CALL FOR 2 VOLUNTEERS only residents in Estonia - APPROVED PROJECT IN SICILY!!!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for volunteers for a European Voluntary Service 

“Media and Journalism”

-What?

NYH is looking for 2 volunteers aged from 18 to 30 years old for an EVS project in Mussomeli (Sicily - Italy).

-When?

6 months, from beginning of April 2016 to end September 2016.

-Where?                              

Associazione Culturale Strauss is a nonprofit organization that was born in Mussomeli in 1999. It is a self-financed organization that is part of ARCI (Italian Cultural Recreational Association).

"Arci Strauss” has as main objectives the promotion of a multicultural and multi-ethnic society, the dissemination of culture and values of the European community in marginal and peripheral areas such as the province of Caltanissetta, and to support for young people.

Main mission of our organization is in fact to meet young people’s needs and provide them services for their social, professional, cultural and personal growing.

-Which activities?

The project involves the active and participated support by volunteers in various areas related to the topic and some of the activities are developed in collaboration with centers for disabled people and disadvantaged youth:

-          Creation, layout, printing and distribution of "L’ALTERnativo"; Periodical of local information and social protest; historic brand of Strauss;

-          Investigative reporting and writing articles on " L’ALTERnativo";

-          Journalism workshops conducted with the support of professionals;

-          Preparation and management of the newsletter, the website and the Facebook page;

-          Care of the "section of the EVS volunteer", on online local newspapers as "castelloincantato.it and magaze.it";

-          Photo editing and Video Making activities;

-          tours of photography; photo exhibitions.

The volunteers will always run these tasks closely with the project manager of ArciStrauss, also supported by a tutor. Tutors will help volunteers in developing new competences related to their field of action. The languages used while volunteering will be Italian & English mainly. The volunteers will serve 5 days a week, 6 hours a day.

- Practical arrangements:

Volunteer will be housed in the apartment upper the association’s office, of which Strauss is owner, thanks to an agreement with the Municipality of Mussomeli. The structure is part of the Palazzo Spinnato. The floor plan planned to host volunteers has 2 entrances, one internal and connected with the offices below, one independent. The “House of the Volunteer” is provided with 5 bedrooms, all with window, with a total area of ​​113 square meters, a kitchen of about 32 square meters, 2 areas for toilets and divided by gender for a total of about 38 square meters, a laundry room, a solarium and other common spaces for more than 150 square meters.. Accommodation and Bills are fully covered and they will receive 115, 00 Euros /month for maintenance, on top of 135, 00 Euros / month as Pocket Money to cover personal expenses (tot. 250 Euros/Month).

Travel costs (go and back) are covered by the Erasmus+ Project

Finally, the project provides a medical insurance.

We can provide more details of the project and example timetable to the candidates, upon request.

Info about the hosting organisation and also some of the proposed activities you can find here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2ih0dub4f6e7ly7/6MkR-cKjsT 

How to Apply?

Send your CV and a motivation letter in English to marco@nyh.ee   by the 10th March 2016.

CALL FOR VOLUNTEER PROJECT IN SPAIN! Only for residents in Estonia!!!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for volunteer for an European Voluntary Service 

“European Voluntary Service to Support the Valencian social Empowerment”

-What?

GoEurope is looking for 3 volunteers aged from 18 to 30 years old for an EVS project in Valencia (Spain).

-When?

9 months, from September 2016 to May 2017.

-Where?

European Intercultural Association – GoEurope, that is located in Valencia, the third biggest city of Spain  with nearly 1.5 million inhabitants and the biggest port of the Mediterranean western coasts. It is a constantly changing and well known multicultural city with over 15% of its population composed by immigrants.

-Which activities?

Volunteers will support the association in the development of local and international mobility, mentoring and training projects in the field of volunteering, youth and social development, attending mainly the Following tasks:

ü  Dissemination of European opportunities and initiatives for youth;

ü  Involvement of the local community in youth initiatives, mobility and training projects EU wide;

ü  Mentoring the youth audience of GoEurope in order to help them in developing the necessary digital skills, such as the use of new technologies and helping them out to create their Europass CV and use other tools such Linkedin for job search;

ü  Help locals to find a suitable job, internship and training abroad;

ü  Promoting the EVS programme and post new vacancies of EVS on the serviciovoluntarioeuropeo.org webpage;

ü  Digital Marketing task related to the above mentioned topics;

ü  Looking for new partners and establishing a network with them;

ü  Assisting the preparation of project's descriptions for application and volunteering;

ü  Participation in local events;

ü  Possibility to run an “English Café” if desired by the volunteers, one morning a week together with the local community.

The volunteers will always run these tasks closely with the project manager of GoEurope, also supported by a tutor. Tutors will help volunteers in developing new competences related to their field of action. The languages used while volunteering will be Spanish & English mainly. The volunteers will serve 5 days a week, from 09:30 to 16:30, with an hour break for lunch.

- Practical arrangements:

Volunteers will share an apartment among them and possibly other local students, within walking distance to the office of GoEurope, which is located in the University area of Valencia. Accommodation and Bills are fully covered and they will receive 175,00 Euros /month for maintenance, on top of 105,00 Euros / month as Pocket Money to cover personal expenses (tot. 280 Euros/Month).

Travel costs (go and back) are covered by the Erasmus+ Project

Finally, the project Provides a medical insurance.

How to Apply?

Send your CV with picture and a motivation letter in English to marco@nyh.ee  by the 15th of January 2016.

CALL FOR VOLUNTEER PROJECT IN SICILY - Only for Residents in Estonia

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for volunteer for an European Voluntary Service placement called “Let’s do it!” for 9 to 11 months, which will take place from 1^st June 2016 to 31^st April 2017 in Mussomeli – Sicily – Italy .

Hosting Organisation:

Associazione Culturale Strauss is a nonprofit organization that was born in Mussomeli in 1999. It is self-financed organization that is part of ARCI (Italian Cultural Recreational Association). "Arci Strauss” has as main objectives the promotion of a multicultural and multiethnic society, the dissemination of culture and values of the European community in marginal and peripheral areas such as the province of Caltanissetta, and to support for young people. Main mission of our organization is in fact to meet young people’s needs and provide them services for their social, professional, cultural and personal growing.

The Profile of the volunteer: proactive, motivated to work in a foster home environment, with sense of responsibility, like to work in a team, flexible, with handwork skills, with communication ability, mature to work with social disadvantaged children and young people. 18 to 30 years old. 

The Tasks of the volunteer and conditions can be found in this link: https://europa.eu/youth/vp/organisation/948735758_en

Accommodation: We will provides accommodation in a flat (with 4/6 volunteers in total) or in Arci Strauss building with multiple bedroom with fully equipped kitchen, toilet, laundry facilities and living room. The costs with electricity, water, gas, TV and Internet are covered by the organisation. The volunteers will have towels and bed clothes for the entire period of the project.

Food and Pocket Money: We will provide €250 (every 30 days) to cover costs of food and extra expenses (ex: cleaning materials,) during non-working time.

The Erasmus + Programme will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants (up to 370 euros).

All the interested people should fill send the CV and Motivation Letter in English to marco@nyh.ee

Application deadline: 01^th January 2016

YOUTH EXCHANGE IN TURKEY - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS!!!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Youth Exchange called “Reading the Biggest Privilege” which will take place from 21st  until 30^th April 2016 in Sivas, Turkey.

The main aims of this project are gather a group of 32 young people from 5 EU countries, in order to give them opportunity to do something useful for importance of reading habit. We will carry out activities that aim to install and raise awareness in participants about the importance of reading habit as a tool to guide the youth to learning, to support social integration.

We will also show the current situation among youth and will take part in discussions about what can be done to increase the level of reading and love of reading along with the positive and negative effects of ever increasing technological improvements on reading. In addition to these informative sessions, participating youth will have chances to interact with each other in discussions, in awareness raising and book donation campaigns, in actions such as sit-downs to read, and activities to create posters and bookmarks that they will distribute in a ‘let’s read more’ campaign in a well-populated part of the city.

Different and effective non formal learning methods will be used during the project period in order to contribute active learning. Participants will be encouraged taking part actively to all the activities and workshops. There will be collaboration activities between organizations in youth field.  

This event will bring together 32 participants from Turkey, Lithuania, Romania, Estonia and Poland.. The event will be held in English. There are 6 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old until 30 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants – up to 270 euros. There will be a participation fee of 40 Eur. per participant.

All the interested people should fill the application form below. The application form must be sent to marco@nyh.ee

Application deadline: 25^th February 2015

Application form here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2ih0dub4f6e7ly7/6MkR-cKjsT

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TRAINING IN POLAND - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “Involvement LAB – Way to Engage” which will take place in 06^th until 13^th November 2015 in Poronin, Poland.

Project „Involvement LAB - way to engage!“ is training course for youth workers, coaches, animators and young people who want to gain experience in good practices of conducting international youth exchange program within Erasmus +. This training is for everyone who already had ran or has an intention to conduct international youth projects. The basic observation which was the purpose of this project is the fact that the leaders working with project groups are able to raise the level of quality of youth exchanges by finding suitable models to motivate young people to participate actively in design programs in order to continue helping them in gaining new skills and knowledge by meeting each other and getting special training. The main idea of this training is to create a laboratory of competences, which will enable participants to find the proper forms to let youngsters maintain motivation. Our task is to create a working model where the leader is not a teacher or supervisor but plays a leading role as facilitator - equipped with a variety of methods of activating youth.

During workshops we are going to discuss the issues of building youth projects, risk prevention, building a friendly environment and motivation methods. The primary purpose of this training is to improve the quality of youth exchanges organized by non-governmental organizations from the program countries of Erasmus +.

This event will bring together 24 participants from Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Italy, Spain, Croatia, France, Estonia and Poland.. The event will be held in English. There are 2 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old until 35 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants – up to 275 euros . There will be a participation fee of 40 Eur. per participant.

All the interested people should fill the application form below. The application form must be sent to marco@nyh.ee

Application deadline: 08th October 2015

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TRAINING IN SERBIA - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “Leadership +” which will take place in 21^st until 28^th October 2015 in Divcibare, Serbia.

The project is based on the fact, that group leaders from different NGOs are able to increase the quality of Youth Exchanges through finding appropriate models of motivating youth to actively participate in a process and gain new skills and knowledge. The main idea of the project is to find these forms and methods of motivation, where the leader is not only a teacher or mentor, but he/she plays an active role of a facilitator who knows technology of involving youngsters. Due to previous experience we are sure that in international society group leaders have to grow up, develop suitable systems and use them in their work. Up to them we can see youngsters' attitude towards projects, their interests in Youth Exchanges and increase the quality of Erasmus + programme.

This event will bring together 31 participants from Estonia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portugal, Albania, Romania, Turkey, Italy, Kosovo and Lithuania. The event will be held in English. There are 2 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old until 30 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants – up to 335 euros . There will be a participation fee of 40 Eur. per participant.

All the interested people should fill the application form below. The application form must be sent to marco@nyh.ee

Application deadline: 20^th September 2015

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TRAINING IN IRELAND - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS!!!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “Let’s Talk About EVS” which will take place in 09^th until 15^th November 2015 in Clare, Ireland.

Aim: The aim of the training course is to develop and enhance the ability of organisations to recognize and deal with conflict situations that can arise during the life cycle of European Voluntary Service (EVS).

The objectives are:

·         To explore effective communication with (potential) volunteers, and between hosting and sending organisations.

·         To identify potential conflict situations in EVS and explore how they can be prevented.

·         To develop competences to prevent and deal with conflicts as they arise.

This event will bring together 24 participants from Turkey, Croatia, Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Finland, Slovenia, Moldova, Italy, Estonia, Ireland and Georgia. The event will be held in English. There is 1 vacancy available and participants should have minimum 18 years old until 35 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants – up to 310 euros . There will be a participation fee of 40 Eur. per participant.

All the interested people should fill the application form below. The application form must be sent to marco@nyh.ee

Application deadline: 01^st October 2015

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TRAINING IN FINLAND - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS!!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “ABC of Citizen of Europe” which will take place in 10^th until 17^th October 2015 in Lapua, Finland.

The term European citizenship has recently become a buzz word. Everyone speaks about it, but no one really knows what does it mean and people keep asking: Is it just about politics? Is European citizenship a V.I.P. club?  Where does it start and end? How can put it to our projects? How can we make it concrete and practical?

ABC is a training course, which was developed as a module for youth workers/trainers to help them to answer their questions concerning the (European) citizenship issues. We will approach the idea of citizenship on three different levels: locally, nationally and in the European context. We will work on case, examples and Europe in practice. Together, we will be working on improving the methods on how to motivate youngsters for participation in their community and beyond.

ABC is a training course that aims to support the professional development of young trainers and to raise the quality of their projects concerning (European) citizenship.

This event will bring together 25 participants from Estonia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Austria, Germany, Poland, Greece, Hungary, Romania and Spain. The event will be held in English. There are 3 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old until 30 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants – up to 180 euros. There will be a participation fee of 40 Eur. per participant.

All the interested people should fill the application form below. The application form must be sent to marco@nyh.ee

Application deadline: 03^rd September 2015

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TRAINING IN POLAND - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “Practice Makes Perfect” which will take place in 26^th October until 1^st November 2015 in Zowoja, Poland.

Nowadays, the education of young people on the applicability of entrepreneurial fields is highly necessary especially for new venture creation. The development of new small businesses, which most of the times are accompanied by an entrepreneurial spirit, does not only empower the economic situation through the creation of new jobs, but it also provides a pathway for business owners—particularly minorities, immigrants and the economically disadvantaged groups and individuals – to join the middle class. Moreover, in the current economic environment, entrepreneurship constitutes the best opportunity for many unemployed citizens to recover by starting a business, thus being self-employed.

Entrepreneurial experiences – such as making mistakes, trying a concept, developing ideas, actually building, managing, and growing organizations, raising real funds, failing, trying again, building intellectual capital and managing it, and translating intellectual value into economic and social value – should be the acid test in being able to develop an educated opinion about entrepreneurship. Therefore, by converting all these real examples into practical activities, the trainers and the experts on entrepreneurial fields will attempt to attract the attention and the imagination of participants and provide them with all the essential tools for taking conscious decisions based on realistic economic and social conditions.

This event will bring together 24 participants from Poland, Cyprus, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Italy, Greece and Romania. The event will be held in English. There are 3 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants – up to 260 euros. There will be a participation fee of 40 Eur. per participant.

All the interested people should fill the application form below. The application form must be sent to marco@nyh.ee

Application deadline: 30^th August 2015

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TRAINING TO SICILY - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS!!!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “MIGRATION HIGHWAYS: Everlasting Phenomena” which will take place in 09^th until 16^th September 2015 in Nicolosi - Sicily, Italy.

MIGRATION HIGWAYS: Everlasting Phenomena" is a training course designed to meet the challenges and opportunities related to migration and to international mobility in Europe. It will analyze causes and effects of migration, mentioning the different components that motivate young people to emigrate. The title itself describes various aspects of migration that we will discuss (the major roads, the highways): analyzing  causes and effects of brain drain, labor, study and experience migration, migration driven by poverty and injury of fundamental and social rights, and through a structured program of activities based on Non Formal Education, this TC aims to develop in participants methods and resources to work closely with international migration and mobility in Europe, and what these phenomena entail locally.

Solidarity, tolerance and integration are fundamental values that this TC will promote. Activities will focus on the principles of intercultural dialogue and social inclusion, in both European and global perspective. The TC aims to equip participants with tools to spread these values among young people, to contribute to the promotion of a more open, tolerant environment which offers the same opportunities to everyone. The course will help to improve the skills and abilities of young people, including those with fewer opportunities, improving the quality of youth work, social inclusion, base and cross skills of youth workers, intercultural awareness, linguistic and cultural diversity and to increase cooperation and capacity building of NGOs.The TC will develop, therefore, the skills of the participants in the work with migration and mobility, promoting debates and actions on European citizenship and the universal character of the EU's fundamental values, such as democracy, the rule of law and human rights and their potential to alleviate the difficulties of migration, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion and integration of migrants in Europe.

This event will bring together 36 participants from Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Turkey and Italy. The event will be held in English. There are 2 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old until 30 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants – up to 335 euros . There will be a participation fee of 40 Eur. per participant.

All the interested people should fill the application form below. The application form must be sent to marco@nyh.ee

Application deadline: 16^th July 2015

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TRAINING IN GERMANY - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS!!!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “Time to ACT” which will take place in 22^nd until 30^th September 2015 in Hamburg, Germany.

The term European citizenship has recently become a buzz word. Everyone speaks about it, but no one really knows what does it mean and people keep asking: Is it just about politics? Is European citizenship a V.I.P. club?  Where does it start and end? How can put it to our projects? How can we make it concrete and practical?

Time to ACT is a training course, which was developed as a module for youth workers/trainers to help them to answer their questions concerning the (European) citizenship issues. We will approach the idea of citizenship on three different levels: locally, nationally and in the European context. We will work on case, examples and Europe in practice. Together, we will be working on improving the methods on how to motivate youngsters for participation in their community and beyond.

This event will bring together 24 participants from Germany, Estonia, Poland, Italy, Austria and Romania The event will be held in English. There are 3 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old until 30 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants – up to 275 euros . There will be a participation fee of 40 Eur. per participant.

All the interested people should fill the application form below. The application form must be sent to marco@nyh.ee

Application deadline: 19^th August 2015

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