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first act IMPLEMENTED BY ACT Asociatia Comunitati pentru Tineret

SEPTEMBER '17 - FEBRUARY '18

Association Community for Youth (ACT) is a non-governmental organization working in the South-West Oltenia, with the main objective to promote community development.

Our mission is to develop, implement and support youth development programs built around the concepts of lifelong learning, mobility and associativity.

-identification of needs and opportunities for youth development -identify social problems affecting young people, assisting the social integration of young unemployed.

-promote volunteerism and social mobility -implement internship for young theme.

-improve educational access and quality for children with disabilities ACT works to empower young people to participate actively in society to improve their own lives. The aim of this empowerment is to establish a wide-based community movement which encourages the positive involvement of young people in solving issues which affect them, treating them as resources, not as problems.

VISION: PROVIDE POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES OPPORTUNITIES FOR EVERY YOUNG PERSON IN SW OLTENIA REGION.

FirstACT is a project within the framework of the European Voluntary Service that involves 5 volunteers from Italy, Spain, Portugal and Turkey for 6 months. The project consists of a 6 months EVS group activity that will involve 5 volunteers working in 5 institutions with regular children using non-formal methods.

Our aim is provide opportunities for social and personal growth of volunteers and target group along with organizational and community youth development by forming local “communities of interests� that aggregate young people around common interests.

Programs: Active Citizenship Culture Sports Languages

WE WANT TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOCIAL AND PERSONAL GROWTH

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Our partners LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL

LOCAL PARTNERS

INTERNATIONAL

• Liceul Teoretic “Mihai Viteazul” • Liceul tehnologic”Stefan Anghel” • Scoala Gimnazila Nr.3 • Scoala Gimnazila Nr.5 “Aviator Petre Ivanovici” • Casa de Cultura “Amza Pellea” • Scoala Gimnaziala “Silistea Crucii”

• Associazione Culturale Jumpin – Italy - valeriajumpin@hotmail.it

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT, TOGETHER WE MAKE THE DIFFERENCE.

• ProAtlântico Associação Juvenil – Portugal - sveenvio@proatlantico.com • Associazione Culturale Link – Italy - link@linkyouth.org • Asociación Mundus Un Mundo a tus Pies – Spain – alberto.unmundoatuspies@gmail.com • Karaman Youth Club Association – Turkey - karamanyouth@gmail.com

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Meet the team INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERS

LUCIA COLLERA

ANA BARROS

VALTER OLIVEIRA

MUSTAFA ÇAYLAN

Lucía - Spanish volunteer, recently finished the high school and decided to take a gap year.

Ana - from Spain. Studied business science and worked in several companies as administrative but the real work experience was organising and participating in Youth exchanges and Trainings of Erasmus+ program.

Valter - 26 years old from Portugal. Studied master degree in Marketing and count with lots of experiences living abroad.

Mustafa - Turkish volunteer from Istambul, 23 years old. Graduated from Bogazici University and studied Turkish Language and Literature.

Passionate about travelling, hiking, camping and reading. Worked previously with children, youths and refugees in NGO's.

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lUCIA COLLERA “WE ARE WHAT WE DO, ESPECIALLY WHAT WE DO TO CHANGE WHAT WE ARE”

Before getting here, I was very very excited to come, I was looking for information about everything and speculating as much as I could. I arrived and everything I did was observing and learning as much as I could. My biggest fears before coming here were cooking and using the washing machine. I was also afraid of my relationship with my roommates because they are much older than me.

Now that I’m here, I can easily use the washing machine, I cook with my friends delicious dishes, and I feel like I know them since forever. In a week, we have done crazy things, and lived amazing adventures, and right now, my only fear is the end of it.

We are having the project started, and we are a great team, I’m sure that everything will go smoothly. People here are amazing, their kindness and the help they offer are huge. I’m so comfortable in this little town that I’m starting to doubt what should I call home.

I came here for a change and I feel the beginning of the transformation. I have a new family, I get used to everything very quickly, and I like everything that some weeks ago I hated. “We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are”.

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Ana Barros “IF YOU LIVE, YOU SEE. IF YOU TRAVEL,YOU SEE MORE.”

The days before to travel to Romania I did not think a lot. But “The Day” arrived and I started to fight with myself: -The stuffs I bring will be enough?

-Really is it what I want to do?

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When one close person goes to work or to study far away and you stay in your city, quiet with your family and friends the only thing that you only can see is the positive side, like all of the places that person will discover, the adventures that will live or the new people that will meet.

But when you are that person, who goes far away soon, you get more conscious of the reality and how hard it is.

My travel was very long, almost 24 hours since I left my home. Turbulent would be the perfect word to describe it. But since I arrive to Craiova and get off the train where Marius was waiting for me, all the doubts and fears have disappeared little by little.

I arrived to Bailesti one week ago and I already can assure that it was worth it. I like to walk in the city center and look each corner as if I was in another world and at the same time since the first day with Lucia and now with Valter too I feel at home.

I want to prepare my mind to be able to absorb everything because I am sure this experience will bring me more than I can imagine.

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Valter oliveira "MAYBE I LOOK LOST BUT I'M NOT"

The first impact is always intense. I went inside of an airplane in the comfort of my country and some hours later when the door of the airplane open again nothing of my world was the same. Usually we think that are prepared for what is waiting us, with the help of videos and images that we can find online and stories that our friends tell us, but for me wasn’t getting easier along the trip to my new house.

Luckily the house is amazing, I don’t have nothing to complaint about, with a bonus that I am sharing it with two amazing persons.

In the next days after my arrival I had the opportunity to meet the town. Small like I was expecting looking like it was forgotten from the rest of the society, and isolated by the countryside, source of the income of many families here. A town so far away from the big concentration of people and industries, that give me the idea the money to build, repairs and maintenances never found its way to come here like if it was getting vanished along the journay.

The money that make the society develop is same that corrupts us. Maybe because of that the people here are immune to the contemporaneous problems of our society and make this city so great. Here is safe, the people are very friendly, kind, helpful and honest, and always ready to make sacrifices to help others, doing so much with so little.

Maybe because of that, even with such a difference in my life I still don’t feel like I wasn't at home. The association also since the first day they have been consistently amazing. Doing everything possible to provide the best for me.

My house mates are also an important part of that equation, after some days we were so connected like we know each other for years. They even took me hitchhiking in the first day to meet news places. In the beginning I thought how crazy and neglectful they were. Today I just think what a great “team” we are and how good will be the stories that we going to create/live.

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Mustafa çaylan “EVERYTHING IS OKEY, LET'S CONTINUE FIRST ACT”

In my life, I have participated many trainings and youth exchange programs about different subjects in many European countries. I have recognized different cultures and people. These projects were realized in short term period, maximum ten days. Nevertheless, this time is very short for me. I searched different Erasmus+ opportunities to participate long-term project. In this way, I found European Voluntary Service (EVS) and I have applied “First ACT” project and have been accepted. I started the transactions for coming the Baileşti but I was living some problems about visa. This situation disappointed me. However, Marius and Yağmur (my sending organization coordinator) consoled me and I give thanks to them.

Finally, I took the visa and came in Baileşti. Two weeks ago, I started new life in different place. Before I have come in Baileşti, I had many questions in my mind. For example; “How are my friends in the project?”, “Can I adapt the place and culture?” Now, I am saying that I have participated in this project. I met different people from different areas of Europe. In addition, I saw different places in Romania, I am trying to learn Romanian language and recognize Romanian culture. Baileşti is very small place but nature is beautiful, autumn is very good. Moreover, people who live in Baileşti are very helpful and hospitable. My team and students are very nice and the project continues in very good way. I learned a lot of information thanks to this project.

I believe that I will learning a lot of information and recognizing different people until the end of this project. “First Act” has a very significant place in my life and will definitely change my life and thoughts. .

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Capacity building program FOR A BETTER VOLUNTEERS' INTEGRATION

"SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN FIRST ACT!" The Capacity Building Programme of the First ACT! Project is the first phase of the EVS stage that is meant to be a structured intervention, a program developed for the volunteers in order to provide them with and information, methods and tools that will facilitate the process of getting to know each other, build team cohesion, get everyone adapted to the local environment and culture and facilitate their activities in the project.

The CBP aims a better integration of volunteers into the hosting placement to establish good relationships between volunteers but also with the hosting organization, in other words its done to get to know each other and for breaking the ice.

The CBP was designed to be complementary for EVS training cycle bringing extra support given to the volunteers done during the pre-departure training (given by Sending Organization) and the On Arrival training (organized by the NA) by being much more team building orientated, project specifics orientated, cultural adaptation orientated and environmental (working environment, host organization environment, living environment etc.) orientated.

The CBP mixes a typical training methodology with other methods in order to that action achieves all of its objectives. .

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capacity building program THE CBP IS SPLITTED INTO 3 PARTS WHICH HAVE THEIR OWN METHODOLOGY: PART 1 - THE ENVIRONMENT

Is the Adaptation phase which has the objective to get the volunteers settled in and accustomed to their host environment, living location, host organization, learning who is who, learning to get around the city, where to do shopping and learn about the culture and history of the place..

PART 2 - THE TRAINING

Intensive 4 days training schedule which aims to introduce the volunteers to all the project specifics, rules and regulations of EVS in general and of the hosting organization in particular, to form team cohesion and develop skills that will facilitate their activity.

PART 3 - WORKING

Get the volunteer accustomed to the working environment where they will activate during their EVS stage. During this part the volunteers have meeting with representatives of educational institutions that participate in the project, the target group, resource persons from the institutions etc. This part focuses on needs work place accommodation but also on needs analysis through which the volunteers can understand the needs and expectations of the target group and the resource persons they will be working with, allowing them to optimize their input

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Cultural awareness

SHOWING TO THE STUDENTS SOME IMAGES ABOUT THE AREA WHERE THE VOLUNTEERS ARE FROM

Cultural awareness is one of the three pillars of First Act. We decided to begin with this topic in the beginning of our stay, that way it would be a nice occasion to introduce our ourselves and our countries. This introduction was done in the second session we had in each school, after a short introduction and a talk about beneficiaries’ hobbies. To do it in a dynamic way we used different tools. As a first example Mustafa decided to present his country with a video that captured different places and traditions of Turkey, followed by a performance of a traditional Turkish dance. Valter showed some pictures of iconic places and created an interaction with the students asking them where they thought the photos were taken, explaining them, in the end, that all of them were from Portugal. Finally Ana and Lucia drew an Spanish map and asked the participants to stick in the correct place different important cities, afterwards, they made a presentation of each city.

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cultural awareness This activity was used as an ice breaker, creating direct interaction between volunteers and beneficiaries.

It pushed them to try to talk in English, they learnt about geography, differences between countries, food and traditions. The next school activity was about learning a new language, where they had a first contact with our mother tongues, and we made them realize how easy can be to learn a new language, how many similar words there are and we provided them some tools to make the learning easier.

Students from all the schools happened to be very interested and we created on them a first good impression, that we used to engage them in the next activities. We asked some of them to come to cook with us traditional dishes from our countries, food that we were going to offer the following day in the Wine Festival of Bailesti. That event helped us to create awareness not only in the students but also in the community that surrounded us. We have had a similar activity in the end of the project where we also invited two students to cook Portuguese food with us to thank them about their help in the activities.

Last, we would like to mention other events that had an indirect impact on cultural awareness. We had dance lessons where we taught the students about some modern dances typical from our countries, Bachata and Kizomba. We also had a big variety of language lessons, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Turkish, where we also tried to talk about our countries.

Finally, the Halloween and Christmas parties, big events where we all learned about were these traditions come from and how are they celebrated in different countries.

To sum up, we created a cultural awareness in the beneficiaries, partners, parents and in the community in general. That helped us to create trust on us and to open the door to the foreign.

active citizenship ONE OF THE MAIN TOPICS OF THE PROJECT.

Active citizenship was one of the main topics of the project. Described as one of the most important steps towards healthy societies specially with raising of extremist ideas when it comes to World’s problems.

Active citizenship can have a deep impact in this contexto allowing citizens to interrogate real solutions to problems instead of seeing discrimination and other extremist’s ideas as a solution.

With that in mind, FirstACT team try to approach the active citizenship philosophy that each individual have certain rights and responsibilities in the society with a big variety of activities.

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active citizenship Although in our opinion just the fact of students being in contact with the volunteers, is already one big step forward for those students because gives them the opportunity to be in contact with others' cultures and people, break down some stereotypes, reduce the walls between nations giving them a better knowledge about others and others cultures and also the opportunity to like different people.

In the other hand, they were also in contact with volunteers who were aware of that issue and since active citizenship can be as easy as to remember them not to throw trash to the floor, to treat others with respect and not to use violence, during all of the activities were some eyes paying close attention to those situations that could happen and ready to talk with them in order to improve their behaviour.

More specific activities were developed to approach the active citizenship topic it’s possible to mention activities where the students participate in presentations about civil society, human rights or volunteering.

An active citizen is also someone who takes a role in the community, and the activity where the students planed an activity with children with disabilities and create handicrafts to offer them is an awesome example of how they were ready to get involved. Later in that activity they were also actively involved on teaching them how to recreate that handicrafts.

Another activity developed by FirstACT that involved actively the students was the photography contest. After realizing the town as a big lack of online information, a photography contest was launched, where the students needed to photograph the most iconic places of the town to later upload a selection of that photos online.

Since internet nowadays is the channel that people choose to get information, we believe having more information about the town online, will create more awareness about it.

There is also one activity that we would like to highlight. For the Christmas event we proposed an “entering fee�, that was something at their criteria to donate. The adhesion exceeded our expectations and the amount of goods was more that what we were expecting. Later in that week we helped those students to donate that goods to one organization in the town famous for their good work with children from difficult backgrounds, in a very emotional afternoon that we believe no one got indifferent.

To sum up and highlight the importance of active citizenship activities, we believe good will is present in these students and in the people, and these activities are very important to cultivate in them a better citizen, and let them work that part giving the opportunity to do it and dicover themselves, and spread in them seeds that can have impact on them during their life.

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language activities

In the project, we organized cultural activities; one of the cultural activities was language activities. We tried to teach different languages such as Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese and French. We organized different workshops and used non-formal education technics to teach the features and basic usages of the languages in the schools and Cultural House. For example, Mustafa taught the Turkish colors by the painting. Moreover, he taught different Turkish objects like clothes, pens, notebooks etc. with pictures. These methods are really useful and interesting to teach different languages. In addition, we gave advice to learn different languages easily. For instance; watching films and TV series, using the different applications and trying to communicate different people are significant methods to learn different languages. Furthermore, we learnt different Romanian words and sentences from the students. In the language activities, we helped each other and this was very effective to teach the different languages to the students.

DIFFERENT METHODS TO LEARN LANGUAGES

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Communities of interest

"TO CREATE COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST WAS, SINCE THE BEGINNING, THE MAIN GOAL OF THIS PROJECT."

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To create Communities of Interest was, since the beginning, the main goal of this project. In contrast to what we planned, this Community was built in a very unexpected way. Liceul Mihai Viteazul is one of our partner schools, whose students are our beneficiaries.

Nevertheless, unlike other schools, they could not provide us an space to do our activities, so we were not able to work with them during the school program.

On the other hand, we got to make a first meeting with them, in order to break the ice and create a first interaction. Thanks to our Facebook page, and short visits in the breaks, we managed to keep them informed about different activities and events.

In the month of November, we started with meetings in Casa de Cultura, mostly on Saturdays. Surprisingly, Liceul’s students have been joining us since the first meeting. They are the most engaged students on Saturdays and we are delighted with their energy and commitment.

COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST The topics of the activities are very diverse, but Saturdays are always full of sports, handicrafts, games and creativity. We use many icebreakers to get to know each other better and energizers to keep them motivated. Usually we have from six to ten participants (aged 12-13 years old) which makes the activity easier to manage and gives us the opportunity to decide with the group about what we want to do. This school has also participated in bigger events were we had a higher number of students, where we should highlight the Christmas party/donation and the Photography Contest.

In addition, Mihai Viteazul was not the only school with interest in these meetings. Most of the times we have had the help of some students from Stefan Anghel, who have attended to many activities such us Origami with disabled children and Dance lessons.

Their assistance to the meetings improved the communication and management of younger students due to their translation skills and higher age.

To summarize not only have we created Communities of interest but we have also developed students' abilities to communicate, to be creative, to lead their group or improve sports skills. We consider this Community one of the most successful activities of the project where we have achieved to gather a good number of students with similar interests in different subjects and, at the same time, develop many useful skills.

COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST SPORTS Stimulate a healthier lifestyle, develop team spirit, endurance and balance, improve their skills communication and their communication in English, were some of the objectives proposed to us when we started to prepare the sports activities in the schools, one of the three main subjects in the project.

Make sports activities is not only about football, handball, tennis or the others mainstream activities that we are used to do. And it is for this reason we decided to show the students different ways to do physical exercise.

Playing games make learning more interesting and can easily turn passive participants into active ones. In a relaxed atmosphere, participants absorb and remember things faster and more effectively.

We wanted the students to enjoy and at the same time develop their practical skills, express themselves more freely, make some exercise and improve their communication competence.

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SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS

The team of volunteers from the Project First act was also present in the school for childrens with disabilities.

"ONE HIGH POINT Even being a town, Bailesti is inserted in OF THE PROJECT." a rural area were agriculture has deep impact in the local economy. In Bailesti the reality is different than the highly crowded/populated towns.

It’s one reality where the opportunities are less, in jobs, hobbies, accesses…

It’s undeniable that people need to keep a healthy lifestyle, which includes exercise mind, body and socialize.

If the project was focused in giving an answer to that problem the students face, when it comes to kids with special needs, necessity get’s even bigger.

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SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS With that in mind and when there is good will and desire it’s always possible to add activities in another institution even though was not a partner.

With the help of some students from the partners schools, was organized an origami session. One activity that provides mental and physical stimulus.

No doubts it’s challenging, as they need to be concentrated, pay attention, follow instructions, process information, combining with visual - motor coordination, manual dexterity, geometry proportions and problem solving.

They were used shapes from other activities in other partners to give them as a present. That way was possible to get their attention to what they could create, and spark their interest/motivation to participate in the activity.

The result end up to be awesome, the level of engagement was very high having even people from the institutions interested in participating.

Was interesting how the smiles were getting sharper as long as the objects were getting shape fold after fold.

Was clear an emotional satisfaction with a mixture of self-confidence buster, when the children realized what they were capable to create, the result of their work, with a simple sheet of paper just by folding.

Since the activities are based on non-formal education, everyone was incentive to finish in group having the right support/attention.

The last part of activity was dedicated to painting their works were students can express freely their creativity.

No doubts one high point of the Project.

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ERASMUS +

Erasmus+ is a great program, which has many opportunities for improving people’s skills and learning new knowledge. During the project, we had a lot of opportunities to promote Erasmus+. The first time was in the festival of wine of Baileşti where we spread flyers with information about our EVS project. Also, with our stand we made visible our partner institutions. In this way, all the community recognized the reason we are in Baileşti.

Ana was in charge of making the Erasmus+ activity. She gave information the students from one high school about Erasmus+ dividing different categories like education, youth exchange, training and internship programs. She told features of these programs and shared her own ideas.

Besides, she has a lot of experiences about Erasmus+ youth exchange and trainings. She spoke about participating in previous Erasmus+ projects and encouraged students to participat in youth exchange projects and trainings.

Our last event also had in its programme one big session to present and discuss about Erasmus+. For us, this program is definitely beneficial, has improved our skills, and we learnt a lot about diferent issues and we wanted to make that clear to the students and motivate them to, in a future, join to one Erasmus+ programme.

It is also importance to remind that in all our events and in all our publications or informative material we put the Erasmus+ logos.

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EVENTS

Severall events and mini-events have been organized during these months such as photography workshop (given by Diego, volunteer in the V-lens project in Craiova), dance lesson (given by Duygu, EVS in Craiova), ping pong championship, cinema session and handicraft workshop among others. All these workshops were held on Saturdays at Cultural House, giving the children the opportunity to carry out an activity outside the school and on weekends because there are not many possibilities for free time, if not practically none, in the city.

In the following pages it's possible to know more about the principle ones.

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International Food Wine Festival The people in Bailesti have something in common, all of them are proud of their wine: Zaibar. Our first step in the community was participating in the Bailesti wine festival.

With this activity we had the opportunity to interact with the local people and the surrounding villages. We also promoted the project because all the schools of the area participated in the festival selling home products in their stands.

We decided to prepare, with the help of two girls from the town, typical food of each country. With samples of food, music and the distribution of flyers with the presentation of First Act, we had a small impact that helped us gain the trust of parents and students.

Halloween Party We decided to organize a Halloween party doing something different of what we were doing in the schools during the two first months of the project.

Our main objective was to try to involve as many children as possible looking for the formation of groups of interest too. We prepared na energizer to know better each other in the beginning of the activity, team games to get together the students, costume contest, karaoke, dance and candies.

Taking into account the promotion we did in schools and social networks we expected around 30 children for this first event but the children's response was incredible and we did the activity with more than 60. A challenge for us that we carried out without setback and that gave us the necessary energy to continue working.

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Christmas Party The Christmas party was the last event of the year. We had the help of two volunteers who were doing their EVS in Craiova, fomenting the cooperation between associations. As in the Halloween party, we prepared energizers for the students to get to know each other better, team games, collaborative drawings and we even had the visit of Santa Claus.

In this time we put the students of one of Bailesti schools in contact with the students of Silistea Crucii, a nearby village, giving them the opportunity to socialize and get to know each other, continuing to look for the communities of interest not only in Bailesti, also with the surrounding villages.

We also gave them the opportunity to collaborate with a center where they work with children at risk of social exclusion. Once again the students’ response was incredible.

The day after the event, we delivered the toys in the Sperahtei center, where the children thanked us the gesture singing Christmas carols for us.

Football championship In February we organized the Football championship. We invited the students to create their teams to play between schools in "Ada Nechita" pavilion. One more time we gave them the opportunity to do something different in the weekend. We also invited the students from Silistea Crucii with the surprise that they came very motivated and they won every match.

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final event The main objective of the event was to involve the participating students in the activities developed during the period if the project. In order to make students aware of potential abilities they developed, volunteers gave each student a certificate with competences /abilities acquired during the time spent with the volunteers.

Final event was structured in 2 main parts. The Final Meeting that aims to present the results achieved in the period of "First ACT" project and to present the opportunities Erasmus +.

Presentation of Erasmus + consisted in a presentation made by the volunteers. They started with their presentation about their experiences among the project and the benefit of EVS projects.

In the second part of the Event, volunteers prepared a surprise for the students. In the last hour of the event while the students were carrying out the activities prepared, a presentation of pictures with the most beautiful moments in the activities/events organized was presented for them.

The Event was finished with a short party where the students danced some movements that they learned in the “Dance lesson� and we took the last group picture.

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final thoughts Lucia Collera

@LuciaCollera

#Start: new people, new country, new experience. #End: new family, new home, new self.

Ana Barros

@AnaBarros

During my #EVS I realized how many meanings the word #home can have.

Valter Oliveira @ValterOliveira

Without doubts a huge opportunity for #personaldevelopment, and the #Romanianpeople became this experience even better.

Mustafa Çailan @MustafaÇailan

#EVS was for me an #opportunitytodiscover and recognize new areas, cultures and people from different part's of the world.

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WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO EVS? How to proceed:

Erasmus+ supports the European Solidarity Corps. If you are from an Erasmus+ programme country you can get involved in volunteering activities by registering in the European Solidarity Corps Portal.

After registration you can: - search for a suitable project in the list of published vacancies available for registered participants - wait to be contacted by organisations that could offer you a placement. .

If you are from an Erasmus+ partner country, you can apply for Erasmus+ Volunteering directly through the organisation responsible to send you abroad or to receive you in the host country and for arranging all practicalities. The European Youth Portal, the EU's website for young people, hosts a list of Erasmus+ Volunteering organisations. Browse the list and get in touch with organisations that may interest you to check if they are offering placements. Please bear in mind that some of those listed may not currently be looking for new volunteers.

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Got any Questions?

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