Introduction
COMin Europe Project is aimed for 50s Plus learners and the project treats minorities within each participating country.
Together with Malta are participating teams from Germany, England, Poland and Spain.
The aim of the project is to bring into light how minorities are or are not integrating within the society of each country.
Malta's minority group selected is that of Somali Immigrants.
Meetings were already held in Germany, England and Poland.
Next meeting is due in Vigo, Spain between the 14th and 17th January 2010. The 5th and last meeting will be held in Malta during May 2010.
During the May meeting,the plan is to have an exhibition about this project for the general public to visit.
1st Meeting - Germany
The first meeting was held in Stuttgart, Germany between the 6th and 9th November 2008. During this meeting, which was the introductory meeting the participants agreed on the Agenda, the schedule and the business of the project.
2nd Meeting - United Kingdom
The 2nd meeting was in Ely, in Cambridgeshire, England between the 18th and 21st March 2009. It treated the Gibsy minority which are settled on the outskirts of the city of Ely.
3rd Meeting - Poland
The 3rd meeting was held nearby Katowice, Poland and it treated the minority of Germans who have settled on the west frontier during and after World War II.
During this meeting the format, size and details of the Project Posters each participant has to produce were agreed to.
Project's Task
One of the main tasks for this project is that the learners from the participating countries will produce three posters which indicate how the minorities in their country are experiencing their integration within the community at large.
All these posters will be on exhibition during the Malta Meeting in May.
Malta's Posters
Being the hoisting country for the exhibition the Maltese group can produce any number of posters between the minimum of three and a maximum of ten, all will depend on the actual exhibiting space availability.
The Malta team has already finished four posters which are being reproduced below.
4th Meeting at Vigo, Galicia, Spain - 14th - 17th Jan 2010
The 4th Meeting of the CoMin Europe Project was held at Vigo in Spain and was hoisted by the Daniel Castelao College which are the Spanish partners in this project.
During this meeting each participating country presented their final version of the posters as part of their product task they had to do. A common product was discussed and finalised by the participants. It will be a postcard which illustrates minorities in each participating country on the front side, and a short message on the projects logos at the reverse side of the postcard.
The dates and agenda for the 5th and final meeting were agreed to and this will be held in Malta between the 27th and 29th May 2010.
The participants visited Santiago as the cultural part of the meeting.
