NEWS

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July 2010
OMID FROM THE UK STARTS AT THE TRATTORIA
Omid Ahmadi arrived on 7 July for a period of 12 months to do volunteer work at the trattoria. He is originally from Afghanistan but is currently living in the United Kingdom. He’s just earned his high school diploma and now he’s ready to pour all his energy into the trattoria.
Are you between 18 en 30 years old and would you like to do volunteer work abroad at no cost? Please contact the Lava Legato Foundation via info@lava-group.com.

June 2010
THET LAVA LEGATO FOUNDATION WELCOMES NEW VOLUNTEERS AT THE VIJFSPRONG AND DE KLEINE KONING
In June three new foreign volunteers arrived. Carinna Garuffi from Italy will do volunteer work for six months at de Kleine Koning. Maggie Harris de Pina and Daniel Simoes from Portugal will be active at de Vijfsprong. Would you like to know more about these projects? Look under the heading Current activities for more information. Are you between 18 and 30 years old and would you like to do volunteer work abroad? Please contact the Lava Legato Foundation via info@lava-group.com.

May 2010
LAVA LEGATO FOUNDATION WELCOMES NEW VOLUNTEERS AT THE TRATTORIA
In May new foreign volunteers will arrive. Klara Csepe from Hungary and Filipa Vieira Ramalho from Portugal will be active in and around the trattoria and the Feijenoord district.

Magdalena, the brilliant volunteer who is currently active at the trattoria, is setting up a Facebook page together with Jessie. Pictures will be added to the page in June. Go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lava-Legato-Foundation-Volunteer-Work/122950341063998 for a sneak preview.

April 2010
DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH BY COLLEGE STUDENT
Marriët Terlouw, graduate student cultural and social education from Hogeschool Leiden, has been doing developmental research for the Lava Legato Foundation from 15 April last. As part of the research she is searching for new possibilities, both in the field of projects and in the field of financial support. It will result in a new project for which Marriët will apply for a grant. The new project will be in line with the Lava Legato Foundation’s objectives.

March 2010
INTERNATIONAL MEETING ABOUT ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ADOLESCENTS OVERWHELMING SUCCESS
From 23 until 25 March a delegation of Italian adolescents visited the Lava Legato Foundation to find inspiration and exchange ideas about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial behavior. The delegation visited Delft University’s Incubator facility YesDelft! and the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. The aim of these visits was to see how Dutch educational institutions try to stimulate entrepreneurship. On 24 March the Lava Legato Foundation organised a program for the Italian visitors and a number of Dutch Small Business students from vocational training centre Zadkine. In the morning they exchanged ideas about entrepreneurship, in the afternoon they developed ideas and worked on an assignment. The participants’ enthusiasm has filled us with ideas for setting up a new exchange program.

Februari 2010
PREPARATION FOR INTERNATIONAL MEETING ABOUT YOUNG ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN PROGRESS
From 23 to 25 March next an international meeting will be organized, in cooperation with learning company trattoria Borgo d’Aneto, for Dutch and Italian adolescents. The objective is to exchange experiences and information on the motivation to start working as an entrepreneur, the challenges an entrepreneur faces, the added value of working as an entrepreneur for your career and the support you receive, or don’t receive, as a future entrepreneur. Also a practial assignment will be given to make clear what it actually means to be an entrepreneur.

January 2010
THE HYVE PROJECT IS MOVING INTO ITS LAST QUARTER
In the first quarter of 2010 the Hyve project will end. The last two years, four secondary educational institutions have organised various activities centred around education and entrepreneurship. These activities are described below:

• The Midden-Brabant College started a Serviceshop that companies and organisations can turn to for possible assignments and projects for students.
• The Beatrix College organised the Trix theatre; impressive theatre shows where pupils were not only responsible for performing in the shows, but also for the project management.
• The Mill-Hill College let pupils experience the whole process of recording and selling a CD.
• The Van Cooth College transformed the school's canteen into a company that is totally run by pupils and where only healthy products are sold.

In this last quarter the central theme is firmly establishing the project activities. On 25 January next a last meeting will be organised for the project leaders

December 2009
NEW RECRUITMENT ACTIVITIES FOR VOLUNTEERS FROM ABROAD
The Lava Legato Foundation has once again started recruitment activities to recruit volunteers for the Trattoria, the Vijfsprong, and the Kleine Koning. International volunteers will gain the possibility to work as a volunteer for one of these three organisations. New volunteers will start their activities in May 2010.

November 2009
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH SEMINAR IN ITALY
Magdalena Taxenbacher, one of the foreign volunteers from the Lava Legato Foundation, participated in an international seminar, together with Justin Brands and Jonas Flake from the student company www.kwalitiv.nl. It took place from 17 until 20 November last. The seminar is part of the European Active Citizenship project: Renewable Energy. An impression with pictures and a short report of the seminar will be presented on this website in December.

October 2009
DAY OF THE DIALOGUE ON 6 AND 7 NOVEMBER
On 6 and 7 November the Lava Legato Foundation will organise activities for the Day of the Dialogue in trattoria Borgo d’Aneto. Activities will take place for residents of the Feijenoord district, but also people from Rotterdam living on the other side of the river Maas will be invited to come and visit the Feijenoord district to discover how beautiful this part of Rotterdam is. The activities that will take place are based on the method that is described on www.dialoogvaardigheden.nl (only in Dutch). The exact program will be presented on this website in October.

September 2009
INTERNATIONAL PREPARATORY SEMINAR IN ROTTERDAM ON ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP: 28-30 SEPTEMBER 2009
The Lava Legato Foundation is participating in the project European Active Citizenship: Renewable Energy, together with an Italian partner (Cesvov), CYCM (Poland), the Bilbao municipality from Spain and the Romanian Centras Constanta. Aim of the project is to share experiences and good practical examples in the field of 1) youth volunteering; 2) youth entrepreneurship; 3) youth participation in politics and 4) youth participation within the new EU member states. From 28-30 September a preparatory seminar will be organised in Rotterdam with the partners to expand on and further define topics linked to young people’s active citizenship. The preparatory seminar will also be used to prepare a three-day conference in Varese (Italy) on active citizenship that will take place from 17-20 November 2009. The seminar and conference will result in an international network that will initiate and organise activities related to active citizenship for young people.

August 2009
THE LAVA LEGATO FOUNDATION WARMLY WELCOMES ITS NEW VOLUNTEERS MAGDALENA AND PIERRE
Two new volunteers will be active at the catering learning company that Lava Legato Development has set up. Magdalena Taxenbacher from Austria and Pierre Lallart from France will be working for Trattoria Dillenburg starting from 1 September next. Besides doing work for the trattoria, they will be organising activities for and in the Feijenoord district in Rotterdam, for instance activities related to the Day of Dialogue on 6 and 7 November 2009.

April 2009
NEW VOLUNTEERS FROM ABROAD TO THE NETHERLANDS
The Lava Legato Foundation is dedicating itself to bringing young foreign volunteers to the Netherlands once again. The volunteer work is done for a health farm, a foster house for children and young people and a trattoria where healthy and honest food is sold and where students are trained. And Dutch volunteers will go abroad for various projects in different countries in Europe. Are you also interested in doing volunteer work abroad for at least two months, totally free of charge? Please contact the Lava Legato Foundation, info@lava-group.com, for more information.

February 2009
BEATDOWN ROCKS YOUR STEREO
From the very first beat that hits you, you know: you cannot ignore Beatdown, a beatbox band made up of Mill Hill college students. Beatdown can be heard on the MHCD Unlimited CD that has been recorded by pre-university students from the same school. MHCD Unlimited is a project that aims to embed entrepreneurship as an educational theme in secondary education. The Lava Legato foundation supports the project. Rogier Biesmans is the inspired and enthusiastic Economics teacher who has enabled the project within the school. Would you like to get a taste of Beatdown? Go to www.youtube.com/watch

January 2009
NEW FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS IN THE NETHERLANDS AND DUTCH VOLUNTEERS ABROAD
In February, three new foreign volunteers will start their volunteer project in the Netherlands coordinated by the Lava Legato Foundation. The three volunteers are Ambra Cavelletto and Lara Saviatesta from Italy who are going to work at de Vijfsprong (see www.urticadevijfsprong.nl for more information; only in Dutch) and Marketa Hanicakova from the Czech Republic. Marketa will work as a volunteer at de Kleine Koning (see www.dekleinekoningvierakker.nl for more information; only in Dutch). The adjoining picture is de Kleine Koning’s location. Malou Merkus from the Netherlands is leaving for France in February for a volunteer project with children and young people. Are you interested to work as volunteer abroad, free of charge? Please contact the Lava Legato Foundation secretary office: info@lava-group.com.

December 2008
ENTREPRENEUR FILES ONLINE
On the website www.kenniskringlerenondernemen.nl of the Lava Legato Foundation nine files are presented in which entrepreneurs tell about their experiences. They can be found both on the teacher’s section of the website and on the pupil’s/student’s section. The cases reflect the stories of Dutch and migrant entrepreneurs. The stories can be used in educational settings in secondary educational and vocational training. In the stories factors that lead to success and failure in entrepreneurship are described as well as the possibilities that entrepreneurship offer.

November 2008
WHAT DOES EMBEDMENT OF ACTIVITITIES MEAN AND HOW DO YOU DO IT?
During the second meeting of project The Hive on 18 November last, embedment of activities was the theme. Representatives of the four educational institutions which are participating in the project, the Mill-Hillcollege, the Beatrix College, Prisma van Cooth and the Midden-Brabant College, were present at the meeting. In relation to embedment of activities the meaning of embedment was discussed and also bottlenecks of embedment, solutions and suggestions for the government. You can download the report of the meeting via www.kenniskringlerenondernemen.nl > docenten en andere professionals > downloads (only in Dutch).

October 2008
WEBSITE OF THE MILL HILL COLLEGE CD PROJECT IS COMPLETELY RENEWED
The Lava Legato Foundation is supporting the Mill-Hill college with the execution of the project MHCD Unlimited via the hive of the circle of knowledge related to entrepreneurship and education in the province of Noord-Brabant (this project is called the hive project). MHCD Unlimited is a project that enables secondary education pupils from the senior classes to record and sell a CD. Pupils have autonomously built a website, where news and documentation about the project can be found. Go to www.mhcdunlimited.com (only in Dutch) for more information about MHCD Unlimited or go to www.kenniskringlerenondernemen.nl for more information about the hive project (only in Dutch).

October 2008
STUDY ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COACH AND PUPIL
By order of Center 16.22, the Lava Legato Foundation executed a study on the effects of the coach/pupil relation in the ‘coaching and mentoring’ project of Center 16.22. For more information about this study or questions that you might have about the services Lava Legato can offer you, you can get in touch with the Lava Legato Foundation via info@lava-group.com

August 2008
WWW.DIALOOGVAARDIGHEDEN FOR SUPPORT OF THE DIALOGUE WITH THE IEDA DIALOGUE MODEL
The Lava Legato Foundation developed a dialogue model to support people who are in a dialogue with others. The model is described in detail on the website www.dialoogvaardigheden.nl (only in Dutch). It has been developed for everybody who wishes to further improve their dialogue skills. It can be applied in an educational setting, in situations where people with different cultural backgrounds or beliefs meet or it can be used in mentoring projects.

July 2008
WWW.KENNISKRINGLERENONDERNEMEN.NL
FOR PROFESSIONALISING ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
The Lava Legato Foundation launched a new website aimed at professionalising entrepreneurship and education activities (the site is only available in Dutch). The site has been developed through the Community of Practice “Learning to become Entrepreneurial” in the province of Noord-Brabant. On this site you will find information about Communities of Practice 'Learning to become Entrepreneurial' as well as digital tools and downloads. The site has been developed for teachers and other professionals in the educational sector. In the second half of 2008, a section will be available for students also. Go to www.kenniskringlerenondernemen.nl for more information (only in Dutch).

May 2008
THE LAVA LEGATO FOUNDATION NOW ALSO SUPPORTS YOUNG VOLUNTEERS FROM ABROAD FOR PROJECTS IN THE NETHERLANDS
The Lava Legato Foundation has seven years of experience in supporting Dutch volunteers executing volunteer projects abroad, but since 2008 the Lava Legato Foundation is also guiding young people from abroad for volunteer work in the Netherlands.

Loïc Brunet-Dunand and Christina Lopeze are volunteers from France. From July 2008 onwards they will get to work at ‘de Vijfsprong’ in Vorden. ‘De Vijfsprong’ is an organic farm and offers treatment and care to people with psychiatric problems and to people with a mental limitation. Working and living together is the main focus (see www.urticadevijfsprong.nl for more information about the organisation; only in Dutch).
Loïc and Christina will be working in the ornamental garden, with dairy cattle, in the field of agriculture and in dairy production. Depending on their interests and talents it is possible that they will also be carrying out activities in the cultural and musical field.
Would you also like to do volunteer work that doesn’t cost you anything and where you receive a monthly allowance? Please contact the Lava Legato Foundation for more information: info@lava-group.com.

April 2008
MENTORING MANIFEST CAN BE DOWNLOADED FOR FREE
Using the Mentoring Community of Practice as a basis, the Lava Legato Foundation has written the Mentoring Manifesto. This is a practical booklet that creates an unambiguous image of the concept of mentoring and maps out which characteristics of mentoring activities reinforce quality and efficiency. Policy makers, mentors, mentees and project leaders can benefit from it. You can download it for free via www.mentoringinonderwijs.nl/mentoring.php (only in Dutch).

April 2008
FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS MAPPED
The Lava Legato Foundation supports young people in doing volunteer projects abroad. Would you like to know where the Lava Legato Foundation has placed volunteers? Go to www.lava-group.com/kaart.php. The map will be filled out during April 2008. On 1 May it will be complete.

March 2008
OPEN HOUSE OF THE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE "LEARNING TO BECOME ENTREPRENEURIAL" NOORD-BRABANT
On 25 March last an open house of the Community of Practice 'Learning to Become Entrepreneurial' took place. The open house was combined with the kick-off meeting of the entrepreneurial projects from Spoor 1 of the subsidy programme “Learning to Become Entrepreneurial”. It was a particularly active and inspiring afternoon where project leaders from subsidised projects from primary and secondary education institutions and vocational training centres met.

Kees de Ridder, director of the Midden Brabant College economy and greenery, holds the opinion that secondary vocational education has an important role in creating work experience, where initiatives and being entrepreneurial are stimulated and rewarded. It is important here that education creates chances and challenges!

Those present received the assignment to formulate a list of characteristics of the entrepreneurial student. The chairman of the day, Wiet de Bruin, concluded from the extensive list of characteristics of the entrepreneurial student that there is no such thing as a standard entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs are a very diverse group and different entrepreneurs have very different characteristics and are successful for various reasons.

Faouzi Chihabi from the Lava Legato Foundation, initiator and organiser of the Community of Practice, explained that the initiative of the Community of Practice started with needs from educators, the enthusiasm of the Province of Noord-Brabant and the wish of the Lava Legato Foundation to assure quality in entrepreneurship and education projects.

March 2008
PUPILS FROM THE MILL HILLCOLLEGE ARE GOING TO PRODUCE AND SELL A CD
As mentioned previously on this website, the Lava Legato Foundation applied for a grant for four educational institutions participating in the Community of 'Learning to become entrepreneurial' in the province Noord-Brabant. The grant has been awarded.
One of the schools, the Mill Hillcollege in Goirle is already very active with the project. Mill Hillcollege pupils from the last years of pre-university education are going to record a CD and also sell it. All activities, from organising musicians for the CD recordings to writing a marketing plan for the CD sale, are executed by the pupils. In the Brabant Newspaper, an article about the project was published on 29 January last.

February 2008
COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE LEARNING TO BECOME ENTREPRENEURIAL IS ALSO BEING LAUNCHED IN THE PROVINCE OF SOUTH-HOLLAND
Besides the Community of Practice in the Province of Noord-Brabant, the Lava Legato Foundation will be setting up a Community of Practice in the Province of South-Holland in the first quarter of 2008. The Community of Practice will be set up with aid from the South-Holland Council. See the submenu 'current activities' for more information about the project.

February 2008
OPEN HOUSE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE LEARNING TO BECOME ENTREPRENEURIAL
On 25 March next, the Community of Practice ‘Learning to become entrepreneurial’, will organise an open house. The partnership ‘Learning to become entrepreneurial’ that organises the open house, will use the opportunity to personally congratulate the first 24 educational institutions whose projects have been awarded as part of the Entrepreneurship and Education 2007 subsidy, Spoor 1. The educational institutions that received a grant are from the primary and secondary educational sector and the vocational training sector. A total amount of EURO 5.000.000,-- has been awarded.  

The aim of the open house is to get project leaders and other people who are acquainted with the working method of the Community of Practice 'Learning to become entrepreneurial' that was started by the Lava Legato Foundation, to inform project leaders of the projects granted and to prepare them for participation in a Community of Practice in their own region and/or educational sector.

The Community of Practice will present the results that have been reached by the participants in the Community of Practice in Noord-Brabant in 2007. The aim and working method will be discussed and explained. The open house will start at 3:30 pm and will end with a group dinner at 7 pm. The open house will take place in Tilburg and is by personal invitation only. The day chair will be Wiet de Bruijn. The programme of the open house will soon be available on this website. 

January 2008
CIRCLE OF KNOWLEDGE RELATED TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND EDUCATION WILL BE CONTINUED IN 2008
In collaboration with educational institutions in the vocational training and secondary education sectors, the community of practice related to Entrepreneurship and Education in the province Noord-Brabant will continue carrying out new activities. The Lava Legato Foundation applied for a grant for four educational institutions participating in the community of practice. The Lava Legato Foundation applied for the grant via the Entrepreneurship and Education program 2007. The grant has been awarded. The Entrepreneurship and Education activities that will be executed will be presented on this website in the course of the first quarter of 2008.

September 2007
9 PROPOSALS FOR VOLUNTEER PROJECTS ABROAD
For the 1 September deadline for the EVS programme (voluntary projects abroad), the Lava Legato foundation submitted 9 proposals for volunteer projects, to enable young people from 18 up to 30 years of age, to participate for free in volunteer projects abroad. Are you interested to go abroad as a volunteer? Go to the submenu 'volunteer work abroad' of this website for more information.

August 2007
The Lava Legato Foundation is looking for a volunteer for a project in Latvia.
Please get in touch with us before 1 November 2007

What is the project about?
Tçrvete is a social care centre run by the local government. It is divided into two departments, a department for children and a department for elderly people. The social care centre employs around 100 people, varying from social workers, teachers and education experts.
There are 38 children living in the children's department and most of them are children with mental problems and special needs. The majority of the children have been living in the centre for a long time (sometimes from birth).
The elderly people's department has 100 inhabitants, mostly people with physical limitations. Some of the inhabitants spend all their time in rehabilitation, others, who can freely move around, walk or go to the local town. Tçrvete organises excursions and trips to other elderly people's care centres for its inhabitants.
The children's department and the elderly people's department celebrate big Latvian festivals together.

The social care centre is located in a picturesque place on a hill, among the woods. Closest public transport is 4 km away and the city centre of Tçrvete is 7km away. Tçrvete is an old, legendary place, 19 km south from Dobele.

What are your tasks as volunteer?
The main goal of the EVS project is enabling the children to meet people from abroad. We think that involving volunteers in everyday activities will bring new ideas and activities to our work. At the same time there will be an exchange of information, cultures and
traditions. It also enables children to speak a foreign language like English or German. Finally, it will be a great experience for our team to meet new people, make new contacts and improve language skills.
Being here in Latvia creates the possibility to learn Latvian history, culture, traditions and habits, the Latvian and maybe even the Russian language. The project offers possibilities to use own skills, related to music, sports, art and ICT.
The social care centre "Tçrvete" wants to host one volunteer that will be responsible for the organisation of leisure activities for children and teenagers. The volunteer will visit the elderly people's department once or twice a week as well.

Interested?
Are you available from December 2007 until August 2008?
Please get in touch with saskia.voermans@lava-group.com.

August 2007
QUALITY ASSURANCE INSTRUMENT EXTENDED
In 2006 the Lava Legato Foundation developed the Quality Assurance Instrument Mentoring (KIM). This is a Digital Action Plan that can be used to set up a mentoring project. KIM has been extended with the sections ‘mentor profile’ and 'training programmes for mentors’. The manual has also been supplemented with these two sections. Would you like to use KIM for free to set up a Plan of Action for your own mentoring project? Go to www.mentoringinonderwijs.nl/kim to log on (only in Dutch). You can download the manual via www.mentoringinonderwijs.nl/werkwijze.php (only in Dutch).

July 2007
COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE RELATED TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND EDUCATION
In collaboration with the Partnership Leren Ondernemen (Learning to be an entrepreneur; only in Dutch:  www.lerenondernemen.nl), the Lava Legato Foundation organised the kick-off meeting for the first community of practice related to Education and Entrepreneurship on 12 June. Ten educational institutions and organisations from Noord-Brabant (a Dutch province) participated in this community of practice. See also 'Community of practice for Education and Entrepreneurship' under the submenu 'current activities' on this website for more information.

July 2007
13 PROPOSALS FOR VOLUNTEER PROJECTS ABROAD
For the 1 June deadline for the EVS programme (voluntary projects abroad), the Lava Legato foundation submitted 13 proposals for volunteer projects, to enable young people from 18 up to 30 years of age, to participate in volunteer projects abroad. Are you interested in going abroad as a volunteer? Go to the submenu 'volunteer work abroad' of this website for more information.