Espanha

5397

Data de início: 01-05-2016

Data de fim: 31-10-2016

Vagas: 1

Duração: 6 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-02-2016

Financiamento: Financiamento por aprovar

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 105 €

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Resumo: The project activities will take place in the city, in the three youth facilities operated by the Youth Council, and at the various schools, universities, municipal facilities and meeting places for young people in the city. The Youth Council has signed agreements with associations and youth groups to carry out projects and promote youth activities, apart from having a hiring room service, audiovisual and leisure equipment and counting with premises for youth associations.

Perfil: Skills: team work, initiative and interest, interpersonal skills, interest to know people from other cultures, motivation to carry out workshops and activities for the promotion of youth.
-Spanish basic command is an assett.
-age: 17-30

Tarefas: Our organization provides volunteers with an opportunity of personal growth, professional training, through a communication and exchange environment to enable them, during their long stay in Spain, to understand different realities and develop intercultural competence and awareness about Europe.

Volunteer will gain experience through direct contact with young people from different nationalities and participate organising activities such as festivals, conferences, meetings, forums, workshops... in turn, they will contribute to improve the cultural background of local community resources. The learning experience at work will take place working directly with staff in the youth area, with continuous mentoring. The mentor will choose the appropriate tasks of volunteers according to their attitude, experiences and skills.

During work and free time, volunteers will become aware of the ways of thinking and acting of people from different countries, learn about values, compare and find similarities, analyse roles and stereotypes, face prejudices and accept differences (integration and mediation).

Volunteers shall participate in the organisation and planning meetings, exchange opinions, provide suggestions, contribute actively and develop their non-formal learning and their capacity of taking initiatives.

The staff at the Youth Council will try to know the volunteers and foster their motivation towards personal and professional growth.

On the other hand, regarding the role of volunteers in the host organisation, the process of planning activities in which the volunteer will participate from the beginning of their project is important. The primary objective of the organisation is professional and personal growth of volunteers, enabling them to actively participate in the planning and implementation of activities, always bearing in mind that they will not replace any member of the organization.

Suggestions from volunteers are positively assessed. They cannot make decisions without prior approval by their mentor, who will tell them how to act; apart from the mentor, there is a person in charge of coordinating and supervising the individual actions of volunteers, allowing for feedback and adapting the tasks as needed and facing potential problems.

Volunteers will learn new ways of promoting active citizenship among young people, listening and observing their needs in a direct way, capturing their interest and stimulating the development of their creativity and ability to organize activities according to their interests. They can also observe how the rest of the team works with young people, and benefit from and with their daily contributions.

Volunteers may develop and improve their potential, capacities and skills (artistic, computer, education ...) working with the management and implementation of workshops and activities.

During the first months of stay in Spain, they can deepen into the Spanish language and culture, receive a Spanish course to improve understanding skills and may adapt positively to the local reality.
The organisation will expand the degree of involvement of volunteers as they acquire skills and knowledge (language expression and integration in the local reality). At the beginning, volunteers may speak English if they have problems with Spanish.

With time, volunteers will have a less observation role and participate and collaborate more with the team members. They can develop and carry out activities according to their sills and concerns.

They will have the occasion of expressing their points of view and enrich from it (and make the organisation enrich) and cause intercultural exchange and awareness.

Volunteers may suggest ideas and new methods and organisational models that allow for innovative solutions. This, along with language and cultural skills of the volunteer, will cause an atmosphere of cultural exchange that may be reflected in the community.

ACTIVITIES IN WHICH VOLUNTEERS MAY PARTICIPATE
These activities belong, mainly, to the area of youth promotion (social services and entertainment). Volunteers will participate in the planning, organisation and evaluation of cultural, integration and leisure activities.

To avoid culture shock and difficulties of integration, we will build the project with the volunteers, defining with them activities and objectives. This way, they will be able to develop better their sills, abilities and expectations.

They may participate in the following specific activities:
- Youth Activity Programme: mentorship and talks in schools, universities and units PROA (educational programme to provide support and guidance). From September to June; 3 quarters. We work with prevention in youth violence, sexuality, health, co-education and equal opportunities. Role of volunteers: plan the interventions and implement them.
- Facilities Revitalization Program: , activities, workshops and dynamics in two youth facilities. Among other action, there are table game, Wii and PlayStation championships, reading and comic workshops, library, games, loan of rooms, audiovisual equipment, camping equipment and sound material, exhibitions, conferences and training workshops, open meetings, loan of rooms for associations and youth groups, internet access.
- Consultancy for Mobility and European programmes: we provide information on the different EU programmes, traineeships abroad. Every Thursday: intercultural dialogue forum, in coordination with the City Council (immigration area) and Schools of Spanish as a foreign language.
- Programme of media through new technologies: digital newspaper on a quarterly basis, a weekly radio programme and management of the Council's website.
- School support: support carrying out homework, suitable study place; for young people who do not have adequate economic or social resources.
- Street Education and dissemination programme: dissemination of information on Youth Council's activities (posters, brochures, flyiers,...) throuout the city; we favour grouping of young people in different parts of the street to develop their skills and ideas and actively participate in the community.

The Youth Council of the City Council offers the opportunity of working with youth in the following non-formal education fields:
- Social skills and official training as leisure entertainer and coordinator, as well as other thematic and specialised courses.
-Sport and leisure: trips, adventure activities, excursions, camps; workshops: cooking, languages, photography, puppetry, mycology, tools, ..
-Language Exchange Activities
-Youth Information Centre (information, advice and guidance related to employment; activities, scholarships, contests ...).
-Form part of a young, multidiscipline team, willing to work for and with youth.

Time of activity: maximum of 7 hours/day; 2 free days/week Holidays: 2 days/month of activity.

Activities object of creation by volunteers in the organisation: initiative will be positively assessed (search of contents, planning, coordination and negotiation, implementation of initiatives and assessment). The specific activities of the volunteers depend on their communication abilities and academic education or personal or working experience.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês