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The Polish visitors worked along side some of EBC's business partners to further develop their skills in delivering enterprise education 'EBC style' before returning to their homeland to put their learning into practice. The project was highlighted in the national Way2Go magazine. To read the article click here
During their stay EBC also lined up a number of visits to projects across the city in the hope that these new Polish-North East partnerships can be forged. Read our press release by clicking here. To see our photo album of the international speed networking partnership event click here. Funders support visitors work with young people
They were also honoured with a civic reception, hosted by the Mayor of Sunderland Coun. Mary Smith. To see our photo album of the civic reception click here.
It was held at Houghton Sports Hall thanks to funding from the city's Coalfields Area Committee and its Strategic Initiatives Budget (SIB).
To see our Welcome to the World of Work event photo album click here. Year 8 pupils from Pennywell's Academy 360 took part in a Skills for Work event in South Hylton Tansy Centre, thanks to funding from the city's West Area Committee, again through SIB funding.  Year 5 and 6  pupils from Plains Farm Primary School developed their entrepreneurial and employability skills at a special Enterprise Day thanks to funding from one EBC's strategic partners, Tyne and Wear Education Business Partnership (TWEBLO).
EBC is member of this key sub regional consortia and TWEBLO also fundied additional educational support throughout the week. A month later the he Polish 'trainees' delivered five enterprise activity days in their own schools and youth groups in Gdansk. Poland, based on EBC's model. Barbara then travelled to Poland again to carry out an evaluation of the project with the RC Foundation and participants. The organisers of the pilot project - funded by the European Union hope that it could be rolled out across Poland's Pomorski region. The project was organised by the Gdansk-based RC Foundation - the Regionalne Centrum Informacji i Wspomagania Organizacji Pozarzadowych. The Foundation is a Regional Infomation and Support Centre for non-governmental organisations serving the Pomorski region of Poland. Potential Polish Partnerships
On a national level, together with over a dozen organisations, the Foundation created the 'Net for Support' of NGOs* called SPLOT, implementing many projects both in Poland and abroad. The RC Foundation's supports NGOs* and social leaders in building civic society through information, advice and training as well initiating partnerships to solve social problems through local development. * WEB EDITOR'S NOTE: NGO stands for Non-governmental organisations - the term used in Poland for the third sector. In Poland there are three key sectors:
If you're interested in finding out more about the projects you can see the presentations they've put together, visit their websites, or email them by clicking the links below.
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They also took part in a Strategic International Partnership Speed Networking event which EBC hopes will help its Polish partners find similar organisations in the city and beyond to 
work to develop transnational links - hopefully funded through the European Union. 
The Polish visitors worked with EBC's business partners at three events delivered to local schools during the week. 
These were made possible thanks to funding support from Sunderland City Council's West Area and Coalfields Committees and Tyne and Wear Education Business Links Organisation (TWEBLO). 
Year 9 pupils from Houghton Kepier benefitted from taking part in a 
