THE PROJECT RESPONSIBLE! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Headoffice AEGEE-Europe" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 11:57 PM Subject: [AGORA-L] Activity Report Krzysztof Lipiec > Activity Report Krzysztof Lipiec (Projects) > > Name: Krzysztof Lipiec > Function: Projects Responsible > Local: AEGEE Katowice, Utrecht, Rzeszow > > > Main Responsibilities > Ø Quo Vadis Europe Coordination > Ø Eureca CD responsible > Ø Roots of Europe implementation > Ø Borderless Europe Follow-up > Ø Education for Democracy the future of the project > Ø IT > > Achievements: > Ø Successful final of QVE > Ø Preparation of the yearplan topic 2003 proposal > Ø Smooth running of Eureca > Ø Bigger independence of project teams > Ø Good cooperation in the frame of Future of Europe > > > Projects for the future: > Ø Implementing new structure for the Roots of Europe > Ø Continuation of the Summit of 28 > Ø Preparing the yearplan 2003 project > Ø Follow up on Quo Vadis Europe > Ø Smooth running of Eureca > > > Difficulties faced in your activities > Ø Lack of motivation/skills in some project teams > Ø No IT specialists in the team > > > Travel oveview: > > From Until Where? Why? Reimbursed? > 18.11 Brussels Moving in Partially (mostly by AEGEE-Gdansk) > 28.11 11.12 Katowice Quo Vadis Europe coordination meeting Partially > 11.12 15.12 Paris UNESCO Conference Yes > 12.01 09.02 Katowice personal Yes (Xmass) > 11.02 15.02 Utrecht, Rotterdam Final Conference, Idealist Meeting Yes > 06.03 13.03 Helsinki PM Yes > 17.03 02.04 Katowice Private No > 04.04 07.04 Enschede Eureca Yes > 02.05 05.05 Amsterdam AGORA Yes > > This half a year passed faster than any before. It was full of great > experiences and difficult moments. Even though I was working in the > head office for three moths before joining the CD I did not realize > what really the work in the CD means. First of all I understood how > important is the fact that we were candidates for the posts of CD > members not for certain positions. The CD is not a place for lonely > knights; I wouldn't achieve anything without my dear friends from the > CD who also helped me when I had to face difficulties in personal > life. > > Quo Vadis Europe > I was coordinating this project long before I joined the CD. Now the > final conference is coming and while this report is being written > (one month before the agora) the final conference is already fully > prepared thanks to perfect cooperation with AEGEE - Utrecht. The > project team changed several times in the time the project was > running and it didn't have centralised funding. This bore fruit of > several cancellations that disappointed motivated people. The > promising talks with possible sponsors of the final publication are > in progress and the results of the Summit of 28 were already > presented to institutions. Top this end I must say I am proud of our > Network that created several outstanding conferences, which most > importantly brought innovative results. The enthusiasm that many of > them met (especially the Summit of 28) is a prove that we are good in > organising content-oriented events and, what is more important we are > able to enjoy them. > > Borderless Europe > After gathering the results of the different conferences, and > preparing the final brochure the time has come to present the > financial report and promote the results. This is a difficult task as > many reports from the locals were not handed in and we are not able > to fully answer the difficult conditions of the contract. For that > reason the contract is being renegotiated what probably will take > more time, as the procedures in the European Institutions are time > consuming. At the same time the results of the project are being > promoted among the supporters of the project and European decision > makers, the meetings are being set wherever possible. > > Roots of Europe > The difficult situation was already visible when I took over the > post. The topic did not have a clearly drafted shape and the project > team did not have an idea how to overcome encountered problems and > even given all possible help from the CD did not manage to > successfully finish the setting-up phase. Therefore the CD suggested > the new idea of the project and we are looking for ways to implement > it. > > The project teams role > Before the elections I stated that in my opinion the project teams > should be given more independence in their activities. Many people > considered it a utopia but anyway I decided to give it a try by > consulting and supervising the teams instead of taking authoritarian > decisions. In the case of Roots of Europe it failed, but in other > cases, Eureca for instance, this strategy was a great success and I > still believe that this approach is worth being continued. For the > same reason I respect the decisions of the coordination team of the > EFD project. They know their project and their capacity the best and > even if my dream would be to expand the project I am not able to do > it alone > > Others > I mentioned the YP2003 as one of my achievements and I think it needs > being > explained. I believe that the network's role in the YP selection > should be bigger, > since the proposal was born at my workshop in Helsinki at the Think > Europe > Planning Meeting and it was written down by these participants who > could > contribute afterwards to the preparations of this proposal. The > general idea of the > proposal was born at the Idealist Meeting which I also believe was > implementation of our common belief that the dialog between the CD > and the Network should be strengthened also between Agoras. > > ============================================================================= RAINBOW-L is a regional discussion list of AEGEE. Check out http://www.aegee.uni-karlsruhe.de/archives for the archives of public lists. 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