P2V Project Partners Meeting in Brussels
The second P2V Project Partners Meeting took place on 7 December 2007 in Brussels. Participants reviewed the first year of the project and discussions covered reports on peer learning visits for policy-makers (to Lithuania), schools (to Austria) and inspectorates (to the Netherlands and Lithuania), future plans and administrative issues.
One of the main issues for policy peer learning was the methodology used in P2V. Alan McCluskey from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, presented the ‘deep dive’ approach as a methodology which could be applied in the second visit, to Barcelona in February 2008. The deep dive approach builds on small intensive workshops for one and a half day where the participants develop valuable policy proposals. At the end of the meeting policy makers are invited to listen to the propositions. This approach is seen as a good way of bridging the gap between policy shapers and policy makers. Inviting key policy actors will help to communicate across the policy proposals developed during the meeting.
Other items discussed during the meeting were the continuing formation and modification of school triads in the P2V project. An important aspect is the coherence of these triads. There has to be a balance in the e-maturity of schools as this project must be beneficial to all of them. For instance, a school with high level of e-maturity will not gain much if it is in a triad with two low e-maturity level schools. Also partners decided to work on the development of P2V Wiki (http://p2v.wikispaces.com/) and P2V Blog (http://blog.eun.org/p2v/).
The next P2V Project Partners meeting will take place in Brussels during March 2008.