1. PARTNER VIEWS AT THE START OF TULIP TULIP evaluator Kari Seppälä Tallin 6.11.2008

2. 18.10.2015 TULIP partner answers to the 1st evaluation questionnaire  Idea: to make the partners conscious of their motivations, aims, resources, options and practices in TULIP  2nd enquiry with mostly the same questions in autumn 2009  The evaluator will make good use of the information in the interim and final reports.  16 responses from 13 partner institutions, each institution covered  Everyone answered to almost all of the questions.  The collection of answers is a wide and versatile source of ideas and tools for the implementation of the project.

3. 18.10.2015  Why did you join the TULIP project?  How do you plan to benefit from the TULIP project professionally?

4. 18.10.2015 Partner motivations & benefits  Adding an activity that was lacking vs. further developing the activities  Responsibilities, eg. supporting members, answering learning needs  Not many chances for European cooperation  Personal & institutional motivations  Cooperation and contacts  Case examples and ideas  Methods and models  Careers and markets  Lifelong learning  APEL & RPL

5. 18.10.2015  What do you plan to learn in the TULIP project?

6. 18.10.2015 Things to learn  Trade union – university partnership: philosophy, principles, models, managing, practices  Partnerships in their social contexts  LLL in TU/HEI partnerships  HEIs > TUs/ TUs > HEIs  European agenda into national discussion  Solutions and practices in other countries for development in home country  TULIP as an opportunity to learn at home  Personal professional interests (international project work)

7. 18.10.2015  How do you plan to learn in the TULIP project?

8. 18.10.2015 Ways of learning  Exchange of experience  Collaboration of colleagues and confrontation of approaches  From mistakes  Testing ideas  Piloting models  Proposing projects  Meeting local trade unions activists  Through dissemination

9. 18.10.2015  What is your special expertise that the TULIP project and partners can benefit from?

10. 18.10.2015 Partner expertise Project key content  Trade Unions (women’s networks, excluded)  (University) lifelong learning (SMEs, in- house training)  Cooperation between TUs and HEIs Special expertise  Quality assurance  Financial expertise  Structural and policy issues  Law and human resources  Familiarity with national context

11. 18.10.2015  What are your key networks that you plan to make use of in the TULIP project?

12. 18.10.2015 Key networks  Trade unions at all levels  Academic and lifelong learning networks  Entrepreneurs’ Associations, Chamber of Commerce, agencies of regional and economic development as well as EU issues  European networks of trade unions and universities  European projects

13. 18.10.2015  Are you involved in other projects (in your institution, national or international) that could support TULIP?

14. 18.10.2015 Relevant project activities  Everyday work  In-company training projects  Management development programmes  Many national initiatives  European projects:  Quality  LLL  Accreditation  Volunteering  Work in Europe  Workers’ participation

15. 18.10.2015  What are the activities or features of your institution that you want to develop with the help of the TULIP project?

16. 18.10.2015 TULIP for the institutions  Knowledge, contacts, relations, collaboration, networks  Quality culture  APEL  LLL  Provision, programs, award  Internal structures  Support to ’underrepresented’

17. 18.10.2015  How do you plan to make use of the results of the TULIP project in your university/trade union?

18. 18.10.2015 Making use of the results Practices  Reports, monograph  MA student thesis  Workshops, forums  > project development  > research Situation  Starting - continuing In the HEI / TU  Projects and policies Nationally  Political agenda  Lobbying

19. 18.10.2015  How do you plan to use TULIP as a tool for staff development?  How do you plan to involve colleagues in your university/trade union into the TULIP project?

20. 18.10.2015 Staff development & involving staff Staff development  Materials available  Being available  Conference  Programs  Study cases  Personal learning  Involving staff Involving staff  Information, materials  Discussion, meetings  Search of references and experts  Teacher training and other delivery  MA student  New projects

21. 18.10.2015  How do you plan to involve colleagues in the partner institution (trade union/university)?  What are the concrete links outside the university/trade union that you want to strengthen with the support of TULIP?

22. 18.10.2015 Involving networks Concrete links  TULIP partners  TU’s > HEI’s  Colleagues and institutions in HEIs  Volunteer and employer organizations  Work councils  Kooperationsstellen Involving external people  Materials and meetings  Common plans and strategies  Supporting key colleagues in network  Partnerships – snow ball principle

23. 18.10.2015  How do you plan to promote discussion on trade union - university cooperation

24. 18.10.2015 Promoting discussion  Institutional - project- national – European  Finding what was already done  Expert addresses  ”Open doors” for discussion during University Days  Lay member briefings  While lobbying  Via learning structures  Senate bureau meetings  Through supporters  ”vanguard”

25. 18.10.2015  How do you plan to disseminate the products of the TULIP project?

26. 18.10.2015 Dissemination  Institutional, national, European  Dissemination plan  Website, leaflets, articles, monograph, HEI newspaper  Conferences, round tables, presentations, seminars, project fairs  Develop own services  Integrate the project results into activities  Other & new projects  Into policy  Replenishment of the TULIP Web site

27. 18.10.2015  How do you plan to continue the cooperation between the universities and the trade unions after the TULIP project?  How could the TULIP project continue its work?

28. 18.10.2015 Life after TULIP TULIP after TULIP  ”Depends on the results we get”  Cooperation with or without a project  Specific questions  Expanding network  TULIP website  “We hope that this will be the start of a long and fruitful relationship.” Future in general  TULIP > everyday work  Courses and programs  Methods and tools  Research work  New structures in HEI  Strong support for trade unions  Widening networks  Grow international!

29. 18.10.2015 My appraisal and suggestions  Clear motivations  Ambitious learning objectives  More thinking to concretize the benefit for the organization  Versatile learning methods  Relevant expertise and networks  Promising ideas for involving staff and staff development  More thinking to the involvement of the partner institution and promoting discussion  Already elements for dissemination and life after TULIP

30. 18.10.2015 GO AHEAD AND ENJOY THE GREAT POTENTIAL OF TULIP! Thank you