Follow up on important Information email

24.11.08

I've received several e-mails answering the general e-mail sent on Saturday November 22nd

These are my answers to those e-mails.

1. All Mundusfor active students are allowed to participate in the blog. These are instructions in order to subscribe to the blog:

Step 1. Open gmail account if you don't have one

Step 2. Write an e-mail account introducing yourself and asking to subscribe to the blog giving your gmail account.

2. About the scholarship payment issue. I really hope that all the payments will be finally made next Wednesday november 26 as Yasmine said in her e-mail. I've written to Manuel Fernandez and he has apologised. I also commented the situation with other master representative and theytold me this is situation has been common in their courses and one of them explained that the European Union payments arrive late and to solve this problem, the university where he studied made a loan from its own sources to cover the payments of the students while the European Union made the deposits. However, we can see how it is not the case in Granada because the payments were not made on time. I think this is a problem that can not be repeated or if it is going to continue like that students should be notified that they need to bring enough money to survive in Europe for october and november and not telling them to arrive by september unless students themselves consider appropiate to come so long in advance.

Until today Monday dec. 24 Marina Mussini and Giovanni Tapia both doing their first semester in Porto haven't received any payment of the scholarship. Is there anyone else having the same problem?

3. These are the students interested in having the first year certificate (updated on Monday 24 by 14:30 pm)

Deadline to request your certificate via the blog: Tuesday 25 by midnight.

Name - Language of certificate

Raihan Syed -English

Jessica Pei Wen Chong -English

Valdenir Pereira Corales

Andrea Ximena Castaño Sánchez - English and Spanish

Adriana Lenira Fornari de Souza - Portuguese and Spanish

Imane Bakkali - French

Jacinta Opara - English, French and Spanish

Luz Yesenia Moscoso - English and Spanish

Susana Archondo - French and Spanish

Muleka Mwewa - English and Portuguese

Daniela Fernandes -Portuguese and French

Sandra Rosero - French and Spanish

4. As to improve communication among students: since first year students (edition 2008-2010) are not going to meet in the integration seminar in February 2009 that second year students (edition 2007-2009) had in february 2008, I suggest we request a general video conference to have some feedback on the developement of this second year and for old students to share their experiences with first year students. I think we can work on this idea and make it happen if most of us agree. What date would it suit you all? End of January? Please leave your proposals.

5. Evaluation and Pedagogical committe have each on a representative of students. They are Ana Inés Renta and Muleka Mwewa in the same order.

6. Evaluation committee report will be published later in another entry. The pedagogical committe report is still pending.