First Transnational Project Meeting
After welcoming the participants, we started discussing the first point of the Agenda: Project Management and Implementation.
For the first partner presentation, FAS invited partners to try something new in order for the partners to understand the organization’s mission. They were invited to visit to Social Businesses were people with disabilities work and create beautiful things by recycling waste. First Social Business is called OilRight and they use recycled cooked oil to make beautiful scented candles. Partners were invited to prepare their own candles, under the strict supervision of Ana, a person with intellectual disability who has lived for more then 40 years in a residential institution for people with mental disability. This kind of workshops FAS uses to promote sustainability and recycling by organizing workshops with children and parents. It is a good way to strengthen the parent-children relationship and to teach children about how to transform waste to beautiful things.
The second Social Business is called Waste. Here works Eli, another person with intellectual disabilities, with institutional background, who has in the last 20 years helped hundreds of people with disabilities to stand up for them self’s, to promote equality and the fight for the rights of people with disabilities. She uses waste textiles to make clothes and bags.
Each partner had the chance to talk about their work and how their expertise can help the best implementation of the project. Ildiko from FAS presented a short version of the National Agency’s feedback on the project and underlined the importance of demonstrating the relevance and the impact of the materials that will be developed during the implementation of the project.
All activities and materials have to come in supporting the needs of the parents facing difficult times. After the lunch break, ProWork presented the status of the Work Package 2 and the next steps. Partners agreed on the deadlines regarding the development of the training materials.
For Work Package 3, partners discussed that it is important that all the materials will be user friendly, easy to understand and to implement for parents. All the materials that will be developed has to be supported by the platform Moodle.
Siglo22 presented us some useful tools in developing interactive materials such as genially.com. Other useful tools are visme.co, canva.com, lumen5.com, mentimeter.com. For Work Package 4, we discussed the communication plan, the dissemination log, the branding of the project, social media accounts.
Siglo22 presented the partners a poster developed for the project and the template for the presentations and will also provide us with the templates for word documents, newsletters and will set up the website of the project.
Each partner received a welcome package: a textile bag, an agenda, a coffee mug, a t-shirt and some stickers, all personalized with the Efficient Parenting and Erasmus logo.
