Itália

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Data de início: 01-06-2014

Data de fim: 01-06-2015

Vagas: 1

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 30-08-2013

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 115 €

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Resumo: The project and the volunteers’ activities will take place in the city, where the Social Cooperative is placed since the beginning of its activity.

This is a city of about 115.550 inhabitants. It is strategically placed in the heart of Veneto Region: being practically in the centre of the territory, it is easily and efficiently connected with the other Veneto provinces, especially with Verona, Venezia, Padova and Treviso.

The city is considered the “actual capital” of the Venetian productive system, based on small/medium family run businesses; a sort of backbone for such a system, which is capable of exporting alone as much as some whole European countries. The economy of the city is characterised for having some important productive clusters specialised in gold jewellery, ceramics, tanning and mechanics. Even if the unemployment rate has risen in the past years, it is still very low, nearly physiological.

The morphological and geographical variety of the city and its surroundings is composed by mountains, hills, rivers, some lakes and plains, which create a particularly fascinating landscape.

The city offers also a wide range of cultural, artistic and historical attractions for tourists. It has been, and still is, the generator of arts and culture: many important names such as Andrea Palladio, Vincenza Scamozzi, Carlo Scarpa have tied their creations to this town.

For these reasons the city is definitely worth a visit. Landscapes and architecture of the city are considered as a sort of “unicum”, so that the city, as well as Palladio villas, have been deserved to be inserted in Unesco World Heritage List (since 1994).

That wide variety of attraction creates seven kinds of tourism typologies:
cultural tourism; wine and gastronomic tourism; conference tourism; mountain tourism; thermal tourism; active tourism; religious tourism.

Perfil: the first priority has been that the volunteers were motivated and interested in meeting and working with all the staff and the beneficiaries of the service.
In general, volunteers should be pro-active, enthusiastic, creative, keen to take initiative, adaptable, open-minded, positive and reliable. It is essential that the candidates show enough enthusiasm, so to guarantee a continuous learning approach, being available to constantly develop new capabilities and skills. They should shown these attitudes compiling a cover letter and explaining their expectations during interviews, which will be arranged using IT means like Skype video conference. Such interviews are planned only if the first selection phase has been successful. This phase foresees an exchange with the sending organisation in order to deepen its relation with the volunteers and to check once more their motivation, from a professional point of view.
age: 18 until 30 years old

Tarefas: Once welcomed in the hosting organisation, volunteers will be closely assisted. During the first months they will be put in the conditions to know all the habits of the hosting organisation in order to better understand its work and objectives. They will be assisted by a mentor, who will be their permanent point of reference during their stay.
This opening “test period” is likely to enable both the hosting organisations and the volunteers to better value the training/working experience, so to satisfy their own expectations as much as possible. In fact, it will be used to accurately plan the right placement for the volunteers in the different activity areas, so to find the solution that better fits volunteers’ skills, needs, wishes and expectations. This orientation could be positive not only for the volunteers – which can find satisfied their potentialities – but also for the hosting organisation, since it lets effectively involve them in their every-day activity.
Volunteers will be involved in two main activities, which will be combined in the weekly timetable according to their preferences and personal skills.

- Sensitisation, educational and training sessions.
Here it can be inserted the activity linked to the programmes of “intermediate paths to work”, realised in cooperation with the Social Cooperative Insieme. This initiative is addressed to underage and adult people (included some guests of the community) in need of being accompanied and oriented on job-related issues. It is offered the opportunity to work in a “protected” environment, so to get ready to be then inserted in a job engagement programme. This action is aimed to prevent youth discomfort and recover cases of school drop-out, as well as to re-educate adults at the job rules (respecting hierarchies, breaks, hours, tasks, deadlines, etc.).
Volunteers will give their contribution supporting the organisation and the development of the educational sessions; they will also play a key role as “mediator”, with a peer-to-peer approach: in fact, people are much more at ease if dealing with young people, instead of adults. Therefore, the supporting role of EVS volunteers to this target group could be really precious.

- Service in the live-in community. Contrà Fascina aims to ensure stress-free, family life experience, necessary medical care, physical and intellectual development to its young guests, supporting their studies at schools and preparing them for independent life in future. It also wishes to make their life brighter, interesting and meaningful. Girls are living temporary together under supervision and with assistance of experienced staff.

Internal staff runs leisure time activities, games, hikes, excursions, culture visits, etc. At Contrà Fascina there are places for girls at risk who have no support from their parents. All of them attend secondary school in the town during daytime.

Participation of motivated EVS volunteers is seen as an exciting innovative element refreshing the daily routine and bringing additional educational value to the pedagogical process. The main idea is to provide, above all at the beginning of the service, assistance and support to local personnel in daily work, particularly in running various educational and free time activities for the girls, adding to them an intercultural dimension. It is also wished to provide them some experience and practise of foreign languages and intercultural learning, not only for the girls but also for the internal staff members.
Volunteers will give their contribution supporting the following tasks:
- looking after the girls and helping staff in teaching them different useful skills, for example running different workshop (e.g. drawing, handicraft, singing, …);
- teaching foreign languages through joined games, songs, sport, any other activities indoor and outdoor, which the EVS volunteers will be running;
- introducing their culture and eventually running cultural evenings as a part of intercultural learning;
- proposing events, when possible/needed (e.g. film watching/reading books/teaching his/her mother tongue/cooking for/with the girls etc.);
- helping to organise holidays, summer activities and birthdays of guests;
- supporting the outdoor activities organisation (counting on the beautiful landscapes and nature not far from the city centre - perfect places for trekking, picnic, skating, cycling, … in summer).
- supporting educators in the daily life.

During their service, they will be given the freedom to propose initiatives to make the community life more interesting and pleasant (i.e. organising evenings, reading, video screening, cultural events, workshops, etc.); the presence of European volunteers is considered really precious since they will take new and fresh air into the community service. At the same time, volunteers could have the gratification to see applied and realized their eventual proposals and ideas.

In addition to these two main areas, the Cooperative is often involved in the organisation of events linked to the issues promoted (environment, recycle, sustainable development, critical consumption, de-growth, etc.). When such events are going to take place, volunteers will be asked to support the organisational phase (preparing materials, brochure, contact partner, etc.) and even to attend the event itself. In these cases, that are not possible to be anticipated yet, it will be agreed with the volunteers the commitment they would like to take, deducting the hours they will spend for this issue from the standard week timetable.

Volunteers will be able to gain a valuable experience, both from a human and from a professional point of view; the skills acquired will be transferrable also in their own country and in different working settings. On the other hand, hosting international volunteers will make the Cooperative able to better organise its activities, having the chance to propose new ideas and methodologies coming from different cultures.
Thus, the added value coming form the EVS exchange experience will be actual for both the parties involved.

Volunteers will be encouraged to propose their personal ideas/projects/initiatives related to the project themes, according to a bottom-up approach.

The areas in which they will be involved can be considered as flexible boxes that can be differently fill in according to the volunteers’ proposals and initiative. Since such activities are only partially structured, they could be supported by volunteers both just following the “usual schemes”, but also giving an actual contribution in innovating and refreshing them. Thus, the different possible levels of involvement can be very well adapted to the single volunteer attitudes and expectations.

Taking into account volunteers’ skills and projects' needs, priority tasks and detailed working schedule (including holidays, breaks, etc.) will be worked out together with the head of project and staff.

Horário: Anyway, as general rule, the service schedule is agreed is organised as follows: 6/7 hours per day (30 hours of service per week, excluding mentoring meetings), 5 days per week, two consecutive days off per week and 2 days holiday per month for the duration of the project.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês