Roménia
4857
Data de início: 07-06-2015
Data de fim: 31-01-2016
Vagas: 2
Duração: 8 mes(es)
Data limite de candidatura: 12-05-2015
Financiamento: Aprovado
Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 60 €
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Resumo: The host organization is located in a small town located in Romania. Its infrastructure does not meet the required standards of a town as there are no proper roads, gas installation and town mains (sewage)
The people’s main preoccupation is agriculture and the job market is quite poor, resulting in most youngsters leaving the community for bigger towns which would ensure them jobs. Furthermore, the spirit of volunteering and tolerance is considerably low due to the historical background of our country.
The people from the community are not quite used to strangers around, especially black people, due to common stereotypes, but when they faced the challenge of working and living with foreigners, they managed to do their best. Thus, this is an aspect that we strongly wish to improve.
The youngsters from the town find themselves quite remoted from the field of European Union projects as their access to information is considerably reduced. The causes of this situation are: the lack of interest from both youngsters and their parents, the inefficiency of the educational system, no other information sources besides Internet and the lack of professional guidance in choosing careers and job opportunities.
Perfil: We are looking for active, open-minded, creative, innovative, responsible and motivated volunteers who are interested in the topic of Rural development and urbanization, Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) and will like to get involved in activities that focus and aim at this topic.
The volunteers who apply for this project need to like and be willing to work with YOUTH for 9 months.
No kind of experience is needed to participate in this project but we are looking for volunteers who are open to a LEARNING EXPERIENCE, who value personal development.
If you don’t feel attracted to the topic of active citizenship or dislike youth work then the Project is not what you are looking for:
• Volunteers need to have a genuine interest in Active citizenship, participatory democracy, and civic engagement and be willing to learn and share the information about the EU
• Gender balance – during the selection procedure we will strive to achieve gender balance within the group
• Education: education in a relevant domain for the project topics (social assistance etc.) will be considered a plus but is not mandatory and we shall not refuse anyone based on this criteria
• a basic level of English is required (being able to make herself/himself understood by the others – Able to communicate)
• Knowledge of Romanian would constitute a plus but will not be a exclusion criteria
Age: 18-30
Tarefas: The volunteers of the Project will be directly involved in the planning, organization and implementation of non-formal activities in educational institutions in the city.
The project is structured in 3 phases:
1. Phase 1 – Capacity Building Programme
The EVS stage starts on 1st of March and will commence with a 15 days Capacity Building, a program that is designed to transmit to the volunteer all the theoretical and practical knowledge about the project and prepare them for the rest of the project.
The programme will focus on:
• project understanding (objectives, roles and responsibilities, activities, rules to be followed) non formal education training (animation module);
• social awareness (introducing institutions where the volunteers will work, presentations and discussions on specific aspects linked to social support, specific working methods)
• thematic trainings (non-formal education, youth work, teambuilding, planning & time management, inter-cultural learning, personal and professional learning process).
During this part of the project the volunteers will:
• get the chance to better accommodate to one another
• get to better know and understand the project
• improve skills necessary for the implementation of the project
• get to know the Youngsters in Europe organisation and the people that they will work with
• get to know the institutions where they will work and the people who they will help during the project(the target group)
• get to know their host community (how to orientate around the city, shopping places, free time opportunities, cultural attraction etc.)
The Capacity Building will be structured in 3 parts:
- Capacity Building Part I – 5 days- which will focus on: project objectives understanding, getting to know each other, team building, exploring expectations and tasks and responsibilities and preparing for phase 2 of the capacity building programme
- Community Discovery – in this part the volunteers together with their mentor will be given a guided tour of their communities and the working places. The main aim of this phase is to allow the volunteers to better understand their community, be able to orientate and know where to go for what, know and accommodate to their working institutions, get to know the people they will be working with, collect expectations from the community
- Capacity Building Part II – this part will focus on planning and skill development with training on animation, youth work, non-formal education etc, and on planning the main activities of the project, setting roles and responsabilities.
2. Phase 2 – Personal and professional development through non-formal education
This project activity will be the core of the project and consists of a 9 months EVS stage for 10 volunteers who will be working in educational institutions in 3 communities.
During this phase the volunteering will be involved in implementing new activities that aim to stimulate the social and personal development of both the volunteers as well as improving the target groups situation/status (contributing to social inclusion, developing personal confidence and socialization, etc) and activities aimed at improving the fit for life skills.
The volunteers will be involved in organizing these groups, capacitating them through non formal workshops and stimulating them to be in contact with the community and turning them into active citizensh that are more actively engaged in both their educational process as well as in their community
Types of activities to be implemented during the project:
• Painting
• Handicrafts
• Origami
• Dancing
• Language classes
• Workshops on different topics
• Sports and outdoor activities
• Cultural presentations
• Thematic clubs
The above mentioned activities are more as guide lines as each volunteer has the opportunity to propose, implement and carry on new types of activities bases on previous experiences, personal preferences, skills and abilities.
The project is built upon the premises that each volunteer is an active individual willing to learn and actively contribute to improving the situation of the target group thus allowing great freedom of initiative for each volunteer to come up with new and innovative activities to implement.
In this activity we will also be organizing large scale outreach events that aim to increase awareness on the needs of the socially assisted and increase tolerance. These activities will be:
• World Health Day(7th of April)
• National non-formal education week (6-10 April)
• Europe Day(9th of May),
• Children’s Day(1st of June)
• International Youth Day (12th of August)
• International Day of Democracy (15th of September)
• Other large scale events based on future plans of the organisation and/or volutneers invitiatives
During these scale events we will organize seminars, workshops, outdoor dissemination and awareness rising activities, etc.
3. Phase 3 - Evaluation and follow-up phase
This will take place in the last month of the project and will be aimed at evaluating the project objectives achievement, the impact of the activities and planning the follow-up activities to the project. In this phase the organisation wil evaluate reuniting staff, volunteers, mentors, staff of the social institutions and other stakeholders.
Condições: 1
Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês
