Project Vetwood News

Presentation

On March 27, 2010 the leading partner and project coordinator (the University of Forestry) presented the VETWOOD project at the third international partner meeting of the project ”Language Support to Vocational Education and Training in Bulgarian, English, Spanish, Turkish and Romanian /BEST/, No. 2008-1-BG-LEO05-00458, held in headquarters of the Spanish Confederation of Teaching Centres (http://cece.es) in Madrid, Spain. The project aims, objectives, expected outcomes and results were presented to participants from Spain, Romania, Turkey, Bulgaria and United Kingdom.

First Transnational Partners Meeting

The first transnational partners' meeting was held on November 28, 2009 in Sofia, Bulgaria. On the meeting the partnership agreed on the project Action plan for the period October 2009 - June 2010.

Following this meeting by June 2010 the partners have to develop the training methodology; Students' Book, including the theoretical training modules, lessons, tests and multilingual glossary of terms, and the Teacher's Notes.

The project dissemination activities on different national and international events were also discussed.

As a result of the meeting the project website has been launched, a brochure in all partners' national languages and in English is being developed; a common PowerPoint Presentation for the purposes of dissemination has been developed.

The second partners meeting will be held on 3-7 June 2010 in Greece.

Second Transnational Partner Meeting

The 2nd partner meeting on the project was held from June 2, 2010 to June 6, 2010 in the town of Hermoupolis, Greece.
The developed theoretical training modules were presented and discussed by the project partners. The progress of all project activities has been reported.
The partners reported on the dissemination activities held in their countries at different national and international events as well as publications in newspapers, magazines, local media, etc. Reports by the Steering Committees in each partner country were also presented.
The Partnership agreed on the project action plan for the period June 2010 - January 2011. Following this meeting by January 2011 the partners have the responsibility to develop case studies and tests on the respective theoretical training modules.

The third partner meeting will be held in Austria on January 27-30, 2011.

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