Raimonda Kundrotaitė. The Scandinavian
internship!
I was used to study Law and Management
in the Mykolas romeris University and have never imagine how much it could help
me to meet the world. Usually, I find transnational cooperation as one of the
most preferable thing for my future! That is absolutely brilliant to remember
my internship! It looks that I could never stop to talk about my colorful
moments in Stockholm.
At the beginning I have to make some
short introduction about my internship. Actually, it looks like I did it for
about one million times, because a lot of people were so curious about what I
was doing in Stockholm, how I found it what was the most exciting. I had my
internship in the managing authority of European Social Fund in Sweden. The
internship and its activities were colored with the brightest colors! It was perfectly good: everything was
organized according to the agreed internship plan and it included a lot of
challenging activities. Otherwise the time was not overcrowded and I had some
possibilities to explore the Swedish culture as well.
The objectives and activities of the internship were
the following:
- Representation of Swedish ESF Council and the Swedish Operational
Programme for the ESF;
- Introduction of activities in employment, social and education
policies with
a special focus on the links to the EU Baltic Sea Strategy;
- Representation of relevant to EU Baltic Sea Strategy ministries
(Employment Ministry, Ministry of Social Affairs, Ministry of Education) in
Sweden;
- Representation of central
governmental agencies represented in the Baltic Sea Network-ESF (Swedish Agency
for Economic and Regional Growth; International Program Office; Swedish Board
for Youth Affairs; Public Employment Office; The Swedish Social Insurance
Agency; SALAR, The Swedish Association for Local and Regional Authorities).
Despite the activities described above, I am glad by having an opportunity
to visit Belgium, Poland. I visited a lot of different conferences and events
in Stockholm. Also, I appreciated an opportunity to participate in the event
that was organized in the second biggest city in Sweden, Gothenburg. I still
remember the sun in that harbor city... It was shy and at the same time very
inspiring to seek for the specialties of all the surroundings.
In Belgium, I took part in the international European conference for the
representatives from different EU countries; the discussion was about gender
mainstreaming. I had an opportunity not even to understand new theoretical
ideas but to absorb the working skills and methods of the interested persons as
well.
In Poland, I had an opportunity to be a co-facilitator. I was not the first
time for me, I did it before as well, but the time in Poland was quite different.
First of all, it met a lot of project promoters. I was extremely nice to imagine
their ideas and try to help to develop them. I did not consider for how far away these people
are able to go with these ideas, but I strongly believe that as soon as they
are encouraged by these ideas, it has to live inside of them and to play in a
different way each day... Needless to say, I met about a million of fascinating
people there! ...
.. And I still feel that the internship gave me a lot.
You cannot recognize it from the beginning or even during it.
The fruits have to be ripening just after they well seen.
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