Legacy Newsletter Official June 2011

Painting Skills Legacy 2011 was a fantastic success with 10 countries being repre-sented by a total of 35 dele-gates. The three day event was held in Amsterdam between 30th May and 1st June 2011.

Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom all sent team lead-ers with top trainees to en-joy three days of learning new skills, networking and a social events to remember.

Newly elected, UNIEP President, Mr Stuart Seddon said, “This has been a first class event combining work-

shops for young painters to understand painting tech-nologies and meet people from across Europe.

“We are very grateful to AkzoNobel for their very kind and generous sponsor-ship. Without them, Legacy could not have been run and they provided a huge amount of technical sup-port, paint and wood care materials as well as financial sponsorship.”

Top: Finland at the AkzoNobel Aesthetic Center

Left: Denmark spray painting

Fantastic success with 10 countries!

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June 2011 Special points of interest:

Legacy - learning new skills, networking and social events in Amsterdam

10 countries sent teams speaking six languages

35 delegates took part

86% approval rating given by delegates

Kindly sponsored by AkzoNobel

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Delegates give thumbs up to Legacy

The Legacy Project Team asked delegates to complete a detailed survey of what they liked, disliked and how the event could be im-proved. The representatives gave a big thumbs up to the event with a massive 86% approval rating overall.

Paul Marsden, Legacy Project Director said, “This is a great result with an over-whelmingly endorsement of 86% approval. However, we will still be looking at how

we could improve the event for future years, as there is always something that you can improve.

“This is the first time we have run Legacy so it has been a steep learning curve for everyone involved. Per-haps next time we can look at changing some elements of the format for the work-shops but given some teams gave the event 98% ap-proval we can be very proud of the results.”

Learning new skills 2

A year in the planning 2

Batavia School thank you 3

10 countries & 6 languages 3

3 day programme 4

UNIEP & AkzoNobel 5

Testimonials 5

Inside this issue:

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Part of Legacy‟s objectives was to educate and open trainees‟ eyes to new skills and new technologies. Whilst some skills were familiar to young painters the different skills showcased at AkzoNobel‟s Sassenheim cen-tre meant that everyone learnt something new.

Technical Training Consultant, Peter Doyle who put together the workshops with Sassen-heim‟s Thorsten Friedrich, Group leader for Evaluation, Application & Knowledge said, “We had to find mini work-shops that would embrace trainees with different skill lev-els and from many different European countries.”

Four workshops included water borne coatings, wood care, effect wall coatings and spray-ing. Peter said, “It was great to see them learn the differences between waterborne coatings and solvent based applications.

For the UK, solvent based paints are still widely used and preferred, although the VOC levels have been reduced. How-ever, in Scandinavian countries they only use water borne paints, so it was really useful for painters from the UK to both familiarize themselves with water borne paints and talk to other painters across

Europe who prefer to use them.”

UNIEP President, Stuart Sed-don said, “Legacy has brought together painters from across Europe to better understand each other‟s technical skills and learn from one another.”

Below: Germany at the workshops

Legacy - a year of planning

Mr Erik Kruiderink and the rest of the Board agreed to proceed after a presentation on the project. The then Vice President, Stuart Seddon set up a meeting with AkzoNobel to agree the project brief and sponsorship. In September, Paul Marsden put together the project team who started to work out a programme, budget and detailed management sys-tem.

In November, the project team visited Amsterdam to inspect the different venues and over Christmas there was an inten-sive programme of designing, testing and launching a micro-site; www.uniepevents.org which set out the nomination process for teams in local lan-guages.

Petra Broekhuizen-Kraal of Akz oN obe l S a s sen he im worked tirelessly to complete all arrangements of booking the hotel, restaurants, boat tour, Color Experience Center and Aesthetic Center visits.

The final weeks were spent processing applications and dealing with numerous queries right up to the time when the teams arrived at Schipol Air-port!

Left: The Legacy Project Team

UNIEP had wanted to run a skills event some years before but it had not been possible to organise. In April 2010, the UNIEP Board member Markus Straube briefed Paul Marsden who went away and designed a three day event that would include workshops, sight seeing and leaving a „legacy‟ behind by giving a local school a make over.

The 2010 UNIEP President,

Learning new skills for the future

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As Paul Marsden explained, “We wanted to leave behind a permanent legacy for a worthy cause in the community. Too often conferences and events are located in isolation and perhaps fail to connect with the real world. Painting Skills Legacy 2011 wanted to provide a painting „make over‟ to brighten up people‟s lives. Petra Broekhuizen-Kraal of AkzoNobel identified the Bata-via School in the suburbs of Amsterdam that provides a special education for foreign students arriving in The Neth-erlands. With money always difficult for maintenance given the economic conditions, the Headteacher, Janneke Worm-

houdt was thrilled that UNIEP and AkzoNobel approached her to professionally freshen up

the interior with bright colours. The award winning de-sign of the school building proved a challenge to ensure that the areas painted were in accordance with the architect‟s require-ments.

Dr Steve Snaith, EMEA Mar-keting Director of AkzoNobel, “The end result has given the school a real boost and Akzo-Nobel are delighted to have contributed to improving the school learning environment.”

Top: Dr Steve Snaith, AkzoNobel receives thank you cards from Bata-via School

Left: Sweden gives school final finish-ing touch

It was a real challenge for the project team to co-ordinate 10 countries for an event that had never been previously run.

Sophie Seddon said, “We knew from the start that it was going to be tricky at times communi-cating with all our UNIEP As-sociations. In the end, 10 coun-tries applied speaking a total of six different languages - Eng-lish, German, Dutch, Italian, Danish and Finnish (not to forget Swiss-German!).

“We had to translate all the application forms and market-ing brochures, so that we had correct information such as delegates personal details and even clothing sizes for overalls

and gloves.

“We even set up a Google Translate tool on the website www.uniepevents.org so that there was at least a basic trans-lation service for the site.

“Whilst we couldn‟t translate every aspect of the event I think overall everyone had a great time even if English was not their first language.

10 countries and 6 languages!

Batavia School - Thank you so much!

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It was great to hear Europeans coming together and talking to get to know one another better and understand each other‟s countries.”

Below: The proud Italian team!

Boat trip around canals to world famous, 16th cen-tury Five Flies Restaurant.

3 day Programme

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Day 1

Leave hotel by bus to AkzoNobel‟s research centre at Sassenheim. Group split into two for workshops, and visits to the Aesthetic Centre and Color Ex-perience Center.

Presentations with certificates and mementoes to each delegate. Thank you cards from school children to delegates and project team. Return journeys home.

3 hours to give the school a make over with bright new colours in the interior.

Arrival of 10 Teams by plane, car or train.

Welcome and evening meal at Hudson‟s Restaurant at NH Barbizon Palace Hotel, Amsterdam.

Day 2

Day 3

with group from other countries. Boat tour was wonderful.” Finland -Team Leader

“I would not change anything and everything that are done in „Painting Skills Legacy.‟”

Italian Trainee

“Thought the organisation and time keeping was excellent. And every employee working were very

What the delegates said:

“Hope I can come again and do it again, great experience. I enjoyed everything, it was really good painting in the school. I learnt a lot whilst here - big thank you.”

British Trainee

“It was really interesting to prove new materials. I liked to work

friendly and made time for every-one. Maybe a bit longer in the workshops would be better as we didn‟t have much time on some of the work.”

Irish Trainee

“The organisation was very good.”

Swiss Trainee

“I would just like to pass on my congratulations to yourself and your team for an expertly planned and executed event. For myself I thoroughly enjoyed it and I think that the painting of the school was a wonderful touch.” Irish Team Leader

Left: Legacy Teams 2011

Testimonials to Legacy 2011

UNIEP

President:

Mr Stuart Seddon

Head Office:

Jacques de Lalaing 4,

1040 Brussels

BELGIUM

UK Office:

55 Duke Street

Fenton

Stoke-On-Trent

ST4 3NN

UNITED KINGDOM

AkzoNobel

Wexham Road

Slough

SL2 5DS

United Kingdom

Mr Stuart Seddon, President of UNIEP

Websites:

www.uniep.org

www.uniepevents.org

Telephone: +44 (0) 1782 237206

Email: [email protected]

Dr Steve Snaith, EMEA Director of Marketing, AkzoNobel

UNIEP is a trade mark of UNIEP association © UNIEP 2011. AkzoNobel and the AkzoNobel logo are trade marks of the AkzoNobel group © AkzoNobel 2011

Website:

www.akzonobel.com

Telephone: +44 (0) 1753 877466 Email: [email protected]

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