GBF Roeselare – steering group meeting notes
4th March 2015 – Monitoring and Evaluation workshop and project workshop
Attendees
Chris Bailey – Canal & River Trust (CRT)
Stephane Ramu – Province of Hainaut (PoH)
Julia Bailly - PoH
Steve Wood – CRT Consultant
Jasper Dugardeyn – Province of West Flanders (PoWF)
Pieter Bekaert - PoWF
Christelle Lecomte – Succeed in Sambre (SiS)
Roisin O’Grady - Tipperary
Each partner interviewed by our M & E consultant during the day – about 45 mins per partner
Province of Hainaut
Province of West Flanders
Succeed in Sambre
Tipperary
CRT
Scottish Waterways Trust – interviewed day 2
Workshops
Website – Virtual Enterprise Zone and the Virtual Resource Centre
Initial agreement for progress between SiS,Hainaut, W Flanders and CRT
Sub group – Hainaut, CRT and W Flanders – agreed to work up a proposal for tomorrow’s meeting
CRT website consultant led discussion that agreed a proposal that would be drawn up that afternoon for presentation and ratification at the SG meeting
Julia Bailly and Steve Wood agreed to table proposal at 5/3/2015 SG meeting
CRT / SiS – SiS Spirulina feasibility study consultation launch
CRT suggested that a September date for the launch would be too late as the project end reports need to be in by 30th September
Christelle,SiS, agreed to get back to CRT with early July dates
Communications – short video messages
Steve Wood, CRT website consultant videoed interviews with partners to be published on the website
Steve also got a lot of local information from Partners for publication on to the website
Green & Blue Futures - Steering Group Meeting – 5th March 2015
Chris Bailey - CRT
Steve Higham - CRT
Laura Lewis - CRT
Steve Coles – CRT Consultant
Lucie Unsworth - CRT
Alan Forrester – Scottish Waterways Trust (SWT)
Fatiha Kacimi - SiS
Stephane Ramu - PoH
Julia Bailly - PoH
Steve Wood – CRT Consultant
Jasper Dugardeyn - PoWF
Pieter Bekaert –PoWF
Roisin O’Grady - Tipperary
Introductions and 5 min partners updates for new members
Review JTS report and agree – what has to be done heading towards the conclusion of the project
Hainaut – 90 % investment expended – lots of training undertaken – 2nd year of certifications well underway – indicators measured and no issues with first level controller
SiS – feasibility study undertaken – presentation attached – 20% of French production of Spirulina
Scottish Waterways trust – update on project – 61 % positive destination for all participants
Tipperary – slipway now complete – community engagement really strong and will be legacy – arts project very successful – community network well underway and on target
West Flanders – water buffers complete – Roeselare local authority still using social enterprise economy for public open space maintenance – skill authorisation accreditation at the lofting underway
JTS Report and project outputs
Main message from JTS – improve – communication (to be covered by LL CRT at this meeting) website (SW and JB to put forward a proposal to the partners at this meeting)
Transnational visits (debate led by AF SWT at this meeting) SEZ and resource centre (SW and JB to put forward a proposal during this meeting)
Partners update on project end – complete on time – to budget and achieving targets
Hainaut – all will be complete
SWT – all will be complete
Tipperary - all will be complete
SiS – all will be complete
West Flanders - all will be complete
CRT - CB to review outputs with CRT Project Manager
CRT presentation on GBF and vInspired – engaging hard to reach young people
Presentation to be posted on website
vInsired explained to partners
38 participants recruited so far – 3 elements to the programme – personal development, skills development and social action
Cohort 1 = 15 young people = 6 young people are now in work and 3 more are in full time educations
LU took various questions at this point
Monitoring and evaluation review
Split into groups to review SC questions
CB,Julia, Jasper and Steve Wood
SH,LU. Stephane and Fatiha
LL,Alan, Pieter and Roisin
Questions – what went well, what didn’t go so well and what have YOU learnt from the project
Post it note / flip chart exercise took place to capture thoughts – separate report to be prepared
Laura Lewis, CRT– PR/Social Media, scaling up PR in Brussels and getting our project findings / messages to an influential European audience
Presentation to be posted on website
Explicit requirements from the funder – snappy short messages aimed at our audience
Any stories or articles to Laura / Steve
Case studies – EnAlgea
Potential to have meeting in Brussels
Twitter – get folks to follow our account
Main target groups = general public and local community
Newsround up for EU consumption
Europarl press
ACTION – all partners to review plan and next steps sent out by Laura and get any relevant info to Laura / Steve W
Virtual Enterprise Zone – Virtual resource centre
Steve Wood and Julia Bailly proposed a structure for the website site where the Virtual Enterprise Zone and Virtual Resource Centre merge into one
The structure was agreed by all partners
Debate on content took place and partners agreed to get appropriate information to Steve in order to build the web pages
Scottish Waterways Trust – Transnational exchange debate
YouTube link to be posted on website
Alan Forrester presented 2 you tube montages of the Canal College successes
A review took place, by each partner, of all transnational exchanges – all partners to send this info to CRT for collation
Review – of agreed action form sub groups and SG Meeting – lead Partner to note and monitor agreed actions
Virtual Enterprise Zone – Virtual resource centre
Steve Wood / Julia Bailly to send out a note of the required wording and content for the new web pages
All partners to return in a timely manner
PR/Social Media, scaling up PR in Brussels and getting our project findings / messages to an influential European audience
Chris Bailey to send out Laura’s 2 page reminder for review (Actioned)
All partners to review and return appropriate material to Laura / Steve
CRT / SiS – SiS Spirulina feasibility study consultation launch
Christelle,SiS, agreed to get back to CRT with early July dates
Review JTS report
4 main areas –Communication,Website, Transnational working and SEZ / Resource Centre were fully covered in the SG meeting
CRT, as lead partner, reinforce the message – Branding – please follow the funders rules and Project end date is 30th Sept – Chris Barnett will send out a project closure timeline shortly
Please note this paragraph was discussed and it is not thought that a request for change is necessary
Monitoring and Evaluation
Steve Coles to send out M & E proformas
The above to be filled in by partners and returned in a timely manner
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