Macedónia

3497

Data de início: 01-04-2014

Data de fim: 31-12-2014

Vagas: 1

Duração: 9 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 29-05-2013

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 50 €

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Resumo: The project will take place in the city, Macedonia and will include local young people.
The city itself is an urban area which has contemporary infrastructure and institutions and it’s located in the geographical centre of the country. It is well connected with the other bigger cities in Macedonia and abroad and it’s the third biggest city in the country- with around 80000 inhabitants and at around 130 km. from the capital Skopje.

The city is one of the well- known historical places in Macedonia, with landmarks dating from the ancient and medieval ages.

Over the years, the city was developed on different historic influences- ancient time and Kingdom of Macedon’s, medieval Byzantine, Serbian and Ottoman kingdoms’ and also the modern, 20th century influences- anti- fascist movement and communist period, combined with modern architecture.
The city is a place with unique monuments, vast cultural heritage and excellent cuisine.

It’s a nice and safe place for young people to live in and it’s known for the local mentality of socialising and hospitality towards foreigners and also for the cultural events that are happening annually, like the National theatre festival Vojdan Chernodrinski, one of the national carnivals- Prochka, art exhibitions, sport events, music festivals for children’s and folk music, live concerts etc. The city is known for the diverse nightlife and beautiful surrounding nature- mountains and forests for hiking and also an artificial lake.
The city offers non-expensive way of living, which is an advantage to a EVS volunteer. The city and the Old Bazaar offer vast number of shops.

The chosen volunteers will be accommodated in a specially rented flat in one of the residential areas of the city, close to the office and to the city centre and will be provided with individual rooms common living room, kitchen and bathroom.
This way they’ll have an opportunity to share time together and to get to know each other, while having their own privacy at the same time.
The volunteers will be transferred the food- and pocket money on their accounts at the beginning of every month. We as an organisation will make the effort the volunteers to have a cosy, home- like atmosphere.

The volunteers will work in the organisation’s offices, on a well- known location in the city centre, contemporary furnished and with excellent working atmosphere and working conditions.

However, one of the problems regarding the young people in the unemployment, which results in the lack of opportunities for the youngsters to work on or to participate in projects which are of importance of the local community and also, the lack of opportunities to socialise, interact or to share experiences with foreigners, except for the visiting tourists.

Because of the economical situation, the local community, namely the young people, is either not aware of the possibilities of non-formal education or voluntarism or cannot afford any kind of extra activities for personal development and for contributing to the local community.

Our research regarding local community shows that there’s a huge interest of this kind of projects.
That’s why we believe that the future volunteers will contribute in our aim to promote altruism, volunteering and youth activities.

Perfil: Our principle is every potential candidate to have the same chance in the selection process.

We’d like to encourage open-minded, creative, easy-going and enthusiastic volunteers to apply, regardless of their experiences, especially volunteers with fewer opportunities and the ones without working experiences.
For us, one of the important thing is the volunteer to have positive attitude, fresh ideas and enthusiasm to help in the shaping of the actual project or to develop a new one(s).
We don’t have any preferences regarding nationality, gender, political view, religion, speciffic skills and educational background of the volunteer.

A deadline for applying will be set and the whole project will be transparently published in the EVS databases, socail networks, our webpages and also the project will be send to our contact list. We’ll try to publish the project and the EVS vacancy to as many websites as possible, just to make sure that the project reaches many potential candidates.
Every complete application (CV and motivation letter specific for the project) will be taken in consideration, regardless of volunteer’s background.
We’ll ensure that the rejected candidates will be informed on time.
The selected potential volunteers will be asked to fill in additional questionary about personal motivation and expectations, which will help us make the right selection. Also, there will be a Skype interview with the volunteers.

We also don’t have any preferences regarding the Sending Organisations. We are open for colaboration with accredited Sending Organisations with different background, new partners, partners from previous projects and we’d suggest open communication and constant contact between all the sides in the project.
Age: 18 until 30 years old

Tarefas: The activities in which the volunteers will be involved, are our regular activities, which are created to help the volunteers’ personal development while they’re providing us their volunteer help.
Namely, the voluneetrs will work toghether with our staff, which means it’ll will provide the volunteers the necessary help, basics, introduction and knowledge for the activities, so they would expand their knowledge of active citizenship.
They will have an opportunity to learn and to work with the methods of non-formal education and to be introduced, to learn and to work in the whole process of developing, implementing and disseminating a youth project, especially YiA 3.1. project from our project managers.
The volunteers will get to know more about European awareness and the youth activism through new and old media- web 1.0 and especially web 2.0 from our informatics engineer.
They’ll be provided the technical, graphical, oratory, writing and photography skills from our artists and designers, which can be useful in their future engagements.

The volunteers will be provided a mentor, with who they’ll have a possibility to learn how to adapt in a new environment and to learn something more about the culture they’d live in and about the local mentality.
A Macedonian language lessons will be provided during the whole project, to help the voluntters learn the language.

The role of the volunteers would be helping the organisation and the staff in the regular activities connected with raising the European awareness of the local community, especially among the young people. This involves spreading all the information using the new media, making the whole EVS action more personal and closer to the future volunteers and also, giving the European dimension to the regular activities.

The tasks are designed in a frame of 30 to 35 working hours per week, Monday to Friday, from 10:00 – 17:00.
In case there are activities during the weekend, the volunteers will be given the next 2 days free.
The volunteers can take 2 days free per month.

Our regular activities in which the two volunteers would be involved and will provide help are:

- In the first 2- 3 weeks, the volunteers will get to know the organisation, the staff and the activities in details.
In that period of time, they’d be able to adapt to the environment and to start working with the team.
After the adapting period, the volunteers will work on the activities like:

- Loesje creative writing workshops- at first, the volunteer will participate in the process of creative writing and then will be introduced to the the methods, will learn how to facilitate the English language workshops and will learn the details on final editing and layout of posters (once a week);

- office work- updating the website / blog / social networks profiles, checking and answering e-mails, documenting the activities (every day). The volunteers will be provided with tutoring from the staff on technicalities regarding web 1.0, web 2.0- social networks and working with cloud servers;

- foreign language course- the volunteers will learn non- formal education methods and will gain facilitating skills from the staff, especially from the pedagogs. The workshop will provide the local youngsters with fewer opportunities language lessons in the volunteers’ mother tongue (2- 3 times per week);

- monthly youth magazine- the volunteers will gain writing and technical skills on how to write articles and on how to edit and layout from our journalists, graphic desingers and printing engineer and will be encouraged to write their own experience stories articles, personal journal and journal of the organisation’s activities and to help in the whole process of making. The magazine will cover all the current topics in our municipality, will cover cultural and sport events, will inform about youth creative activism, will promote European awareness, the YiA programme, with an emphasis on EVS and will promote local young artists (2 times per week);

- developing new projects (writing, implementing and disseminating)- the volunteers will gain knowledge on how to write, develop and desseminate successful youth projects from our project managers. After learning the details, the volunteers will help the staff in the process of writing and with providing fresh ideas which can be a base for future projects- YiA 3.1, CoE and local ones (3 times per week);

- European awareness & cultural diversity discussions- the volunteers will facilitate informal discussions in English on raising the awareness of the benefits of being a European active citizen and also discussions in the volunteers’ mother tongues with local youngsters with knowledge of those languages, with a help from our pedagogs (once a week);

- promoting YiA and EVS in the high-schools and the university in our municipality by spreading information and promo- materials and to share personal experiences and benefits of EVS first hand and also, helping the staff in facilitating debates in the previously mentioned educational institutions about current local topics regarding the young people (once a month);

- meetings with potential volunteers- the volunteers will help the EVS coordinators and mentors in successful preparation of the future volunteers by sharing personal experiences and having informative talks (on regular basis).

- Macedonian language course- The volunteers will be provided with intensive language course, facilitated by one of our volunteer- linguist during the first period (every day) and then two times a week until the end of the project.

The volunteers will be encouraged and will have the opportunity to develop their own projects in accordance to our activities and they will get the complete support from our organisation regarding contacts, finances, capacities etc.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês