WISER Project Progress

26th – 27th April,

Mersin,Turkey

Decided during the 1st international project meeting in Brugues, Belgium, 26th - 27th October, 2009

all the partner institutions send their presentations to be put into website;

the 3rd point in the work plan (page 42) Information gathering about the local/national partnership contexts about micro-entrepreneurships and cooperation to state as collection of available local information grounding on already carried out inquiries or researches;

Decided

Prepare a frame (a questionnaire/guidelines) for interviews of 5 success stories (from each institution); preparations will be done by the specific work group – done;

Generate ideas about the promoting and motivating material to be produced, if prepared anything – bring a draft;

Draft of the promoting and motivating material - flyer

Decided

About the website: not to make a sharepoint (it needs additional expenses) in a mean like each partner has access and put in it any information, but send the significant information to the coordinator who will put it into the appropriate section of the website.

Dissemination plan and check list will be presented and further filled out per partner.

Where we are: working programme December, 2009 – March, 2010

Implementation of the 1st project phase;

1) further development of the website;

2) working on the three products: formats for structure, amount, design, etc and preparation of drafts of

- the overview of training approaches,

- the 50 success stories,

- the 10 basic rules of successful business woman

3) information and dissemination actions per partner

Next phase: April – June, 2010

Implementation of the 2nd project phase;1) further development of the website and first

assessments of the project progress in it;2) progress of the three products: overview of training

approaches, 50 success stories and 10 basic rules of successful business woman;

3) evaluation of the first two phases (on process, progress of product making etc.), data collection among partners through a questionnaire

4) information and dissemination actions per partner

The 3rd International Project Meeting

Bauska, Latvia

Planned dates

26th – 29th September, 2010

Micro-credit Opportunities in Latvia –limited

ESF and Mortgage Bank programme - Altum Offers: - Technical assistance for the Business Plan work-out

and implementation;- Training courses;- Financial support - a loan up to 54 th. LVL (76 835

EUR); Can apply able-bodied population including

unemployed who has decided to start self-employment or own business, as well as the newly established businessmen/merchants.