EVS di 6 mesi in Slovacchia

YouNet (2010-it-93) as sending organisation is looking for volunteers for the project proposed by the Slovakian hosting organisation Centrum voľného času (2010-SK-16) that will start from March 2011 and last 6 months. If you are interested be very quick and send your CV and motivation letter immediately to evs@you-net.eu. Bear in mind that the first suitable candidate will get the place so hurry up.

Project environment

The project will take place in the Centre of Leisure Time in Gelnica. Some activities may take place in the local area of the town Gelnica.
The town Gelnica is a small town in the eastern Slovakia. Because of its geography Gelnica is the centre of Hnilec Valley. There are about 6000 inhabitants in Gelnica. There is one primary school, one grammar school and an art school in the town. The centre of the town is formed by few small shops, supermarkets, groceries, basic services and a small Tesco. There is a town hall, the Mining museum, hospital, fire and a police station, catholic, greek-catholic and protestant churches. There are few small evening bars and a disco in Gelnica and in a nearby town.
A beautiful area in the surrounding of Gelnica gives various possibilities for summer and winter sports. We have many tourist and cyclo roads and a natural lake here, too.There are cross-country skiing roads in Gelnica and its surrounding and few skilifts with very good skiing conditions in the area of 30 km around Gelnica. There are ice-hockey and football stadiums, multi-functional and tennis courts, school gyms and a small school swimming pool. There is a railway and bus station, too. The town is situated 45 km from the central city of the eastern Slovakia - Kosice, which offers many other sport, cultural and entertainment possibilities (skilifts, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, cinemas, theatres, shopping centres, restaurants, music clubs and discos). The town Gelnica is situated about 400 km from Bratislava - the capital city of Slovakia, 630 km from Prague - Czech Republic, 490 km from Vienna - Austria, 300 km from Budapest - Hungary, 220 km from Krakow - Poland.
A geographical position of the town on the East of Slovakia, Roma social problems and poor economic situation of the town cause an unemployment rate about 20%. Children, the young and the adults have many financial problems, they have very few possibilities to find work, to travel abroad. The majority has an average or under-average standard of living. There is a Roma community in the town, too. Many children have education and behaviour problems, their families live in very poor living conditions.
The Centre of Leisure Time is situated in a very nice old villa almost in the middle of the town. The building of the Centre consists of two bigger rooms for sport and cultural events, as well as for dance clubs, and of four small classrooms where IT clubs, language clubs and environmental clubs work. There is also a self-made fitness room, a large garden with a tennis court, garden chess board, fireplace and few nice places for outdoor activities in the Centre of Leisure Time.
We closely cooperate with the town council, local and regional schools and kindergardens. The Centre of Leisure Time organizes together with the town council of Gelnica public cultural or sport events such as Gelnická desiatka - the cycling competition, Gelnický š¾apajcug - huge touristic day for almost 500 people from the region, St. Nicolas day or Childrens ´ day. We usually help the schools by servicing or organizing sport events (football, volleyball, handball or table tennis matches, swimming or running competitions) and we are responsible for organizing school subject competitions (history, geography, biology, language, singing competitions). Therefore, the volunteer may be helpful on various events taking place not only in the Centre of Leisure Time but also at schools in our region or outdoors in the town, at football stadium or other sport places.

Proposed activities
In terms of learning opportunities we can offer to volunteers free Slovak and German language courses. In the case that a volunteer will be a non IT-skilled person we can offer a free basic IT-course. A whole working time period of a volunteer in the Centre of Leisure Time will be a so called running "Leisure Time Animator course" for the volunteer as he will learn many ways how to spend leisure time with children or the young of any age. A volunteer will also attend On-arrival and Mid-term meetings organized by our National agency. A volunteer will meet another volunteers in Slovakia. He also may meet them in his free time.
The volunteer will be integrated in our internal team of pedagogical workers and he/she will assist us while organizing clubs. He/she may choose among English language, sport or Roma clubs where he/she will organize games, activities. He/she will meet children, communicate with them, prepare materials for them, plan interesting events, competitions for them, too. The volunteer will also assist on our common events or outdoor activities for example balls, children days, bigger sport events and competitions. He/she will help with the presentation of members on our events, giving out food, preparing or copying materials, organizing indoor or outdoor games. The volunteer may organize trips for children to the cimena or to swimming pool, trips to the countryside, cleaning any part of the town, he/she may work on his own small and short-time projects including our children with the aim to motivate them for doing anything meaningful but not staying on the street on their own. The volunteer will also be helpful in the computer class. He can do basic IT work with children like copying, printing, designing our posters and leaflets we often use for propagation of cultural events. In the case he will not be computer skilled he will just supervise children and this will be a possibility for him to learn computers and to use internet also for his private purpose, to communicate with his family, friends and sending organisation. The IT skilled volunteer will help with computers, web-site, IT problems, creating materials for clubs or our activities, all these depending on skills and knowledge of the volunteer.
According to the interests, hobbies and abilities of a volunteer, he/she will be able to create his/her own program. In any case there will be a lot of space for individual creativity and fantasy to develop new projects and find attractive themes regarded to the interests of young people, where the volunteer can perfect themselve. The role of the volunteer should mainly be to offer his/her special skills to children and young people, connected to and co-ordinated with the usual program of the CLT.
Volunteers who will work in Gelnica in the summer period will help during the summer camps. We usually organize on-site summer camps. This means that children stay in the CLT or outside of the town with us daily from 8 a.m. till 16 p.m. only. In the summer time we organize sport days for not-professional players: children, the young and adults. The volunteer may help to organize these events but he may also take part in them as a team player.
On working days the volunteer will have a break or a chance to go for lunch. Our workers get cooked lunch at the nearby grammar school every day except weekends and holidays. The volunteer will work 6 hours a day, 5 days a week with following two days off. But working hours can be arranged flexibly as well. There will be always contact with the English speaking supervisor and the mentor, even in leisure time when help and support is needed.

Description of the hosting organisation

The Centre of Leisure Time is a local public organisation in Gelnica. We have 50 years old history in the town and region and we have been creating different conditions for organizing educational, training and recreational activities during the whole year for children: kindergarten children, primary school pupils, grammar school students and for the young untill 30 years old, including one group of disabled people, street dancers, mothers on maternity leave with their children and children from the Roma community in our town. These all are our target group we generally work with.
Our main aim is to organize a meaningful leisure time for children and the young, to form active citizens who are able to live in an open society and to teach the young to live with people, to communicate and to spend their leisure time meaningfully. We offer: various activities in a leisure time with professional team, healthy lifestyle, equality of opportunities, reasonable communication, tolerance and solidarity, safety, friendship and team cooperation, aesthetic environment, development of talents, nonformal education, participation on the life of the Centre and the town Gelnica.
Our leisure time activities are divided into: 1. Regular activities in various clubs, such as sports (tennis, table tennis, football, handball, martial art and gymnastics), computers and internet, dance (HIP HOP, break dance, latino, black bottom dance and majorettes), languages (English, German) and nature/environmental clubs (we have about 553 members at the moment); 2. Organization and service of many events (for example Halloween, St. Nicolas day, Easter day), sport competitions, exhibitions and trips for children; 3. Holiday activities such as summer camps, sport competitions or special workshops; 4. Individual work with talented children, supporting those with fewer opportunities (Roma community and disabled people); 5. Pedagogical supervising in the Centre of Leisure Time on holidays and weekends.
We are open from 9 a.m. till 18 p.m. from Monday to Friday and from 13 p.m. till 17 p.m. on Saturdays. Our members visit the Centre of Leisure Time mostly in the afternoon hours. Mornings are usually spent by administration work or preparations for clubs and events. In the afternoon, children come to their clubs to the Centre of Leisure Time. Some clubs work outside at schools or in kindergardens. We are also open on school holidays but not on bank (state) holidays.
The organizational structure of the Centre of Leisure Time is formed by the department of sport, culture, natural environment, languages and department for Roma minorities. 5 internal pedagogical workers and 2 administration and service employees stay daily in the Centre of Leisure Time. Together with 13 external workers we are responsible for the organisation of all clubs, sport and cultural events of the Centre of Leisure Time and for some public events of the town.

Per maggiori info sullo SVE e sulla sending organisation contattateci a evs@you-net.eu o andate sulla pagina del nostro blog relativa allo SVE http://serviziovolontarioeuropeo.blogspot.com/p/progetti-attualmente-attivi.html.

EVS di 12 Mesi in Ungheria con giovani e bambini

YouNet (2010-it-93) as sending organisation is looking for volunteers for the project proposed by the Hungarian hosting organisation Compass (2010-HU-18) that will start from March 2011 and last one whole year. If you are interested be very quick and send your CV (with photo) and motivation letter immediately to evs@you-net.eu. Bear in mind that the first suitable candidate will get the place so hurry up.

The tasks of the volunteer:

-Attendance to Compass Ability Quest later making self sufficient Ability Quests. The most important tasks of the volunteer:

- Language clubs.

The volunteer have to lead language clubs for youth the age between 6-30 but in some case for elders also. The aim of these clubs is to teach language for the local youngsters, using the methods of the non-formal education. The volunteer has to use/teach her/his own language and English. The volunteer has to tech the participants to communicate in foreign language. They have to prepare for every lessons, choose and discuss about different name, like sport, culture, movies, history, or anything which is interesting for the participants.

Background work: the volunteer has to prepare every week for the following weeks for the language clubs. They have to find theme, photos, movies, games which they can use in the clubs for teaching and practising languages. He has to prepare some written accessories for the Compass Ability Quest, partly documenting the effects of the program.

The tools of the program: team building, sport and role playing games and self development training. During the small group programs the youngsters discover the new knowledge together and share experiences. Through the volunteer they discover a whole new culture.

- Language lessons in local secondary schools

The volunteer usually goes to local secondary schools, to take part in language lessons. This is useful for the local community because they have a chance to hear and learn from a native speaker who lives in the country of the language what they learn. By this they can improve their communication skills in several kind of themes which is connecting to the country where the volunteer came from.

• Take part in popularization of the Youth In Action program

We regulary go to local schools, make presentations, take part in youth events in the city and in the region, make conferences in city hall, county hall, or in different kind of events. In these events one of our task is to popularize the Youth In Action program, the EVS and our own projects. The volunteer has to take an active part in these events, use their own ideas, presentations, ideas. They have to build up presentations, make talk in conferences, introductions in the mentioned events.

• Summer camp

The volunteer has to lead groups in summer camps. These camps are for Hungarians and also for foreign. For Hungarian groups we make these camps as intensive language course, so the volunteer have to figure out tasks, activities, games, programs, articles, for the youngsters for the participants to make them practise the English language in through activities and to learn it in the real life.

• Useful freetime activity

The volunteer should to provide, or offer possibility for take part in useful free time activity for the local youth depending on the abilities or possibilities of the volunteer. For example involve the youth to sport activities, or art programs or any kind what the volunteer is interested in.

• Accommodation, workplace

We expect the volunteer to:

• totally respect of the accommodation provided by the placement and the rules of common life.

• Provide sending and hosting organisation with written reports in every month as required.

• Take care conscientiously of the materials and objects that are being provided by the hosting organisation (camera, phone furnitures etc) for him/her in order to fullfill the goals and objectives of the project much easier, if not required to pay the equivalent amount of money for each one in part.

• In the accommodation the volunteer has to take care about the cleaning, washing up the dishes, take care of the appointments

• The volunteers has to keep clean the part of the office where he works. After the language clubs he or them has to take away the mess, if there is any, put back the materials (games, cards, papers, pens, etc) what they used in to their place.

• Take seriously her/his commitment to the whole period

• Support the aims and methods of the placement and to carry out conscientiously and to the best of her/his knowledge the tasks related to her service

• Support the aims and methods of the placement and to carry out conscientiously and to the best of her/his knowledge the tasks related to her service

• The volunteer agrees to complete a voluntary service within above named placement.

Work time:

• Maximum 35 hours weekly

• Daily agenda: 10:00 to 18:00

• Free days: two days per every week. (Sutarday, Sunday) The work hours are flexible depending on the volunteer’s and the instructor’s needs. If the volunteer has to work on the weekend, then the volunteer gets the free day in another time.

• One month the volunteer has two free days! it means that during 12 month the volunteer has 24 days for holiday.

EVS in Danimarca in un asilo per bambini dai 3 ai 6 anni

YouNet (2010-it-93) as sending organisation is looking for volunteers for the project proposed by the Danish hosting organisation Kindergarten Sunshine (2010-DK-13) that will start from April 2011 and last 9 months. If you are interested be very quick and send your CV (with photo) and motivation letter immediately to evs@you-net.eu before the 21th of October. Bear in mind that the first suitable candidate will get the place so hurry up.

Project environment

The Kindergarten Solstraalen is a large institution with four home groups, each having their own rooms. The fact that the children has their "own" room and that they are taken care of by the same staff members every day, makes them feel more safe and relaxed. However, they are of course allowed to be in all the other areas of the institution as well. We also have a big activity room where we can do major activities with the activities.

Our playground is large and provides the children with a lot of possibilities for play.

The kindergarten is located in Tarm at the southern end of the Ringkøbing Inlet in West Jutland.

Tarm is ideal If you would like to experience the countryside of Denmark, as it situated in natural surroundings with open heath areas and is close to the sea.

Activities such as windsurfing, fishing, kite flying, walks or boat trips on the Fjord are just some of the outdoor activities you can do here. There are also plenty of possibilties for activities such as walking, cycling, bird watching or horseriding.

You can find more information about Tarm and surroundings at http://visittarm.dk/content/view/1/2/lang,en/

At the homepage http://www.solstraalens-website.dk/galleri/index.php you can see pictures from the Kindergarten Solstraalen.

Proposed activities for EVS volunteers

We hope that the presence of the volunteer will give both staff, children and parents an intercultural learning experience.

The EVS-activities will be adapted to the qualifications and interests of the individual volunteer and he/she will be working together with one of the staff members who will support and guide him/her when needed.

The volunteer will be attached to one of the home groups and will help the staff in the daily work of the home group.

The volunteer is very welcome to make his/her own activities with the children, and we will do our best to help and support the volunteer so that the EVS-stay with us will meet his/her expectations.

Examples of activities in the kindergarten:

- outdoor games: e.g.ball games, playing in the sand box, rope skipping etc.

- indoor games: e.g. drawing, painting, bead work, preparing fruit and making bread together with the children, playing board games and other creative activities

- various seasonal themes during the year

- excursions in the nature every Tuesday

- work with the language capabilities of the children through reading, story telling, rhymes, and play

Lodging and boarding

AFS will provide a host family for the volunteer. The life in a host family will facilitate the integration in the local community and will accelerate the process of both language and intercultural learning.

The volunteer will be invited to social events arranged by the local AFS chapter and in that way he/she will meet other volunteers, exchange students and host families.

Volunteer profiles and recruitment process

The volunteer should be interested in working with children of this age group and must also have the patience required.

We also expect the volunteer to be openminded and able to speak english on a conversational level.

Description of the hosting organisation

Solstraalen is a public kindergarten. We have 100 children at the age 3 to 6 who spend the weekdays in the kindergarten. There are 18 staff members taking care of the children.

Care, play, respect and experience are the basis for our work with the children, and one of the main objectives of our work is to help the children develop their self-esteem and teach them how to interact with other people in different contexts.

The children are divided up into four "home groups", and each staff member has the responsibility for a limited number of children.

Approx. 20% of our children have Danish as their 2nd language and for 15 hours every week they receive intensive Danish language training and an introduction to Danish culture and traditions in order to facilitate their integration into Danish society.

Bambini del centro, EVS con giovani e bambini in Repubblica Ceca

YouNet (2010-IT-93) as sending organisationand YMCA (2009-CZ-2) as hosting organisation are looking for one volunteer for the project “For youth in Usti nad Labem 2011” and to apply for at the 1st of November 2010 deadline. If you are interested be very quick and send your CV and motivation letter immediately to evs@you-net.eu and jan.bartonicek@usti.ymca.cz (possibly before the 20th). Bear in mind that the first suitable candidate will get the place so hurry up.

Place: Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic

Start of the project: February 2011 –March 2011

End of the project: December 2011 – February 2012

Length: 10 to 12 months

The volunteer will work together with other two EVS volunteers and under the lead of the project manager.

Project activities:

Youth club Orion is a drop-in centre for children and youth and is the main activity for our EVS volunteers. The volunteer will spend most of the time participating in free time activities with children and youth in the club, help social workers with the regular running of the club (cleaning, lending the equipment). Free time activities involve: table soccer and tennis, desktop games, juggling equipment, basic music equipment (keyboards, drums and microphones) and computers with Internet. He/she can also organize and lead some basic educational activities: learning English, small workshops, etc.

Other activities are set according to organisation needs and volunteer`s willingness individually:

1) Climbing wall assistance - He/she will help with climbing activities for public in commercial climbing centre, where visitors have to pay some fee.

2) “Your country” club - The volunteer has an opportunity and our support to organize and lead his/her own activity about his/her country, language, culture, food, etc. This activity is usually open to the public and takes place each week or twice in a month.

3) Mother `s centre assistance– Female EVS volunteer can spend several hours each week in one of our mother centre helping with running the centre or its activities for infants, small children and their families.

4) Other irregular activities- to help with organizing and running short-term activities and projects, which includes concerts, exhibitions, tournaments, lectures, free time actions, trips and promotion activities .

The volunteer should fulfil certain criteria, which are essential for success of his/her EVS project in our organisation.

Volunteer must be:

very motivated for the work with non-organized children and youth,

responsible person, who is able to meet agreed tasks and schedule,

communicative person with at least basic level of English for everyday communication.

The project is very suitable for volunteers, who are interested in work with children and youth and social work in general or free time activities with non-organized children and youth.

For more details about the project, city and living conditions, please read here:

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_form_en.cfm?EID=26000232901

or we will send you email with all the information on request.

Candidates can send their CVs and motivation letters immediately. Do not hesitate to contact me with further questions.

Per maggiori info sullo SVE e sulla sending organisation contattateci a evs@you-net.eu o andate sulla pagina del nostro blog relativa allo SVE http://serviziovolontarioeuropeo.blogspot.com/p/progetti-attualmente-attivi.html.

EVS in Estonia on media, communication and youth information

YouNet (2010-it-93) as sending organisation is looking for volunteers for the project proposed by the Estonian hosting organisation VitaTeam (2008-EE-20) that will start on the 20-th of February and end on the 20-th of December. If you are interested at this project please send a CV and motivational letter both in english at evs@you-net.eu and katenewyork@gmail.com before the 16th of October.

Project environment:

Narva is the biggest city in Ida-Viru County, has more than 60 000 citizens. The base for the volunteer is Narva city, where VITATEAM has an office (small room in Mainori High School). The office is situated near Russian boarder, and has a very nice view. VITATEAM office is at the same time Info Support Centre, where is possible to get information and help of workers during the day (possibility to use Internet to find information, print needed information or get infobooklets).

Local infrastructure is good. There are buses as well from Narva to other cities in Estonia and Russia as well every day. Most important industries are textile production and electricity industry, and tourism. Near Narva city is Narva-Jõesuu resort town (12 km from Narva city), where is very nice during the summer and very peaceful during the winter. The climate of Narva-Jõesuu is very good for health. VITATEAM activities takes place in different parts of Ida-Viru County. Narva city is a boarder town to Russia (due to geographical situation Narva city is a majority with Russian speaking population (96%) and minority in Estonia).

VITATEAM would like to be more active regarding youth and show all the possibilities that there are today with youth exchanges and discovery of new cultures, and by that also achieve a positive approach among the youth. The volunteer will get the possibilities to learn from a new culture and to get a good insight into a foreign language (Russian and Estonian), a culture democratic system, ways to solve problems, social rights and the public service. And youth will get the possibility to learn a lot from volunteer as well.

We offer:

- the accommodation,

- a possibility to learn Russian and Estonian languages (in practice it is come to use Russian),

- also at the beginning of EVS service we provide info training on being, living and working here (the volunteer will get a good fulfilling introduction including knowledge of the society, culture, history and day to day life in Narva and its surroundings. The first weeks will be focused on those matters and solving practical issues, more than the project work itself)

Proposed activities for EVS volunteers:

VITATEAM support always people, and do not forget to support own stuff. There are always possibilities to learn something new at work, and outside in everyday life, and also we are always aware of existing courses and trainings. All EVS project is going to be learning opportunities.

The volunteer will get a chance to know the Ida-Viru County youth work system and a possibility to see different places outside of County as well where we work in cooperation with our partners and different methods that we use.

The volunteer always works together with the members of our staff.

The role of EVS volunteers in the host organisation is to be part of one team in developing strategically directions and implementing activities on local, regional and European level. Especially EVS volunteers are welcome to help us with European activities (international youth and youth workers projects). And also taking care of VITATEAM homepage in a future (in English or volunteer mother tongue).

There is going to be developed individual plan for a volunteer with taking important issues for volunteer. It will Depend on the volunteer skills, interests and wishes, and she or he will be encouraged to build up his/her own typical day. The personal background and skills will be highly welcomed and taken as inputs for new activities in frame of VITATEAM work. Though we are going to offer an alternative schedule for the volunteers if he/she himself finds it more convenient.

The Typical Day of the volunteer:

According to the above written, the activities of the volunteer will be organised during all day. He/she will work not more than 6-7 hours a day and not more than 40 hours per week. If some activities where volunteer is involved will take place during weekends substitute days off will be offered during the weekdays. Since the volunteer has to live and work in Ida-Viru Count, it's important that he/she understands that the schedule can be flexible in case of necessity.

Weekly time table:

Monday: Russian or Estonian language class, Meeting with coordinator, and others volunteers if they are.

Tuesday: Preparing information-sessions/ WEB-update/ Working with VITATEAM- projects

Wednesday: Travel to different places for meetings: Information meetings including volunteer own culture and the Youth programme

Thursday: Follow up from earlier meeting and work at the office

Friday: Working with Youth-projects or personal project, producing information material, update web-site

Weekends are free (if there is no special working activities run by VITATEAM).

But generally VITATEAM has ideas for volunteer:

-the volunteers will inform local youth regarding the volunteers own region, which is probably quite unknown in Ida-Viru County (and we do understand that in the beginning the language will not be the main tool: will be offered to use different tools like painting, and at the beginning we can work with youth at age under 13 years old). This information will be a brief information regarding history and culture with the aim to spread knowledge of the region volunteer comes from and to start a communication and an interest to learn more of the volunteers region. There is going to be info section of volunteer home region in Info Support Centre and homepage.

- working at Info Support Centre from Monday to Friday 10:00 till 18:00 (time can be changed to the moment EVS volunteers come, and it depends on seasons also). And at the beginning we try to give work connected to making designs, posters for events, info leaflets, etc. (where is no need to have very good language skills)

- support youth in their initiatives with international projects and local as well (we have a group of youth who wishes to open youth café in Narva city, for example) or intercultural clubs.

- be actively involved and organise information meetings in schools of Ida-Viru County regarding the Youth Programme. The volunteer will plan information activities with the aim to increase the knowledge and interest among youth in Ida-Viru County (and especially the rural areas of Ida-Viru County). Activities such as collecting material, write an own presentation, as well as take direct contact with the schools will be the volunteers responsibility, of course with assistance from the VITATEAM office.

Volunteer profiles and recruitment process:

As our organisation values creative ideas and initiative from the volunteers the individuals who are self-starters and comfortable working with less structure and supervision are encouraged to apply for our EVS project. Volunteer should be with high self initiative and also with high motivation to learn Russian language. Though we are open to any volunteers who have interest to participate in the project.

The age should be between 18-30 years.

Description of the organisation

The strategic goals of VITATEAM:

- to initiate and organize various actions and activities for different age groups, in order to promote the development of skills, knowledge and increase the competence through non-formal education.

- to consult people of Ida-Viru region about opportunities of participation in different activities in the field of non-formal education.

- to offer cooperative activities in the frame of life-long learning with other partner organisation.

Values VITATEAM:

- The person is the centre of an every event.

- Cooperation: we work with everyone who is interested in, in order to use available resources for the idea realization.

- Voluntary-based principle: we work as well on the voluntary-based principle which helps us to provide better quality and bring more active people into youth field..

There are 4 persons at the moment directly involved into VITATEAM work:

-head of organisation

-1 member supporting VITATEAM on voluntary bases

- 2 workers

Activities:

VITATEAM provides a variety of services and activities for young people in Ida-Viru County. Our most important task is to make a young person and grown-up people as well to trust and believe in his/her own capabilities. We work on the field of informal education.

Most of our work is connected to youth work, and we do it Narva, Narva-Jõesuu, Sillamäe, Olgino village, Jõhvi city, Kohtla-Järve and Kiviõli (there are others small villages where we do our work).

The institutions we work with: schools, hobby schools, youth open centres, youth organisations and municipalities, labor market as well. We have partners on regional, state and European level. In nearest 2-3 years EVS programme is going to be priority in our daily work.

We also support local youth associations, organisations and different activity informal groups of young people by offering them free counselling service, and supporting also in doing their activities through projects.

We initiate 2-3 days trainings on different topics connected to career guidance.

Briefly, VITATEAM's working forms are:

- counselling service

- trainings service

- career guidance service

- pilot projects (for example, "Involving guys into youth work", supporting youth willing to open YOUTH CAFÉ, and so on)

In our own activities our most important target group are young people from 14 to 26 years old, and youth leaders and workers as well.

Filming EVS in Slovenia

YouNet (sending organisation) and Trbovlje Youth Centre (hosting organisation) wishes to apply for EVS projects on November deadline to host two or three volunteers from 1.6. 2011 on. Volunteers will be working in youth centre with youth age from 10 to 18, filming short movies and developing their own projects. We wish to host volunteers for at least 6 months.

For more information go at http://www.you-net.eu/EVS/EVSProgrammeSlovenia.doc.
To apply for this project download and fill the application at http://www.you-net.eu/EVS/ApplicationFormSlovenia.doc and send it by mail at evs@you-net.eu and evs@mct.si before the 20th of October.

PROJECT DETAILS
Duration of project: 01/06/2011 – 31/12/2011
Duration of the activity: within 01/06/2011 – 31/12/2011
Place: Trbovlje / Slovenia
Host organization: Mladinski center Trbovlje / Rudarska 6 / SI - 1420 Trbovlje
Coordinating organization: Mladinski center Trbovlje / Rudarska 6 / SI - 1420 Trbovlje
EVS manager: Karmen Murn / evs@mct.si / +3863 563 2460
Reference number: 2010-SI-44

WHAT IS MCT
Youth centre Trbovlje (MCT) is a public body, established in 2002. Our main activity is concern for youth in our local area. We offer information and guidance, ways of non-formal education, international experiences, culture and art and many more. We promote healthier life style (food, sport, and sustainability), voluntarism, alternative approach to consumer society and other social and personal values. Youth centre Trbovlje is open every day from 8.00 till 21.00. We have well developed local and international network with partners in all sorts of organisations such as other youth organisations, school, associations and clubs and municipalities. We organise regular activities in our MCT klub Sonček (created by young people it self) and many other places (school, park, organisations). Our organisation has no membership, but there are many followers and enthusiastic co-workers as well as participants.

WORK PROGRAMME
These are proposed activities former volunteers enjoyed participating in them:
• 1 day per week in Radio Kum
Radio Kum is a regional radio with a long lasting tradition. Every Friday afternoon Radio offers two hours of the programme to group of young people to create their own Youth wave (Mladinski val). This programme has also a long tradition, however this year MCT applied Youth Initiative to Youth in Action programme called Youth on the air (Mladi.v.eter) made to completely rejuvenate and to improve this so called Mladinski val. Person responsible for this project, has already started to work with the group of 10 young people who are working on this project, preparing them to the real life of a radio journalist. Your job is to join the team to add the European segment and to promote EVS and other possibilities that EU offers young people. Programme will be created entirely by the group of young people and is on the air every Friday at least until the end of the year 2010. Being a part of the team means to prepare the stories, talk about the possible guests, filming the production behind the scene etc.
• 1 day per week movie making
We have a film section working in MCT. There are few young people who are filming short movies and learn how to deal with the camera and everything that goes on while making the movie. The group won the critics award and the people’s award last year on the national festival of the young film creators. The aim is to make a film (50 minutes) with the mentor and the group of young people. They meet at least once per week, sometimes during the weekends. Your job is to join their team and help the mentor to make the movie. He will especially need extra help with editing and filming.
• 1 day per week working on your own project
It is most important for us to encourage all our volunteers to work on their own personal projects. We wish you get to know yourself with the opportunities MCT is offering to young person first and then start developing you own personal project in which ever work field you wish.
• 1 day per week filming in MCT or other locations
MCT is filming most of our programme (concerts, exhibitions, interviews, etc) and is making a short collage of the things we organise every month. We upload this collage to utube, facebook etc. to promote the programme among young people. Your job is to film most of our programme, edit it and make a short collage (introduction or documentary) and upload it to all sorts of media. Also you are expected to make your personal videoblog and post it on our website regularly.
• 1 day per week in MCT klub Sonček (Sonček=Sunshine)
MCT opened its own youth club in February 2009. It is a club with computers, games, internet, drinks, TV etc for young people to enjoy in the afternoons and place where we organise our concerts, film nights, presentations, and exhibitions etc during evenings and on weekends. You are to work in MCT club Sonček as a youth worker to animate youth, teach them some cultural stories and to promote EVS and Youth in Action programme or to help us on the concerts or other activities during weekends. Club is opened from 13.00 till 21.00 during the week and weekends.
• Other work
In case MCT is organising any bigger projects or festivals, you will be a part of the team. We will introduce you to all varieties of our work so you can help us in any other activities if necessary.

This is proposal of the work. We are flexible to support you to work on fields of youth work within MCT or in other organisations such as school or so.

Per maggiori info contattateci a evs@you-net.eu o andate sulla pagina del nostro blog relativa allo SVE http://serviziovolontarioeuropeo.blogspot.com/p/progetti-attualmente-attivi.html.

Five EVS project in Moldova

YouNet (2010-it-93) as sending organisation and ADVIT Moldova are looking for the EVS volunteers for the following hosting projects starting any month in between February and July 2011 for from 6 up to 12 months. All the project are situated in the capital of Moldova – Chisinau.


1. The representation of the Austrian Public Association “Hilfswerk Austria” in the Republic of Moldova is a non-profit, non-political and non-governmental organization, which contributes to the improvement of life quality by providing sustainable support for the economic development and social protection in a non-bureaucratic, professional and directly onsite manner for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged from social point of view people in the Republic of Moldova.
The volunteer will have the opportunity to get involved in the various aspects of Hilfswerk Austria in Moldova activities:
• Taking part in project visits as well as in conferences and meetings:
• Developing her own idea or initiative and managing a clear-cut project in line with her skills, personal interests and goals: the volunteer will set up her/his own weblog which will accompany the civic education projects In this weblog, which will mainly be written in English, the volunteer is free to express her own experiences and point of view of the project and its implementation, as well as further experiences and impressions gained concerning both the activities and her/his work at Hilfswerk Austria in Moldova and her/his stay in Moldova in general. Through this weblog, the volunteer will give an important asset to the project and help reaching a broader public and therefore optimizing the outcome.
• Conducting internet researches about similar civic education projects and election practises in other countries.
• Helping in the preparation of project-related conferences and seminars.
• On-site project visits: Updating HWA’s and the summer school’s website and writing reports on projects where she was involved or which she visited.
• Supporting the HWA with English and German language skills (translations, writing applications, proof-reading etc.)
Priorities will be given to candidates from Austria.


2. The Rehabilitation Center of Torture Victims “Memoria”
Objectives:
• Providing medico-social and legal support to torture victims and their families;
• Improving the health status and quality of life of assisted persons, their social reintegration with re-establishing of their integrity, reputation and self-respect.
• Prevention of torture and safeguarding the rights of victims to medical services and compensation.
• Improving the staff knowledge about torture victims and creating a model of rehabilitation services for special categories of persons.
• Collaboration with other similar centers and persons involved in the rehabilitation of torture survivors.
Description of the tasks of the volunteer:
The volunteers will have the opportunity to get involved in various aspects of Memoria’s activities, such as:
- Trying to raise awareness of the organization by writing applications for possible funding opportunities.
- The volunteer will also manage there own personal project, such as arranging seminars, study visits and conferences, which focus on fighting of torture and developing democracy in Moldova and greater awareness of human rights issues.
- The volunteer will also follow European policy developments in the Moldovan youth sector and preparing European projects
- The volunteer will assist with research projects. In particular, they will help Memoria in finding partners and creating new projects in Europe and the rest of the world.
- The volunteer will manage a clear-cut project in line with their skills, personal interests and goals; This will also be an opportunity for them to develop their own ideas or initiative.

3. Dogs’ Shelter “Casa Katharina” is a shelter for around 120 dogs who are all waiting since a lesser or longer time for friendly people and a new home.
Volunteer will help to:
- Clean and take care of the places where the animals stay.
- Play with animals.
- Create the places where the animals stay (putting the attributes on the right places) and make this places ready for the animals.
- Do fortification and does behavior observation on the animals.
- Feed the animals.
- Help veterinary doctor.
- Register animals and prepare reports this


4.Animation Centre for Youth and Children that aims to offer everyone (children, young people and adults) in one of the Commune of Chisinau (capital of Moldova) and the opportunity to raise awareness of their own competencies and achieve personal development in a friendly centre with social, cultural, sporting and educational activities. The Centre is an innovative and reactive intervention resource for young people.

The centre runs the activities in the sectors:
- For children: in the activity centre and out-of-school club that are open all year.
- For young people: the pre-teenage clubs.
- Parents: informative workshop on the methods of the children’s education.
- Leisure for all: with different activities (dance, drama, gymnastics, sports etc.) offered to the whole population based on demand and needs. Other associations use the premises to offer activities (karate, fitness sessions, etc.).

The volunteer will work in the Centre as a person who co-organises the ideas which the young people and instructors realize during the workshops. The Volunteer will initially be in the place as the assistant, but gradually his/her contribution to the content of the workshops will grow.

5. Moldovan Institute for Human Rights (IDOM)is an independent, non-profit organization founded in 2007 by a group of lawyers and defenders of human rights. The members of IDOM are experienced in monitoring the respect for human rights and the honoring of obligations which the Republic of Moldova accepted before the OSCE, the United Nations and the Council of Europe.
The major aim of IDOM is to contribute to the education, promotion and defense of rights and liberties guaranteed by national and international legislation. The advocacy and litigation done by IDOM benefits not only certain specific groups, but the whole society. IDOM is concerned with the strongest violations of human rights, provoked by the ignorance of superior values such as individual liberty, social justice and equality and non-discrimination.
The volunteer will get the opportunity to get involved in the various aspects of IDOM’s activities:
1. Writing applications and managing projects: seminars, study visits, conferences;
2. Following European policy developments in the Moldovan youth sector; the compilation of the IDOMs newsletter and the updating of the IDOMs website;
3. Assisting in finding partners and creating new projects in the Europe and the rest of the world;
4. Assisting with research projects;
5. managing a clear-cut project in line with his/her skills, personal interests and goals;
6. Developing his/her own idea or initiative.


All selected volunteer will have the following practical arrangements during their service:
Accommodation: in room with shared kitchen, bathroom and toilet in the rented flat together with other EVS volunteers from different countries or single room with shared kitchen, bathroom and toilet in the host family.
Food: Food allowance will be received from ADVIT Moldova.
Local transport: Monthly transportation card will be provided.
Language courses: Intensive course upon arrival plus 30 hours of the language lessons with the private teacher is provided. Volunteers can choose what language to learn Romanian or Russian.
On-arrival training and midterm evaluation:
On-going mentoring and support

Through constant communication with Moldovan children and the staff, playing national games, signing songs, telling tales and etc., the volunteer will receive a unique opportunity to get to know Moldovan culture and probably to discover something new in his/her own culture by looking at it from another dimension.

All interested candidates must submit their CV and motivation letter indicating the project they are applying for, when you are able to start your project and for how many months you are available, contact details of your sending organization before October 15, 2010 to ADVIT Moldova by email advit_ewb@yahoo.com and evs@you-net.eu.
The selection of the candidates will be on-going.

EVS in Germany “Living and Learning in the one-world-house”

“Living and Learning in the one-world-house” is a long term project taking place from March 1st 2011 – February 29th 2012 for two volunteers in Magdeburg. Both volunteers will work as an assistant to an AGSA employee in a specific field of work, and each will have his/her own working place in a shared office. In the practical work one volunteer will develop our website and design flyers and reports etc. The other will be mainly involved in organising and carrying out the many events for young people, such as information events, training courses, youth meetings, and exhanges etc. This can also create new possibilities to take part in our international work and to lead youngsters to take part in youth exchanges, volunteer work or youth education. In their work the volunteers will share the experiences with six other volunteers, started from October 1st 2010…

At the same time the volunteers will improve their knowledge of German and their language skills, which will be useful for their future career opportunities. During the year the volunteers are expected to develop an independent manner and to carry out a personal project.

The accommodation for the volunteers is a shared community-flat, shared with European or national volunteers from ours and others organisation but also with students. The volunteers will have their own room and they will share the kitchen and bath room.

General selection criteria of the volunteer:
We are looking for volunteers with good teamwork skills, with initiative, with creativity and with a desire to challenge themselves. They should be open to new experiences and have an interest in international and political work. Specific interests in antiracism work and intercultural work or cultural interests, or in working with internet and photo/ video are an advantage, but not essential. The young people must be prepared to have flexible working hours and weekend work (with compensatory days off during the following week).

Interested volunteers should send us their applications directly by October 15th. After this date we will begin to process the applications; volunteers should be prepared to take part in a telephone interview if necessary. We will finished the selection by October 20th and apply to the national agency for the November 1st dateline.

General tasks of the volunteer
The project "living and learning in the One-World House" is a long-term opportunity to participate in the design and content of our youth projects and to explore diverse fields of activity. If the volunteers so desires, they may also take part in further education offers, such as workshops, seminars or trainings offered by AGSA, its members or partners. When deciding on the volunteer’s activities, their requests and interests are a central consideration.

Both EVS volunteers will work in the international youth work section, and will have several areas of responsibility; each will also be responsible for developing and carrying out a personal project.

The first volunteer will be heavily involved in our website, and will be responsible for ensuring that this is kept up-to-date. Tasks include:
- posting news of upcoming events (e.g. campaigns, workshops, etc.)
- information about our youth exchanges, evs-projects and trainings and also the reviews
- keeping the social forum and blogs interactive (see www.eurocamp-agsa.eu)
drafting and creating informational material, e.g. leaflets, posters and publications


The second volunteer will be involved in preparing and carrying out international youth exchanges, trainings and seminars. Of particular importance in this regard is the Eurocamp, an annual meeting of more than 80 young people from over 30 European countries. Tasks include:
- participating in the organisational planning and implementation of the project
- supporting the preparation of application forms and cultivating contacts with partner organisations
- participating in the evaluation process

In addition, he/she will be responsible for organising a number of independent events during the year. These will include the Sprachcafé, which takes place twice a month and offers the people of Magdeburg the chance to meet together and spend an evening chatting with each other in the language of their choice, and also meetings of all former, current ad future EVS volunteers in the Magdeburg area.

Se siete interessati a questo progetto inviate entro il 13 Ottobre il vostro CV e una lettera motivazionale (entrambi in lingua inglese) a evs@you-net.eu e jugend@agsa.de.
Per maggiori info contattateci a evs@you-net.eu o andate sulla pagina del nostro blog relativa allo SVE http://serviziovolontarioeuropeo.blogspot.com/p/progetti-attualmente-attivi.html.

EVS in Poland with kids and youth

YouNet (2010-it-93) as sending organisation is looking for volunteers for the the project proposed by Centre for Youth Cooperation and Mobility in Gdynia, northern Poland that act coordinating organization for 4 different EVS projects.

Centre of Youth Cooperation and Mobility is offering at the moment EVS-places for volunteers for long-term-stays (9 months) in two organizations in Gdynia:

- EI nr 2009-PL-68 – work with children and youth in socio-therapy centre (6 places)

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_form_en.cfm?EID=58000629110

- EI nr 2009-PL-15 - work in nursery and pre-school with small children (1 place)

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_form_en.cfm?EID=58000532028

The projects should start between 15th March and 15th April.

On English pages of www.cwm.org.pl you can find information about these projects. There you can find dates, deadlines and also application forms next to each projects description to download.

The interested person should fill in the application form and send it to us before 11th October 2010.

If you have any other questions about the projects please do not hesitate to contact magdalena@cwm.org.pl.

Per maggiori info sullo SVE e sulla sending organisation contattateci a evs@you-net.eu o andate sulla pagina del nostro blog relativa allo SVE http://serviziovolontarioeuropeo.blogspot.com/p/progetti-attualmente-attivi.html.

EVS project in Poland: Boredom with us will not succeed!

YouNet as a sending organisation is happy to announce that the Centre for Creative Activity is looking for 2 volunteers for the project (2009-PL-75) "Boredom with us will not succeed! international impact for building social activism in Leszno area"

DATES: FEBRUARY 2011 – NOVEMBER 2011 (9 months)

ACTIVITY:

Proposed activities for EVS volunteers

LONG TERM EVS

1) Comprehensive High School No. 2 in Leszno

- The school career centre has been operating for the past four years; 43 weeks a year, 40 hours a week. The centre is a place where students can obtain information and skills needed to find their place in the professional work and learn the "rules" of the job market as well as obtain information concerning the local job market. We actively take part in programmes such as: "E-SZOK," "Graduate," Power of Knowledge," and the "Career Pyramid"

- Two school newspapers: DILL and KILLER

- The school group of Amnesty International which is an international non-governmental organisation which prevents and ends severe abuses of human rights and demands justice for those whose rights have been violated

- The school volunteer program which organises varied help for needy children and teenagers eg. aids learning in a common room, Christmas and Easter presents, costume carnival party for children from poor families.

The role of EVS volunteer will depend on what activities he/she will choose. It can be writing a series of articles in English to our school newspaper about his/her observations of Polish people and culture. In this way we will see ourselves in the eyes of foreigners. There is much to do every year in our school volunteer program so the activities will be varied.

The volunteer could help in designing the educational website for teachers: www.edukontakt.pl as well as in cutting the text in word processors when preparing the school newspaper. Any innovative approach to that activity will be welcomed.

As a native speaker of any particular language he/she could organise discussion clubs and workshops for students of our high school. The area is not as important as the contact with vivid language.

Teachers of history offered for the volunteer a possibility to give a series of lectures about his/her country backgrounds, political system and social current situation of inhabitants.

On the other hand, our school Amnesty International organisation would be interested in a series of lectures about women rights in volunteer's country, their participation in politics and any non-govermental organisations which were founded to protect women rights or in which women are especially involved. The effects of these lectures could be very inspiring for Polish women.

2) Fundacja Centrum Aktywnoœci Twórczej (Centre for Creativity), Eurodesk Leszno

EURODESK INFORMATION POINT

- answering mails, updating website , making databases (for ex: grants, international summer courses etc)

- helping with international events (by selecting proper candidates, writing applications, organising meetings for people who are selected for the events.

- INDIVIDUAL WORSHOPS

This activity depends of a volunteer him/her self. Depending of the wanted activity and the profile of volunteer that we will host, they will have opportunity to develop their own activity by share of his/her own interest (which means that if they are good in theatre they will have chance to organize theatre workshops or if they are good in belly dance, we will start new open for local youth).

WORKING ON A FIELD

In this part we planned to bring volunteers in projects on which we work, like:

- helping with local actions like: helping with studies for youth from Lasocice and Przybyszewo,

- organising free time activities for kids and youth such as concerts.

- promotion of the European integration process ( in a political and social meaning) by developing.

The four main areas, where we plan that the foreign volunteers could involve in are:

- cooperation with European School Clubs (ESC) - informal unions between the students and teachers in different types of schools from the following voivodeships: LUBUSKIE, WIELKOPOLSKIE, DOLNOŒL¥SKIE. The volunteers will travel around those voivodeships to give lectures and make workshops in kindergartens, schools about their own countries (traditions, history, educational system, young people's lifestyles) and the European Union (especially educational programmes for youth). Apart from this the volunteers will help our volunteers to organise European day and European Youth Conference. To show the possibilities in EU for young people.

This part can be flexible, because volunteers will be involved in everything that we will do in a certain moment. If we will organize art festival they will have opportunity to be involved. In periods where field work is not necessary volunteers will have chance to develop their own

3) St. Staszic Complex of Schools in Wschowa

- helping Career Councillor with office work and leading worshops for youth (integration, career planning, discovering strengths and weaknesses etc)

- helping Voluntary group by organising meetings for them, supporting their actions

- organising events in the school (spring day, valentines day etc)

- supporting POLISH-GERMAN exchange which is organised every year in the school

- helping with English lessons - to make them more attractive and active for youth

- writing articles for "Echo Staszica" newspaper

- supporting ongoing school activities

Small office with basic accessories is available, nice staff (special contact person - ready to answer questions and help). The volunteer can also take part in other activities of our NGO or activities of our supporting and partners organisations.

RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PROCEDURES

ALL THE VOLUNTEERS SHOULD SEND:

- CV

- MOTIVATION LETTER

- QUESTIONARIO - http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFFCNk5uN0FmcUpZTnlscXAzYi1WcVE6MQ

TILL 10.10.2010 - 23.59 CET TO THE EMAIL: EVS@FUNDACJA-CAT.PL and evs@you-net.eu

We would like to welcome a volunteer in the age between 18 - 30 y.o. with as much artistic as realistic soul, who is enthusiastic and keen to do a lot of different activities, who would like to either teach teenagers important things about dance, music, theatre and/or acting or, help with creating/editing website of our partners institutions and our NGO. We plan that the volunteer to his/her advantage will learn many things about Polish culture and language. We need a person who would like to share with kids, and youth what is "youth in action" and what kind of European programmes they can use in their lives. That person should like working with children and teenagers and have communicative command of English language. Our volunteer can also be an amateur drama act writer or website designer. We would like to cooperate with the similar kind of organizations who are interested in art, computer science or theatre - it will be easier to connect if the foreign organization has the same aims - yet it is not necessary.

The information about available placements together with selection criteria will be published on our website and sent to all our international and local partners, as well as to networks of non-governmental, youth organizations. We will ask candidates to fill our questionnaire and we will stay in contact with the sending organisation The sending organizations in cooperation with us will provide a first dialogue and selection of the volunteers on the basis of their personal motivations and attitudes. Information about selection of the volunteers will be published on the host and sending organization websites and every volunteer who have applied for the project will be informed about the results and conditions that determined the choice of the volunteers.

Candidates may send their applications to Centre for Creative Activity and also directly to EVS coordinator. Applications should contain information about the person, his or her motivation to do EVS and to volunteer in the particular project, his or her educational and professional backgrounds, as well as information about the preferential time and length of the service.

Selected candidates will be contacted in order to receive further information about the applicant and to explain details about our organisation and the available activities in Centre for Creative Activity.

Environment and cultural Heritage in Russia

Project name: DIVNOGORYE

Start of activities: April 15, 2011

Duration of activities: min 6 months (up to 8 months)

Type of activities: ENVIRONMENT, CULTURAL HERITAGE

Nr of volunteers
for hosting: up to 4 vols

ACTIVITY DESIGN:

Aims and theme(s) of the Activity:

With this project Club of Intercultural Cooperation InterActon wants to attract local volunteers to the unique heritage of the region and to raise the consciousness of local inhabitants in their relations to the surrounding environment.

Location

The project will run in the most beautiful place of the Black Earth region – in the open air museum and natural preserve Divnogorje www.divnogor.ru (which can be translated as “Wonder Mountains”). This place is surrounded by villages, the next big city (84 000 inhabitants) named Liski
is 87 km away (30 min per train or 1 hour by bus).

Hosting locals (staff of the museum) try to discover the diverse resources of the place and open them for the other world. This unique place includes treasures for scientists of different areas (archeologists, ornithologists, geologists and architects). A river, high chalk hills as the border of ice age period and breathtaking view to the valley brings to this place artists, pilgrims and nature lovers.

Project

Local staff of the open air museum and the natural preserve organize many educational, archeological expeditions, excursions, ornithological base, attract attention of different artists (2 festivals yearly run in this place), pilgrims come to this place to enjoy the stunning masterpiece of nature. Approximately
25 000 visitors come yearly to the museum. But so many visitors create a problem of protection the territory from pollution. The museum staff has to take enormous additional workload on promotion of ecological values and protection of environment. In this work they need help. Volunteering opens large perspectives in overcoming many difficulties in this field. Today the local and international volunteering is one of the most modern and efficient solutions for such organization. Hosting (international) volunteers will help to attract additional funding to the project realization and interest of mass media. Raising the visibility of the project is one of the most important aims of the project.

First step in the preparatory phase is already done: the museum hosts local volunteers, hosts international workcamps, does promotional work in the local educational establishments (institutes and universities). The aim of the museum is to host volunteers on the long-term basis during all warm season during many years.

Tasks for voluntary work

- work on environmental issues (creative solution of rubbish problem, deleting useless plants, planting useful plants, cleaning, cutting woods). Attention! The work can be physically hard!!!

- work on promotion of ecological values, social work (actions for visitors and locals, building signs for tourists, seminars/workshops for guests on big evens and festivals in Divnogorye)

- work on multiplication of effects (web-site update, articles to newspapers, interviews to local TV, meetings with students)

The volunteer will be part of the staff of the museum and work on protection of the natural museum from pollution, on saving its ancient face untouched from destructive influence of civilization, on raising the ecological consciousness of visitors and local inhabitants. Concrete tasks of volunteers will be:

1. Fight against rubbish: together with Russian volunteers cleaning river banks, organize educational actions for raising ecological consciousness of visitors and local inhabitants of the next villages; install rubbish bins, design and arrangement of visitors’ stands. Creativity is welcomed!

2. Protection of unique plants and other natural heritage: cleaning the hills and caves from cherry bushes and other weeds, planting protective plants, restoring tourist paths.

3. Participation in the festival events organized by the museum: Museum’s Night, historical reconstruction of ancient Slavic celebrations and festivities, artistic Forum ArchiArt and so on, inventing creative environmental workshop while big events.

Working hours, days off, holidays, food, accommodation, local transport

The total sum of working hours will not come over 30 h/week including Russian lessons. The volunteer will be working five days a week, 30 working hours. He/she will get two days off per week and a settled number of holidays plus national state holidays. The place is quite far from big cities (30 min by train from Liski 84 000 inhabitants, 4 hours by train from Voronezh 1 mio inhabitants), but the infrastructure is present: a shop and urgent medical help is available. In spring and summer the museum village is visited by scientist, artists, travelers from all over the world.

The volunteer will share the room with 1 or 2 volunteers of the same gender. Volunteers will have all facilities in their flat: shower, hot water, toilet, dining room and possibilities to cook. In addition to the pocket money the volunteer will receive a monthly allowance for food and local transport from the hosting organisation.

Training and support of volunteers

Host organisation InterAction Club will provide volunteers with a on-arrival training. This training helps the volunteer to get to know the host country and the village where to volunteer will live. It helps to understand the host society and will help the volunteer to adjust to the new environment. During the service host organisation will provide the volunteer with a mentor for social issues and a contact person in the project in work related issues. They will ensure on-going support and coaching. The mentors will assist to evaluate the learning process and make necessary adjustments to meet needs and interests of the volunteer.

The volunteer will experience through learning by doing and short training sessions on concrete topics to meet needs of the volunteer. A tutor will be provided for language training.

Social and personal development of the volunteer(s), learning outcomes

- volunteers who have interest in any of above mentioned sciences (archeology, ecology, ornithology etc) will have a perfect possibility to enlarge and deepen their knowledge, meet scientist in those fields, collect practical material for their scientific works as well…

- volunteers will get practical knowledge of how a natural preserve works and will have a possibility to take active part in its development

- the volunteer will see the real life of Russian province, far away from capitals and will be a participating witness of how the provincial life is reach and diverse in its tension to develop and to protect its individuality.

- Volunteers will learn Russian during all period of his/her stay

- Volunteers will gain skills of climbing, speleology, kayak-paddling according to their interest

Se siete interessati a questo progetto inviate entro il 15 Ottobre il vostro CV e una lettera motivazionale (entrambi in lingua inglese) a evs@you-net.eu.
Per maggiori info contattateci a evs@you-net.eu o andate sulla pagina del nostro blog relativa allo SVE http://serviziovolontarioeuropeo.blogspot.com/p/progetti-attualmente-attivi.html.