3rd Meeting Cologne

Output of our 3rd meeting in Cologne; 29 Sept. to 2 Oct. 2010

Participants: Ulrich Diermann, Institut equalita e.V. (Köln); Bettina Kocher, Ralf Classen, Büro für Kultur und Medienprojekte/KinderKulturKarawane (Hamburg); Erika Köchl, VIDC (Wien); Torben Vosbein, SPOR Media (Kopenhagen) who attended despite the fact, that SPOR Media was not funded for its Grundtvig Partnership Project; Anita Ramsak, Ekvilib Institute (Ljubljana); Miglena Molhova and Zornitsa Staneva, Foundation for Development of the Cultural and Business Potential of the Society (Sofia), Alena Krempaska, People against racism (Bratislava).

Thursday, 30.09.2010

Prior to the start of the partnership meeting the partners attended an evening performance of “Baobab culture troupe” at the Arkadas theatre in Cologne.

Friday, 01.10.2010

Agenda of the meeting has been presented by Ulrich.

The partners attended a performance of Baobab culture troupe at a Cologne school for children between 6 and 10 years of age. After the performance the members of the troupe organized workshops for the children and involved them in activities corresponding to their age.

After a lunch at university menza the partners return to the meeting place and continue their work on the case studies.

VIDC, Büro für Kultur und Medienprojekte, Ekvilib Institute and FDCBPCS activities and case studies were discussed.

The partners decided that the case studies are going to form just one of the section of a compendium, which is going to be developed as a final product under the project.

The sections of this compendium were agreed to be as follows:

• definition of peer learning,
• project background
• why cultural peer learning is necessary
• case studies
• why is peer learning important for youths, why should we do it in the cultural way and how to use it for social inclusion

Saturday, 02.10.2010

The partners discussed the agenda for the meeting in Vienna and in particular the joint events with the two groups – Yes and Yauri.

Then the partners continue with a brief discussion of the calendar with regard to the meetings in Bratislava, Ljubljana and Hamburg. The meeting in Bratislava is proposed to be moved to mid March 2011, the meeting in Ljubljana – to mid April 2011 and the last one in Hamburg is scheduled for June 2011.

The partners are then joined by representatives of the Baobab culture troupe and conduct an evaluation meeting with them. Special focus was on the young artist's experiences on peer learning.

After the lunch break, at which was served African food, the group was joined by the representatives of the Peer leader international initiative, which is taking place in Germany, South Africa and Brazil. The three girls present their experiences and their project idea as well as the background of the project.