Source: https://www.fimem-freinet.org/en/node/2478
Timestamp: 2019-04-23 00:28:03+00:00

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The work took place at ICEM’s Secretary in Nantes. Nathalie and Sarah, the two secretaries, are there during all the work. A place for work and a kitchen was reserved for us. We thank them for their availability, their generosity and their kindness.
The lunches are delivered to us and we organize ourselves for dinners at night.
We are very graceful to each one of them.
Meeting started with a round table which allowed everyone to talk about him/her, his/her situation and his/her work.
After that, we agreed on the schedule to be adopted through the meeting. We started with the planning of the first day.
In terms of the statutes, the following articles were discussed: # 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Article 9: all expenses must be authorized by the Board.
Articles 11 to 15 will be worked on our next CA.
The following items will be discussed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
Art. 2 Back on the article to see if the creation of several movements in one country would not be a problem. We will discuss about CAMEM and AMERICA RED later.
Art. 3: Review the categorization of countries.
Art. 4: presence AG, annual report, candidate selection’s criteria and process for presenting a candidate.
Art. 5: specify the work contract and effective pedagogy more clearly.
Art. 9: Must have activity report before elections and votes.
Art. 11: review how to count the votes and the veto’s problem.
Art. 16: review section about solidarity.
Finally, we made the evaluation of the day.
Rapport on the organization RIDEF 2016 Benin, presented by Eduard.
Lot of questions and many proposals.
RIDEF 2018 in Sweden- A brief report on the organization was presented by Mia.
RIDEF 2020 in Quebec. A brief overview of the organization is presented by Mariel.
Sylviane makes Skype meeting reports and send site to each for approval. After, she puts them on the website(internal and public information).
The Skype meetings must be on identified needs.
· Put some order in the messages that are sent.
· stabilize the agenda because there is often proposals that never end.
· Best definition of the task.
· priorities : the first one must be : communicate and mobilise movements.
· When proposals are made, we must pick up all the proposals and make a final document. It is proposed to always work from a draft.
The president talks about difficulties with languages. On account of this, it is difficult for her to synthesize. This problem has to be analyzed by the Board.
The president was indignant for the behaviour of Walter, a German who has resigned without any official letter.
She acknowledged a weakness in fulfilling her roles. It is important that tasks are well defined. Note that in the present CA, the communication has duly circulated.
Problems to recognize: the inactivity of the movements.
Edward did the reports of meetings, email archiving. He is responsible for coordinating the RIDEF 2016 in Benin, holds a chrono-mail of all mails entering or out going.
Giancarlo handles the communication with Latin America, with Red America, with Lebanon, Palestine and Japan, he manages lists of movements and philosophical space. He promotes the rights of children with Jean Le Gal. He assists the preparation of the RIDEF of Benin.
b) emails (always keep the same title for posts, one topic by email if possible, answer all the mails we receive, answer to all questions, always write in French and English, for translation, help yourself with google translation… not perfect but good enough. All e-mails must be answered within 72 hours.
c) Skype meetings (send the agenda and relevant documents before the meeting, prepare presentation our points). Two Skype meetings are already scheduled.
Remind regulation plans to replace a board member if he/she cannot provide the intended work. In this case, the member will receive three monthly reminders. After these reminders, the member is replaced. This will be added to FIMEM intern rules .
Our meetings goes better since we use Skype.
The languages ​​that are available for translation at the RIDEF are French, English, and the language of the host if it’s different. We will try to practice that in Bénin. For the website, we must translate in every languages that are mentioned.
April, 29 and May, the 19.
d)The long-term calendar of Board activities is developed by Mariel and it needs to be regularly updated by each member of the Board.
The 2012-2014 guidelines are reviewed (suggestion, not obligation).
A-The categorization of countries are now out dated because of changes in living standards. We must therefore review the annual dues and registration fees for RIDEF upwards to regulating and following a new division of the country. Mariel is delegated to make propositions.
B- Cooperative organization of RIDEF 2016, 2018 and 2020. This is reserved for the meeting of Bénin.
F-FIMEM memory to organize with Friends of FREINET and researchers. Make a catalogue of documents so that every FIMEM’s member may access; keep official paper documents ,any useful document must be filed on the site in the part reserved for the CA. Sylviane is responsible of that.
G-Encourage the movements to defend knowledge as a common ressource. Giancarlo will propose a basic text to be sent to each movement.
H-Strengthening relations with the movements and continue to ask them to send their activity reports to the Board(or put on the website) to share it with everyone. This point is already set with the distribution of contacts with the movements for each member of the Board and with the letter that Mia will send to the movement to recall the shipment activity reports .These reports must meet some criteria demanded by the BD.
I-Ask movements what instruments they use to improve and defend our pedagogy.
J-Working for the new generations of teachers entering in our movements. Create a foundation that would give the possibility to young teachers to participate to a RIDEF.
Instead of talking about a foundation, we will consider solidarity to bring young teachers to RIDEF.
There is a Swedish who offered to translate the book "Popular education" in English if we can pay for this job . Sylviane is designated to contact Freinet Friends to inquire if there is already a translation of this book.
It is proposed that the FIMEM publishes a brochure that talks about a key activity conducted within movements. Mia is designated to send correspondence to the movements to discuss their project and request to send articles. The movement’s leaders are responsible for monitoring the work at their level.
Explanation of drop box .Every member is on drop box now.
The « C « countries will have a substantial increase in their contributions to breathe countries « A »who contribute a lot so far. We will determine them by the IHD scale instead of OCDE classification.
This report is given by Giancarlo. He explain all the inputs and expenses by category. The MCE gave 10 percent of the inscriptions, 5025€forsolidarity and he repaid the loan to FIMEM. Accounts are approved by the Board. The MCE has been congratulated for his good financial holding.
A part of the books on children’srights are entrusted to the Freinet’s Friends for sale : 4 euros /book will return to the Board for each sale. The rest of the books will be sold by MCE and they will keep the recipes.
Fimem’s budget presented by Perdrial.
Those who have not paid a part of their inscriptions in Reggio (40€) won’t receive solidarity for next Ridef.
During the RIDEF in Bénin, we propose to look for an African personality who promote our pedagogy during his professionnal life.
Benaiges foundation The Board propose 1000 euros to be sent to Benaiges for 2015 and 2016. As weask, Pilar accepted to represent the FIMEM for the ceremony in Spain.
Have proceed at the evaluation of the journey and the whole meeting. Everyone felt satisfied with the work we done and the atmosphere that prevailed throughout the meeting. We’re also conscious of all points that we must pursue.
Next meeting is likely planned in March 2016 in a country to be determined.

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