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Data de início: 01-09-2012

Data de fim: 01-09-2013

Vagas: 2

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 18-12-2011

Esta vaga está reservada a voluntários portugueses

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 115 €

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Resumo: Themes: Minorities, media communication, youth information, social work

Special considerations about the Host organization: Caritas is located in the city of Bolzano, South-Tyrol. This region is very special seen that it has a particular history and it's bilingual (Italian and German). The local culture has Austrian basis. The service is developed mainly in German.

The Autonomous Province of Bolzano-Bozen has a population of 498.857 people. Historically, the main language groups are German speakers who amount to 69,15% of the total, Italian 26,47% and Ladin 4,37%. 73% of the people living in the capital city of Bolzano belong to the Italian linguistic group, 26,29% to the German and 0,71% to the Ladin (according to the 2001 census).
At the end of 2008 36.284 foreign nationals, including EU-citizens (UE-27), were living permanently in the province of Bolzano. This number has increased by 10.1% from the year before. Among foreign nationals 32.3% (11.728) are EU-citizens, 35.4% come from European countries outside the EU. 14.5% foreign nationals are from Asia, 13.1% come from the African continent. These figures show that on the total number of the population in South Tyrol, the number of resident foreign nationals has incresed from 6.7% at the beginning of 2008 to 7,3% at the end of the same year. Additionally, 50% of the total number of foreign nationals are aged between 25 and 45. Nearly 30% of the total number of foreign nationals are children or young people, This proportion is not much higher among Italian citizens living in the province of Bolzano.

The large number of researches conducted on the youth culture in Italy and in Europe have shown a decrease in interest towards active political and social participation of young generations. More interest is shown towards associations, even though more and more often young people tend to diminish their particpation also in this field. In other words, in developed societies young people demonstrate a limited interest in the chances and future of the society. As a consequence, the full exercise of young people's rights and duties as citizens is likely to be jeopardized.

A survey on youth attitude towards politics - which do not correspond to political institutions but to decision making processes regarding community life - was conducted in the province of Bolzano. The survey has shown a limited interest in political issues. Only 6.2% are interested in politics at local level, 6.8% at provincial level, 8.9% at national level and 12.0% at internatioanl level. Nonetheless, education issues have appeared to be of major interest, amounting to 71.2%. Other topics are of minor interest. For example, one third or a little more of young people participating in the survey are interested in human rights, 30% are interested in peace and disarmement and one fifth in women's rights and in problems related to globalizations. The South Tyrolean youth doesn't show a great interest towards social issues. Large groups of young people show no interest in politics - at the local, national or international level - nor in social issues, environmental or social ethic issues.

Regarding membership in associations: about half of the 14 to 25-year-olds is member of a sports association, one fourth is member of a cultural or free time association, students' association or youth association. Only a very small percentage is part of a group representing strong values as environmental protection (4,0%), political associations (3,4%) or protection of human rights (2,1%). A comparision with the survey of 1999 shows that membership in human rights associations is decreasing.

The question regarding the conditions which could increase the participation in associations demonstrated that membership is seen as an opportunity for personal future, as it allows to learn new things, to meet and measure with others, etc. There is also a social component: "it has to be important to society". This condition was mentioned by more than a fifth of the young people interviewed. Compared with the previous survey, this perception seems to be growing.

The offices of youngCaritas are located in the main offices of Diocesan Caritas Bolzano-Bressanone in Bolzano. youngCaritas is working mainly with young people, both from the German and the Italian language group, living in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano-Bozen. Important partners of youngCaritas are high school and secondary school students and all young people motivated and interested in making an experience in voluntary work.

Perfil: Volunteers' profile:

• interest in social subject
• sensibility to people with fewer opportunities (like homeless people, HIV+, etc.) and openes to work in direct contact with them
• it's mandatory a good knowledge of German (please consider that Bolzano is a bi-lingual city)
• openness to have interpersonal contact
• motivation to work in a dynamic team (in the office s well as in schools and directly with people)
• creativity and maturity to develop your own activities and small projects

The project is open to all young people motivated to work with young people, schools and youth groups. The volunteers have to be open, interested and willing to work in team and interested in social and multicultural issues. It would be of advantage if the volunteers already had basic knowledge of German and/or Italian, but this is not an essential requirement.

Tarefas: During the voluntary service, meetings with the responsible staff of the service and with the manager of the volunteering unit will be held in order to discuss the experiences of the voluntary work.

The volunteers will not substitue a regular work position but collaborate with members of the host organization team. During the service they will be always assisted by youngCaritas staff.

The volunteers are welcome to enrich the organization with new ideas and feedbacks and assist staff members to organize workshops, to manage autonomously single steps of a project, to participate in drafting projects on education and on awareness raising, to participate in meetings on project presentation and project promotion, to promote voluntary work through activities organized by young volunteers, to take part in training courses and meetings, to elaborate, produce and distribute information material, to inform and educate about intercultural dialogue, to assist and support different initiatives and laboratories in schools and in parish churches. The volunteers will have the opportunity to learn about activities and projects carried by volunteers and work in the planning, organization, implementation and evaluation of those projects. The volunteers will have the opportunity to promote the project "Insieme per un mondo più solidale" in schools and assists students participating in the project. The volunteers will present the project "Corsa dei miracoli" in secondary schools and will support the school classes in the organization of the project. Furthermore, they will have the opportunity to present their own ideas and opinions in order to elaborate new projects together.

The volunteers will work in the offices of the host organization. In the beginning they will have the opportunity to learn about the different offices of Caritas Diocesi Bolzano-Bressanone in order to gain an overall idea of the work of Caritas and to learn about some of the services offered by Caritas (e.g. the section for homeless people). After that, the volunteer will work together in the offices of youngCaritas and follow the staff in their daily work (organization and implementation of workshops and projects, accompanying young volunteers, developing new projects, work in information and awareness raising, …)

Horário: The young volunteers will work 30-35 hours/week, from Monday to Friday. Sometimes the volunteer will be requested to work also during weekends. In any case the volunteer will not work more than 5 days/week and will always have 2 days off. A typical working day could be scheduled in the following way:

9-11 hrs Preparation of information and education materials
(for the seminars of the "visite di solidarietà", workshops in schools, workshops in summer camps, project presentations, ..)
11-13 hrs Visits and evaluation of different projects
(visiting the volunteers working within the project "insieme x un mondo + solidale", presenting the project "corsa dei miracoli" in schools, participating in the seminars of the "visite di solidarietà)
13-14 hrs Lunch break
14-15 hrs Meeting of the team and planning of the next activities
15-16 hrs Running activities
Updating websites, facebook
Evening Italian and/or German language classes

Formação: The volunteers will work in with the Host Organization, its partners and other partners working with young people and young adults in the social area. The volunteers will be part of a team and they will participate in group meetings and in meetings with other volunteers. They will have the opportunity to see the work of the offices involved in the programme. They will have the possibility to participate in the project management of educational events, meetings, conferences, projects etc.

Furthermore, they will have the chance to meet other young people working in volunteering. The experience will be important for the development and the growth of the volunteer and it will have a positive impact on his/her self-esteem and indipendence. Additionally, the voluntary service will help the volunteer to develop or discover social and professional competences. With the support of German and Italian language classes, the volunteer will have the opportunity to learn two foreign languages and to practice them everyday. Housing and kitchen facilities are available in one of the buildings of the host organization in the center of Bolzano.

The EVS Programme will give the volunteer the opportunity to gain an intercultural experience and it will favour contacts and friendship between young people from different countries. The volunteer will be able to get to know a new and multicultural city (German-Italian). Furthermore, s/he will adquire new skills like: project planning, organization, implementation and evaluation of projects, intercultural and communication skills, knowledge of the youth work in South Tyrol, knowledge concerning social issues, peace, globalization, poverty, cultural diversity and social responsibility. S/he will learn about the conditions of the homeless and marginalized people in South Tyrol, about the situation of the eldery, refugees and immigrants and s/he will explore diverse forms of poverty.

The Italian/German language classes will be counted as working hours. The activities will depend on the interests, skills and competences of the volunteers. As there is a borad range of activities, each volunteer will have the opportunity to dedicate him/herself to a topic/activity of his/her own particular interest.

Documentação: HOW TO APLLY:

1-) If you would like to participate in this selection process, please mention on the top of the application "Selection process 2012 – Caritas Diocesi Bolzano-Bressanone”

2-) You should send us in the application following documents/information:
- CV (in English or Italian, better to follow the Europass format)
- motivation letter specific to the host organization in which you would like to do your service
(in the motivation letter you should explain why would you like to participate in the EVS, why
Italy, why this specific project, what do you think you could learn, which could be the difficulties
you could face, etc.);
- a picture (if you haven't added to your CV)
For the moment, there is no need to fill other forms or send any document by regular post. The
email with the documents and information requested should be sent to
3-) After the 19th December, the selection will be officially closed and we will proceed with some
phone interviews.
We will be waiting for your application!