This week, the final preparations from at home are taking place. Apart from obvious things (packing!), these were: Our last pre-work call, last exchange with our client, last call with our subteam of three colleagues, and a couple of things more.
Time to talk a bit about our task in the Social Sabbatical!
Twelve colleagues will meet in Buenos Aires to work in four teams of three persons each. Four different clients have been allocated who all work in the area of education. Each of them has defined an individual scope of work on which the respective subteam will work with them during our four weeks in Buenos Aires. The teams were assigned according to their skills.
This is my team: Janice Leong from Singapore and Rob Glickman from the USA will work together with me. After our first calls and messages on WhatsApp, I am really looking forward to working with these two! Both have also already started blogging, see the section with links to blogs on the right.
After these long preliminaries, it's time to introduce our client: Puerta 18!
What Puerta 18 does: This non-profit organization "provides a free informal, technological, and high-quality education system for young people ages 13 to 24 with the aim of improving their future" (this quotes their mission statement that we received with our first information about the client).
Their goal - and hence our scope of work: Work on a model on how to replicate Puerta 18's model and thus create a concept on how to open new locations with this concept and thus enable more young people to learn and grow.
Our first contact with Puerta 18 happened through individual Skype calls with Federico, who is director at Puerta 18. Our first personal meeting will take place next Monday, April 4, during our kick-off meeting at SAP Argentina. During the following days, we will also visit Puerta 18 and other organizations with whom Puerta 18 interacts. I know I am repeating myself: I am looking forward to all this and starting the collaboration with Puerta 18!
For you as readers of this blog, this means that you can expect first impressions from Argentina (and first photos, too!) as of next Saturday, and more details on the work with Puerta 18 as of Monday...
Time to talk a bit about our task in the Social Sabbatical!
Twelve colleagues will meet in Buenos Aires to work in four teams of three persons each. Four different clients have been allocated who all work in the area of education. Each of them has defined an individual scope of work on which the respective subteam will work with them during our four weeks in Buenos Aires. The teams were assigned according to their skills.
This is my team: Janice Leong from Singapore and Rob Glickman from the USA will work together with me. After our first calls and messages on WhatsApp, I am really looking forward to working with these two! Both have also already started blogging, see the section with links to blogs on the right.
After these long preliminaries, it's time to introduce our client: Puerta 18!
What Puerta 18 does: This non-profit organization "provides a free informal, technological, and high-quality education system for young people ages 13 to 24 with the aim of improving their future" (this quotes their mission statement that we received with our first information about the client).
Their goal - and hence our scope of work: Work on a model on how to replicate Puerta 18's model and thus create a concept on how to open new locations with this concept and thus enable more young people to learn and grow.
Our first contact with Puerta 18 happened through individual Skype calls with Federico, who is director at Puerta 18. Our first personal meeting will take place next Monday, April 4, during our kick-off meeting at SAP Argentina. During the following days, we will also visit Puerta 18 and other organizations with whom Puerta 18 interacts. I know I am repeating myself: I am looking forward to all this and starting the collaboration with Puerta 18!
For you as readers of this blog, this means that you can expect first impressions from Argentina (and first photos, too!) as of next Saturday, and more details on the work with Puerta 18 as of Monday...
