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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1st day at the client's location

Finally, the first day at the client's location. Very impressive how IFCE (The Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará) works. IFCE is public academic institution but it's not just the school or university. It is a educational and social institution offering a variety of bachelor’s and master’s degree programs. In the Students spend the all day at the institute, attending the lessons, there are lots of sport activities including inside and outside pool, there is also food for them and social activities as well as arts (theater, painting). Everything is for free!

First day of work we met also all the clients and all the sub-teams, we introduced each others and our scope of work. Me and my team mate Christine are going to develop a Business incubator outside of the Fortaleza city which will be a kind of educational model of Business incubator already implemented in Fortaleza.

From left: Antonio Moises Filho de Oliviera Mota (General Director of IFCE), Francisco Gutenberg Albuquerque Filho (International Relaitions), Chhristine (in the middle), me and the the very right Anderson Vercosa (our new teammate, newcomer at IFCE.

Business lunch with our hosts


Connection at the hotel is very limited (at the client's location it is really fast) and we were really busy by activities organized by our PIXERA friends. Therefore let me share with you the weekend highlights now
On Saturday we were at th famous beach, Praia do Futuro. It was a nice team building as most of the team arrived just on Saturday night. Water was so inviting... :)

On Sunday afternoon we made a team building session organized by PIXERA were we went through the agenda for the upcoming week.

Martina and Yi

Ying, Janka and Mohamed

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