Let's go to Turkey !

Hi everyone,

I reached the Grundtvig agency today and we officially have the confirmation that we can make a mobility to Turkey !

So, next time, in Amsterdam, we'll discuss how to reorganize the work plan adequately.

See you soon!

Happy New Year !

Dear all,

Let’s start this New Year with a quick overview of our first meeting in Paris, last October 12^th 2012!

Indeed, our 6 organizations met along with 2 other invited groups to launch our partnership on the use of media to fight against xenophobia and discrimination. We – Humanity in Action France, The Mediterranean Women’s Fund (France), Public Achievement (Northern Ireland), the Association for Social Change (Turkey), the International Association for Intercultural Education and Humanity in Action Netherlands – took this opportunity to introduce ourselves to each other and to briefly present our actions.

We then discussed the partnership and the workplan, including an agreement to update our blog (here we are !) and to share success stories in order to edit a booklet to help us transfer those good practices.
 

To sum up, we agreed that:

• We commit to update our blog
• We commit to share success stories and good practices to build a collective booklet suitable for European transfer (the target group being other adult learning organizations): each organization must contribute two pages.
• Our next meeting will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Friday 5^th and Saturday 6^th of April (we need to arrive on the 4^th and leave on the 7^th)
• We agreed to set dates 2 months in advance and to have the agenda one month in advance
• That HIA France will contact Grundtvig to ensure that there will also be a meeting in Istanbul (which was forgotten in the application)
• That host organizations will pay for the dinner of their guests and that we can invite other organizations to those dinner to make them a networking session as well.

During the afternoon, we reviewed how our organizations were using traditional and new media and what for. We thought of what kind of media we were using to support our campaigns and programs. We realized that other media existed and that we could make different uses of them. It made us think about our ability to mobilize and use them.

Then, Marwan Mohammed was invited to talk about the new media campaign of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (see the story  in "Success stories").

We turned to Tara Dickman who presented a campaign against police profiling in France, organized by the group Stop Racial Profiling and based on the use of video and media (see the story and the videos in "Success stories").

To end this launching meeting, we had a dinner at the Institute of Islamic Cultures with all the participants as well as Humanity in Action France senior fellows and German Marshall Fund participants.

We all look forward seeing you in April in Amsterdam !

Preparing for our launching meeting!

Welcome, participants! 

Here is the final info to prepare our first Grundtvig Learning Partnership meeting, which will take place on Friday October 12^th, 2012!

Host:

Humanity in Action France

Location:

Institute of Cultures of Islam 

19-21 rue Léon

75018 Paris

Closest subway: Château Rouge (line 4)

AGENDA

  

•  9.00 Welcome

• 9.30 Introduction of each organisation (5 min each, please bring flyers and other material to share), moderated by Tara Dickman, HIA France

• 10.00 What is a Grundtvig Learning Partnership? What are we expected to deliver? What are our Grundtvig grant regulations? (please bring a copy of the grant application for reference) moderated by Anne Stalfort, EU fundraiser at HIA Germany and Grundtvig expert

• 11.00 Coffee break

• 11.30 Checking our work plan 2012-2014, comments and adjustments

• 12.00 How-to session: 
• How to host a partner meeting? How to contribute to the project blog? How to share results in local, national and European settings? How to prepare for midterm and final reporting?

• 12.30 Lunch break

 We will have lunch at the Institute of Cultures of Islam, covered by HIA France

• 14.00 What are the communications trends of organizations who fight racism and xenophobia in your countries? What can we learn from them? moderated by Tara Dickman, HIA France

• 15.00 Coffee break

• 15.30 Case study: Using Twitter to fight Islamophobia, Marwan Muhammad, Collective against Islamophobia

• 17.00 : Coffee break

• 17.30 : Case study 2 : Using video and social media to fight police profiling, the Stop le contrôle au faciès! campaign

• 18.30 : break

• 19.00 : Dinner at the Institute of Cultures of Islam with guests, covered by HIA France

i.e – your Friday is entirely booked! So please do arrive on Thursday evening, and do not plan any other activities until Friday after 9.30PM …

WHERE TO STAY?

If you haven’t booked yet and are only staying for the time of the conference, we recommend you book through this link http://www.booking.com/searchresults.en-gb.html?aid=314922;label=goutte-dor-RJ64VlodmoptAWYKy61RxAS9102353712%3Apl%3Ata%3Ap1%3Ap2%3Aac%3Aap1t1%3Aneg;sid=ce2b5053e2802c6f715bf8b509497c6f;dcid=1;landmark=56484  on Booking.com, it will give you a good choice close to the facilities. Being by the metro line 4 (Gare du Nord for instance) is good.

If you are staying longer, it will be nicer for you to be more central and be able to cook your own food, have a small apartment. In this case we recommend http://www.citadines.com/france/paris/republique.html

Of course you can also find a room or an apartment with https://www.airbnb.com or, for the more adventurous, www.couchsurfing.org

UNTIL THEN?

Please be ready to upload a little description of your organization so we - and the speakers -  can all read up a little on each particpant organization.

Feel free to contact us at any time until then!

All the best,

HIA France