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26.04-2000 - Het MATRA COP project bood dit studiejaar aan 15 studenten van de NHL welzijnsopleidingen en 15 studenten van de School of Social Work in Gdansk de kans om een week bij elkaar op bezoek te gaan en van binnenuit kennis te maken met de leefomstandigheden, het sociaal werk en de opleiding in elkaars land.

De NHL studenten zijn inmiddels in Gdansk geweest. Tussen 27 maart en 15 april waren de Poolse studenten in Nederland. MATRA COP betaalde de reis en verstrekte een dagvergoeding. De Poolse school gaf de  Nederlandse studenten onderdak. De NHL studenten hadden de Poolse studenten thuis te logeren.

Door de grote verschillen in welvaart en welzijn tussen Polen en Nederland werden de bezoeken vaak confronterend en daarom juist heel leerzaam gevonden. De sfeer aan beide kanten was gastvrij en hartelijk.  

                          

28.01-2000 - The curriculum plan for the specialisation Community Organization at the Gdansk School of Social Work is ready!  The try out version of the reader - to be used by the students - will be there soon too.

 

21.01-2000 - During this academic year, 15 Dutch students go for a week to Gdansk and a same number of Polish students will visit The Netherlands. The students have orientation tasks and write a report. They host each other. MATRA COP takes care for the planning, coordination and financing of the visits.

 

14.11.1999 - The MATRA COP conference "Social Work with local communities" was a success. 120 people (Social workers, students, directors, civil servants and politicians) were present, 20 more than planned. The Polish press was very interested. All regional newspapers, and a national one, reported about the conference. Gdanks television paid attention to MATRA COP and the conference twice: a live interview in the studio with Przemek Oniszczuk and Willem Blok on Wednesday, and a report of the conference one day later.

Main conclusion: the need for community work in Poland is underlined by workers, institutions and politicians and is understood quite well by the press. The introduction of Community work is seen as concrete start of the modernization of Polish Social Work. The discussion is not OR community workers will be employed, but HOW and WHEN.

 

28.10.1999 - Wojewod (= provincial executive) Edmund Glombiewskie of Pomorskie province will be patron of the MATRA COP conference "Social work with local communities" on 18 November in Gdansk. The conference will take place in Hotel Heweliusz.

 

20.10.1999 - 17 out of the 40 second year students of the Gdansk School of Social Work are willing to specialise in Community Organisation. MATRA COP starts that new one years specialisation - the first in Poland - next February.......

 

13.10.1999 - Dutch students are very interested in exchange with Gdansk. No less than 25 fourth year students of NHL Social Work department applied for an one week's place!

 

12.10.1999 - The preparations for MATRA COP's Regional Conference "Social Work with local communities" on November 18 in Gdansk, are in full swing. The local MATRA COP team registered already 100 participants..

 

11.10.1999 - MATRA COP sends out two Dutch community workers to Smetowo (in the south of Pomorskie province) to see how they can be of help. During two days in November they will be in the area for orientation, information and consultations.

The community workers are from local Welfare institution De Ploeg in Beetsterzwaag....