Steering Committee

 

Steering Committee members:

  • Jove Jankulovski - Project Manager, iEARN Macedonia

  • Mimoza Jankulovska - Project Co-ordinator for Macedonia, iEARN Macedonia

  • Aleksandar Markovski -member of the Steering Committee, iEARN Macedonia

  • Leticia Papa - Project Co-ordinator for Albania, Hurry T. Fultz, Albania

  • Ilia Cili - member of the Steering Committee, Hurry T. Fultz, Albania

Lidija Topuzovska - Secretary General national commission of UNESCO from Macedonia - advisor

 

Minutes from the First meeting of the Steering Committee of the Project
 Building Bridges over Borders by Using ICT and PBL

Bitola, Macedonia, November 13 and 14, 2001

 

Leading Institution/Partner:

Civic Association International Education and Resource Network -  Macedonia - iEARN Macedonia

Project Partner:

Technical School - Hurry T. Fultz, Albania

1.   Revision of the project proposal in order to update implementation plan in the timeframe determined in the contract with UNESCO.
  • Expected outcomes - It was decided that bullets in project proposal in this item should be changed into:

  • To train 4+1 (country coordinator) trainers and staff per IEC in Macedonia and
    Albania - main aspect of this point is that people should meet and agree how they can cooperate better (more to meet each-other than to train them). Meeting date is set for 28-29. 11. 2001 and place should be decided later.

  • To train 10 adults and 20 young people per country how to use ICT and how to participate in on-line collaborative projects (this should be done on the meeting which is mentioned before)

  • To identify at least 2 on-line collaborative projects in which youth from both countries will be participating in (themes like: night life, alcohol, drugs, love, etc., but not too much items in order not to have too few contribution or almost no discussion)

  • Other points of the expected outcomes are taken as they are proposed.

 

  • Risk assessment

  • Insurance in Albania. Harry T. Fultz have guards (they are paying a lot for private insurance companies). So, they have to give some kind of a document, because they are not going to insure the equipment, because it is “already” insured, and the money for that purposes are going to be dedicated to something else.

 

2.    Equipment

  • Offers from Albania were compared, but if there is no way to transfer the money to Albania, the equipment will come to Albania from Macedonia like:

       - Donation, or

     - Re-exported to Albania from Macedonia (depends of the taxes)

Albanian partner should explore about possible ways of delivery and give immediate 
feedback about local taxes for computer equipment, and what will be the costs for 
receiving donation from Macedonia. In both cases Albanian partner should prepare documentation for quick customs clearance and transportation to its premises,
where equipment will be installed.

Connectivity:

  • Harry T. Fultz have a satellite connection to Internet

  • Harry T. Fultz need to explore and provide/give a document for the ISDN dial-up 
    prices for 64 kbit/s, or 128 kbit/s.

3.    Technical personal
  • Both sides should explore about the prices for training of 2 people 
    (technical personal)

  • Albanians are going to find their needs of the trainings (for ICT etc.).

  • Technical Training - it will be contracted.

4.    Dates
  • Winter holidays in Albania are: December 24  January 06.

  • Winter holidays in Macedonia are: January 01  January 13.

  • All activities are in the Timeframe (Appendix B). At this point 3 dates are fixed 
    in the calendar are:

  • November 28, 29, ’01 meeting of the teams in order to develop joint project ideas, 
    and to develop joint action plan. When working on action plan need to keep in 
    mind winter holidays and other fixed dates. Albanian partner should explore 
    prices for accommodation and food, and visa.

  • On-line collaborative project work should start no later than December 10, ’01.

  • First exchange of students and staff should be done in the second week on 
    January. Suggested dates for first exchange are January 11-14, ’02 (Thursday 
    through Sunday).

  • Second exchange depends on involvement of Bulgarian partner.

5.    Budget
  • Both sides should economize as much as possible, especially at the beginning. 

  • Hurry T. Fultz supposes to check how much is the visa for Macedonian people 
    who travel to Albania (in opposite direction it costs 5 US$).

  • Both sides should have evidence of monthly gross incomes for the members of 
    the Steering Committee and other project staff of the project.

  • Final evaluation - both sides should find some institution, which is going to make external evaluation (the costs requested by this institution).

  • Item D.b. Promotional materials - for the beginning 1000 leaflets in Macedonian, Albanian and English (Jove will prepare the text in English and he’s going to send 
    it to the Albanian side to correct it and to send the Albanian language version back.
    )

6.    Reporting Outline
  • The prepared text for reporting outline of the project was looked (developed by Jove 
    and attached to minutes) from point to point. Each point was discussed in order to 
    work on reporting from the very beginning due to time constraints.

  • At the meeting of 2 teams of the project (end of November), questionnaires for the evaluation of the project need to be developed. There should be questionnaires for students, teachers, administration/management, parents, and interested individuals. These questionnaires should be of so-called closed type - question is followed by alternatives. Person should only mark one of the offered options. Also, during each training session, exchange, meeting or gathering of any type we need to have 
    feedback forms that will ask about the event itself, but also ask participants about 
    their attitude towards the project idea, the outcomes of the project, and why this initiative is different from the other projects? (What is the added value here, what 
    is its impact?)
    . These testimonies, stories, statements should be used for promotion, presentation, web, reports and other purposes.

  • III.E. About this point in reporting outline was said that different open themes 
    should be opened and that suppose to be on the Web. (see previous item)

  • The outlines of training sessions - which are their visions, what they think about different open themes etc.

  • Importance of sustainability plans was stressed.

7.    Web design - one of the key factors of showing results and presenting outcomes 
and successes. Jove should to send to the Albanian partner rules for making successful 
Web site, if they need them. Albanian partner need to detect whether web design 
training is needed or not?

 

8.    Short name for the project:

BUILDING BRIDGES OVER BORDERS

9.    Evaluation

  • Questionnaires for the evaluation of the project need to be developed. There 
    should be questionnaires for students, teachers, administration/management, 
    parents, and interested individuals. These questionnaires should be of so-called 
    closed type  question is followed by alternatives. Person should only mark one of 
    the offered options. Also, during each training session, exchange, meeting or 
    gathering of any type we need to have feedback forms that will ask about the 
    event itself, but also ask participants about their attitude towards the project idea, 
    the outcomes of the project, and why this initiative is different from the other 
    projects? (What is the added value here, what is its impact?)
    . These testimonies, stories, statements should be used for promotion, presentation, web, reports and 
    other purposes.

  • External evaluators should be hired.

  • All these outcomes, and success stories, testimonies should be published on 
    the web. Statistics related to the impact should be on the web too.

 

 Photo from the steering committee


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