First F2F-Trust Project Meeting

The first F2F-Trust Project meeting represented an important step to close cooperation and collaboration among ten partners from five countries in order to successfully develop a micro-entrepreneurship supportive mentoring system for women with fewer opportunities in rural areas.

The activities carried out within the meeting hosted by Mersin University during 16/17 January 2020 in Mersin (Turkey) included:

* the introductory presentation of the Mersin University team and the partner organizations;

* a comprehensive presentation about framework and roadmap of the project;

* an overview on the approved project budget;

* the decision on the dates of the future partnership meetings;

* a preliminary redesign of two years project implementation;

* the delegation of the tasks with deadlines for each partner;

* the analysis of the intellectual outputs, with a major emphasizes on the first and second outputs; in this context, team decided to create a large database about both, mentees and mentors and to develop questionnaires for both target groups in order to better identify their match to the project;

* the establishment of the guidelines for internal evaluation (meeting and output evaluation);

* the open discussion of the questions and concerns of the partners were discussed in the form of sharing good practices, models and best ideas;

* the research and decision on project logo.

Also, the meeting included a guided visit of Mersin University campus and social program with common dinners and lunches that created a good opportunity for the team to blend and interact.

To sum up, the first project meeting was an efficient one, all the participants being active and working in harmony for a clear understanding the objectives and intellectual outputs of the project.

The project gather together: two high education institutions,  two women non-governmental organizations, three Rural micro-entrepreneurship and development organizations, two state social development R/D centers and an ICT professional e-VET business in the F2F-Trust project team and a detailed overview of partners is available at F2F-Trust.eu portal.