2009-05-04

4. MicroSupport and Grupo Chicomo in Mocambique

From the 21:th of April to the 4:th of May 2009, staff from MicroSupport and from Grupo Chicomo met and planned together for the future. This work was an activity in the project, with a limited start and stop date.

The results were:
1. A big number of specified part goals and activities, formulated in a way, so that their fullfillment indicates the future progress of the project.
2. A better overview of the local situation
3. A better understanding between the two cooperating companies.

FROM SWEDEN TO MOCAMBIQUE

Monday 20 of April 2009
Leaving Arlanda in the evening.

Tuesday 30 of April 2009
Arriving at Maputo

5 DAYS IN MAPUTO

Wednesday 22 of April 2009:
09.00 meeting Gilberto Antonio Botas at The Ministry of Education.
Summary of discussion after the visit
Summary of the Project Description
About final report to Nutek
14.00 meeting with Alberto Eugénio Banze at Instituto Industrial

Thursday 23 of April 2009
09.15 Meeting with Edgar about the Execution plan.
14.00 Meeting with staff at Industrial Institute

Friday 24 of April 2009
09.00 Meeting with Edgar, further discussions about the execution plan
12.00 Visit to UPE central administration in central town and the institution in Jangeni, the teachers university, where Prof. D. Urânio (Mobile nr 82-3818430) is working with pedagogic training in the area electronic/electricity. He has earlier been presented to the production instructions in portuguese developed by MicroSupport, He was not present personally at the time, but we have possibilities to meet him later on. At the same part of the university are running to projects about distance learning as well, one governmental and one dutch.

Saturday 25 of April 2009
13.00 lunch visit at Manuel & Feodosia Ferrão, Rua Vladimir Lenin 3036 in Bairro Coop, Maputo.

Sunday 26 of April 2009

12.00 Mussa Suale, 828648840 (826006194) was contacted after half a year without any contact. I informed him that we will be in Beira from around 12.30 tomorrow. We decided that we will meet in Beira tomorrow after 16.00, he, I, D.G. Glenn Johansson and Sales Manager for MicroSupport L-E Rådemo. Sr Mussa is available all the afternoon and evening for us.

12.30 Edgar Baloy was contacted about the plans to go to Beira tomorrow on monday and to visit the Training institution adjacent to Mozal, the aluminium factory.
We got an SMS from Mr Baloi yesterday: ”Unfortuntely I will not be able to go because I have a presentation to do on monday afternoon in Maputo and another on thursday morning in Johannesburg”. Since both of the places are possible production partners it is important for Mr. Baloi to visit and have a good contact with these institutions, if he wants to be the business coordinator for MicroSupport, but it is not necessary to do the visits togehter with us from MicroSupport in Sweden as initially planned.

3 DAYS IN BEIRA

Monday 27 of April 2009
To Beira.
Meeting with the Director of the Industrial Institute in Beira, Maria Bernadete Cipriano and the Directors for the departments of electricity and electronics Mussa Suale.

Tuesday 28 of April 2009
Study visit at the brewery in Beira, CDM.
Summing up meeting with the Director of the Industrial Institute
”After work” meeting

Wednesday 29 of April 2009
Final contact with the responsible for the department of electronics.
Back to Maputo.

4 MORE DAYS IN MAPUTO

Thursday 30 of April 2009
To Instituto Industrial e Comercial Armando Emilio Guebuza, the training institution founded by Mozal, the aluminium factory in Matola and equipped with teachers by the Ministry of Education.
Passing by the teachers training institution for the Matola Indutrial Training Centre, called Instituto Superior Dom Busco
Guide Alexandre at Grupo Chicomo.

Friday 1 of May 2009
Meeting with Edgar Baloi 10.00. Steering document overhanded to Edgar. Edgar promised to add some more detailes to his initial Executive Summary.

Dinner 20.00 with more discussions.

The role of the Ministry of Education was discussed, that will say which help we want from the ministry. The most important is to get help with the introduction of certification of electricians. Another thing is help to cooperate with the Pirep project and the teachers training at Instituto Superior Dom Busco, which train teachers for work at Instituto Industrial e Comercial Armando Emilio Guebuza. A third thing is to give a word for cooperation with existing e-learning projects at UP, the pedagogic university and the network for IT-introduction in Mocabique which have centers at all places in the country where there are technical instiutes.

The roles of the three contacted Industrial Institutes was also discussed. Edgar proposed that the now actual assembling work will be divided into three parts. In this way we can receive the best feedback on the production instructions. We need more feedback on the digital version. In the future it was also discussed that it is possible to specialize cooperation with the institutes, for example certification and close industry cooperation at Instituto Industrial e Comercial Armando Emilio Guebuza in Matola, development of training material, new products and laboratory cards, distance supervision and qualty control via Internet at the Industria Institute in Beira and incorporation of assembling work and maintenance in the pratic exprience period for the students at the Industrial Instiute in Maputo under supervision of teachers there, might be as a part of self employment training: To educate people to start their own companies and use their skills as self employed entrepreneurs.

An Internet communicy for cooperation between all the technical institutes in Mocambique could be created as well, in collaboration with the governmental effort to introduce the use of Internet all over the country. Students could be given access to the local IT-centers already existing, if there is not enough possibilities at their schools.

Saturday 2 of May 2009
Internal discussion. Updating of working documents.

Sunday 3 of May 2009

FROM MOCAMBIQUE TO SWEDEN

Monday 4 of May 2009
Departure from Mocambique

Tuesday 5 of April 2009
Arrival in Sweden

1 comment:

  1. This period was very god with many new contacts. It was also very efficient education during this period. We have done education for many people in a short period.
    We need to put everything in calender with what we did and wich people was involved.

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