Proposed activities for EVS volunteers

We contribute to the personal and professional development of the volunteer.
The volunteers will collaborate with the people in charge of the projects for 2008, in the association. The person in charge of the specific project in which the volunteer wants to take part, will act as a mentor, and will advice and help the volunteer specially during the first months of adaptation to the new city, and the hosting association. The mentor will explain the project and its objectives to the volunteer, the aim is not to boss the volunteer but to provide advise. Our intention is that the volunteer will contribute his/her own ideas and experiences, to the creation and execution of the final project.

The following Biluts projects could host an EVS volunteer:
- A 5 day Seminar on Intercultural stage and cinema art in Autumn 2008, planned for 80 people, including performances. The volunteers will support the organisation of the event. This Seminar will take place in collaboration with Euroemd countries. There are two placements for it, with a provisional start date for February 2008, and a duration of between 9 and 12 months.

- One volunteer to help with the organisation and consolidation of "Youth in action", youth exchanges planed for 2008: theatre in Italy (March 2008) and Reunion Island (September 2008). The volunteer in this placement will also collaborate to establish and create new exchanges through the Network of organisations with which Biluts has contacts. The duration of the service will be of 6 months.

- A volunteer to collaborate the campaign to promote EVS in the Basque society that Biluts wants to start. The volunteer will assist with the design of the campaign, with circulating information abut the events, in the consolidation of partnerships, etc. 12 months duration.

- Two placements for volunteers to assist establishing the audiovisual Network of Biluts, called "Kaos" Taking part in developing audiovisual products and helping with the organisation of an Audiovisual Intercultural Festival in Bilbao. The Kaos Audiovisual Network Intend. Create an intercultural work group, to encourage young people to develop their creativity .Ttheir first action is a short film produced jointly by young people from Biluts Association in Bilbao and young people from the INVERSIS association in Paris. Duration of the service: 12 months.

Volunteer profiles and recruitment process

The only requisite from the candidates is to have a good disposition towards cultural diversity; open minded people with social concerns, that move them to get to know not only people from a different cultural background but also with different socio-economic and education level.
In other words they must be people without prejudices , on the process of fighting against acquired prejudices.
For some projects certain artistic skills (theatre, audiovisual) might be an advantage, although this will never be excluding conditions.
The selection process wil be completely open and will involve different people from Biluts and it will include personal interviews with the candidates.

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