Juraj
Kunak, PERSPEKTIVwechsel, Wuppertal - Germany
PERSPEKTIVwechsel is a NGO in Germany dedicated
to education and training of employees and executives working in the
social field. The main focus is social work (for children, youth and families,
social psychiatry, handicapped, migrants) & education (elementary /
kindergarten, primary education and vocational education). Therefore, PERSPEKTIVwechsel
provides trainings, counselling / coaching, group facilitation and project
development.
PERSPEKTIVwechsel’s main interest is to create
effective situations for personal development, professional human resource
development and organizational development in the social field and the field of
vocational education and training.
I was personally responsible for a whole range
of activities regarding projects ISABEL and EUROPA 2111 co-funded and performed
under auspices of European Commission within the Lifelong learning programme. Main tasks were to provide the company with
the whole back-up support of abovementioned projects, i.e. dealing with the
administration of the projects, preparing experimentation and evaluation
reports, translating document into English and German language, participating
in international conferences and representing Perspektivwechsel, communicating
with participants of the projects and partners throughout Europe and other
assignment necessary for proper performance of the projects.
The internship met all my
expectations. Friendly work environment, lovely city, achieving new
skills, gaining new experience and improving own personality. Skill and
experience obtained will be decisive strength for future work performance.
Conference in Brussels in order to manage
future development of the Project Europa 2111 and to present project itself:
A short
overview about abovementioned project:
Project Europa 2111
9 members
coming from different European countries focus on the development of new Educational
tools and new forms of Training, combining the use of Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) and the need to explore in its complexity the
developing concept of European Identity. The project seeks to develop a pedagogical
approach for Key/Transversal Competences acquisition, which is based on the use
of media production and specifically on the production of Audio-visual
Documentaries. By creating the methodological basis for this technical product,
the project translates a specific technical process, into a learning tool. The
main idea is the perception of European Identity – Imagining Europe in 2111.
Thus the participants of the projects learn how to create movies with the main
theme “how Europe will look like in 100 years”.
More
information at: http://www.europa2111.net/euhome
Videos of
participants: http://www.youtube.com/user/Europa2111/videos
Project ISABEL
Project is funded
by the European Commission as well in order to to promote citizens to be more
active in their communities: to stimulate them to participate in joint
activities and to take part in learning, both formal courses and just learning
with others less formally.
Participants
acquire all kinds of skills and knowledge to tell stories in different ways,
using different media and distributing them in all sorts of platforms. They
learn how to use cameras, how to shoot and edit videos, adjust sound, how to
create blogs and audio records in order to support individuals and communities
in developing their own voice.
More information:
http://www.isabelproject.eu/mediacenter/FE/home.aspx
Videos of
participants: http://www.youtube.com/user/ISABELPROJECT/videos?sort=dd&view=0&page=1
