Progress on week 11

The project has progressed quite well. Since last blog post, we have had Demola Jams and No-silde pitching. In Demola Jams we had different exercise-type activities, that helped us to understand how to improve our working-process.

Last few weeks we have been focusing mainly on our survey and this week we have finally published it. We will promote it using different channels and we hope to have enough respondents in the next couple of weeks.

While waiting for survey results, we will approach various organizations, which may have information about Russians in Finland, and their needs. We want to get any information that would be interesting, and useful for our research.

During next week we will visit Pirkanmaa Interpretation Centre, which is responsible for providing counseling for immigrants living in Tampere area.  We will also visit Tampere's Russian Club (Tampereen venäläinen klubi ry), where we can meet russian people and interview them. In addition, we'll do some "mystery shopping". The idea is to go to insurance companies and ask all kind of questions as a "real potential customer". We hope to see how insurance companies are prepared to situations, where customer doesn't speak finnish.

Planning our questionnaire..