PARTNER VIEWS AT THE START OF TULIP

TULIP evaluator Kari Seppälä

Tallin 6.11.2008

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TULIP partner answers to the 1st evaluation questionnaire

Idea: to make the partners conscious of their motivations, aims, resources, options and practices in TULIP

2nd enquiry with mostly the same questions in autumn 2009

The evaluator will make good use of the information in the interim and final reports.

16 responses from 13 partner institutions, each institution covered

Everyone answered to almost all of the questions.

The collection of answers is a wide and versatile source of ideas and tools for the implementation of the project.

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Why did you join the TULIP project?

How do you plan to benefit from the TULIP project professionally?

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Partner motivations & benefits

Adding an activity that was lacking vs. further developing the activities

Responsibilities, eg. supporting members, answering learning needs

Not many chances for European cooperation

Personal & institutional motivations

Cooperation and contacts Case examples and ideas Methods and models Careers and markets

Lifelong learning APEL & RPL

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What do you plan to learn in the TULIP project?

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Things to learn

Trade union – university partnership: philosophy, principles, models, managing, practices

Partnerships in their social contexts

LLL in TU/HEI partnerships

HEIs > TUs/ TUs > HEIs

European agenda into national discussion

Solutions and practices in other countries for development in home country

TULIP as an opportunity to learn at home

Personal professional interests (international project work)

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How do you plan to learn in the TULIP project?

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Ways of learning

Exchange of experience

Collaboration of colleagues and confrontation of approaches

From mistakes

Testing ideas Piloting models Proposing projects Meeting local trade

unions activists Through

dissemination

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What is your special expertise that the TULIP project and partners can benefit from?

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Partner expertise

Project key content Trade Unions

(women’s networks, excluded)

(University) lifelong learning (SMEs, in-house training)

Cooperation between TUs and HEIs

Special expertise Quality assurance Financial expertise Structural and policy

issues Law and human

resources Familiarity with

national context

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What are your key networks that you plan to make use of in the TULIP project?

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Key networks

Trade unions at all levels Academic and lifelong learning networks Entrepreneurs’ Associations, Chamber of

Commerce, agencies of regional and economic development as well as EU issues

European networks of trade unions and universities

European projects

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Are you involved in other projects (in your institution, national or international) that could support TULIP?

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Relevant project activities

Everyday work In-company training

projects Management

development programmes

Many national initiatives

European projects: Quality LLL Accreditation Volunteering Work in Europe Workers’ participation

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What are the activities or features of your institution that you want to develop with the help of the TULIP project?

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TULIP for the institutions

Knowledge, contacts, relations, collaboration, networks

Quality culture APEL LLL

Provision, programs, award

Internal structures Support to

’underrepresented’

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How do you plan to make use of the results of the TULIP project in your university/trade union?

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Making use of the results

Practices Reports, monograph MA student thesis Workshops, forums > project development > research

Situation Starting - continuing

In the HEI / TU Projects and policies

Nationally Political agenda Lobbying

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How do you plan to use TULIP as a tool for staff development?

How do you plan to involve colleagues in your university/trade union into the TULIP project?

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Staff development & involving staff

Staff development Materials available Being available Conference Programs Study cases Personal learning Involving staff

Involving staff Information, materials Discussion, meetings Search of references

and experts Teacher training and

other delivery MA student New projects

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How do you plan to involve colleagues in the partner institution (trade union/university)?

What are the concrete links outside the university/trade union that you want to strengthen with the support of TULIP?

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Involving networks

Concrete links TULIP partners TU’s > HEI’s Colleagues and

institutions in HEIs Volunteer and

employer organizations

Work councils Kooperationsstellen

Involving external people Materials and meetings Common plans and

strategies Supporting key

colleagues in network Partnerships – snow

ball principle

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How do you plan to promote discussion on trade union - university cooperation

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Promoting discussion

Institutional - project- national – European

Finding what was already done

Expert addresses ”Open doors” for

discussion during University Days

Lay member briefings While lobbying Via learning structures Senate bureau meetings Through supporters

”vanguard”

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How do you plan to disseminate the products of the TULIP project?

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Dissemination

Institutional, national, European

Dissemination plan Website, leaflets,

articles, monograph, HEI newspaper

Conferences, round tables, presentations, seminars, project fairs

Develop own services Integrate the project

results into activities Other & new projects Into policy Replenishment of the

TULIP Web site

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How do you plan to continue the cooperation between the universities and the trade unions after the TULIP project?

How could the TULIP project continue its work?

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Life after TULIP

TULIP after TULIP ”Depends on the results

we get” Cooperation with or

without a project Specific questions Expanding network TULIP website “We hope that this will

be the start of a long and fruitful relationship.”

Future in general TULIP > everyday work Courses and programs Methods and tools Research work New structures in HEI Strong support for trade

unions Widening networks Grow international!

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My appraisal and suggestions

Clear motivations Ambitious learning

objectives More thinking to

concretize the benefit for the organization

Versatile learning methods

Relevant expertise and networks

Promising ideas for involving staff and staff development

More thinking to the involvement of the partner institution and promoting discussion

Already elements for dissemination and life after TULIP

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GO AHEAD AND ENJOY

THE GREAT POTENTIAL OF TULIP!

Thank you