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Data de início: 01-09-2013

Data de fim: 01-07-2015

Vagas: 1

Duração: 22 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-01-2013

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 115 €

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Resumo: The hosting organization is located in a town North East of Italy is a multicultural city of more than 200.000 inhabitants, among which many immigrants from all over the world. The city offers to youth many encounter possibilities and rich cultural occasions. The city hosts the second oldest University in Italy which counts more than 60.000 people enrolled, including students from other Italian regions or other countries. In town is very active the other Association which works to favour encounters between Italian students and foreigner ones: frequent will be the occasions for the hosted volunteers to meet their peers coming from different socio-cultural backgrounds. The town is also a remarkable tourist destination due to its abundance of artistic and cultural patrimony and the proximity with the city of Venice.

The organization is situated in the historical down town of the city at the Cultural Centre which hosts the homonymous auditorium and municipal library.

Perfil: the ideal volunteer for our hosting project should have a strong motivation for the thematic, the objectives and the proposed activities of the project, as well as a marked attitude to interpersonal relationships. Volunteers who have relational attitudes toward children and elderlies, and who are open to meeting and co-operating with youth, will be particularly valued. Availability to commitment and proactivity in taking part to the project are implicit requirements that could facilitate the volunteers’ engagement in the working team, and help them in achieving the project objectives.

Eventual past experiences in contexts similar to the ones proposed for the project will be also appreciated (i.e. past volunteering experiences with elderlies, or animation activities with children).

We suggest a basic knowledge of the Italian language, although it is not a discriminating criteria for the volunteers’ recruitment. On the other hand, the language proficiency can facilitate the volunteers in establishing a relationship with the service users since the very beginning of the activities.

The linguistic training which will endure for the whole service duration will be useful to enrich their personal vocabulary and improve their language mastery, allowing the volunteers to feel more confident in their interpersonal relationships with youth and the services co-ordinators.

Volunteers selection and transparency in the recruitment process: the volunteers selection is open to any youth aged between 18 and 30, female and male. No specific qualification is required, but considering the kind of activities the volunteers will be called to develop, we will positively value the following attitudes:
– predisposition to human interpersonal relationship;
– good motivation to the project themes and proactivity;
– interest in the projects developed by the distinct areas of engagement;
– adaptation skills and capacity to manage the work schedule and tasks.

Tarefas: The project activities will involve the volunteers mostly in the following service ambits: Animation, Info-youth and Euro-Space
• Animation. Working seats: the Toselli Youth Point and the Ada Negri Aggregative Cultural Centre. Main activities: informative front office, cultural events organisation (i.e. film forums, intercultural evenings, reviews), festivals and music contests, cultural and recreational courses (i.e. photography, language), users support (children from local families or second generation immigrants, adolescents with fewer opportunities, elderlies, etc), management of the film-lending service, bookcrossing, newspaper library.

• Info-youth. Working seat: at the head office of the organization. Main activities: linguistic tandem learning with young Italians or mother tongue foreigners.
• Euro-Space. Working seat: at the head office of the organization Main activities: participation to the
implementation of mobility projects (i.e. blog with volunteers testimonies), testimonies about the voluntary service during meetings with student delegations in schools or Universities.
Volunteers will be also involved in some activities developed in the Social Service field: initiatives with underage youth (i.e. after-school activities) or elderlies (recreational activities). In these occasions the volunteers will be engaged to support educators in the various initiatives following a time schedule which will be variable according to the period of the year and to the number of intervention requests from the users of the service.

All the activity premises are situated in spaces regularly served by public means of transportation and easily reachable also with own resources. In order to allow volunteers to be more independent and quick in transferring from one place to another, they are normally assigned a bicycle.

The volunteers will be hosted in an apartment rented by the Municipality and situated a few minutes from the historic down town and the activities locations. They will not be lodged in community houses and therefore will have to follow only the ordinary co-habitation rules and those established by the block of flats (silence hours, bed room and common spaces cleaning, etc.). The Office will work as a mediator between volunteers and the landlord in order to facilitate the relationship among them.

This project offers to volunteers the chance to test their skills in two principal fields: 1) promotion of cultural initiatives and services addressed to youth; 2) youth active participation to social life, due to services to targeted to children and elderlies and, in general, people in need.
In respect to the above mentioned proposed activities, we identify the following learning objectives:
ANIMATION: to acquire organisational skills in offering a service (i.e. supporting the management of the informative front office answering to the users’ needs; promoting initiatives as photography, culture and language, or drawing courses; realising a cultural event which involves local youth).
INFOYOUTH: to improve language competencies and develop relational skills (i.e. participating to a tandem learning program in their mother tongue with youth from other European countries);
EUROSPACE: to experiment teamwork with other young people (i.e. collaborating to the organisation of a hosted Youth Exchange or Training Course); to contribute in the diffusion of an intercultural sensitivity within the local area (i.e. bringing their testimonies as European Volunteers to schools or Universities, or realising an intercultural evening addressed to local people in order to tell about the habits of their Countries of origin).
SOCIAL SERVICES: to experience the value of solidarity; to develop listening skills and competencies in support of people who live difficult situations (from a socio-economical, psychological or physical point of view); to learn about and inform of the interventions which the public administration addresses to people in need.
The intercultural dialogue process is a transversal opportunity common to all the project ambits where the volunteers will work.
Their whole service will be characterised by non formal learning occasions due to their training on the job with the operators and to the co-ordination of their planned activities by the mentor of the hosting organisation.
Volunteers’ role will be to join the operators, and the other volunteers of the National Civil Service, in the activities they will be involved in. EVS volunteers’ presence within the Office will allow to empower the initiatives which are already activated, offering for instance complementary services to the existing ones, in order to fulfil the users’ requests. At the same time it will be possible to value volunteers’ attitudes concretely corresponding to their motivations and skills. As an example, at the Toselli youth point the service empowerment will be represented by the extension of the opening schedule to the public, the activation of a linguistic course promoted by the volunteer, or the realisation of a thematic review proposed by youth, etc. For this reason the co-ordinating meetings with the mentor and the service tutors will be also focused on the discussion of the volunteer’s proposals and suggestions, in order to find individual projects to be developed along the whole service. We believe that in this way the EVS project can be more formative and motivating, allowing the candidates to be more responsible about the success of their volunteering experience. Volunteers will never replace the service operators, neither they will be called to take individual responsibility during the service implementation. Nonetheless according to service needs, it will be expected the volunteers to be punctual, available and flexible to manage their working hours and tasks.

Standard activities – activities proposed by volunteers*
*in past EVS project editions

Information (Info-Youth):
- Standard activities:
• tandem learning between Italian and foreign youth to deepen or improving mutual linguistic knowledge.

- Activities proposed by volunteers:
• tandem learning service empowerment in the volunteer’s mother tongue or in a language mastered by the volunteer (i.e. English or German), according on the service users requests.

Animazione (Animation):
- Standard activities:
• informative front-office during afternoons (users receiving, counselling in the research of work and formative opportunities, information about cultural and leisure courses and workshops, computer support);
• language courses, creative workshops, city events and reviews organisation;
• organisational support to the street animation staff to promote city events, cultural initiatives, concerts etc.) involving youth.

- Activities proposed by volunteers:
• front-office hours extension for reaching more youth;
• workshops realisation (i.e. music, recycling, photography, cultural tours within the city);
• individual or group language courses;
• intercultural evening organisation to introduce the volunteer’s country of origin or project.
Spazio Europa (Euro-Space)
- Standard activities:
• participation to guidance seminars and meetings addressed to youth (target of the Youth In Action programme - in particular secondary schools students) bringing testimonies of their EVS experience;
• organisational support for the activities of the hosted Youth Exchanges,
• support in the dissemination of the possibilities offered by the EVS programme, for instance joining the operator during the individual or group informative sessions.

- Activities proposed by volunteers:
• testimonies about the European Voluntary Service experience to students;
• promotion of meetings about the mobility area at Universities and youth aggregative centers;
• realisation of intercultural initiatives and collaboration to the dissemination of texts or audio-video material about EVS experiences, also in collaboration with other European youth;
• project writing for intercultural exchanges which could involve the volunteer’s country of origin or other sending organisation.

Social Services
- Standard activities:
• Recreational and animation activities with elderlies;
• After school activities for underage people.

- Activities proposed by volunteers:
• Service in help of a night shelter for homeless people (i.e. warm drink and clothes distribution);
• Volunteering activities addressed to elderlies with Alzheimer disease.

Horário: The amount of working hours requested to volunteers will be of 35 hours per week, depending on the effective activities organised by the services. Therefore in some period of the year it could be asked a higher commitment for the implementation of the proposals within an area of service, which will be balanced with a lighter load of work in another ambit (i.e. considering a 35 hours schedule, 15 hours of activities in the Animation area could be balanced with 15 hours of after school for the Social services area, plus 5 hours of tandem learning with info-youth).

The schedule will be jointly agreed between volunteers and the services responsible and will take in consideration the commuting time to move from a working seat to another.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês