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Data de início: 05-03-2015

Data de fim: 04-11-2015

Vagas: 2

Duração: 8 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 11-03-2014

Esta vaga está reservada a voluntários portugueses

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 80 €

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Resumo: The area of Anykščiai regional park is 15 459 ha. To protect its natural and cultural values the park has one natural, four landscape, four geomorphologic, three botanical, one telmological (swamp), four hydrographical and one urbanistic reserve. Forests take up the area of 5029 ha (33 %). The town of Anykščiai is in the centre of the park. 11620 people live here. The town has two gymnasia, a secondary school, schools of arts, music, sports, a public library. From the central bus station buses connect to biggest cities of Lithuania: Vilnius (108 km), Kaunas (109 km), Panevėžys (58 km), Utena (39 km), Ukmergė (40 km).

The town has a few bigger shopping centres, a post office, a clinic and other essential institutions. A market is open almost every day. The town is exceptional because it has the tallest two-towered church of St. Matthew and the orthodox church of St. A. Neviškis. Anykščiai is a favourite tourist destination it has activities to offer during all seasons. Visitors come to see the surrounding natural and cultural values all year round.

Anykščiai area has a number of memorial museums, as well as the only museums of angels and horse in Lithuania. The famous narrow railway is operational during the summer. Those who like to hiking or cycling can take the river Šventoji cognitive path or the new Šventoji left bank path. The path has many resting, camping places, beaches to relax and have fun.

There are two horse riding centres in the area and a riding path of 11 km. Anykščiai is favoured by water tourists who can take the renewed Šventoji water trail. Sailing in the nearby lakes is also very interesting. During the summer seasons other recreational activities are available too: paintball, tree adventure valley. Traditional summer festivals take place in Anykščiai area: festival of horse riding and ethnography “Bėk bėk, žirgeli”, festival of alternative music “Devil’s stone”, Anykščiai city festival and others. Winter attracts attention to the skiing track and the swimming pool.

The volunteer could communicate with the local youth, students and local associations. Youth organization “Prie Sventosios” is established in the village of Andrioniskis (Anyksciai area). The aims of the organization are to promote youth activities, culture, education, social security, community integration, and participation in the creation of multicultural Europe. Near the directorate of the park Anyksciai children and youth centre is established. The centre seeks to develop children’s and youth extra-curricular activities to prevent delinquency and increase their wellbeing in the social environment. Anyksciai area Troskunai Kazys Inciura secondary school has a student organization – student club “Europietis”. Also, the youth organization “Čia gera sugrįžti“ is established in Anykščiai. The main aims of this organisation are the attraction of young people to live in Anykščiai and also to employment of local youth through the voluntary activity and active organisation of the cultural events.

Volunteer who likes art is welcome to join various art studios (dancing, singing) and other clubs (yoga, other hobbies) open in Anykščiai Cultural centre. Other institutions such as Anykščiai music, Anykščiai area arts schools, Anykščiai sports centre can offer different activities too.

Thus, there are a lot of various activity forms in Anykščiai so the volunteer will has an opportunity to find new friends and spend the freetime meaningfully.

Volunteers will live in a rented flat. They will have private rooms and shared facilities. Usually flats have internet available, if not it can be ordered from the local providers. The directorate of Anykščiai regional park is in the centre of the city and is easy to reach from other parts of the city on foot.

Perfil: Anykščiai regional park welcomes volunteer who:
• Is interested in natural and cultural heritage and its protection, seeks to know Lithuanian nature and culture;
• Has basics in English or Russian;
• Is determined to take both physicals and mental tasks;
• Is able to work independently and plan his/her activities;
• Has will and patience to work with local youth and adults;
• Is communicable, motivated, having sense of initiative, creative and curious, able to adapt to new environments;
• Likes travelling on foot or bicycle, outdoor activities in general;
• Is ambitious and peaceful.
All applicants will be considered and evaluated based on how well they suit the general profile of an EVS volunteer and the requirements of the host placement in particular. Primary selection process will be conducted by the sending organization, later by the host organization together with the coordinating organization.

Age between 18 and 30 years old

Tarefas: Depending on the volunteers interests, progress, language skills and sense of initiative he/she will be able to take on various physical and mental tasks in the following areas of the organization’s work.

Tasks in the warm season:
Help with the maintenance of the park’s territory. Anykščiai receives many visitors during the year; therefore touristy places are often littered. Volunteer will join the park’s staff in cleaning the area. Part of this effort is cutting the grass, so volunteers help here will be welcome too.

Help during the monitoring of the biosphere: every year the directorate conducts the day butterfly monitoring in the Šventoji river oxbow (6 km from Anykščiai). Monitoring here needs to be done around 15 times per season. Depending on the year the monitoring of birds is conducted (Lesser spotted eagles, Black storks, Nighjars, Black Woodpeckers, Grey-headed Woodpeckers, Middle spotted woodpeckers, Woodlarks). Every species needs a specialised monitoring technique. Monitoring of dragon flies, moths, amphibians and bats are done too.
There are plans to have an exposition of samples of various plans and animals. Volunteer will contribute to collecting material and preparing it for display.

Tasks in the cold season:
During the 20 years of operation the directorate has assembled a lot and different kind of information about other protected areas. This material needs selection and archiving.
Help during the monitoring of the biosphere. In winter counting of the lynx and the wolf is done based on the footprints.

Tasks year-round:
Help in collecting the park’s natural and cultural heritage picture archive. Volunteers will not only take pictures, but also take videos of natural and cultural sites, various events. Volunteers will have to select, edit, moderate and archive the collected material.

Help in creating informational materials about the park (leaflets, posters etc.) and administrating the webpage. This task could require to work with some special programmes.

Volunteer could learn to work with those programmes. Depending of volunteers ability he/she will be able to prepare information in foreign languages.

The visitors’ centre hosts a modern exposition. Specialists who work there need help too. Volunteer will be able to greet visitors, show the exposition, instruct how to use an audiovisual devices, assist in excursions. Video terminals at the exposition are being constantly updated, so volunteer will be able to collect textual, photo and video materials and adapt it to be displayed in the terminals. Capable and willing volunteer will be able to create their own video reports about the park and showcase them in the visitors’ centre.

Most of the information in the exposition is in Lithuanian, parts are translated into English, and therefore, depending on the volunteers skills, he/she will be able to make further translation to English or to their native language.

Anykščiai regional park hosts yearly event and festivals for children and adults, field excursions, lectures on nature are conducted. Volunteer will contribute to this too. He/she will have a chance to communicate to the local community, present their own culture and traditions. Willing volunteer will be able organize competitions, debate evenings and other events.
Volunteer will be able to explore the fauna and flora of the park on their own.

Volunteer will assist the park’s specialists during the landscape monitoring: take pictures, mark the changes, count tourists, do statistical analysis, prepare presentations for the visitors’ centre.

Volunteer with a higher sense of initiative would be supported by the directorate and could work completely on their own. It would be especially appreciated if volunteer would be able to raise and solve problems in the following areas:
cognitive, educational, promotional and other activities with the aim to introduce the park’s visitors and the local community with the natural and cultural heritage values and bio diversity.

Preparation of the information for tourists, creation of new cognitive paths to go on foot, by bicycle, car, canoe, creation of tracks for the orientation sports, creation of various outdoor lectures for children and adults. Recently the park has opened new places of interest: peer tower, exposition at the visitors’ centre, many natural exposures and other sites are open for tourists. Tourist infrastructure has also been renovated (Sventoji river, Rubikiai water tourism routes, Sventoji river left bank hiking/cycling route and others) and many new plans generated, so volunteers ideas and help in this area would be much appreciated.

Apart from the exposition, the visitors’ centre has a convenient conference hall for various events. Each of the park’s specialists organizes various festivals, competitions, exhibitions, excursions, nature lessons, and press releases. We would expect similar initiatives from volunteer too. Events can take place every week, especially during the warm season. Volunteer would be free to assemble his/her own task force.
New ideas in any of the park’s departments are very welcome and the staff is ready to help.

Tasks for the volunteer will be assigned based on his/her skills and learning priorities. Volunteer will work 5 days per week from Monday to Friday, 7-8 hours per day. Two consecutive days off will be given. During the period from May 1st till October 2nd the directorate works also during Saturdays. Volunteer will get two days of holiday for each service month.

There are a lot of new projects in the Directorate thus the specialists usualy don’t have any routine works. The staff starts the week with the conference every Monday morning. Each employee presents the plans for the week, discuss the weekly tasks with the Director.

It is important to accent that the weekly work shedule for the volunteer will be discuees every Monday, tasks will change depending on the volunteers interests and also progress.

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