Report of Romanian activity (August 2013-Julie 2014)
August 2013 was the first month of project implementation and it was dedicated to preparing
of activities for the next months.
In according with the application form, the principal activities realised by the Romanian team
during the first year of project were:
SELECTION OF THE TARGET GROUPIt was held in September 2013 in several stages.
In the first stage were signed contracts with four local institutions in the city of Târgu-Jiu,
where there are potential members of the target group.
Such contracts were made with County Agency of Employment Gorj, where that could be
found people looking for a job abroad, Technical College No.2 Tg-Jiu where there are young
people who will graduate the high school or post-high school and who wish to work abroad
and that the University "Constantin Brancusi" of Târgu-Jiu, which in turn year students are
many who believe they can have a future working abroad.
Also the Asociation Smart Educational Projects signed a collaboration contract with the
Sanitary Post -High School "Ion Mincu", whose graduates want to work abroad as nurses.
Two members of the project's implementation team, Mrs. Anca Peptan and Mr. Romeo
Bibirigea, went in each of these institutions, where they presented the project objectives and
activities to prospective members of the target group, being assisted by a representative the
staff of the host institution.
With those who said they were interested to participate in the project have signed contracts to
participate in the project.
The project was presented by another member of the implementation team (Miss Diţoiu
Laura) and among employers who also wanted to be part of the target group of the project, for
with international experience could be gained in this partnership.
After carrying out the selection of the target group was realised the file of the activity, that
containing the following documents:
- Contract with CAE Gorj
- collaboration of collaboration with Technical College.No.2 Tg-Jiu,
- collaboration contract with the Sanitary post high school "Ion Mincu"
- Contract of collaboration with the University "Constantin Brancusi" of Tg-Jiu
- A total of 40 contracts of the target group
- Minutes of the presentation of the project in the Sanitary post -high school
- List of contacts and identification of the target group
THE SEMINAR FOR LAUNCHING PROJECT
The seminar was held on 17.10.2013 at County Museum of History "Alexander Ştefulescu" in
Targu Jiu.
The purpose of the seminar was to make known for community institutions in Gorj County
the start of the Grundtvig project "Europeans on the intercultural labour market" , through
communication of the objectives and activities. Were invited and attended the seminar:
representatives of the collaborating institutions (Constantin Brancusi University of Tg-Jiu,
Gorj CEA," Ion Mincu" Technical College, Technical College No.2 Tg-Jiu), the Deputy
General Inspector of Gorj CSI , the Director of CCD Gorj, teachers from high schools in TgJiu, local media representatives, representatives of the target group.
The activity has been conducted by the implementation team: Anca Peptan (coordinator),
Diţoiu Laura, Diana Predescu, Romeo Bibirigea.
The schedule of the activity was:
- Receiving guests was made between the hours 14.00 to 14.15;
- Introduction made by President of the Association Smart Educational Projects that evoked
the motivation for writing of this project and the benefits of applying for European funded
projects handled by ANPCEFP.
- Project Coordinator, Anca Peptan, presented the project stating:
European partners of the Association Smart Educational Projects in this project
to be undertaken in the project and final products;
access a job abroad; knowledge of cultural differences in labor and nurturing respect for
cultural diversity; transfer of knowledge to the target group; communication skills in English
and relationships in a multicultural environment.
presence in the European labour market.
- Assoc. Dr. Liviu Neamţu spoke praising the initiative and the efforts they have made those
involved in the project to win the project and expressed full readiness for future collaboration.
- The headmaster of "Ion Mincu" Technical College, Prof. Popescu Dorina, reaffirmed the
great interest that her institution has in this project and the wish of students from Sanitary
Post-High School , to be part of the target group.
- Between the hours 15,30-16,00 held open discussions with guests about European projects
and the opportunities they offer.
The project's file realised during this activity contains the the following documents:
- Launch seminar invitation
- the schedule of the activity
- Minutes of attendance
-Folding Project Presentation
- Presentation of the project (PPT),
- Report of activity
- Photo
- Newspaper article
FIRST MEETING OF PARTNERS (IN ROMANIA)
Duration: 7 -9 November 2013
Participants: Anca Peptan, Laura Diţoiu, Diana Petrescu, Romeo Bibirigea from Smart
Educational Projects (Romania)
Ingmar Rohdin, Åsa Kajsdotter Folkuniversitetet the vid Lunds Kursverksamheten
Universitetet (Sweden);
Michela Beccafichi .Beatrice Carpanzano from ENAIP Formazione e Lavoro Toscana (Italy)
Anastasios Vasiliadis from the Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (Greece);
Roman Tarnovski, Malgorzata Cieslak, Ewa Sabela język Polskiego dla Studium from
Cudzoziemcow Uniwersytetu Lodzkiego (Poland).
Venue: Tg-Jiu, Casa Măldărescu
The aim of mobility: mobility in Romania was the first of the Partnership and it has aimed to
establish details of the activities, products to be made by each partner and next mobilities.
Description
First Day (November 7th).
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Between the hours of 9.00 to 11.00 partners have presented their institutions which
they represent, experience in European projects and the projects it is currently running. The
Romanian team has presented the partnership on short and after it has begun discussions on
topics:
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A brainstorming session was conducted for to choice the name for the project's site.
Each team presented its own option and following the debate was decided by mutual
agreement that it should be suggestive for the project theme. It was decided that the site's
name to be "workineu.eu" and its realization will be the Greek partner's task.
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It was decided to develop a logo of the project. Each team must provide to each
partner until 30 November own version of logo and after this, each partner will vote which
logo they consider most appropriate.
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There were organized the workshops for development of questionnaires that will be
applied for the target group members to exactly identify their training needs. This work
occupied most of the time allocated to the first working day. It also the partners have worked
on a questionnaire for employers. It was established that the partner from Sweden will
interpret these questionnaires and will prepare the final document.
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Day II (8 November)
This day was allocated for a study visit; during this the project's partners could see an atypical
foreign investment to the region and a traditional family business. It was visited a small
Chocolate Factory where the partners have learned how to a Belgian investor has start this
business, which were the problems encountered in its development and in personnel
management.
As a traditional family business, it was visited a pottery workshop that uses only natural raw
materials and making products based solely on family members. At the end of the day has
followed the debate about the differences between the two activities. It has appeared the idea
of necessity of learning how the habitants of these places can to use local raw materials for
making products that could be marketed.
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Day III (9 November)
On the last day of mobility, it was continued the work for documents and materials of the
project and it was completed the questionnaires in an intermediate form, as a basis of work for
each partner. It was agreed that the surveys be completed for each partner by the end of
December. Also, there were established the exact dates for the mobilities of year 2014, in
Sweden and Greece
CREATING OF A PROJECT’S LOGO
During the visit in Romania partners discussed about the realization of the project's logo.
It was decided that each partner institution to carry out its own version of the logo and to send
to the coordinators from the partner countries. This was achieved by each partner institution
except in Italy said they haven't got into their institution a person able to make their own
version.
The vote of each country was sent to the project coordinator with a score of 1-5 until 20
November 2013.
After metering votes, the winning logo was declared that proposed by the Greek institution.
Later, this logo was posted on all materials made in the project.
APPLICATION AND INTERPRETATION OF QUESTIONNAIRES FOR THE TARGET
GROUP
At the working meeting in Romania has been made a draft of the questionnaire that is going to
be applied in order to identify the need of training on finding a job abroad for members of the
target group.
Also was conducted a questionnaire for employers for to identify their views about various
aspects linked with foreign employees.
It was decided that the questionnaire should be applied for a total of 30 people (20 people
looking for a job and 10 employers)
By the end of November 2014, each of the partners reviewed the version developed in
Romania and sent to the project's coordinator, the ideas for to improve the questionnaires.
Their final form in English was sent by the coordinator at the beginning of December 2014
and then, each partner achieved the national language translation of the questionnaire.
The Romanian team made the Romanian translation of the questionnaires.
The applying of the questionnaires took place in January-February 2014.
The Swedish partner made a template that was used by all partners in the collection and
interpretation of the results of the questionnaires.
In after the application and interpretation of the results of questionnaires, each project team of
the 5 partner countries made, in March 2014, its own report that was sent to Swedish partner
and uploaded on the project website in the section for each country, by the Greek partner (site
administrator site).
The Swedish partner corroborated the results of the national reports, making, in April 2014,
the general report on the need for training the target group, correlated with the key issues
revealed by the requirements of employers.
The general report was also uploaded on the website of the project by the Greek partner.
The team from Romania made its national report which can be found in English at the
Outcomes section dedicated to Romanian partner.
PREPARING THE MATERIALS FOR SEMINARS WITH THE TARGET GROUP
After analysing of the general report about the questionnaires, in May 2014, the Romanian
team, as coordinator of the project, proposed the partners the content of materials that will be
developed for the seminars with the target groups.
A first draft of these materials is going to be analysed in the framework of the second meeting
of the project that will take place between 7 to 10 July 2014, in Kristiansand, Sweden.
For this meeting the Romanian team has prepared the next materials:
• submission to interview of those seeking a job,
• CV, cover letter
• Searching for a job (what's the place where a foreign man can address when is in search of
work, documents required areas with shortage of labour, etc.)
• Work Habits in Europe (importance of skills and experience in different areas, recognition
of qualifications in some EU countries, the rights and obligations of employees)
DISSEMINATION OF THE PROJECT
The dissemination activities took place throughout the entire implementation period and
mainly followed the plan presented in the application form and other ways, too.
During the project implementation team meetings with potential target group performed at
CEA Gorj, "Ion Mincu" Technical College, at Technical College No.2 Tg-Jiu, at "Constantin
Brancusi" University of Tg-Jiu, were made short presentations of project's objectives, of the
activities and of the source of financing.
This presentation was repeated in a formal framework during launch seminar dated
10.17.2013 where was attended by guests from different institutions (Constantin Brancusi
University of Tg-Jiu, CEA Gorj , Ion Mincu Technical College Technical College No.. 2 TgJiu, ISJ Gorj , Gorj CCD). As an example of good practice in the discussions at the end of the
activity were presented the other types of funding through ANPCDEFP, too
On 29.10.2013, after the completion of the seminar to launch the project, appeared in the
newspaper "Vertical" a material that offer to the public the details about the project's
purpose, objectives, activities, partners, etc.
Following the visit in Romania of the partners in the first meeting of the project, during 79.11.2013, in the "Gorjeanul" newspaper appeared an article, dated 11/18/2013, about this
meeting, about the objectives and activities of the project.
Dissemination of the project was also carried out and the Yahoo group of Grundvigers,
through materials provided by the project coordinator.
During the meeting in Romania was established the name of the project's site that will be
managed by the Greek partner. The site was launched in November 2013 on
http://workineu.eu/
Here are all the information about individual partners, about the final products and the
materials that are in progress, the activity reports, etc.
The project also benefited from dissemination on the Association “Smart Educational
Projects” website, http://sep-ngo.ro/ as well as during other domestic and international
activities carried out by members of the organization.
PROJECT EVALUATION
Project evaluation was performed continuously throughout the period of implementation,
watching the achievement of the objectives, both the of institution and the partnership (as
coordinator institution).
The project's beneficiary, Association "Smart Educational Projects" , has applied an initial
questionnaire on training needs of the target group and found, once again, that few of those
who are in search of their employment, whether young students or employees redundant, are
able to convince employers that they are the right persons for the wanted job .
For the elderly, writing a resume is extremely difficult because this document was introduced
in the study programs after their graduating.
Also, their presentation for a professional interview without taking into account the outfit that
they have to wear, without taking into account the requirements of the job, especially without
understanding that the rules of conduct which are required them by the foreign employer are
consistent with the culture from which he comes.
These and other details obtained after the interpretation of the results of the questionnaire
demonstrated once again the need of a project with this topic.
The evaluation for the level of realization of project's local activities was made permanently,
by checking the documents by the project coordinator.
Before submitting this interim report, each implementation team member, presented a report
to the project's coordinator about the individual work in the first year of implementation
(1.09.2013-27.06.2014).
In partnership level, the assessment was made permanently by the project coordinator,
through analysis of products (documents) achieved by each partner or joint, all these products
are available directly on the project website or through links to the sites of partner's
institutions.
A partnership-level assessment of the project after the first year of implementation will take
place at the second project meeting that took place from 14 to 18 July 2014, in Sweden.
MOBILITY IN SWEDEN
It was the second meeting of the Partnership where the Romanian team had tree participants
(Peptan Anca, Dițoiu Laura and Bibirigea Romeo).
For this meeting we preparing the presentation and analysis of the results for the
questionnaire applied to the target group and also a presentation about writing a CV and of a
cover letter, about the job interview and the characteristics of the labour market in Romania
During this meeting the Swedish partners have presented, in accordance with the task
assumed by them, the centralized report which focused on the results of the questionnaire for
each project partner. The questionnaire aimed at identifying target group needs regarding
access to employment and employers' requirements.
The partners presented the features, the role and what means the correct writing of a CV and
of a cover letter. Interviews were also presented with examples of good employment practice
and common mistakes committed by applicants. Each partner has exposed the country's labor
market characteristics and comparisons were made between the labour markets of partner
countries.
At the end of the meeting, the Swedish partners have invited a member of their team who is
an immigrant, to present her experience about the labour market in Sweden.
Day II (16 July)
This day was allocated for a study visit, when the project partners have visited the local
community to understand how the life and work in Sweden is. The partners have visited the
Åhus town with the Absolut vodka factory, a symbol for the local community with an
important economic implication.
Day III (July 17)
During the last day of the mobility was visited the Absolute Museum from Kristianstad, to
understand the evolution of the business over time and its importance to the local community.
The partners have established the last details about tasks for each of them, for the period until
the mobility in Greece. The Polish partner will prepare a material which will centralize the
presentations of all project partners in a guide for the seminars with the target group.
PREAPRING THE FINAL FORM OF MATERIALS FOR SEMINARS WITH THE
TARGET GROUP
This activity debuted at the final decade of July, after the meeting of partner in Sweden and
continued till 15th of August. The Romanian team prepared its own version for this material
and sent it to the Polish partner that has realised the final form for the whole project.
Realised by the Romanian coordinator,
Anca Peptan