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:
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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:
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Linguistic meetings
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Workshops and speeches about Erasmus + in the university and in our
office
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Give information about European projects (EVS, seminars, trainings) to
young people
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Collaborate with local associations in their activities
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Support associations in administrative issues
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Work in the visibility of the project (management social networks, PR)
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Participate to trainings and different events of our organization
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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
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Moreover, the volunteer has the possibility to develop his/her own
activities in accordance with his/her interests and skills
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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: [email protected]
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