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Data de início: 01-09-2013
Data de fim: 01-07-2014
Vagas: 1
Duração: 10 mes(es)
Data limite de candidatura: 01-05-2013
Financiamento: Candidatura
Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 125 €
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Resumo: Tasks for the Volunteer : to increase the European awarness by supporting projects for young people, by giving information about the European program allowing the mobility (EVS, Erasmus, Grundvigt, Leonardo…), by meeting young people often to understand their issues and to support them in their projects.
The organization is located in a middle town counting about 30 000 inhabitants. With a rich heritage from the Antic period and an important cultural policy (thanks local organisations and the city administration), the town is also a crossroads of cultures and populations.
More than 12 000 students (from 6 to 20 years old) are based in the town, which also tends to develop a touristic sector.
The Volunteer lives in a flat near the historical center and close to several cultural points of the City.
Perfil: Age: 18 until 30 years old
The geographical position of the town located in the immediate surroundings of a big city, the medium size of the city and the particular expectations concerning the European volunteer have led to the setting up of specific criterions in the choice of the volunteer.
In this way, the partial knowledge of French is necessary in order to make contact with the population who don't obviously speak the volunteer's native language.
Anyway, the incomplete knowledge of French is not a reject criterion because a linguistic training is planned.
Furthermore, his/her age should give a relative experience and autonomy.
The EVS Selection Commission also intends to enable the volunteer to constitute himself/herself an experience so it doesn't favour the candidates which have benefited of an important international mobility.
The volunteer has to be characterised by his/her strong motivation, by his/her open mindedness and by his/her computer skills. His/her capability of proposing personal initiatives will be essential.
Finally, the reactivity of the candidate at the selection process, his/her dynamism, the volunteer's centres of interest and the experience of the sending organisation represent very important criterions in order to improve and bring personal ideas to the project.
The procedure of selection consists of two parts:
1. initially, the Selection Commission studies the whole applications and retains those which seem to best correspond to the fixed standards (between 5 and 10 applications).
2. then, the Selection Commission members carry out a phone interview with each candidate selected during the first selection in order to evaluate his/her motivation, his/her will of commitment and his/her capabilities.
The final selection is made after having consulted the Commission and according to the phone interviews.
The Selection Commission is composed by 2 persons from the B.I.J., by 2 persons from the International Relation department
The elected representatives in charge of these sectors are consulted as well as the E.V.S. at the time of the procedure of selection.
Tarefas: Volunteers' general missions
o Young people's international mobility, a crossroads for service missions: Around this theme, a project in common to both services has been drawn up and a part of its implementation is entrusted to the EV. Control over the project is shared by the two referent services.
o Consolidating the European dimension in town's work-teams and different publics: In a concern for widening horizons for some (partners from the town together with schools, associations, leisure centres, community centres, etc) and for others (the EV), one of the EV's missions consists of imagining promotional tools to be made available to local partners: games, puzzles, exhibitions, etc.
o On condition that the personal project is articulated around departments' missions and that it is the core of the project for receiving an EV: For maintaining the commitment and the involvement of any young EV who are received, personal projects can become the central pivot for EV missions, on condition that they are coherent with the departments' missions. For example, an EV who arrives with a project of making the music of his host country known, may work together with a leisure centre on musical instruments in Europe, by imagining promotions and a show with children.
Volunteers' concrete objectives
Concerning young people's international mobility:
This concerns accompanying young people together with the structures that supervise them, who wish to participate in international experiences such as exchanges between young people, personal projects, international sports events, etc. The mission of the EV is to take part in preparing the dossier and giving support to initiatives. For example, participating in setting up training programs for preparing young people who are about to embark on international projects, encounters with secondary school students on the different mobility measures available, promoting the a project exchange market, etc.
Concerning awareness on international and European levels:
It is essential that the EV works transversely with the other municipal departments. Requests have already been identified for enabling the EV to meet different local actors: primary schools, secondary schools, leisure centres, associations, community centres, etc. This involves helping to add an international dimension to projects developed for young people in the town, by meeting different structures and proposing tools and assistance to them for setting up this "dimension". For example, taking part in promoting extracurricular activities (between midday and 2 PM) in primary schools with games on Europe, participating once a week in leisure centre activities for making children aware that different cultures do exist, intervening in secondary schools and youth information office reception for promoting European Voluntary Service and the other European opportunities available.
Concerning the personal project:
The EV can set up the personal project of his choice, linked to the themes entrusted to him. He will be accompanied by our services in this project and benefit from a small budget (between 500 and 800€) for completing it.
The EV's days will be shared between preparation time, within normal office hours, and any time required for completing projects that need more flexibility. Physical reception of the EV will be made at the International Relations Department (from Monday to Wednesday morning) and at the Youth Information Office (from Wednesday afternoon to Friday).
The EV's timetable will be arranged depending on his or her training requirements and any compulsory and optional meetings: reception seminars, midcourse assessments, Volunteer Cooper'Active meetings (VERA), etc.
Language training is organised with the Alliance Française in Lyon, which offers numerous advantages: The alliance handles young people's requirements very well, organizes meetings with other EVs and offers a network of knowledge and exchange other than what could be set up in the town, including discovery of the city of Lyon, very close by and easy to reach by train.
Extending language studies with a Association is also under consideration, for helping the EV to speak French correctly and facilitate his or her social insertion.
Lastly, upstream work with the structure that sends the EV to us should enable us to identify his or her centres of interest and hobbies. The town could then enrol the EV for extra professional activities (tennis, music, yoga, pottery, etc.) for integrating him or her in an initial social network via which they will be able to integrate themselves into local life more easily.
Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês
