📌PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The EVS "SMART - Supporting youth Motivation, Actions, Sense of Responsibility and Tenacity" aims to promote mobility and transnational volunteering as non-traditional form of emancipation and learning, aimed in particular at young people with fewer opportunities will be directly or indirectly involved, in order to obtain a better knowledge of the active role that they can play in the communities of origin, and more generally in society, for a transition to adulthood and the responsibilities that this entails, more harmonious and conscious.
The project involves 6 volunteers from Spain, Poland, Bulgaria, Portugal, Croatia, Czech Republic.
SMART consists of 3 EVS in hospitality YouNet, Casa Santa Chiara, Centro SocialeMontanari. All organizations working in the Bologna metropolitan area. Montanari Centre is currently looking for two volunteers for a period of six months in the context of the SMART EVS project.
📌THE MAIN ACTIVITIES:
The Montanari Centre is following these aims:
➢ To promote and stimulate intergenerational integration, to prove the usefulnessof mutual exchanges between generations by involving individuals of different ages in their initiatives and activities;
➢ To run, by means of its activities, a true cultural, entertainment, research and educational output from which the entire local community will benefit(schools, associations, individualcitizens);
➢ To offer new models of old age, by sharing a new culture of old age, understood asa positive age, a period that is resourceful and full ofopportunities;
➢ To maintain elderly people’s sensorial, linguistic, creative, intellectual and DIYskills through adapted activities andinitiatives;
➢ To support the local community in promoting and valuing the knowledge, thevalues and practical abilities of elderly people, in an open-minded and inclusive logic with localcommunities;
➢ To promote an idea of active ageing, emphasizing the importance ofcontact between people of different age andculture;
➢ To promote intercultural and intergenerational solidarity in order to fight social isolation and allienation and to build an active, responsible kind of citizenshipmade through dedicating one’s own time to the others and to thecommunity;
➢ To create educational paths with a view to catching elderly people’s (and notonly) interest in cultural, entertainment, socializing and exchangeactivities;
➢ To value intergenerational relations, by creating moments and initiatives in orderto rebuild social ties and maintain- as far as possible- the ties with one’s land, by emphasizing individual resources and those of thecommunity.
Activities are connected with this aims, according with the preferences and need of the volunteer. Volunteers needs to bring his/her own laptop.
All together, volunteers will develop some common projects (supported by the mentor), for example the VIDEO about SMART, radio interviews, public language tandems, public events, etc.
All volunteers have the responsibility to contribute to the visibility of the project and of the Erasmus+ programme.
📌VOLUNTEER PROFILE:
➢ Aged between 18 and 30 years;
➢ Able to communicate in English.
Volunteers are really welcome to learn Italian before and during their service.
📌VENUE
The EVS volunteers will be hosted in Bologna (about 400.000 inhabitants), capital of the Emilia-Romagna region. Bologna is famous for its university dimension and it hosts the oldest European university that with its 90.000 students contributes to make the city a lively cultural and intercultural forge. Bologna is very open to youths and it offers a lot in term of personal growth and culturalactivities.
The volunteers will be actively embedded in this multiethnic and stimulating environment by exploiting the activities and the network of contacts of Centro SocialeMontanari. This will enable them to approach this context and act as protagonists thus making the most of the unique opportunity of the EVS. This close contact with the local community and the active participation in volunteering, informative and formative activities carried out by the center will widely enhance the growing possibility for the volunteers. Concerning the food, from Monday to Friday the lunch will be served at the Social Center. Volunteer will receive food money (120€ per month), to cover the other meals during the week.
📌 LOGEMENT AND REIMBURSEMENT
The travel, accommodation, food and the program itself are co-funded by the European Union through the ERASMUS+ program.
Volunteer will share the room with another volunteer (same sex) in a flat with all facilities, shared with other volunteers (local or international, 4 in total). The flat is composed by 2 double bedrooms, 1 toilet, small kitchen and dining room. There is wi-fi and washing machine. Bed linens and blankets are provided.
Volunteers will also received a pocket money of 5€ per day / 150€ per month/ + 120€ (per month) for food, in total 270€ and they will have available a monthly or annual public transport card for the city of Bologna.
IMPORTANT: the payment for food and pocket money will be done via bank transfer every 1st day of the month.
📌TRAVEL BUDGET - 275 EUR
Please remember that it is your limit for BOTH ways.
📌DEADLINE FOR APPLYING:
As soon as possible.
