WORKING WITH SPANISH ASSOCIATIONS
EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE Ciudad Real, Spain June 2015 – February 2016
PROJECT’S INFO What is EVS? The European Voluntary Service (EVS) is part of the Key Action 1: Mobility for young people and young Workers of the Erasmus + programme. It supports transnational voluntary service by young people and aims to develop solidarity and promote tolerance among young people and encourages active citizenship and enhances mutual understanding among young people. These general objectives will be achieved by:
Helping young people to participate in various forms of voluntary activities, both within and outside the European Union; Giving young people the opportunity to express their personal commitment through voluntary activities at international and European level. Involving young people in projects fostering solidarity between citizens of the European Union. Involving young volunteers in a non-profit-making, unpaid and full-time activity for the benefit of the general public in another country than their country of residence.
The European Voluntary Service is a Learning service through nonformal learning experiences where young volunteers will improve and acquire skills for their personal, educational and professional development, and add to their general social integration. And when you have finished your EVS, you will have a Youthpass
What is Youthpass? The simple answer is that Youthpass in European Voluntary Service, is a Certificate which confirms the participation of volunteers and describes their specific EVS project. It is also a Certificate that describes what volunteers learned during their project using the Key competences for Lifelong Learning as a framework. Consejoven, will do an Activity plan where you can explain the competences you are acquired during the project, in order to complete the Youthpass easier.
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About Consejoven CONSEJOVEN (Local Youth Council) is the body of youth participation in Ciudad Real. Our main objective is the promotion of youth associations and volunteering. We have as purposes the development of youth, helping out who lack opportunities, the integration into society of discriminated young people and encouraging youth initiative. Our organisation is formed by 12 members. They are members of their own associations and they have between 18 and 30 years old. Apart of these people, we have more than 50 associations in which young people try to do a lot of activities. In order to carry out this work, we realize: "ASSOCIATIVE YOUTH PARTICIPATION PROGRAMME"
General description of our EVS “WORKING WITH SPANISH ASSOCIATIONS� The EVS will take place in Ciudad Real, Spain, for 8 month between June 2015 and February 2016. The project already involve 3 volunteer: 2 from Romania and 1 from Italy and we are searching for the fourth one. The project will let them to increase their personal and professional skills by their participation in the different activities made by the associations involved our project, so they will be also best prepared for word market and promote social changes, thanks to interpersonal, languages skills, etc. The young volunteers will be involved in academic and non-formal educative projects, with different social groups: minorities disadvantaged young people, non-motivated young people, etc. They will also help to prepare leisure and cooperation activities for local children and young people, like workshops, performances, theatre plays, young meetings, cultural excursion. We think the project will be useful for European volunteers, indeed they will know actively the different ways of youth participation in our local community and they could use them in their future projects in their countries. As
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the same time, they will teach us how the working way in their countries is, this would be useful to encourage youth participation and to create solid working nets all around Europe.
VOLUNTEERS’ TASKS:
The main activities in which volunteers will participate are:
Linguistic meetings
Workshops and speeches about Erasmus + in the university and in our office
Give information about European projects (EVS, seminars, trainings) to young people
Collaborate with local associations in their activities
Support associations in administrative issues
Work in the visibility of the project (management social networks, PR)
Participate to trainings and different events of our organization
Prepare and launch the next hosting project with the help and guidance of our staff, including learning how to apply for funding under the Erasmus+ framework
Moreover, the volunteer has the possibility to develop his/her own activities in accordance with his/her interests and skills
Online Spanish course.
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Coordination The coordinator is the person will help you to well develop the activities inside the project. With her, you will prepare the weekly time schedule and speak about all the administrative part. With her, you can also share your expectations and proposals about activities and the project development.
“Hola chicos y chicas, soy Maribel, estoy muy contenta de empezar con esta nueva aventura, con la que todos vamos a aprender mucho y pasarlo bien”. “Hello guys!!!, I’m Maribel and I’m very happy to start this new adventure, in which everybody will learn a lot and get fun”.
Maribel Molinero Project’s Coordinator
Mentoring You will have a mentor for the whole duration of the “Working with Spanish associations” project. You will have a weekly meeting with the mentor, which is there to help you to learn more, to develop yourself. With him you will fill your Personal Development Plan, through which you will set up objectives, activities, etc... Hola chicos y chicas, soy Ángel. Os quiero desear mucha suerte es este Proyecto y deciros que estoy aquí para cualquier cosa que necesitéis. ¡Ánimo! Hi guys!! I’m Ángel. I wish you good luck in this project and tell you that I’m here for whatever you need! Ángel R. Bobadilla Consejoven’s President and Mentor
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Where is Consejoven?
Consejoven is inside the Youth Centre in Barcelona Street, in a new residential area of the city. It is near to different services as Music Conservatoire, Gym Center, Leisure Center. The volunteers are going to do activities in different city areas, depending of the associations’ location. The volunteers’ location is going to be in the city center, in a flat with all kind of services: supermarkets, post office, banks, library, university campus, pubs, etc., where they can have contact with other people.
Where will you stay?
Accommodation and Meal: The volunteers will be hosted in an apartment with access to all facilities, including kitchen, bathrooms, washing car etc. The volunteers will have one living room for preparing the activities, meetings, leisure. Each volunteer will have his own bedroom. In the flat will be WI-FI.
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Accommodation costs are fully covered by our organization. Meals are covered by our organization, so, each volunteer will receive 150 euro per month for food and other needs. Also, each volunteer will be provided with pocket money in the amount of 105 euros/month
Insurance EVS Volunteers are covered by an insurance plan specially designed to protect them during their period of voluntary activity. MSH INTERNATIONAL-AXA is responsible for the administration of the insurance policy.
Preparation and Departure
You must keep all your travel documents: train, bus, tickets, boarding passes and others…because we need them for the project finances. Reimbursement of transport costs will be made in the first week after the volunteers arrive in Spain.
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Documents you need:
European Health Insurance Card
A free card that gives you access to medically necessary, state-provided healthcare during a temporary stay in any of the 28 EU countries, under the same conditions and at the same cost (free in some countries) as people insured in that country.
Contact Maribel Molinero, Project’s Coordinator: + 34 647 46 82 74 Ángel R. Bobadilla, Consejoven’s President and Mentor: +34 676 78 20 70 Email: info@consejoven.org
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