers no longer think of them. So everyone was satisfied..? And that
is, you will agree a wrong point of view. Public attitudes changed during the years. But also people
physical and disable with a form of handicap have to cat use to live and labor
in the society. It’s no longer a question of what is impossible for people, it’s no longer about what people cannot do. Because ladies and gentlemen, if that is what
it is about, then you and I also have a handicap.
It is all
about what is possible. But because people’s thought process work differently,
we develop a model in which we continuously, individual and demand driven
seeking for labor possibilities in the region of our city and in our own
company.
For work- employment in all kinds of company’s and professions. In our own company, on this
location we offer sheltered labor, for people who can only work in a sheltered
surrounding.
So there
are 1600 people employed in this company of Iederz. At the moment there are 600
people working in the sheltered departments in this building, and 1000 are
working within all sorts of companies in the region of the city of Groningen
where you are staying at the moment.
Together we
are continuously on a search, together with our employees, on search of their
wishes and potential and skills for the best labor they can achieve. With the result that these individuals recover their
self-confidence and return to the labor market as valued and valuable
employees.
Within a
few minutes we will start together a tour through the sheltered departments of
our company. In two groups we are going to visit the following sorts of
sheltered labor of Iederz.
Assembling
curtains and blinds – packing chocolate – making hand rolled cigarettes for testing
and analysis purposes – assembling coaxial cables, various parts of heaters –
bike kids cars – flow packing chew snacks and bones
for dogs – packaging of swim pants/diapers for babies.
Bert Verheek and I go with you in 2 groups from here and will return
afterwards here again.
I wish you a nice visit to our sheltered
departments of Iederz.
Presentation
subgroup 1