2nd consortium meeting in Achva College, Israel
Summary of DARE's 2nd Consortium Meeting in Israel:
June 19-23, 2016
Second DARE’s consortium meeting which was held in Achva Academic College, Israel 19-23 June, 2016 was very successful. About 50 participants from all European and Israeli partners took active participation in the different workshops. The main aim of this meeting was to jointly develop a professional development plan for academic and professional staff at the Georgian and Israeli HEI, to deliver accessible services for people with disabilities and ethnic minorities.
The whole group was divided into four working groups: faculty teaching of students with disabilities, administrative staff working with students with disabilities, faculty teaching minorities and administrative staff working with minorities. The working groups comprised of Israeli, Georgian and European DARE team members. The working teams were led by EAN, MASYRAK U, Haifa University and Sapir Academic College, Telavi, IASI. Through working together, each team developed a draft of training for both faculty and staff who work with the target groups.
During the meeting there were also important plenary sessions which presented the dissemination plan and quality assurance plan for the approval of the whole consortium. In addition the new financial guidelines that were published in May were presented to the consortium emphasizing important changes that all members need to abide by.
All Israeli and Georgian HEIs had presented a short summary of the work that they have accomplished to date with DARE that summarized the target groups of their outreach program, the services that they intend to provide and recruitment processes to attract these students to our HEIs.
In addition to the work done at day, a special trip to the Bedouin city of Rahat was arranged by Achva Academic College and the consortium had the experience of being hosted during the Ramadan breaking of the fast in the evening and learning about the development of higher education of the Bedouins through various programs.