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Transnational Meeting in Cran Canaria, 25th/26th October 1999

Present:

• José Montesdeoca (FUNDESCAN MANAGER)
• José Domingo (Excmo. Cabildo Insular of G.C. representative)
• Carmen Viorreta (CEPADITE project)
• Francisco Moreno (Professional Retraining Service FREMAP)
• Tom Knox (ON-LINE project)
• Alex MacDonald (ON-LINE project)
• Claudio Sicolo (I.L.O.)
• Lucía Cantone (CONTATTO project)
• Alfio Desogus (CONTATTO project)
• Jorge P. Artiles (TECFORMIN project)
• Isabel Levia (TECFORMIN project)
• Ruth Hernández (TECFORMIN project)

First Day

The session begins by Jorge welcoming those presesent. After introducing the attendants, he passed the word to FUNDENSCAN Manager, Mr. José Montesdeoca who thanks everyone for being present and, introduce the representative of the Excmo. Cabildo Insular of G.C.

After the necessary presentations the working session starts and both the FUNDESCAN Manager and the Representative of Cabildo Insular left.

Mr. Artiles suggested that those present gave a brief resumé of the current situation of each their projects:

• Mrs. Viorreta: CEPADITE continues with its task of approaching the labour market. Currently it is combining vocational training of teleworkers with a Teletraining programme on techical training actions, with the aim of improving the coditions in order that teleworkers can enter the labour market and try to overcome the first barriers they´ve been encountering on the way. This actions were unplanned but it´s been necessary/ saw fit to add them to the project. CEPADITE is standing out or taking relevance in their own field in Spain.

• Mr. Desogus: CONTATTO has created the Social Coop. The articles of association are awaiting the National Agreement which will take place on the 4th of December. He reckons CONTATTO will continue until the end of spring 2000.

• Mr. MacDonald: a guide of accessibility to INTERNET has been presented at a meeting organized alongside N.G.O´s about the voluntary sector and New Technologies. He finds of great importance the awareness of the authorities and social integration. For that, they are working on their web page and Date Base in order to compile all the information in a C.D- rom; he also says that 11 people from the N.G.O´s wre trained and nowadays they´re volunteering in the project. Currently, they´re working on the spreading of the project in the community. Among other objectives, they´re raising awareness for a proper readjustment of libraries.

• Mrs. Viorreta comments on how interesting the work of TOUCAN is, much more developed than in Spain; and that we should take advantage of it to highlight aspects of its guide. CEPADITE has been invited along to a Congress about guides of accessibility to be held on the 4th of November, 1999, and their Web page will be shown there.

• Mr. Moreno talks about the difficulties the seriously injured have to have access to INTERNET in their hospital; he suggests if ON LINE project C.D- rom could possibly be diffused through Spanish hospitals.

• Mrs. Leiva explains briefly TECFORMIN project and its new approach as a result of the inclusion of a Customer Service module in its specific programme. At the same time, she announces that TECFORMIN project will continue until April 2000.

• Mrs. Viorreta sees all projects have aspects in common , being these of a social and awareness-raising type which is rather interesting and important to a European level. There are two important issues in every single project: informal awareness and the detection of a number of mental, cultural,….barriers. She comments on how sound the TECFORMIN new approach to teleworking is.

• Mr. Artiles pinpoints three important issues discussed by those present at the meeting:
  1. TRAINING AND DISABILITY.
  2. TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS
  3. ASPECTS RELATED TO JOB INTEGRATION

  He suggests a brainstorming session on those aspects to be highlighted in each of the above issued.( The aforementioned brainstorming session is included in the APPENDIX I).

• Mrs. Viorreta reckons that the analysis on New Technologies is too linear. It should regard Training as a key aspect, as well as the barriers. Accessibility, business awareness…

• Mr. Desogus mentions the following areas to be listed in the T.A.D. guide:
  1. Expectations
  2. Motivations, Strategies, Activities
  3. Approachement to Technologies and Training
  4. Outcome, job integration: worker, cooperatives.

• Mr. Artiles proposes they begin the discussion from the first issue out of the three aforementioned and pool their ideas.

Those present agree.
Those present reach a consensus regarding the inclusion in the T.A.D. guide of an APPENDIX about ACCESSIBILITY AND TELEWORKING.

Once the pooling of ideas has been completed TECFORMIN agrees to send to those present a report on the working session before the 5th of November. The deadline to send comment on the above report is the 26th of November.

It is also agreed that in the next transnational meeting to be held in Madrid next December, all comments and notes received will be studied.

This first meeting will be finished at 20:00 hours on the day and place stated above; Mr. Artiles summons those present to the Business Meeting that TECFORMIN is holding the following morning. He also suggests a further meeting for those present at the Excmo. Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria´s headquarter once the aforementioned Business Meeting has concluded.

Second Day

The T.A.D. meeting was picked up on the 26th of October mentioned above once the Business Meeting had been brought to a close.

The session opens by discussing about the T.A.D. project Web page. It´s agreed to record Spanish searchers on Internet and include the key words: Telematics, discapacity, accessibility, employment, teleworking and social enterprise.

On the other hand, it is discussed that information about the Italian links is missing.

With regard to the Spanish links, it is agreed that it would be convenient to place geographically speaking the projects properly, for instance Tecformin Spain Canary Islands, etc.

Mr. MacDonald reports on TAD Web and its possibilities. Mrs. Viorreta enquires whether it is feasible that the former is updated in accordingly and she comments on the Spanish links with the view that Cepadite links are referred to on the Web.

Mr. Artiles informs that more updated information will be sent shortly.

Mr. MacDonald explains that some updated information on the Web about some projects is due to be included and that it has not been done yet for lack of time.

Mr. Desogus comments on the Italian links and that enough of these have been sent because one can have access to more information from the links already brought up.

It is suggested the possibility of keeping the website and how it´ll be updated, as well as its duration, given that each project has a different date of completion:

• Cepadite- December 1999
• Contatto- December 1999( without confirmation)
• On-line- June 2000
• Tecformin- April 2000

The possibility of taking advantage of European Programmes is suggested, such as the V Marco Programme. Initially, the web will be running until next June and everybody expresses the goodwill to carry their projects further ahead.

Therefore, the feasibility to draw up a "Declaration of..." where future collaborations of the four organizations are agreed upon. Two possible collaborations are established:

• Website upkeep or maintenance
• Future projects: to determine the common issues among the projects.

Mr. Artiles urges Mr. Desogus to draw a document and send to the rest of colleagues and he also suggests that such document, once completed by everyone, is signed at the meeting in Madrid.

Mr. MacDonald comments on some details regarding the Employment Week Celebration ( Brussels, 3-5 November), for instance: measures and strategies to display information from each organization at the Fair.

Mrs. Viorreta puts forward the likelihood of keeping up with the date for the next transnational meeting in Madrid or put it off if everyone agrees. After studying different options, everyone agrees on sticking to the initial date: 16 and 17 of December.

On the other hand, Mr. Artiles offers himself to gather all the information and notes about the work done during these two days and send it to the rest ot the group. Likewise, a compilation of the contributions made about each project will be written up ( after the 26th of November) to be included in an English version of such document.

Finally, and with regard to other matters to be treated or discussed, Mr. MacDonald explains that TAD Web is www.etw.org. and says that the On-line web has been chosen during the Teleworking European Week.

Regarding the Transnational Project Assessment, it is agreed that Mr. John Clark should attend the meeting in Madrid.

As a way of closing the Meeting, Mr. Adviser of Social Affairs and Education of Excmo. Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria thanks everyone for having taking part in it. Following this, the representatives of each project are grateful for the warm reception on behalf of the organization.

The meeting is adjourned at 20:30 hours on the date and place stated above.

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