- Nonformal Education Encouraging Development –
NEED – Group EVS project
Through this Open Call the organization Youngsters in Europe is seeking
VOLUNTEERS for the NEED project
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
To promote non-formal education as a
means to personal and professional
development and life-long learning process
of both the target group and the volunteers.
-
-
-
-
About Youngsters in Europe Organisation
Youngsters in Europe Association is a non-governmental
organisation born in June 2012. The Association provides
informal and non-formal education, youth actions, research
in youth policies field, european activities, sports and
outdoor activities.
It is located in the south of Oltenia region, in a rural area and
tries to provide support for youngsters in discovering careers,
skills and abilities.
Our experience in working with youngsters has lasted for six
years and our work in Youth in Action projects includes
mentoring in EVS for two years in a row, participation at
seminars (in Turkey- Let’s act against violence), training
courses (Greece, Youth Up!), Training Course on Rroma
rights in Budapest, Hungary and Partnership Building
Activities (Poland, Cardiff Study Visit in Wales). Furthermore,
we are currently developing a Comenius project in
partnership with Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. We
also organised and developed training courses for the
youngsters from Dabuleni community on the theme of
-
-
-
-
-
Develop the capacity of schools in target
communities to plan, implement and deliver nonformal education
Rise the eevel of awareness towards non-formal
education and it`s benefits for personal and
professional development
Raise awareness and involvement in of local public
authorities, social and educational institutions and
other NGO`s in improving the quality of education
process by including non-formal education
Ensure an efficient preparation of all volunteers by
providing specifically designed tools to be used in
pre-departure trainings, providing a training and
coaching according to a field tested methodology on
arrival and ensuring their participation and
maximum benefit from the specific on-arrival and
mid-term meetings organized during an EVS project.
Design and implement together with 10 volunteer a
non-formal learning programme that rises the level
of autonomy and self-management skills, social
integration capacity, teamwork skills, selfconfidence, communication skills and capacity for
initiative of 150 youngsters in 3 communities
Support learning outcomes and personal and
professional development process of 10 volunteers
by using an engaging and participatory “learning by
doing” approach to the planning and
implementation of the project work plan.
Support the questions of new skills and acquisition
of positive attitudes of 10 volunteers in areas such
as social work, multilinguism, communication and
team work, social inclusion and tolerance, active
citizenship, non-formal working methods and tools
and intercultural learning
Raise awareness and facilitate access to life-long
learning and personal and professional development
opportunities available for disadvantaged youth
with emphasis on the ERASMUS+ programme and
EVS.
Raise the level of internationalization of youth work
and social work through establishing long term
collaboration between partner organizations
Human rights (European citizenship, gender equality and stereotypes), public speaking, communication,
and conflict and crises management.
How long?
How many?
The EVS
stage will last 9 months
starting with 1st of April 2015
For achieving the project purposes we
want to host 10 volunteers
What will a volunteer do in the NEED project?
The volunteers of the NEED Project will be directly involved in the planning, organization and
implementation of non-formal activities in educational institutions in the city of Dabuleni, Bechet and
village of Calarasi, activities directed towards the achievements of the project objectives.
The project is structured in 3 phases:
1. Phase 1 – Capacity Building Programme
The EVS stage starts on 1st of March and will commence with a 15 days Capacity Building, a program
that is designed to transmit to the volunteer all the theoretical and practical knowledge about the
project and prepare them for the rest of the project.
The programme will focus on:



project understanding (objectives, roles and responsibilities, activities, rules to be followed) non
formal education training (animation module);
social awareness (introducing institutions where the volunteers will work, presentations and
discussions on specific aspects linked to social support, specific working methods)
thematic trainings (non-formal education, youth work, teambuilding, planning & time
management, inter-cultural learning, personal and professional learning process).
During this part of the project the volunteers will:




get the chance to better accommodate to one another
get to better know and understand the project
improve skills necessary for the implementation of the project
get to know the Youngsters in Europe organisation and the people that they will work with


get to know the institutions where they will work and the people who they will help during the
project(the target group)
get to know their host community (how to orientate around the city, shopping places, free time
opportunities, cultural attraction etc.)
The Capacity Building will be structured in 3 parts:
-
-
Capacity Building Part I – 5 days- which will focus on: project objectives understanding, getting to
know each other, team building, exploring expectations and tasks and responsibilities and
preparing for phase 2 of the capacity building programme
Community Discovery – in this part the volunteers together with their mentor will be given a
guided tour of their communities and the working places. The main aim of this phase is to allow the
volunteers to better understand their community, be able to orientate and know where to go for
what, know and accommodate to their working institutions, get to know the people they will be
working with, collect expectations from the community
Capacity Building Part II – this part will focus on planning and skill development with training on
animation, youth work, non-formal education etc, and on planning the main activities of the
project, setting roles and responsabilities.
2. Phase 2 – Personal and professional development through nonformal education
This project activity will be the core of the project and consists of a 9 months EVS stage for 10 volunteers
who will be working in educational institutions in 3 communities in South part of Dolj County.
During this phase the volunteering will be involved in implementing new activities that aim to stimulate
the social and personal development of both the volunteers as well as improving the target groups
situation/status (contributing to social inclusion, developing personal confidence and socialization, etc)
and activities aimed at improving the fit for life skills.
The volunteers will be involved in organizing these groups, capacitating them through non formal
workshops and stimulating them to be in contact with the community and turning them into active
citizensh that are more actively engaged in both their educational process as well as in their community
Types of activities to be implemented during the project:





Painting
Handicrafts
Origami
Dancing
Language classes




Workshops on different topics
Sports and outdoor activities
Cultural presentations
Thematic clubs
The above mentioned activities are more as guide lines as each volunteer has the opportunity to
propose, implement and carry on new types of activities bases on
previous experiences, personal preferences, skills and abilities.
Technical Details
Technical Details
Travel details for the
volunteers will be
coordinated jointly by
Youngsters in Europe and the
sending organizations.
The accommodation of the
volunteers for the duration of
the 9 months will be done
with host families in the
community of Dabuleni,
Calarasi and Bechet situated
in the South West part of
Romania. The host
organization will be directly
responsible for assuring good
living conditions for the
volunteers by hosting them
with host families that have
all necessary facilities
(running hot/cold water,
adequate heating, fully
equipped kitchen, etc.).
For communication all
volunteers will receive
Romanian phone cards for
their phones and will receive
monthly recharge of those
cards that will allow them to
communicate with the
project team, between
themselves or other phone
numbers in Romanian without
personal spending.
Local transport done in the
interest of the project will be
reimbursed by the
organization
The project is built upon the premises that each volunteer is an active
individual willing to learn and actively contribute to improving the
situation of the target group thus allowing great freedom of initiative for
each volunteer to come up with new and innovative activities to
implement.
In this activity we will also be organizing large scale outreach events that
aim to increase awareness on the needs of the socially assisted and
increase tolerance. These activities will be:
 World Health Day(7th of April)
 National non-formal education week (6-10 April)
 Europe Day(9th of May),
 Children’s Day(1st of June)
 International Youth Day (12th of August)
 International Day of Democracy (15th of September)
 Other large scale events based on future plans of the
organisation and/or volutneers invitiatives
During these scale events we will organize seminars, workshops, outdoor
dissemination and awareness rising activities, etc.
3. Phase 3 - Evaluation and follow-up
phase
This will take place in the last month of the project and will be aimed at
evaluating the project objectives achievement, the impact of the
activities and planning the follow-up activities to the project. In this
phase the organisation wil evaluate reuniting staff, volunteers, mentors,
staff of the social institutions and other stakeholders.
The project activities are designed in such a way that the project takes the
volunteers from the stage of LEARNER about the social inclusion and
working with disadvantaged groups to the stage of DOER in which the
volunteers get actively involved in running, managing and implementing nonformal trainings and activities aimed at increasing personal and professional
development.
Not only will the project increase the volunteers understanding of the Nonformal education and youth work but it will also increase their capacity of
implementing activities and trainings, working large groups, management,
autonomy etc.
The main defining feature of the NEED project is its strong learning
dimension, it is a hands-on learning experience for every participant.
involved.
IMPORTANT!
We are looking for active, open-minded,
creative, innovative, responsible and
motivated volunteers who are interested
in the topic of Rural development and
urbanization,
Youth
(Participation,
Youth Work, Youth Policy) and will like
to get involved in activities that focus and
aim at this topic.
The volunteers who apply for this project
need to like and be willing to work with
YOUTH for 9 months.
No kind of experience is needed to
participate in this project but we are
looking for volunteers who are open to a
LEARNING
EXPERIENCE, who value
personal development.
If you don’t feel attracted to the topic of
active citizenship or dislike youth work
then the NEED Project is not what you are
looking for.
SELECTION
Placements: 10 EVS placements in total (2 from each sending
organisation)
Age: 18 – 30 years
Nationality of the volunteers: Spanish, France, Austria, Portugal,
Italy.
Selection criteria:
 Volunteers need to have a genuine interest in
Active citizenship, participatory democracy, and civic engagement
and be willing to learn and share the information about the EU
 Gender balance – during the selection procedure
we will strive to achieve gender balance within the group
 Education: education in a relevant domain for the
project topics (social assistance etc.) will be considered a plus but
is not mandatory and we shall not refuse anyone based on this
criteria
 a basic level of English is required (being able to
make herself/himself understood by the others – Able to
communicate)
 Knowledge of Romanian would constitute a plus
but will not be a exclusion criteria
If you are interested or want more information please CONTACT US AT:
Email: luciadulea.yie@gmail.com
Phone: (004)0745172675