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Estadisticas Gratis
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EVS project - Grain Art
Integration through Art - 2009-ES-66
Actualized on 05/05/11.
Project themes: art and culture, social
inclusion
Target groups: persons in risk of exclusion,
local comunity
Project activities resum: help in paper,
cardboard, wood and metals artistic
work and realize a cultural and social study
2012 Project
dates: No vacancy in 2011. Project dates for 2012 not decided yet.
Project duration: 2 weeks-12 months
Project application deadline: No date in 2011
Candidates selection:
No date in 2011
Project email to send candidature: EVSgrainart@gmail.com
Hosting organization: Grain Art
(Tortosa-Spain):
www.grainart.org
Coordinating organization: obre't'ebre (HEI
2010-ES-94): www.obretebre.org
GENERAL
SELECTION CRITERIA OF THE VOLUNTEER
Volunteer profile:
The priorities of Grain Art, regarding the profile of
the volunteers are for them a person:
- Dynamic
and motivated, with initiative and eager to learn,
- Interested
in social issues, human behaviour, human history and cultures,
- Interested
in living in a rural area,
- With
flexibility and ability to work individually and also in a team,
- With
assertive and empatic comunication habilities,
- Opened
to know and meet persons from diferent origins, opened to the
diversity.
- A
basic knowledge of Spanish would be needed in order to integrate
rapidly to the community.
- We
will give preference to candidates who haven't had a previous
experience abroad, but who have taken part in workshops or
activities in centres for people in risk of social exclusion, and /or
be active
in the socio-art-cultural association world. We have no requirement
regarding the age, gender or nationality of the volunteers.
Recruitment process:
Please send to EVSgrainart@gmail.com
your CV, a motivation letter (especific to the hosting project) and
some information about the
sending organization (contact details and Youth In Action Program
experience).
As there is no vacancy
available in 2011, the volunteers application sent to the Gmail address won't be
read until the next selection process (probably in 2012).
SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT
Region:
Tortosa is the capital of "Terres de l'Ebre", in the South
of Catalonia, North-East of Spain. This area has a rich historical and natural heritage
and two Natural parks: Parque Natural del Delta del Ebro and the
Parque Natural de los Puertos. Tortosa is a city of approximately
40.000 inhabitants, 25% of whom are immigrants. One of the main economic
activity in the region is agriculture, together with the service and industry.
Thus it is mainly a rural area where European Youth information is not readily
available and the opportunity of taking part in this kind of projects is not
very common.
Please read the
Volunteers guide in
Tortosa, to know more about the hosting place.
Coordinating organisation:
The coordinating organisation is obre’t’ebre, which was establish
by three European volunteers after a Future Capital. At present the
organisation counts on two workers, and 6 to 10 volunteers who helps
obre't'ebre occasionally. obre´t´ebre is located in the Youth
Information Point of Tortosa, in the sports centre of the city. Since
its creation obre't'ebre has organised four international exchanges
and six summer work camps, sent seven EVS volunteers, hosted eight EVS
volunteers and is actually coordinating an EVS project with 3 volunteers until
September 2011. We also supported and guided youth initiatives, ....
Hosting Organisation:
Grain Art is a non lucrative organisation working on promoting
resources for the personal and social integration through the work and
creativity.
The main aims of Grain Art are:
- To
encourage social and laboral
inclusion to people with less opportunities
- To
give form and life to art and culture.
- To
actualize the heritage
- To
create resources for the education and to estimulate the creativity and
communication.
We reach these
objectives by working on education, formation,
professionalism and creation of products and services.
The organisation has 4 transverse action lines which mix and complement
each other:
-
Social and laboral inclusion
- Education
and formation
- Social
cohesion and imigration
- Culture,
heritage, art and creativity.
We organise these
actions through the following activities:
-
Golden land: was a place for people with disabilities, working with
silversmithing and woodcrafts. The organisation has been working with the
project for the last three years.
- Red
Sky: occupational workshop of laboral insertion for people in risk of
exclusion (illness, drug-dependents, social problematics, etc)
working with papercrafts and cartoncraft. This is a permanent
project, that moves the rest of the projects and activities.
- Desert
lights: It is a vocational training program for newcomers youngsters,
mainly Berbers. This project is aimed to dinamize his own culture and
to foster his social and laboral integration.
- Footprints
of sand and life: this is a ludic and educative workshop
aimed at discovering and taking advantage of the signs of Berber
writing “tifinac”, based in the language, the poetry and communication,
involving different artistic techniques.
- Growth
pathways: this is an educative, ludic and didactic proposal to create
experiences around the interculturality, the integration of people
and the cohesion social. We are doing an educational programme for
teachers, educators and mentors.
- A
world to share: this is an educative proposal working with ceramics,
with its formal, symbolic and anthropological contents. The starting
point is the Berber culture and the local culture. The arrival point
is the universal culture.
- Courses:
different levels introductory courses of silversmithing and
woodcrafts for youngsters with disabilities, inspired in the berber
culture.
-
Heritage: different works, studies and collection of cultural heritage
from the city of Tortosa or from Terres de l’Ebre area, for example the
project “Medieval markets”
- Services
for organisations and companies.
-
The secrets of
good life: talks about drugs prevention in educational
centres of elementary and secondary education.
-
Milieu Plan:
participation to the milieu plan run by Catalan Government in
educational centres through workshops like “Footprints of sand and
life”.
Project
environment:
Grain Art has an employment workshop to promote working insertion, next
to the city centre. Working hours are from 8 pm to 14 pm, but activities in
schools, organizations or in the library can take place in the afternoon. Depending
on the needs, the volunteer will have access to the workshops out of
his working timetable.
Board and lodging:
The volunteer will be hosted in Tortosa,
in a shared flat with local youngsters or other EVS volunteers. The
volunteer has got to buy and cook its proper food.
Local transport:
The distances between the lodging and the work place are shorts, so
the volunteer can move by bike or by foot. In any case, if the
volunteer needs to use public transport for the project activities,
the transport costs will be refunded.
GENERAL
TASKS OF THE VOLUNTEER
Trainings and suport:
The volunteer will receive the necessary information to carry out
his/her activities, as well as about the structure of the hosting
organisation.
Grain Art can offer to the volunteer training in
woodcrafts, papercrafts and cartoncraft.
The volunteer will assist to Spanish and/or catalan classes every week,
between one and three hours a week, depending on the availability of
trainings and on the needs of the volunteer.
He/she will be put in contact with youngsters in order to realize
language exchange once a week.
The volunteer can assist to all the activities, talks
and workshops organized in the schools by the hosting organisation,
where he can learn pedagogy,
technical knowledge, social and develop its personal competencies.
Through the relations with the organization staff, the volunteer can
learn about the diferent cultures
represented, about the reality of newcomers population and persons with
disabilities or social problems, and about the
laws, rules, costums and day-life of Spanish society.
One person from the staff of Grain Art will be the volunteer's work
supervisor, with whom he/she
will meet regularly to evaluate and plan its work.
The tutor of the EVS volunteer is a volunteer of obre't'ebre, who
followed a special training from our National Agency. They will have
regular meetings with the aim of evaluating the
project and its conditions and to sole any conflict.
Tasks: The main purpose of the volunteers
participation will be:
- help and practice in paper craft, carton craft
and wood craft artistic
work: practices related to the product making process, from the origin of
primary material to the final product
- realize a cultural and social study,
- make ceramic workshops in schools.
- make theoretical study about product making process
- prepare, organize, realize and
evaluate of workshops,
of educative material and studies or/and a personal project
- reflexions and investigacions about the cultural and artistic heritage
- study of the cultural and artistic products
made by Grain Art until
today
- locate them in an historical context, deep it
with the study of
universal values
- search for a practical sense in the actuality
and educative
applications
- make new proposals of creations and designs of educative tools
- practice art and interculturality in other organizations (schools, library,
youth organizations, ...)
SERVICE TIME:
about 30-35 hours per week, including technical and language and exchange
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY: holiday. Depending on the
week there will be trips with young people or other volunteers to get to know the
"Terres de l'Ebre”
region
HOLIDAYS:
Local and national holidays, and 2 free
days a month with previous
concertation agreement with the supervisor.
The volunteer can
take part during his/her free time in any activities
he/she is interested in: seminars, courses, local dances and music
lessons, local activities...
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