Dear Max,<br><br><div>following your exchanges on European Bales,for many years, and met in in Belgium some yerars ago, I remember that you are the one who initiated Permalot.</div><div><br></div><div>We here in Holland are approaching summer, and two of our dedicated people would like to visit other eco-villages or similar initiatives in Europe to broaden their scope, and have a change of perspective and horizon.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I wonder if you will be happy to receive Edward and Anne Marie for around 2 weeks, during august . They have no money to spend, but Edward has experience in organising workshops and general management in our Initiative here, besides working for Doctors without borders etc. So they know what to do when work needs to be done.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thank you for considering this ,</div><div><br></div><div>Warm greetings</div><div><br></div><div>Rolf Grooten</div><div>Project Manager Ecodorp Brabant</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/3/25 Max Vittrup Jensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:max@permalot.org" target="_blank">max@permalot.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear all,<br>
<br>
I suppose many of you by now have heard that PermaLot Centre of Natural<br>
Building has the honor of hosting the ESBG11 in Czech Republic: We look<br>
forward to seeing many of you!<br>
<br>
We have much preparation to do, and would appreciate your help in parts<br>
of it: more about this later, but please look at the program we<br>
proposed; it's under events on <a href="http://www.permalot.org" target="_blank">www.permalot.org</a>. We're happy for<br>
suggestions, also perhaps some of you want to offer your help with the<br>
outline program points? (We suggested some names and national<br>
organizations already!?).<br>
<br>
I'm writing you now, as some of you might be interested in coming<br>
teaching our internship next year? -Naturally this would be an immense<br>
help for the preparations of the ESBG11 in end of August 2011...<br>
<br>
Our problem is naturally to make enough money to pay you, however I just<br>
stumbled over this program which can help fund your wage with 3,386 €<br>
for 13 weeks. (+€152 for any following weeks).<br>
<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/education/grundtvig/doc982_en.htm" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/education/grundtvig/doc982_en.htm</a><br>
Disadvantage is that you'll have to apply next week: Deadline is 31st of<br>
March '10, for education projects starting between 1/8-10 until<br>
31/07-11. Please verify with the relevant National Agency whether<br>
additional national requirements exists.<br>
<br>
None-the least: Our internships this year is part of creating/finalizing<br>
the infrastructure for the ESBG, as well as learning loads about<br>
interesting topics. You can read more on <a href="http://www.permalot.org/en/internships" target="_blank">www.permalot.org/en/internships</a><br>
We continue to get extremely positive feedback about our schedule, and<br>
we look forward to May 1st when it starts.<br>
<br>
We can still accept a few more applicants, and I also just noticed this<br>
EU Grundtvig funded scheme for 'Mobility of individuals: "Visits and<br>
exchanges for adult education staff". What I like about it is that all<br>
of the paper work is on you! The deal is that it could some of you gain<br>
funding to come and take part in the second internship: The deadline<br>
varies from different countries; likely 30th of April, for events<br>
lasting starting earliest July 1st. Learn more here:<br>
<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/education/grundtvig/doc980_en.htm" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/education/grundtvig/doc980_en.htm</a><br>
<br>
Naturally, all of the above information can be used to support many<br>
other strawbale projects in many other countries; Hope you'll appreciate<br>
the inspiration? -It may also help you gain personal funding to attend<br>
the ESBG11 ;o)<br>
<br>
Sincerely yours,<br>
Max Vittrup Jensen<br>
Director, PermaLot Centre of Natural Building -<a href="http://www.permalot.org" target="_blank">www.permalot.org</a><br>
Director, Marketing and Events, Natural Building Network - <a href="http://www.nbnetwork.org" target="_blank">www.nbnetwork.org</a><br>
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