Back to the grindstone

Back to top pace again tomorrow after a few wonderful days in the sun in Malta. First port of call when I am back is the office dealing with some 250 emails over the last 4 days and then Friday in Botkyrka with a number of the management team at the council

Stimulating week

All of us at ICG have been very busy this week with actively working with clients, copy writing & translating brochures and presentations and assisting international communication processes. While working at Hässelbygårdskolan today I had the pleasure of meeting the 4 specialists from Education Leeds who were over here planning the September conference in Leeds between Stockholm, Helsinki and Leeds schools. they had had a successful two days in Stockholm meeting with education leaders and planners and this is just what this project needs- more face to face discussions and I believe it is on the right track now.

Great Morning

I have just spent the morning with Västerås City Council's Environment and Community Planning Manager, Björn Dahlberg. I have known Björn for a number of years and it is always a pleasure to work with him. Björn is a true internationalist and has a very good focus on seeing the city of Västerås as a global city not just a city based in Mälardalen. We spent the morning discussing twin cities, international developments in local government services and how we may learn from and share with each other across borders.

Planning

Monday and its an ICG planning day for 2010. Interestingly it seems like 2010 is a long way away but its just 5 months and we really need to focus stronly on next year. Great news from Stockholm City Council today and that is that the Stockholm, Leeds, Helsinki project meeting in Leeds in September is going ahead as planned and also that some EU project finance has been approved for work within the project. Lets hope these three cities can really move things along now rapidly and extensively in the education field. At ICG we feel very proud to have initiated this project and to have assisted the processes along the way.