EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE IN PORTUGAL - CALL FOR VOLUNTEER

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for volunteer for 1 European Voluntary Service placement called “Learning Together” both for 12 months, which will take place from 1^st October 2016 to 27^th September 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Hosting Organisations is

Associação Portuguesa de Paralesia Cerebral de Lisboa (APCL), initially called Associação Portuguesa de Paralisia Cerebral, was founded in Lisbon on 26 July 1960 by a group of parents and technicians and was the first association of parents and experts, for people with disabilities created in the country.

Given the specificity of cerebral palsy and the impossibility of that center to respond to numerous requests, a group of parents of children who were already being clientes of the Centre together a group of technicians, founded the Association, which statutes were approved by the Minister of Health and Welfare. Since it was founded, it has been defined as Legal Person of Administrative Public Interest.

The Profile of the volunteer: Being a volunteer requires commitment, sense of reponsibility, seriousness and availability. The profile of the volunteer will have general requirements: proactive, motivated to work in a social environment, with sense of responsibility, like to work in a team, flexible, with handwork skills, with communication ability, mature to work with social and economic disadvantaged community.

A high motivation to work with people with disabilities and special interest on music, dance, theatre, sports, cooking, computers, handicrafts, gardening, history, photography, arts, can be an added value, since these areas their fields of interest and will be the way to reach their attention. So, is expected the volunteers have a positive attitude, patience and good listening capacity.

The Tasks of the volunteer; conditions and timetable can be found in this annex: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e366mmei9nlwqwd/AAAd4IH0RVZ6gPchygM8wHhva?dl=0

Accommodation: We will provides accommodation in an apartment, University residence, hostel or hosting family, Casa Europa, 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 Coordinating Organization. The volunteers will have towels and bed clothes for the entire period of the project.

Food and Pocket Money: We will provide €245 (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 530 euros).

All the interested people should fill send the CV and Motivation Letter in English to marco@nyh.ee together with the application form that is included in the link above indication to each project you are applying for in your e-mail.

Application deadline: 13^th August 2015

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EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE IN BULGARIA - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for volunteer for 1 European Voluntary Service placement called "Become a Volunteer! Change the World" for 06 months, which will take place from 01^st September 2016 to 28^th February 2016 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.

Description of the project:

The volunteer will work in our office, supporting all our projects and initiatives, providing information to the local community about the EVS and Erasmus+ programs, holding presentations visiting every week the universities and schools in the region.
We are also Eurodesk multiplier, so the future volunteers will have the opportunity to explore the Eurodesk online database and provide information to local youth who are interested.
Also, each week the volunteers will have the chance to organize their own art/eco club, where they could present their nation, language, traditions, customs etc.
Also, if there are interested people in our city, the volunteers can organize a free language course as a social initiative to the local community.

The main job of the EVS volunteers will be to promote European mobility, to share their experiences with young people. They will represent our structure within forums, job fairs. Another main part of their work will be interventions at schools (from primary schools to university). Volunteer’s activities will be adjusted to one’s profiles and fields of interest, thus the project will result with high satisfaction of achieved learning outcomes.

Working time: They will be entitled to holidays: 2 days per month and 2 free days per week.

When working in the office - approximately 35h a week; from 10:00 to 16:00h/ or a different starting hour depending on the current activities and projects that the volunteer is involved in;

Language support and full insurance will be provided by the programme.

Blagoevgrad is one of the best cities for living in Bulgaria, with its universities, student life, discos, bars, night life, close distance to the highest mountains in the Balkans - Rila and Pirin/ less than 50 km/ it provides great opportunities for summer and winter sports, leisure and free time activities and entertainment. It is situated in only 27 km distance from Republic of Macedonia's boarder and 84 km to Greece.
And here is their facebook page, where candidates can check more info about the current activities and initiatives: https://www.facebook.com/ActiveBulgarianSociety/.

There will be 2 volunteers from Estonia, 1 from Romania and 1 from Poland.

Accommodation:  The volunteers will be provided with completely furnished apartment in the town with a good location and close proximity to the office.

Food and Pocket Money: We will provide €230 (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 275 euros). We will provide full health insurance for the volunteer during the voluntary period.

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

Application deadline: 3^rd August 2016

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LTTC TRAINING COURSE IN BELGIUM - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS!!!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a LTTC Training Course called “Anti-Bias Approach on Daily Life” which will take place from 16^th until 23^rd August 2016 and after to 24^th October to 29^th October 2016 in Antwerp, Belgium.

Discrimination is a widespread social problem all around the world that beyond the all social status.  According to the European Commission, accepting of diversity in the public sphere is increasing, but there is still gaps and differences between countries (“Discrimination in the EU in 2012”, Eurobarometer). Although types of discriminations are different for all countries, the factors which cause all forms of discrimination arise from the same sources: the combination of prejudices and social power. One of the most effective methods to fight against discrimination in accordance with the Anti-Bias approach is to be aware of one’s own social power and power relations in the society beside the effort to get rid of prejudices.  The main aim of the training course that we would like to organize is to focus on the fundamentals of this awareness.

Objectives of the Project

The training course is specifically designed to provide a learning environment for the participants who are youth workers, youth trainers and project managers in the field of anti-discrimination work

-To learn about the characteristics knowledge of Anti-Bias approach and to gain its methodogical skills

-To develop new perspectives by experiencing on prejudices, power relations and discrimination

-To integrate the Anti-Bias approach into fields where they work in order to fight against individual and institutional discriminations

-To develop new projects or support current projects by using Anti-Bias approach

-To enable them to empower young people in order to raise awareness of discrimination through Anti-Bias approach

-To gain information about YouthPass and Erasmus + and to manage to use these tools in fields they work in

Description of the Activity & Number and Profile of Participants

During the first training we will focus on Anti-bias approach and we will create project ideas by using anti-bias approach. After the first seminar the participants will implement anti-bias approach in their local projects.

During the second seminar the participants will have more deep knowledge about anti-bias and we will evaluate the whole process.

This event will bring together 27 participants from Italy, Estonia, Belgium, Croatia, Turkey, Sweden, Netherlands, Hungary 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 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: 24^th July 2016

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

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EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE IN FRANCE VACANCY

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for volunteer for 1 European Voluntary Service placement called “EVS and Beyond” for 04 months, which will take place from 28^th August 2016 to 28^th December 2016 in Amiens (near Lille), France.

Description of the project:

Our main goal is to promote the European mobility and celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the EVS through a European Student Village that will take place in Amiens City Centre in September. We want this project to be big that is why we want to welcome 20 volunteers at the same time. We hope our volunteers will transmit the “motivation for mobility programmes” to every young people in Amiens and its region. The “European village” will not be the only event our volunteers will attend.

In September, for the European Day of Languages, they will also participate in our big event called “ZE DICTEE”, a dictation for students in foreign languages.In October and November, we will tour along the region to promote mobility and language learning in high schools.Finally, in December, we will go with our volunteers in schools so that they can share with the pupils traditions of their home country about Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

The main job of the EVS volunteers will be to promote European mobility, to share their experiences with young people from Picardy. They will represent our structure within forums, job fairs. Another main part of their work will be interventions at schools (from primary schools to university). We will ask the volunteers to prepare PowerPoint presentations about their countries (culture, history, language, actuality). We want them to work as ambassadors of their own country. Finally, we will take them to the EU Institutions in Brussels (3hrs from Amiens) to meet our representatives.

They will be entitled to holidays: 2,5 days per month. If they happen to work during the weekends, they can take the double off. They’ll picked up at the airport when they arrive and drop them off when they leave. In Amiens, local transport is covered. As for the profile of the volunteer, if they can have basic French, it is very good but if not, we will consider the candidates that are very interested in EVS.

Amiens is charming town (100.000 inhabitants) .There are a lot of students here at the University. Our organisation work closely with ESN (Erasmus Student Network) and we encourage our volunteer to be involved in their activities. We also have the famous Cathedral, the most beautiful of France.

Accommodation: The volunteers will be hosted either in a flat either at Amiens Youth Hostel with no costs for the volunteer.

Food and Pocket Money: We will provide €325 (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 360 euros). We will provide full health insurance for the volunteer during the voluntary period.

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

Application deadline: 30^th July 2016

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CHANGE PLACES CHANGE LIVES TRAINING COURSE IN ESTONIA

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) held a Training Course on Migration called “Change Places Change Lives” which took place from 12th until 19^th April 2016 in Taevaskoja, Estonia.

"Changing places, changing lives" was a training course designed to explain and develop deeper understanding about migration in nowadays world. Couple of months has shown how big the phenomena actually are and that there's a big lack of knowledge among youth workers.

Migration is a crucial interest to young people whether they come from countries affected by in-migration or those suffering the consequences of emigration. Knowledge of migration processes, the causes and consequences of migration and rights of young migrants are relevant to young people’s needs particularly if they are likely to become migrants or participants of mobility schemes or if their home communities are affected by migration. Competences in addressing migration in youth work are essential for building community cohesion in those countries.

European mobility programmes for young people are increasingly available for young people within the EU.

There were participants from Estonia, Italy, Slovakia, Finland, Denmark, Greece, Czech Republic, Spain, Romania, Bulgaria and Germany with all together 27 participants.

The Training Course was designed to confront the challenges and opportunities related to migration in Europe. By using different non-formal methods, causes and effects of migration was analyzed. All aspects were supported by the latest findings and developments around migration, pointing to various facets of migration: the main roads, the highways of migration, both in geographical terms and concepts, causes and effects of brain drain, labor migration, study and experience, migration driven by poverty and infringement of fundamental and social rights.

Through a structured program of activities, this Training Course aimed to develop methods and resources to work closely with international migration and its causes to local community. "Changing places, changing lives" was a training course for youth leader and workers who want to develop competences in working with migrants and migration topics and “translate” that for young people in a positive and tolerant way. Training course is aimed to youth workers, youth leaders and those involved working with migrants in their daily work. 

Here you can download more information about the training, partners, methods and conclusion: https://issuu.com/hhelena/docs/booklet_change_places_change_lives

Here you can check the promotion video of the training: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIl67WOVPxo

Here the overview of the day at the school in Põlva: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPOiF5laaWw   

Here a video with the interview with the participants and all the steps of this journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi5X7FrKAog

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission Erasmus+ programme. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Projekti toetab SA Archimedes Noorteagentuur Erasmus+ programmist.

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