The second project meeting took place in Cracow and started on Monday 6th June at 2p.m.
All project members met in the hotel lobby and went to the location of the reserved conference room. The project coordinator who hosted the meeting welcomed everyone. All the participants briefly introduced themselves.
After a short introduction the Italian partners made their presentation about their institution as they could not participate in the first project meeting in Turkey.
To start with we reviewed the project. Between the first project meeting and the one in Cracow we lost one of the partners – Greece. The foundation was closed down, and we have to reschedule some activities.
That is why we had to yet again change the meeting schedule.
Decision: Meeting in Greece deleted. Meeting in Italy moved from March 2012 to 20-24 October 2011. Meeting in Spain without changes (June 2012).
During the meeting in Italy there will be workshops for learners organized. Therefore all the organizations should bring as many students as possible.
The next item on the agenda, was to discuss activities that have already happened:
- preparation of the questionnaires by Spanish partners – prepared on time. All the partners translated them into their languages and conducted the surveys in their institutions.
The reports on the questionnaires should be delivered in writing to the project coordinator by the end of June.
- Website – Launched by the Spanish partners on a free platform. There should be a couple of changes made and the project logo added.
- project logo – previously prepared by the Greek partners. However we were unable to make necessary changes to it, e.g. remove the flags of ex-partners . we have a Spanish learner who studies art; she has offered to prepare the logo by the mid July.
- project evaluation – the Italian partners provided a template for the evaluation of project meetings, which we all completed at the end of the meeting. We have also decided to evaluate training groups at the beginning and the end of the training sessions. The evaluation will consist of a short survey and interviews.
- project dissemination – the project coordinator delivered a scheme for the dissemination of the results. We have agreed to disseminate the project on a local level through the project website, partners’ organizations websites, facebook, participating in the events of art therapy etc.
- communication – we decided to improve our communication by establishing a 3 days period where partners should response to each other’s e-mails promptly. When necessary there will be skype sessions organized. We should also use the facebook website as a mean of communication.
The first day session was finished at 6 p.m. and was proceeded by dinner in a restaurant with local cuisine.
7th June
The meeting started at 9 a.m.
Using the internet we were able to present our project website and the websites of the partner’s organizations.
Then we discussed the chosen target groups, their adequacy to the project’s aims and objectives. The art therapy teachers shared with all the participants their previous experiences and the situation in their regions. This was a great opportunity for the art therapy teachers to find out the differences and similarities and how to use all that knowledge (know-how) to develop the project activities and obtain the best results.
The Spanish art therapy teacher Monia Frau shared her experience from the course that is organized in her city for all the pedagogues who would like to enter the art therapy into their activities. Those methods are very attractive and not developed in other countries. We decided to use this course and develop it in our project in all the partners’ countries. The course methodology will be translated into English and sent by Spanish partners to all of the partners by 24th June. All the art teachers will familiarize themselves with the methodology and will train at least 5 pedagogues in every country by the end of August. The training sessions will last 2-4 hours and will be finished with a short survey about the used tools.
Each partner decided on their target groups. The sessions with learners will take place between September 2011 and March 2012. The sessions will last at least one month. And there will be a short survey at the beginning and at the end of the conducted training.
At the end of our meeting we discussed the one year report. The draft of the report will be written and send out to the partners by the coordinator by the 22nd June.
The meeting was finished by 1 p.m. after all the partners completed their meeting evaluation forms. After the meeting all the participants went for lunch. And in the afternoon there was guided trip organized and common dinner.
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