NEWS

News

July 2010
LEARNING COMPANY TRATTORIA BORGO D’ANETO PRODUCES ITS FIRST GRADUATES
Two trattoria trainees are leaving the restaurant this month; with a diploma! Michael Premchand earned a starting qualification (vocational training; level 2), Roman Hamidi earned the certificate branch manager retail on level 4. In the picture Michael is signing the book Een titanenklus (A Huge Undertaking) for Rotterdam alderman Huffelen of durability, city centre and communal outdoor areas. This book was published in 2009 for the opening of the beautiful renovation project Panorama Dillenburg of which the trattoria is a part. The book’s title is also very fitting for the work done by Michael and other students. And he can be proud of the results! He has shown that perseverance really does pay off and so we would like to offer him our warmest congratulations.

Ferdion, a pupil from the Sprong in Sliedrecht, is so enthousiastic about his work placement period that he will continue the traineeship during the summer holidays. Naomi, a pupil from the practical education department of Nieuw-Zuid, will return to the trattoria as a trainee in September. A number of new students will also be welcomed in September and October.

Do you represent an educational institution and are you interested in our activities or possibilities for internships? Would you like to know more about our community work? Please contact us via info@borgodaneto.nl.


June 2010
BEST SELLER IN THE LAST STAGE
Best Seller, the project that is  being carried out by Mill-hillcollege pupils this year, is moving into its last stage. The project will be finished in June. That doesn’t mean the activities will stop. In June pupils will hand in their business plan and in September they will be evaluated by a jury. If the business plans are approved the students can start selling Unilever products.

April 2010
JESSIE IS GUEST LECTURER MARKETING FOR BEST SELLER PUPILS
On 20 April last, Jessie arranged a guest lecture for pupils from the fourth grade pre-university education from the Mill-hillcollege in Goirle that participate in Best Seller. After the spring holidays, the pupils will start writing their business plan for Unilever products. After approval by a professional jury they will be given the opportunity to sell Unilever products. They are allowed to keep the profits.

March 2010
T-PROFILE FOR TECHNOLOGY PUPILS
Together with vocational training centre De Friese Poort and a number of companies, Lava Legato Development is working on a project that aims to develop a t-profile for applied technology pupils. This means that they will develop technical expertise on the one hand and general communication, career and entrepreneurial skills on the other hand, which will help them to function optimally at the workplace.

Februari 2010
NL AGENCY AND THE MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS VISIT LEARNING COMPANY TRATTORIA BORGO D’ANETO
We look back to the working visit of Agency NL and the ministry of Economic Affairs to learning company trattoria Borgo d’Aneto with pleasure. During the working visit Italian cuisine clinics were organized for pupils from the Máxima college in Ridderkerk, De Sprong in Sliedrecht and the Da Vinci College in Dordrecht. The clinics are the first step in a collaboration with De Sprong to offer work placements and possibly eventually also qualify students. The pupils were very positive, but so were we: the pupils’ enthusiasm and eagerness to learn made us very enthusiastic about continuing to develop activities with these groups of pupils.

January 2010
BEST SELLER STARTS AT MILL-HILL COLLEGE
This school year, Mill-Hill college will be implementing the project Best Seller. The project was carried out by ROC Zadkine in 2008/2009 in collaboration with Kenniscentrum Handel, Lava Legato Development and Unilever.
The objective of the project is to enable students to develop their entrepreneurial skills by asking them to develop a marketing plan for Unilever products. The pupils then present their plan to a professional jury. If the plan is approved they can execute it. Later there is a second presentation where the pupils show their sales results. The profit they earn is theirs to keep.



December 2009
METHOD FOR WORKING IN AN INTERNATIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL WORKING ENVIRONMENT
Lava Legato Development has delivered the concept for a method that aims to prepare vocational training students for the international and intercultural aspects of their future work. The method has primarily been developed for security students from Zadkine, however, the method is also suitable for other sectors. In the school year 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 the method will be tested by Zadkine.

November 2009
PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL PROJECT MEETING 'ONE COMMUNITY'
Jessie Voermans from Lava Legato Development participated in a meeting from 17 until 19 November last. It was the kick off meeting for the project One Community in Telford (UK). Participants in this meeting were partners from Spain, Poland, the UK and the Netherlands. The project will last two years and is about organising exchanges for teachers and vocational training students in order for them to gain knowledge and share experiences. The Netherlands is represented by Vocational Training Centre Zadkine.

October 2009
DEVELOPMENT OF METHOD FOR THE INTERNATIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL ASPECTS OF SECURITY WORK
In collaboration with vocational training centre Zadkine Lava Legato Development is working on the development of a minor that aims to prepare vocational training security students for the international and intercultural aspects of their work. The design of the minor will be released in December.

September 2009
RESEARCH ON MENTORING AT VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE MONDRIAAN
In September 2009 Lava Legato Development started researching the effect of mentoring activities at vocational training centre Mondriaan, as part of the project Zaak & Co. Also a start will be made with taking a zero measurement for research on a new project related to mentoring aimed at the Technical industry.

August 2009
TRIAL EVENINGS FOR TRATTORIA BORGO D’ANETO
Borgo d’Aneto, the trattoria located at the Nijverheidstraat 2 in Rotterdam, set up by Lava Legato Development, had its first trial evening on 14 August last, where a sumptuous five-course-dinner was served. In the months August and September we will be experimenting with various dinner concepts on Friday evenings in order to eventually create an offer that meets the customer’s wishes. From 7 September onwards pupils from the Da Vinci College will start learning the skills of the catering business in a practical context at the trattoria. See www.borgodaneto.nl for more information (only in Dutch).

July 2009
CIRCLE OF KNOWLEDGE MEETINGS FOR PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION PROJECT LEADERS
In June 2009 Lava Legato Development organised two circle of knowledge meetings for project leaders of primary and secondary education projects that received a grant from the Entrepreneurship and Education 2007 grant program. Aim of the meetings was to exchange experiences and good examples in order to achieve even better results. The next meetings will be organised in October. Please contact Lava Legato Development for more information via info@lava-group.com.

June 2009
FINAL PREPARATION FOR CATERING LEARNING COMPANY
Lava Legato Development is finishing the renovation and decoration activities for the catering learning company Borgo d’Aneto. On 10 July next Borgo d’Aneto will organise the first party for housing corporation Woonstad Rotterdam and for the residents of the neighbourhood. After the summer the trattoria will open its doors for the general public. From September onwards, vocational training students and international young volunteers will be active in the trattoria.

March 2009
ADVANCING ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE TECHNOLOGY SECTOR BY USING MENTORING
Lava Legato Development and Vocational Training Centre Mondriaan are going to work on stimulating being entrepreneurial in the technology sector by order of the The Hague city council. To do this, the tried and tested mentoring method will be used (see mentoringinonderwijs.nl for more information; only in Dutch).  Entrepreneurs from the technology sector are assigned as mentor to technology students in order to coach them in entrepreneurial behaviour. Lava Legato Development will support the project together with Frans Meijers and the Community of Practice. The Community of Practice will also organise a number of workshops for public servants from the The Hague council for application of the quality instrument (KIM) and the related quality framework.

February 2009
PARTNERSHIP PROJECT FOR THE SECURITY SECTOR IN EDUCATION
By order of and in collaboration with Vocational Training Centre Zadkine, Lava Legato Development is working on a partnership project for the security sector in education. The aim of the project is to organise international exchange activities with partners in the UK, Poland and Spain that will result in an approach for international activities aimed at security students.

January 2009
RESEARCH ON THE POSSIBILITIES OF SOCIAL WORK PLACEMENTS
Lava Legato Development is researching how social work placements and activities centred around citizenship can be organised for secondary education institutions in Dordrecht. Starting point is that work placements and activities are organised in such a way that the pupils are optimally stimulated to be entrepreneurial and independent and will also develop these skills further.

October 2008
INVENTORY FOR AN INTERNATIONAL PROJECT FOR THE BENEFIT OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING
By appointment of vocational training centre Zadkine Lava Legato Development is making an inventory for an international project aimed at sharing and bundling knowledge and expertise and organising international work placements. The objective of the ultimate project is to give a quality impulse to vocational training.

August 2008
PREPARATION FOR TRATTORIA DILLENBURG IN FULL SWING
Lava Legato Development is preparing to set up a Trattoria in Rotterdam. The Trattoria will be set up together with the Da Vincicollege in Dordrecht. The food that will be served will be characterised by quality and honesty, the ambiance by refinement and eye for detail. Trattoria Dillenburg will be located in Panoroma Dillenburg (www.panoramdillenburg.nl), a beautiful complex on the river Maas. In the summer people will be able to dine outside on the dock with a stunning view over Rotterdam. Trattoria Dillenburg will open its doors in 2009.

July 2008
RON LENTING; A NEW FACE AT LAVA LEGATO DEVELOPMENT
From August 2008 onwards Ron Lenting will reinforce the Lava Legato Development team. Ron used to work as a project advisor for SenterNovem, the agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. There he worked on themes like enterpreneurship and education, social work placements en extended service schools. For Lava Legato Development he mainly will work on the area of education and enterpreneurship and other themes related to educational innovation.

May 2008
BEST SELLER FINALS
On 18 April last the Best Seller finals took place (see "current activities" for more information about the project). It was an exciting morning full of stimulating presentations of pupils from the Trade department of the Vocational Training Center Zadkine. Eight groups of pupils held a presentation about the way they sold their Unilever products and what their sales results were. Each group was allowed to keep their net profit and the pupils of the best group won a laptop. The pupils that gave the best presentation according to the jury received an iPod from Unilever. Via the web link below you can download a slideshow with pictures of the finals. Open the slideshow and go to "Show presentation" via "Slideshow".

March 2008
TWO-DAY TRAINING SEMINAR IN THE PROVINCE OF ZEELAND FOR BEST SELLER STUDENTS
On 6 and 7 March 2008 Zadkine organised two training days for the Best Seller finalists. The aim of the training seminar was to fully prepare the students for selling the Unilever products that the students had selected themselves from the Unilever product range. See ‘current activities’ for more information about the Best Seller project.

January 2008
ACTIVITIES OF BEST SELLER PROJECT WILL BE EXTENDED
In the first quarter of 2008, Lava Legato Development will extend activities related to the Best Seller project (see ‘Best Seller’ under ‘current activities’ for more information about the project). Five new educational institutions and/or new departments within Vocational Training Centre Zadkine will participate in the project. Information about the nature of the activities that will be executed will be presented on this website in the first quarter of this year.

December 2007
SECOND TECHNICAL STUDENT WANTED FOR THESIS PROJECT
Lava Legato Development is looking for a Technical University student for the Chilava Project. Do you study Industrial Design and are you specialising in Integrated Product Design and are you looking for a thesis project? Please contact Lava Legato Development. Would you like more information? Download the document ‘IPD Graduation Project’ at the bottom of this page.

December 2007
STUDENT FROM THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY STARTS HER THESIS SUBJECT FOR THE CHILAVA PROJECT
From December 2007, two Industrial Design majors from the Technical University of Delft will be involved in the Chilava project (see current activities for more information). Vicky Cheung started the graduation project in December. This is what she says about the project:
"Working towards a sustainable and harmonious world is a dream of many students. So I feel very happy to do my graduation project at Lava Legato.  The Chilava project, which I'll be working on, deals with sustainability, innovation, social compliance and interculturality. My job is to express these values in the creation of a fashion range, which will also be part of my assignment. The Chilava project is very ambitious, so I am sure that I will be learning a lot!"

October 2007
PROJECT BEST SELLER HAS STARTED
In September 2007 Project Best Seller started. Best Seller is an educational project initiated by Unilever and Lava Legato Development. It is a project in which vocational training students sell products based on a marketing plan that they wrote themselves. For more information about the project and the project partners, go to “Best Seller” under the menu “current activities”.

July 2007
THE AMSTERDAM PRIZE FOR INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS
Lava Legato Development worked on the first phase of planning and organising the Amsterdam prize for innovative educational projects for primary and secondary eduction. The prize was launched in the summer of 2007. See www.keesvisseronderwijsprijs.nl for more information (only in Dutch).

July 2007
FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR A LEARNING COMPANY IN THE SOCIAL SERVICE SECTOR
Lava Legato Development did a feasibility study of the organisation of a learning company in the social service sector. The study was executed for Zadkine, a vocational training centre. The study was presented to Zadkine in June 2007.