Scope of Work (SOW) not clear enough yet!

Today it was a very productive day and we finally managed to found out what the Business incubator means for IFCE. It is a program for all current and former students of IFCE developed to help them start up their business, increase the level of their business to the higher level. The current incubator model in Fortaleza consists of these stages:

• Pre incubation
• Incubation of the company
• Association of the company
• Developed company

The company may apply for incubation at any of those stages. Last application period was in 2009. 12 companies were selected and till that time all of those companies are incubated.

Originally, our goal was to evaluate the incubator implemented in Fortaleza and create the model of the incubator in other campuses of IFCE across the Ceara. IFCE already started with this project 6 months ago. We have to find out the what is the current status and adjust the SOW slightly, therefore there as a meeting scheduled on Thursday with the project coordinator.

The people at IFCE are were helpful, translator is doing his best but still there is a communication barrier. At least, we're learning Portuguese very quickly. Tchau! 

Me and Christine with our IFCE colleagues. From the right side: Anderson, Vinicius and another Anderson :)

Me at the IFCE chemical laboratory performing water purification process.

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