Minutes from the meeting in Latvia of AL4ED Project 27 June 2014

Present:Simone Petrucci – Coordinator – ItalyNicolas Sbrilli – ItalyGiacomo Pulcinelli – Italy

Skaidrite Medvecka – Latvia - HostSolvita Kukle – LatviaIeva Jatniece – LatviaInes Bromane – Latvia – Host of the second meeting – Partners presentations on the 28th June

Vesna Petkovic – UK – Taking Minutes

Bilal Yavas – Turkey

Miene Mathon – France Francis Dombret – FrancePatrick Waeles – FranceJean Michele Jouhanneau – France

Dimitris Kosmopoulou – GreeceAngeliki Kosmopoulou – Greece

Anne-Grethe Nyhaug – NorwayGunnhild Hasund - Norway

Second Meeting - Presentations of the partners and our work will be on the 28th June, the day of the Festival in Akniste and at the place where we shall do the workshops.

1. Simone introduced the agenda of the meeting and he opened a discussion on the subjects, which we have achieved since the last meeting in Italy. - Sky gave us each a folder with a map of the Latvia's region, which her organisation covers, and the names of municipalities - pagasta - she said that they contain 120 NGO's which carry out various activities with children and adults mainly related to adult education and preservation of the skills from traditional Latvian heritage. - Bilal informed us that he created two group addresses on the Facebook account and Google group account. He said to send him the names of those who would like to be included, not only coordinators. Facebook Group will be a link to our addresses and if we use the Facebook for some private conversation or to send the information they would be exclusive to those who are members of the

group. The same is for SKYPE and it was suggested that we should use this facility for our monthly progress meeting with the Coordinator. - Decision was made that we communicate once a month with Simone via SKYPE and inform him about our progress and tasks we need to accomplish. PLEASE SEND TO SIMONE YOUR SKYPE ADDRESSES THAT HE CONNECTS WITH ALL OF US - This is urgent! Our communication will improve with this method and Simone will call meeting on SKYPE once a month for 15 minutes, preferably on Saturdays morning, or give any other suggestion.

2. Simone asked about the Progress Report which should be sent on the 30. June the latest. Some partners already sent it, and we all finished Reports, except that some organisations are waiting for the end of the mobility in Latvia to include it in their Report.

3. We discussed the workshops which we had so far with our local learners and at the mobilities and analysed their positive and negative sides. Workshops in London and Castiglione del Lago were regarded as successful and addressed the theme of the meeting. We concluded that through art, British paintings from the 17 and 18 centuries and the Italian Renaissance's frescoes, we were able to recognise and analyse changes in the landscape and the influence of landscape on art. Another five meetings (including Latvia’s mobility) should also show that not necessarily through paintings but through some other artistic methods and techniques merge between art and landscape was achieved and is possible.

4. There were two bilateral meetings one between UK and Turkey and other between Italy and France. We agreed that bilateral meetings contribute to better understanding of the tasks and achievements during the project and promotion of much deeper relationship between the partners.

5. After each meeting we should produce pedagogical cards and Simone will help those who are unclear what to do and how to fill the relevant information.

6. Dissemination is now the major topic. It was suggested that we improve chances to reach out through collaboration with other organisations in the country and abroad. The most effective method is digital communication and social media which Simone and Bilal designed for the project and our individual digital and social on line facilities and network of organisations locally and across Europe. We also decided to do dissemination on local level through local media, other organisations, municipalities and friends and families.

7. Evaluation questionnaires to develop further and to use existing which is comprehensive, but to add some new methods learned through the activities of the partners and at the joint meetings. The aim is to try and use some natural elements in local activities, also to pay attention to the theme of the mobilities and descriptions of the tasks. Each coordinator from the partners’ countries has to do EPAL questionnaire by EU.

8. The Pedagogical cards should contain our themes and the preparation work, workshops like photography, use of objects to achieve the task e.g. Photography without cameras - which we learned in Italy. The Pedagogical Card also features monitoring data, individual actions and products, manual and visual processes, environment, cultural observations, social background, etc. We do that in order to develop our monitoring system through experimental way and to explain how it works. It will deepen our knowledge and information about history and culture of the places, environmental data, customary approach to heritage and local activities (including festivals, celebrations, educational and informal learning activities) also to include parameters which help to make this process attractive.

That's why we have to include bilateral meetings in the mobilities because they help people to understand better what happened in the areas we visit. Even if we have more participants in our

mobilities than we stated in the applications, we shall include them on the organization’s expenses, record and carry on with these activities.

Actions:

Simone will assist everybody in achieving personal targets; please send appropriate material and links and he will develop our official website according to new practice.

Bilal will help with social media and inclusion of product material (written records, essays, creative writings, photographs, videos, audio recording etc.). This will include Facebook, Google Group, Youtube and so.

Miene has a Forum and it would be also available for communication. For further information about it please contact Meine.

Vesna developed a new website with European projects – www.highlightseurope.eu (Miene also developed EU domain), please look at it and we shall create some special pages for art, performing art, street art, photographs, creative writing, video-film production, music and science including environment. Initially all participants would be our friends and colleagues from Europe and all of you are invited to send us some material which we shall select for these special pages. The aim is to open up a channel and include more creative individuals who are not known and famous in online communication with European network where their views on Europe will be published.

Mobility dates revision:

Paris-France, 15-19 September 2014, arrival could be from the 14 if more convenient. Miene will prepare and send the programme, but one hint is that she plan visit to Versailles. One suggestion was to visit the famously cemetery, Pere Lachaise, where many famous men and women are buried. This is an example of urban landscape with historic value. We discussed the hotels what other things she plan and other more practical things related to this mobility. Action: we all have to send to Miene the number of the participants dates of arrival and departure and which kind of rooms people would like to have. Prices mentioned were about 70 Euros per double room, but no fix price as yet - so HURRY UP AND SEND HER THE REQUIRED INFORMATION BEFORE THE END OF THIS WEEK.

Konya- Turkey 22-26 April 2015, possibly we have to add one extra day, but Bilal will tell us about his plan for this mobility. It seems that it will be a memorable art and landscape for all the participants.

Ioannina, Greece,19-23 May 2015 - Dimitris suggested that we move to May, because March is usually very wet and cold. He suggested to travel via Thessaloniki, it seems shorter, by bus. They will prepare the programmed of activities in a due course and send it to all the participating organisations.

Trondheim, Norway 27-31 July 2015 is our last meeting and the end of the project; Kari will be in touch, but briefly we were told that this is the summer festival of classical and pop music.

Problem: Turkish team supposed to include three more men, but they did not obtain visas for Latvia, due to incomplete invitation letter. This is a serious problem for our Turkish partner and please pay attention to what do they need in the invitation letter because some countries are very strict with issuing their visas. For your travel to Turkey some of you need visas too (like UK) and it would not be possible to

obtain visa at the airport on your arrival – so you will be sent back by the first plane. Therefore, make notes of the visa problems. It was unfortunate that lack of communication between the actors blocked three men and their travel arrangements, which caused significant loss of funds to our Turkish partner.

Important and URGENT COMMUNICATION IS WITH MIENE. mathon.miene@gmail.com Please send her mobility cards with information on who is coming and how many rooms she has to book for you.

© Vesna Petkovic – ProArt & Co.