E V E N T S  >  Kick-off Conference
The kick-off conference of the project was held from January 20th to 25th, 2004, in Mülheim at the Ruhr, Germany. Conference location was "Die Wolfburg Katholische Akademie". Following you will find an outline of the programme and selected foto impressions.
Tuesday, 20th
Arrival of international partners
Informal get together at the evening
Wednesday, 21st
Project management & Agreements
  • Project’s goals and products
  • Overall work and time planning
  • Budget and ist distribution
  • EU-rules and regulations accounting, reports etc.
  • A little problem analysis:
    What might go wrong and what can we do to prevent it?
  • Project management:
    Steering group: members, tasks, reports team work
  • How will we deal with conflicts?
  • Agreement between partners
  • Evaluation during the project
  • Dissemination
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Thursday, 22nd
09:30
  • Welcome (Rainer Kopp)
  • Presentation of the participants
    Each country presents (max. 10 min.) institutions and participants, a short motto, slogan, picture, pantomime (whatever) concerning the goal, spirit of participation in the project
10:15 - 10:30
Musical presentation
of students of the comprehensive schools
Mülheim-Saarn und Wuppertal-Barmen 
Musical presentation of students of a comprehensive school
10:30 – 11:30
Welcome adresses

  • MR Thünken,
    Representative of the Northrhine Westphalian Ministry of Education

  • Dagmar Mühlenfeld,
    Lord mayor of Mülheim at the Ruhr
Welcome adresses from MR Thünken (left) and Dagmar Mühlenfeld
Welcome adresses from MR Thünken (left)
and Dagmar Mühlenfeld
11:30 – 12:30
Introductory address
Introduction into the agenda of the conference and discussion.
Introduction into the agenda by Rainer Kopp.
14:00 – 16:00

  • Introduction into the agenda of the conference and discussion
    (Moderator: Rainer Kopp)

  • Forum:
    Participating partners present on large papers:
    Overall view of the state of mixed-ability-individualised-learning
    in each partner country (max. of 10 thesises)
Presentation of the state mixed-ability-individualised-learning in each partner country.
Presentation of the Swedish project partners.
16:30 – 17:30
The study visits – work groups:
  • basic outline of visits
  • organisation of visits: dates, selection of schools,
    participating experts of each partner country etc.
  • standardised criteria for observation and interviews during study visits
    preparation of the visiting experts in reference to those agreed criterias
Joint planning of the study visits.
18:30
Departure by bus to
Ballet "The Wall" (Pink Floyd) in Essen
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Friday, 23rd
8:30 – 9:30
Continuation of work groups
and presentation
Joint painting of a bird during a break:
Mixed-ability group work of conference participants.
9:30 – 12:00
Decision making about dates
and preparation of study visits
14:00 - 15:00
Presentation of a research project
about the understanding of mixed-ability in German schools
Presentation of the four participating schools from Northrhine-Westphalia / Germany.
Presentation of the four participating schools from
Northrhine-Westphalia / Germany.
15:30 - 16:30
Presentation, discussion and decision making
about the concept for the video production within the project
(University of Hagen)
16:45 – 18:00
Dissemination: The EU-MAIL web site
(Guest: Juergen Reckfort, developer of the web site)
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Saturday, 24th
a.m.
Project management & Agreements
(continuation from Wednesday)
Group foto
p.m. and evening
A tour of churches and pubs
in the city of Cologne with Claus Becker.
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Sunday, 25th
a.m.
Evaluation of the kick-off conference
after lunch
Departure
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L I N K S
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