📌PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

VESSEL - Volunteering as an Engine for Solidarity, Social Engagement and Learning opportunities is a group international volunteering activity with three volunteers, involving one Hosting Organization (Portugal) and three international Sending Organisations. The volunteering service starts in July 2019 and goes to a maximum period of 12 months. The international volunteers will be placed in the Southern Portuguese city of Olhão, where they´ll have the opportunity to experience a totally different culture and way of living, to learn and experience new things, and to use the knowledge and experience gained in their countries so that they can act as a liaison between partner organisations. The volunteers will be involved in the activities and projects developed by the Hosting Organisation and will be encouraged to develop and implement their own projects/ideas.

The project will promote young people’s active citizenship in general and European citizenship in particular since living and working abroad will be an important learning experience in itself for the volunteers. Also, the contact with local youth will allow for discussion about European values with persons from different backgrounds and realities, but also will be a chance to promote changes in different areas and different topics. In terms of specific objectives for youth under the Erasmus + Program, VESSEL will help to improve the level of skills and key skills of young people, including the disadvantaged, promoting intercultural dialogue, social inclusion and solidarity, particularly through creating opportunities for mobility for learning purposes. Complementary work will help to improve the quality of youth work by strengthening the cooperation between youth organizations. In terms of priorities, The project will promote the development of important competencies such as entrepreneurship and multilingualism, and will raise awareness of European citizenship. We intend to privilege the development of the volunteers' personal skills and create learning opportunities, both based on non-formal methods, through tutoring sessions to introduce the volunteer to the organisation and to provide them with the necessary skills to carry out their tasks, through direct contact with the community, the culture and the language. At the same time, the service of the volunteers will bring a strong value both to MOJU and to the community in general, through the direct results of their work for and with the local youngsters and through the different points of view that they will bring.

📌MAIN ACTIVITIES:

➢ Support the development of activities for youngsters, which will involve the preparation of group dynamics, team building activities, cultural activities, sports activities, and others, always in articulation with the association's team;

➢ School support, where the volunteers will have the chance to have direct contact with children and organize several outdoor activities;

➢ Promotion of games and activities for youngsters during school breaks;

➢ Work at the social living room of MOJU´s head office, which is open to children and youngsters from Monday to Sunday, where the volunteers can help in the organisation of the space, in the organisation of activities for the holidays related to special events, in the organisation of sports activities and in the creation of new activities, among others;

➢ Supporting international relationships, helping the team in the organization of international trainings for cooperation of people from different nationalities in various subjects, youth work camps, for the promotion of volunteering in various subjects and international training and exchange programmes;

➢ Office support on an international level, making contacts with international partners.

📌PARTICIPANTS' PROFILE:

➢ Be over 18 years old;
➢ Like to live in a rural area;
➢ Be open-minded, creative and very sociable;
➢ Knowledge of English language;
➢ An interest in learning Portuguese;
➢ An interest in working with children and young people with fewer opportunities.
➢ In order to be selected to participate in the project, the candidate needs to be part of the international database of the European Solidarity Corps.

📌ACCOMMODATION:

Volunteers will live in a furnished rented flat shared with other volunteers, close from the office and not far from the centre of the town. The flat contains all the necessary amenities and is divided in different rooms, kitchen and bathroom. The volunteers will have their own bedroom or share it with another volunteer, a shared kitchen and bathroom.

📌PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE:

Volunteers are welcome to learn Portuguese before and during the project. Before coming to Portugal, volunteers can practice using several online tools (Duolingo, Babbel). Before coming, each volunteer will receive an email by Online Linguistic Support (OLS) with the link for the “Assessment Test”. After filling it, each volunteer will receive another email to start the online course provided by Erasmus+ (http:/ /erasmusplusols.eu/). OLS will be the official tool to use to learn Portuguese during the Project. Two weeks before the end of the project, each volunteer will receive an email with the final linguistic test to fill, in order to receive the final level of Portuguese. Since the project activities require work and communication with other people, it is necessary and important that the volunteers try to speak in order to perform their duties. For that purpose, there will be 3 hours of Portuguese Lessons per week.

📌COSTS AND REIMBURSEMENT:

The travel, accommodation, food and the program itself are co-funded by the European Union through the ERASMUS+ program.
The organizers will reimburse travel costs for the amount showed in the original boarding passes, tickets and invoices, up to the limits indicated in the ERASMUS+ program guide (up to EUR 360 per participant travelling from Bulgaria). For this reason, it is essential that you bring with you and keep all the original tickets and invoices of the travelling.

The house where the volunteers will live has a kitchen that can be used. A monthly contribution for food will be given to every volunteer in the amount of 120 Euros. The volunteer will receive during his stay in Olhão, a monthly pocket money. The amount is stipulated by European Solidarity Corps and is equal to 150 Euros.

📌TRAVEL BUDGET - 360 EUR

Please remember that it is your limit for BOTH ways.

📌DEADLINE FOR APPLYING: 20/03/2019

There is no participation fee.

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