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EVS
project - Punt d'Informació Juvenil
Youth Information Point - 2009-ES-67
Actualized on 23/09/11.
Project themes: Youth Information, Rural/Urban development
Target groups: youth and children, local comunity
Project activities resum: Provide attention and information for local youngsters about
education, work, lodging, culture, associations, loggings, loans,
tourism, comunication, … and help to organize activities for
youngsters
2012-2013 project selection process: No dates defined
yet
Project duration: 11-12 months
Number of volunteers hosted: 1
Project email to send candidature: EVSPIJ@gmail.com
Hosting organization: IMACT - Youth Information Point (Punt d'Informació Juvenil - PIJ) (Tortosa-Spain): http://www.puntjove.tortosa.cat
Coordinating organization: obre't'ebre (HEI 2010-ES-94): www.obretebre.org
GENERAL SELECTION CRITERIA OF
THE VOLUNTEER
Volunteer
profile:
The priorities of the
library, regarding the profile of the volunteers are:
An
active person, dynamic, with communication skills, with empathy and
positive, open to know and meet youngsters from other cultures, to
attend diversity, motivated to learn and teach and with initiative.
It is required motivation and interest in leisure, education,
cultures, social work with children and youngsters from diferent
origins, and interested in office work.
Interested
in living in a rural area
Basic
level of Spanish is an asset, so volunteers can integrate quickly
and understand what to do.
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 (2012-2013 project):
Please send at
EVSpij@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) and a
description of the obstacles faced by the volunteer (if any). You will receive
an automatic answer.
No candidates will be taken in account if any file or information asked is missing.
No personal email will be sent until the selection process (2012).
SUMMARY
OF THE PROJECT
Project
environment:
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:
The
Instituto Municipal de Actividades Culturales y Turísticas de
Tortosa (l'IMACT, Municipal Institute of Cultural and Tourist
Activities of Tortosa) was created in 2002 as a dependent entity of
the City Council.
Its aims are the development and promotion of
tourist and cultural services and all issues around them (citizen's
initiatives, heritage, research, policies, relations and agreements
with other entities,...). The idea is to promote an open,
heterogeneous and tolerant culture. It is composed of 10 staff
members.
The
Youth Information Centre (Punt
Jove Tortosa)
was founded in 1997. It has an excellent location, in the city area of
Ferreries, at the periphery of the old town of Tortosa, next to 2
secondary schools.
Its
aim is to provide youth with information of their interest and
counselling so they may access to all options they have, in equal
opportunities. It offers information (lending material, monthly
bulletin, Internet,...) about all issues concerning youth (housing,
work, opportunities, youth hostels, participation, immigration,
tourism, education, health...).
Its
growing use by youth year after year, due to the quality and quantity
of information, and its difusion and promotions, has made it develop
and offer new services. It has become a meeting and hosting place for
the local community and plays an important role in the multicultural
integration of local youth, as it offers free Internet. During 6
months/year many youth participate in the intercultural entertainment
project organised by the youth department (for youth aged between 14
and 25 years).
It
is composed of 2 staff members, among them, 1 youth information agent
and 1 youth technician.
The
PIJ offers the following services:
Reference
and loan documentation (books, revues and newspaper, CD, DVD, …)
Information
and help about: work (works offers search, CV edition, …), youth
tourism (albergs, summer/holiday camps, campings, …), housing
(information about house renting or buying loans), about european
youth programs, formal and no formal education...
youth/family/adult
hostel card and internacional student card sales
Users
training (visit, explanations, trainings in documentation search or in job
search, …)
Periodical
publications (electronic report, Tortosa Jove, News report,
activities report, …)
Internet
access (free 60 minuts access, in 4 computers) and WIFI conexion for
personal computers
Classified
advertisements (work offers, trainings, contests, and
sales/rent/share youth adverts, ...)
Web
page updating, with information about work, participation,
information, youth associations, immigration, youth tourism, music,
festivals, …
Furthermore,
the City Council's youth area organises further activities for youth:
“JOVES
I NATURA”: Nature activities for youth (trekking, speleology,
kayak, bike trekking, ...)
“JOVE
INTERCULTURAL”: Intercultural youth exchanges, with youngsters
from diferent educational centres and immigrants youth, producing
together a small documental, strengthen their relations making
activities together
“RECREARÉ”:
Photo and video contest, aimed to promote young artists. Exhibitions
of the works presented in all the surrounding area.
“EBRE
MUSIK”: Music contest, aimed at promoting local emerging music
groups. Organization of concerts and funding for the best 3 groups.
Final concert with famous pop-rock spanish group. Edition of 500 CD
with one song of every group that participated to the contest.
ALTERNATIVE TRAINING CICLE: Programation of no formal education training during
all year, destinated at local youth, in different subject matters
(laughter
therapy, family constellations, young kitchen, natural cosmetics,
introduction to massage, plastic art, diet and nutrition, makeup,
video editing, etc...)
SOLIDARITY
FAIR and VOLUNTEERING DAYS: promotion of solidarity and volunteering
through a fair of solidary organizations and NGO from the territory.
Other activities during the fair: short stories telling, puppet
theatre, music performances, conferences about volunteering,
workshops, ...
NADAL
JOVE: Christmas Fair, with activities ans games for children during
10 days
DINAMIZACIÓN
JUVENIL INTERCULTURAL: workshops and activities for immigrant and
local youngsters of 14 to 25 years old, to strengthen their
relations and promote integration and coexistence
Funds
for youth organisations of Tortosa,...
The
PIJ has got the following opening timetable:
Summer (15th
June-10th September): Monday-Friday: 9am to 3pm.
Rest of the
year: Monday-Friday: from 9am to 2pm and 4:30pm to 6:30pm.
There are also
punctual activities (concerts, trainings, ...) taking place out of
these times, Friday evenings or on weekends.
Board and lodging: The volunteer will be hosted
in a shared flat with other EVS volunteers in Tortosa, right next to the Library. The
volunteer has got to buy and cook its proper food.
If needed, cleaning rules will be established in the
flat.
Local transport:
Distances in the city are short,
so they may go on foot or by bicycle. In any case, if volunteers need
to use public transport for the project activities, the transport
costs will be covered.
Pocket
and food money:
Pocket and food money will be paid in a bank account (opened to
volunteers at arrival). The coordinating organisation is in charge of
the payment of the flat rental and household expenses.
Language:
In Tortosa, the most used language is Catalan. It is difficult to
find Spanish language classes of intermediate-high level, so we will
suggest volunteers to take basic Spanish and Catalan classes
and we will provide them contact with young
people interested in doing language exchanges.
There might be the possibility to participate to an intensive course of
catalan in the beginning of the project. Then there will be between 1-4 hours/week
of language classes,
according to needs. Basic
Spanish classes will be given by the organisation Atzavara-Arrels, Basic Catalan
classes will be given by "Centre de Normalització Lingüistica.The volunteer can learn Spanish and Catalan
through classes, language echanges and daily-life.
GENERAL
TASKS OF THE VOLUNTEER
Trainings and suport:
During the first 2 weeks, they will receive information and training about the host and the
coordinating organisations and the reality of the area. They will receive
information about the health system and all useful phone numbers
(urgencies, police, fire brigade, information,...).
The volunteer will receive the necessary information to carry out
his/her activities, as well as about the structure of the hosting
organisation.
The PIJ offers training in the following issues: documentation, information, search
of information, digital resources, design and creation of interactive
and educational material, local and international cultures and the
contact with youth...
With the contact with the staff and users of
the PIJ volunteers can learn about the reality of immigrants, their
cultures, the reality of people with disabilities, immigration laws
in Spain and the daily-life of Spanish society.
They may participate in the awareness activities, workshops and talks carried
out, where they may learn about education and may develop their
personal and social skills.
Competences volunteers may develop during their EVS at the PIJ: -Communication in
mother and foreign tongues, mathematical competence and basic science
and technology competences, digital competences, learning to learn,
social and civic competences, sense of initiative and
entrepreneurship, cultural awareness expression.
One person from the staff 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 solve any conflict.
The volunteer will assist to the on-arrival training and the mid-term evaluation of our National
Agency, to monthly evaluations with the mentor and
supervisor, and to intermediate and final evaluation with the coordinator.
Role
of EVS volunteers in the host organisation:
Volunteers
will attend youth through their support in actions, projects and
programmes for youth about co-existence values, tolerance and
solidarity.
Volunteers will support and help with the activities
and projects carried out at the PIJ, but they may also develop their
sense of initiative and entrepreneurship in a personal project, in agreement
with the supervisor and coordinator.
They will support and help the
team of volunteers, students and staff in charge of the daily running
of the projects and the different workshops and projects of the PIJ,
which supervisor will guide them and advice them with their tasks.
Volunteers
will never be obliged to do any activity they don't want to do. They
will never be set in risky situations during their activities.
Proposed
tasks for EVS volunteers:
A.
Organisation and classification: Support with organisation of
shelves, classification of documents and organisation of material
B.
Attention, information and training: support with the
direct, phone and e-mail attention to users of the PIJ and training
of users (visits, explanations, training about documenation,...)
C.
Tele-centre: Register users and help and support them using
the new technologies.
D. Diffusion campaign about the PIJ in secondary
education centres and university: support in preparing, planning and
realizing the talks
E.
Administrative tasks: Support writing letters, sending
correspondence, giving out posters, control and monitoring of
registrations for courses and activities, organisation of calendar of
training courses,...
F. Organisation of events: Help
with organisation activities carried out by the Youth Area
(conferences, talks, workshops, exhibitions, contests, concerts, festivals,
trips, Christmas Park, Fairs,...)
G.
Electronic bulletin TORTOSA JOVE: Support writing, with the
layout and sending of the bulletin.
H. Intercultural workshops: Support to prepare
and reallize activities with yougnsters,
to strengthen their relations and promote integration and coexistence.
In 2010 and 2011, the actual volunteer could dedicate most of his time to an
intercultural project with youngsters
(see the
Art Total project in Facebook, lead by the actual EVS volunteer),
but in the next project (2011 and 2012), this possibility is not confirmed yet.
I. Participate to talks and activities of
difusion of EVS and international volunteering organized by obre't'ebre
SERVICE TIME:
about 30-35 hours per week, including technical and language and exchange
SATURDAY
AND SUNDAY:
holiday. Exceptionally, the volunteer can be asked to work during a
weekend. In these cases, he will get 2 free days during the past or
the following week. 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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