Blogs from Västra Götaland County, Sweden, Europe - page 3

Tag 165 – Göteborg by Night & Nette Schweden Montagmorgen brachte mich Dennis auf dem Weg zur Arbeit zum Bahnhof. Als ich mein Ticket am Automaten kaufen wollte, war ich geschockt: 360 DKK, das war mehr als doppelt so viel wie im Internet! Dennis meinte dann aber, das sei die teuerste Zugverbindung und ich sollte rein an den Schalter gehen, und dort bezahlte ich dann auch nur 170 DKK für meine Busfahrkarte. Nun, ich nahm also um kurz nach sieben den Bus nach Nørresundby (in Aalborg ^^) und stieg dort eine Straße weiter in den Bus nach Frederikshavn um. Dort am Havnepladsen angelangt lief ich die lange Gangway bis zur Wartehalle entlang. Dort musste ich nun noch knapp zwei Stunden warten, aber ich hatte ja meinen E-Book-Reader. :) Am Infodesk zeigte ich meine Buchungsbestätigung auf meinem ... read more

We cant believe how fast the two weeks have flown over. Today has been our last day of the programme and its been a interesting one! Up nice and early to lots of lovely rain, we headed out for the bus to cross roads. Took us about half hour to find our stop but we got there in the end. When we arrived we met with Tanya Zhyla and Denisa Sava, who were both lovely! They talked us through their amazing work that they do for all different types of people at their base. Their base is a walk in for Eu Migrants. They have helped over 1184 people in their years, 25% of this figure being female migrants. We were shocked to hear the range of different nationalities that have migrated to Sweden, people from ... read more

The morning began early setting off a 10 past 9, we went to meet Helena and Thomas who work with Communications and External Relations. They work together in different units dealing with different teams, Thomas explained they all want the same goals and objectives and working together dealing with internal parties to have a better attitude and getting people to work together with better understanding and to also move forward with different projects within their organisation. Thomas spoke about how they work to be transparent and make sure that they give information to anyone who requests it (with the exception of patient information and information regarding national security) and he also mentioned with any information that they give they must give it within 24 hours or at least give a response within that time frame that ... read more

We welcome Peter for his first full day, he brought a new energy to the group and excited to start his week with us and he brought the mild weather with him. We were all quite excited but nervous to present our presentations to the team, Peter introduced the team to the apprentices, the apprentice program and explained the council visions and aims. Ce'nedra was first and explained about her team, then we all took turns afterwards, Abby spoke about her team and how she helps other companies employ apprentices with funding that the council gives them. Then Paige and I spoke about housing solutions, what we do for our team and a little about ourselves - Katie then also spoke about herself and about how she helps with Peter's team. On the Afternoon we had ... read more

We started the day off with a well needed lie in! The group gathered just before 10am at reception and took the usual route to the offices within Gothenburg. As we arrived in the office, we were greeted by a gentleman named ‘Josef Gustafsson’ who began to explain the basics of ‘EU programs and financing’. Some interesting facts about the Vastra Gotaland area which the group took away with them after the session were; · By 2020, the target is to increase employment in the Gothenburg area · Programs and funding uses 1/3 of the EU budget · Less developed regions get awarded proportionally more EU funding than more developed regions, as well as new member states (North East England is classed as "less developed"!) · Budget: 450 million SEK from EU indicator goals · 1299 ... read more