Home This is the homepage. Latest PostsEthel Vento Zahra & Yvette ZahraAugust 23, 2018Business ProfilesWe are Ethel Vento Zahra and Yvette Zahra and we have been running Xarolla Dental Clinic in Zurrieq since 2003. We are sisters who both graduated as Dental Surgeons from the University of Malta in 2003. We then decided to open up a practice together as partners. We initially rented out a small clinic and worked in private practice only part time and worked full time in the public service. We eventually employed two like-minded individuals as associates and started operating our clinic on a full time basis between us and this led to us eventually deciding that we needed to expand. This ended up being a massive project which took a while to reach fruition, since the premises we identified for this purpose needed gutting and complete restructuring to match our vision. It also did not help that the timing was quite particular, as one of us had just given birth and the other one was expecting her first child. We eventually reached our aim and we moved to our new premises in early 2014. We are both mothers who like to dedicate time to their children, we both like to travel and we also have a number of other interests and challenges in our lives, so getting here has not been an easy feat, but we are happy to have set up a great team of dentists and dental assistants. The members of our team all strive to keep up to date with new developments in our field by attending courses and conferences both locally and abroad and some of our team members also have or are reading for post graduate degrees in different fields. Our aim is to provide quality, caring dental services within a beautiful, relaxing environment using the latest technology. https://www.facebook.com/xarolladentalclinic/ Contact number: 21641741, 99492415, 79407454... Start Up Kick off in RomeFebruary 1, 2013BlogKerry Freeman and Giuseppina Nardo’ were in Rome to attend the kick off meeting for Start Up which is an EU funded project under the Life Long Learning Programme. The project is led by SOPHia In Action Consulting from Italy, with consortium made up of partners from Austria, Spain, Malta and England. The project aims at developing and analysing an innovative pedagogy and assessment approach , based on Open Education Resources to support the diverse individual learning pathways and to better assess all types of learning outcomes and future learning needs related to entrepreneurship competences. The main project objective is the setting up of an innovative method for evaluating individual users learning needs to develop entrepreneurship, providing effective resources and setting up a peer review and sharing community to ensure the quality of the contents Entrepreneurship is considered by the European Commission a very important key competence, especially in these times of economic downturns. From a practical point of view, it is a multilingual online environment where the individual learning needs of users meet selected and specifically contents, learning objects, collected from the available Open Education Resources repositories in an easy, effective and quick way. For more information about this project you are invited to contact Kerry Freeman on kerry@nullwomen.org.mt... Be(coming) European – BeE Kick off in Lahr, GermanyFebruary 1, 2013BlogRuth and Maryrose travelled to snow laden Lahr, Germany to attend the Be(coming) European, a Grundtvig Multilateral project, Funded under the Life Long Learning programme. The BeE consortium is made up of 8 European Partners from Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Austria, Belgium and Malta. Be(coming) European wants to develop a comprehensive concept of basic education in the European Union based on a method that allows a flexible adaptation to individual conditions, i.e. adaptable to specific target groups, socio-cultural backfrounds and conditions of education institutions. This two-year project will be conducted in three phases: Analysis of the problems of a comprehensive and flexible concept of basic education with a European perspective. Meaning that cultural, political, economic and technological dimensions are not only add-ons but also as fields of application for basic literacy or numeracy but particularly for learning competences. Elaboration of a comprehensive concept of basic education. This will be done on a general competence level not on a content level, so that it can be applied in different educational contexts. Implementation of the concept into the educational work of the project partners. For further information on the BeE project, please contact Ruth Gatt on ruth@nullwomen.org.mt... Under My Wing Kick off Meeting in DublinFebruary 1, 2013BlogMaryrose attended the Under My Wing Kick off meeting which was held in the beautiful surrounding of Trim Castle in Co. Meath. “Under My Wing – Supporting Graduate Entrepreneurship” is an EU Funded project under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme – Development of Innovation and represents a new innovation that aims to support the career progression of graduates from non-business related disciplines as entrepreneurs. The project is being led by Meath Partnership in Ireland and the consortium includes partners in Malta, Cyprus, Germany, Spain, Lithuania and Finland. UMW will offer a flexible and adaptable business immersion programmed placing graduates in vibrant micro-enterprises where they can witness first-hand the diversity of skills necessary to run and manage a business whilst simultaneously developing their own business idea. Anyone who is interested in taking part of this project please contact Maryrose Francica on maryrose@nullwomen.org.mt. More information could be viewed on the project’s website: www.undermywing.eu... Women’s Media in the Euromed Final meeting in MarseilleFebruary 1, 2013BlogMaryrose Francica and Kerry Freeman attended the final meeting to wrap up our EuropeAid project entitled “Women’s media in the Euromed” (WME). The meeting took place in the beautiful city of Marseille in France. The meeting involved all partners – GRAIF (France), SAFADI Foundation (Lebanon), IRIS – Provincia di Pescara (Italy) and of course our Foundation with discussions on the finalization of the project activities, reporting and sustainability issues. The Mediter Communcation Agency (MCA) – an important result from the project, since it will be the vehicle with which the girls that have participated in WME will continue working together, has already been constituted. All the partners agreed to having a proper strategy aimed at the continuous development of the Agency itself which will continue even after the projects’ lifetime. Thus, the partnership has decided to discuss this aspect in a few months in a future workshop after the end of the project....
