Tea For Two

Flýtilyklar

Valmynd
Meginmál
Deildarval

Minutes Helsinki

-Illustrating equality-

PROGRAMME RELATING TO THE COMMUNITY FRAMEWORK STRATEGY ON GENDER EQUALITY

Minutes of the third meeting of the Steering Committee

Helsinki 14th -15th of June 2007

Participants:

Kjartan Ólafsson Iceland

Svala Jónsdóttir Iceland

Katrín Anna Guðmundsdóttir Iceland

Lily Abadjieva Bulgaria

Tatiana Georgieva Bulgaria

May Endresen Norway

Sinikka Mikola Finland

Isto Karjalainen Finland

Marjut Pietiläinen Finland

Vasiliki Athanasopoulou Greece

Grammatiki Papazoglou Greece

Thursday 14th of June 2007

The first day of the meeting began with a welcome to Finland by Sinikka Mikola and then an introduction of all the participants.

Status of the project

Svala Jónsdóttir briefly introduced the status of the project. The indicators had been chosen and the partner countries had all decided which municipalities would be included in the project. Information gathering was already under way in Norway, Iceland and Finland, and Norway had already sent some of their data to Iceland.

Data collection and indicators, dissemination of the results

Kjartan Ólafsson introduced the discussion about data collection and indicators. He discussed how the participant countries would gather the data and how the data should be sent to Iceland. He also discussed the presentation of the data, both the maps and the website. Then he went on to discuss how the results would be disseminated. There was a lively discussion regarding these issues with participation from all the partner countries.

National seminar

The first item on the agenda after lunch was a national seminar, which had been well advertised by the Finnish hosts and attracted close to thirty politicians and officials from the municipal level. Sinikka Mikola welcomed everyone to the seminar and then Kjartan Ólafsson from Iceland introduced the Tea for two project. Lily Abadjieva talked about Gender Equality Policy in Bulgaria and Emmy Papazoglou discussed Balancing work and family life in Greece. Finally, May Endresen talked about Gender Equality in Norway at the local level. Afterwards, there was a lively discussion.

Project introduction (.ppt)

Bulgaria presentation (.ppt)

Greece presentation (.ppt)

Norway presentation (.ppt)

Country specific issues

After the national seminar, Kjartan and Svala met with each partner country’s representatives separately in order to discuss any difficulties or questions they might have regarding the data collection. The formal program ended after the last meeting at 17:30.

Dinner and informal meeting

Once the formal program was over for the day, participants were invited to an optional sauna. A city tour started at 19:00 and the group was treated to a view of some of Helsinki’s major sights. The tour bus took the group to dinner at the restaurant Sea Horse, where discussion about the project continued.

Friday 15th of June

Practicalities, finance, final report

Svala began the second day by discussing finances, the work schedule for the rest of the project and the final report. There was some discussion about reimbursement of costs and other such practical matters.

Indicators and final conference

Discussion about indicators continued from the day before. The partners decided to go over the whole list of indicators and make some changes. The indicators were discussed in depth, and the result was that two new indicators were proposed and some changes were made to others. One indicator was also deleted from the study, leaving 21 indicator. Svala got the task of making the proposed changes to the list of indicators and sending a new list to the partners after the meeting.Preparations for the final conference were then discussed and the partners stated their preferences and ideas regarding the conference. After this discussion the third TFT project meeting was finished and everyone received thanks for a good and productive meeting.