Feedback from Lithuania

I am very happy to participate in NORD+ program. This is practicularly useful integration, cooperation and intercultural communication experience for all participants of the project.

I would like to analyze part of homework of countries-participants – the essay „Working in a multicultural team“.

Thirst of all, I would like to praise you all for the honest work and ideas, which clearly revealed your current expertise in this area. And I dare to say that the best Essay of the project would be if all the works were compiled to one, because most of the teams took quite one-side look to multicultural team work, revealing one problematic side. Only few teams drew attention to the question  what extent  multiculturalism influences the country‘s business or activities of youth organizations.

Congradulating all the teams  in excellent profiles and video presentations I have to say that the teams were not fully prepared to Essey presentations (many of them only mentioned that the work had been done). The Commission had the impression that  the Essey was written without much enthusiasm and creativity.

Therefore, the winner of the contest is the Finnish team. Congradulations!!!  The Commission has decided that the team which has most experience has conveyed it in the most powerful form. Well done!!!

Second place went to the team of Latvia and the third to Lithuania.

Sincerest thanks to everyone for their efforts and friendship during thr visit to Porvoo. It was a wonderful time and experience.

Hope to see you in Lithuania soon,

Hugs and kisses to everyone – Laisve

Finnish team for Lithuania

Hello my name is Jennifer Asare Yeboah I am hmmmm years old I am originally from Ghana but moved to Italy when I was child, making Italy the only country close to my heart..
I can say I have only the best of both Italian and Ghanian cultures even if the Italian is more dominant. This is my 1st year of study in Finland at Porvoo international college also known as point college where am acquiring as more business knowledge as I can to be successful after my studies.. I have already assimilated to the Finnish culture too.. I am pretty positive about continuing my education after point college though.

Hi there, my name is Frida Grönqvist and I’m from Porvoo, south Finland.

I’m in my final year of studying at Point College on the business line, and on my free time I enjoy traveling, dancing, cooking, plus art in different forms. I'm really excited about coming to Lithuania with the rest of the project! See ya'll soon :)

Hello!

My name is Hajrie Latifi I’m almost 18 years old. I study business administration, in particular bookkeeping. I don’t do anything special, I hang out with my friends and sometimes I go running.

Well, judging by the name I’m from Kosovo but I was born in Finland and lived there all of my life.

I don’t think of anything else to tell you… I will tell more with time.

Feedback and the winner of the case studies

Hello from the rainy Finland,

It´s again Tuesday and I am working online from my home and spending time with my puppy. Happy me! Finally I have also some time to write here something about your case studies.

Thanks again from your work. If it was not easy for me to think suitable case studies for you, I am sure it was not also very easy for you to make them. But all team succeeded so well so that it was a pleasure for us to listen to you. It seems that you have learned something valuable about multi-cultural team work during this project. Good for you.

The evaluation criteria for the case studies were:
- innovative way of thinking the solution
- bringing up fact and information about cultural sensitiveness and multi-cultural working environments
- presentation skills.

Some comments to all groups:

1. Multicultural working environment: very nice and professional video which certainly presents ideal working place. Nice presentation of all team members. I missed a bit your own comments for this work.

2. Marketing the super team: your presentation was quite conventional, but you obviously know a great deal about cultural sensitivity and team work, you challenged yourself to make a presentation even though one person was missing- good for you. Next time be a bit more innovative and use eg. video as many use today when they are applying a job.

3. The flash mob: a great presentation from you all, we all liked the way how you made a short lesson with steps how to organise a flash mob using links to a real life case. Innovative and inspiring presentation. I was only missing the actual flash mob, but I hope we will get it in May!

4. Building bridges of understanding: you had found some nice ways to promote cultural understanding in the working life. They were maybe not that innovative, but certainly useful. Nice presentation from you all.

5. Multi-cultural business culture: You are all very good speakers and prepared a nice slide show to support your presentation. You had found a lot of relevant information about different countries. I was missing some kind of a summary to the topic. Your however answered very well to our tricky questions. A serious topic and maybe a bit more difficult to be entertaining.

All in all, this time the jury voted for the best case study the flash mob. And as we agreed, we all hope that this idea goes further and you will help to organise a real flash mob during our last mobility on May combining all our schools and even others. Looking forward to take part in this.

It was really nice to meet you all here in Porvoo. Fruitful team works for you all during the winter.

Now I am heading out to the rainy forest (not rainforest) with my puppy Vili.

See you all soon!

Best regards, Sanna

Hello from Latvia!!!

Thanks for such a great time we spent in Porvoo. That was a lot of work for students, but we could also see they enjoyed this Project a lot. 

Smiling faces, a lot of fun, good energy, lots of interesting new things for everyone who were participating in this Project. 

I enjoyed to meet so many different people from all over the world. I traveled a lot before but never met people from Iceland, they are fun as every one in this Project. We said GOODBYE like 5 times to Icelanders (from hostel to airport gates) :) Someone was crying at the airport to say GOODBYE.

Thanks a lot to Anita as well, she get a new title ”MISIS NORDPLUS”. Anita organized everything just perfect. Also it was nice to meet Anita in Porvoo Point College, because she comes from Latvia.

There is picture with Misis „NORDPLUS” :)

 

Have a great day to all of you!!!

                                Zane

P.S. Looking forward to have an idea for flashmob song or moves e.t.c. :) :) :)