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Data de início: 01-04-2019

Data de fim: 01-04-2020

Vagas: 1

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 10-03-2019

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 80 €

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Resumo: The Open Youth Center a non-political, non-profit youth cultural association established in 2011 and based in Lithuania. It is specialized in youth work and operates in fields of non-formal education intercultural learning, it is a place where young people always find space for their ideas, dreams, free time activities.

The ultimate goal is to help young people integrate into society in all its spheres to achieve their permanent socio-economic independence. Center is working on the following activities: developing and implementing nonformal education of young people, organizing workshops, lectures, events, camps, indoor and outdoor activities, provide information and advisory service to help young people in important choices.

Our team: 3 youth workers. Target group we generally work with – all young people (in age of 14 -29) also young families. The Open Youth Center has been active in the field of sending, coordinating and hosting EVS for over 6 years. Experience gained through EVS is priceless in our community and helps our center and team to grow.

The ideas of European Voluntary Service project was inspired by multifaceted benefits, positive changes that were brought by experience gained by various organizations in international volunteering field. Volunteering
facilitates the use of non-formal education ideas in practical activities and encourages its selfeducation.

Project invites everyone to take an enthusiastic step towards professional and human experience for making a better future and to discover their potential of creating a better worldview for a young person. " Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are" Young people are very influenced by the people who surrounds them, how theyimpact them. New people in organization always brings innovative ideas, knowledge, experience for a youth in a small townas our helps to discover the variety of different beliefs and attitudes and interest in active life.

The main objective of this project is to welcome two motivated volunteers who would help to raise awareness among young people and who would be interested to build, discover together an innovative ways, methods of youth work and implement these ways into work with young people in the community that would increase theirs integration into the social environment, an interest in their rights and opportunities in the local and international level. A secure and creative environment will be created to reach this goal and volunteers will be able to implement themselves by helping the host organization to achieve its objectives.

Perfil: Age: 18-30

Tarefas: Youth leisure time, youth policy, youth self-expression, healthy lifestyle, active ageing, creativity, culture, communication with/informing the youngsters is the main topics of the project. So activities for volunteers will be organized according these topics. The main activities for volunteer will be:
* to help other youth wor kers organize/carry out activities (tournaments, events, celebrations and etc.), using their abilities and personal characteristics;
* to run his/her ideas and initiatives (there will be opportunities, create d for self-realization, e.g. teaching their native language, organizing arts/sports events for local youngsters).
* to help the youth center with the promotion of Erasmus+ program, local and intern ation volunteering through workshops, presentations in highschools, other youth centers
* Organize and support the promotion of youth center activities (newsletters, blog , leaflets and other kind of advertisement);
* Write blog articles by telling his/her own stories, activities
* dissemination of project's activities by uploading videos/s tories on youth center website, facebook page organisation's website, Facebook group.
However the daily activites will be organized together with volunteer at the time of arrival

Condições: The volunteers will live together in a local College residence. Each volunteer will have his/her own room and there will be common areas: bathroom, kitchen, living room. The rooms are provided with heating, hot water, internet Wi-Fi, dishes
*140€ for food.
*80€ pocket mone y.
In order to receive the amount the volun teers together with hosting organization have to open an account in the same country in which the association do the transfer. To do that they need a passport.

Local transport
Given the fact that we are in a small town and there’s no public means of transport, the movement to the place where the activities take place will be on foot or by bicycle. (Bicycle is possible to take from youth center) It takes only 10 minutes’ walk to get to the place.

Documentação: CV + Motivation letter