Espanha

4093

Data de início: 01-10-2014

Data de fim: 01-06-2015

Vagas: 1

Duração: 8 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 15-02-2014

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 105 €

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Resumo: Population: 100,000 inhabitants. It is a town with a dynamic society and economy. Its industrial and business centre occupies a lot of people. Services: the City is one of most outstanding ones in Madrid, with over 1000 civil servants and a large number of social, cultural and sport services for its citizens. Regarding youth policies,the city is a pioneer in the development of youth programmes and participation ideas.

The organization, the Youth Area, promotes and organises training and information activities for youth in the town aged between 14 and 35 years. As part of our policy of providing opportunities of participation in European mobility projects, we have been hosting European volunteers who support our work for several years.

This project includes hosting 4 European volunteers for 9 months (October - June). Volunteers will mainly participate in activities in the Youth House, but also in related institutions (Refugee) in the city. This gives us the opportunity of giving organisations and youth collectives and individuals first hand information and a living model of the virtues of such a training and vital experience as this one. Thus, volunteers integrate in the daily work of the organization to collaborate with the promotion, dissemination and organisation of youth activities. They live in shared flats in the town.

Perfil: Age: between 18 and 30 years; legal residence in a country participating in the programme. We prefer volunteers aged between 18 and 25, as our experience has told us that older volunteers tend to leave the project earlier for having several open action plans (masters, work,…).

Profile: volunteers supported and trained by the sending organisation and involved, from the first moment, in the process of search and preparation of the project. They must show motivation and enthusiasm to participate in a European voluntary project, interest of carrying it out in Spain and wish to discover and learn from our culture. Experience and skills to work with young people; people with an open character, as work will continuously done with youth, and people who like to carry out activities with other youth, are participative, dynamic and have initiatives. Basic Spanish skills, to make the relation with other youth easier during the first months, are convenient.
We use several information channels to let know about the participation in our projects:

First, our large contact list of YiA organisations with which we have worked.
second channel: Eurodesk. We have got in touch with a large number of organisations we didn't know.
The selection process is open and transparent: the people in charge of it receive all the information we have about the candidates.
With it, they choose the volunteers. Priorities: motivation and interest for the project, preparation given by sending organisation, voluntary experience and educational background, unselfish character for the voluntary activity, etc.
The call for the posts includes a brief description of the specific activities.

Volunteers shall choose the activity they see themselves more prepared/ motivated for, and this is one of the tools we use to identify the best candidates. People carrying out the recruitment evaluate the information given by candidates and match their options of activities with their profile. Then there is a fist selection and at the end, the projects choose the volunteers.

Tarefas: Beyond the specific activities the EVS volunteers carry out, detailed below; their presence in our activities are an intercultural and motivating message for the young people of our city. When the local youth is in contact with the international volunteers, they learn that international activities such as the EVS are possible and worth participating in. Thus the participation of international volunteers in local activities has motivated local youth to participate in international activities and as EVS volunteers.

In this EI we are requested to explain the service and learning opportunities we can offer the EVS volunteers. For us, after 13 years hosting volunteers, the matter should be considered in opposite terms: what is the contribution of the volunteers to make this a unique experience to learn and experience personal development? The Youth Area supplies the volunteers with a large range of possibilities of action and contacts with young people and associations. An example is the co-management of projects with local youth associations. In these programmes, the local youth in organisations carry out projects with the technical and financial support of the municipality. This is how the consultant's offices of Nature and European Mobility, the programmes of alternative leisure or a good number of youth clubs are carried out. In them, EVS volunteers can participate together with local youth. Nevertheless, our experience has shown us that only some EVS volunteers have the motivation and the interest to go beyond their "duties" as volunteers. This "limited motivation" hinders in fact the learning opportunities and personal development of the international volunteers during their EVS. For that reason, we think that motivation for the project is the most important thing.
Volunteers have in the city, all their needs covered. They participate directly in the Folk's University, in the language course in the programme.

Volunteer's activities in the Youth Area:
" Support the activities of the Ciber, a learning and meeting place. It is managed by the young people of an organisation. Young people can suggest and carry out any activity, together with the project entertainer. It has computers, network games and table games. This project is working since October, 2004, has 8 multimedia computers with access to the Internet. The activities are suggested by the young people: sport, cultural, music activities,... anything is possible here.
" Support to the European Mobility Programme for young people. One of the hosted volunteers in the organization, with the programme manager and the youth technician, supports the development of activities that favour the participation of local young people in European projects. With this aim, the volunteer participates in carrying out activities, diffusion of projects and programmes, as well as in the search of partners. In this project we plan seminars, exchanges, diffusion activities, hosting and sending volunteers, international work-camps and the Leonardo project.
" Support at the Centro. Support accompaniment, information, counselling and entertainment tasks with children and young refugees at the centre, carrying out awareness tasks about refugees in secondary schools and at the Youth Centre. This project has been done in collaboration with the centre's staff and hosted volunteers during the past years.
" Support the Night Leisure Programme. Volunteers participate in the team formed by: 1 project coordinator, 1 youth technician and leaders. They support entertainment tasks, participate in suggestion stage, planning, dissemination and implementation of healthy, fun night leisure "Imagine Your Night", taking place 40 Saturdays a year for young local people aged between 16 and 30 years. They can also participate in "You are the Night of the organization", where young people suggest activities for the programme.
Finally, as coordinating organisation, we commit to ensure the fulfilment of the EVS Charter, carrying out the tasks described in it, as well as fulfilling the aims and objectives of the Programme during our activity and not only in periods in which we carry out the projects.

Horário: European mobility project: Monday and Wednesday, from 4 to 9 pm and Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, from 10 am to 3 pm.
Project "Imagina tu noche": Tuesday, from 4 to 9 pm; Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 10 am to 3 pm; Saturday, from 8 pm to 1 am.
Cyber project: From Monday to Friday, from 4 to 9 pm

Project CAR: Monday, Wednesday, from 10 am to 3 pm; Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, from 3 to 8 pm.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês