1.2 Budapest Congress Updates
1.2.1 Dare to Share Meetings
1.2.2 Photos from Susan Vonsild
1.2.3 Financial sponsorship & resourcing
1.2.1 Dare to Share Meetings
Dare to share!!
When? Friday and Saturday Nov. 7th – 8th 2003
Where? in Holland—Amsterdam, the Hague, Utrecht .
Why? To learn from each other, to share our experience, to get to know one another better, to make the network we began weaving in Budapest stronger, to have fun!
What will we do? On Friday afternoon we will go to the Hague and visit the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor Market for a presentation on the situation of ethnic minorities in Holland by one of the staff members there. Afterwards we will visit the city and enjoy a delicious traditional rijsttafel together.
On Saturday we will spend the day at Bella’s office (Sovov, Wijk bij Duurstede) a beautiful small Dutch village near Utrecht. There we will each have the opportunity to do a presentation of our competence and knowledge. We will be able to discuss issues that are important to us. After a lunch break we can visit some of the monuments in Wijk bij Duurstede. In the afternoon we can plan how we will contribute to the Berlin conference next year. Saturday night is for socializing, doing Amsterdam by night or whatever.
How will we meet? Bella and Katy will be at the restaurant of the central railway station in Amsterdam to greet you between 11:00 and 12:00 on Friday. Then Bella will escort us to the Hague. The presentation will start at 13:30 hours.
Where will we stay? Bella has found some nice and reasonable (between 40-50 Euros) hotels in Amsterdam. You can see them on the web and book. Please note that you are responsible for your own hotel reservation! (I have just made mine at the Hotel Asterisk and would love some company J)
Hotel Old Quarter (www.oldquarter.nl)
Hotel Asterisk ( www.asteriskhotel.nl)
Hotel Art Gallery ( www.artgallery-hotel.nl)
Hotel Plantage (www.hotelplantage.nl)

What do we have to do to come? Just let us know by Friday October 24th (preferably sooner!) if you are coming and prepare a short (say half an hour) presentation of your own for Saturday. It would be great if you could let us know the title of your presentation so we can put it in an agenda.

We are very excited that we are actually making this happen and hope you all can make it! Look forward to seeing you soon.
Katy Nicholsonkaty.nicholson@gothnet.nu tel. +46 31 404706
Bella van der Linden bvlinden@sovov.nl +31 343 579080
    
    
1.2.2 Photos from Susan Vonsild
A Second Budapest Photo Album
Susan Vonsild, long standing SIETAR Europa member of Interlink (Denmark), has provided us with a second set of about 80 photographs of our activities at the Budapest Congress.
Susan has a great eye for action and her photos catch the energy and enthusiasm, as well as highlight the process of the open space technology that we used.
There are in particular some great pictures of the on-stage skits we presented in our teams toward the end of the program as we tried to project our efforts into an imaginary and often humorous future.
We have stored them on the MSN network for easy access. Click here to see enjoy this second photo album by Susan.
If you have not yet seen the original set of photos from the Congress, they are still posted on the SE website in the first photo album.
1.2.3 Financial sponsorship & resourcing
Sharing & Contributing to SIETAR & its Members

In Budapest, we agreed that SIETAR and its members need to recognise a responsibility and take action to enable the involvement of students and interculturalists from less economically advantaged countries to increase attendance diversity in our organizations and meetings and to enable the founding of new SIETARs in developing areas.
This working group recommends the following:
For Berlin 2004, can we...?
  • Add a check box on membership renewal form to show sponsorship of another membership for a student.
  • Add Tick Box on congress registration form as above
  • Establish sponsorship fund to pool money from those who can not sponsor someone 100%(+Fund Committee) in collaboration with Young SIETAR Committee.
  • Announce this fund on SIETAR web site.
  • Agree sponsorship application criteria and output.
  • Devise partial assistance programme.
  • Support the mentoring programme of Young SIETAR

What else can we do?
  • Encourage an exchange between young and experienced interculturalists.
  • Seek out information and follow up on corporate funding possibilities?
  • Create internship opportunities and programmes. Start even on an ad hoc basis by inviting students to observe your work or programmes in exchange for research duties.
  • Invite pre/post workshop presenters at meetings and congresses to donate all or part of their fee to the sponsorship fund.

Some telling comparisons
SIETAR membership fees are usually less than 10% of the average intercultural consultant's daily rate in Western Europe. Attending the Congress will cost most of us less than 2 days work, while, for example, an average student in Poland may live on 150€00 a month. Yet the future of our profession depends on this diversity in its practitioners.
Join us in finding creative solutions to offer the opportunities of SIETAR to those who are struggling to afford them. If you have time, energy or resources for this project, please contact Muna Alyusuf. (Cendant Mobility, UK) or log on to our discussion area at http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Sietareuropafund/.                             
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