Autumn is here with wonderful colours, early mornings of scraping ice off the car windows and heavy wind during the night. I want to sit down with some hot chocolate and get going on my always-increasing pile of “books I want to read” but so far this is not happening. Until the end of October my agenda is full of EU proposals that has to be written and two trips abroad. In two weeks time I’m off to Scotland to see how they work with youth in exclusion and the week after I will be in Brussels. Just to be a real jet setter I will go to the Netherlands for the weekend in between. The kids have a week off and will visit grandparents and friends and I will join them for a short time, as will Jochem who is flying in from Italy. Looking at our family timetable at the moment one can only conclude that it’s a bit out of the ordinary right now. In November I will do as little as possible! Well, accept for the 18th.
On the 18th of November I will be at the EU Ministerial eGovernment Meeting in Malmö and receive a price for best marketing idea in a competition held by the European Social Fund (ESF). The price will be handed over by Mats Odell, Minister for Local Government and Financial Markets in Sweden. Actually this is all I know about it. The ESF called me up yeasterday to tell me I had won first price and informed me to book this date and I was so stunned that I didn’t ask any more questions. Guess I will find out more in due time.
But right now, my head is into competence development of caretakers, writing about drop-out prevention strategies, creating a program for vocational training and continuing our work on attracting dutch people and businessess to Ulricehamn.
November is still very far away and its time to tuck the kids in! Take care everyone!
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