A. Project environment: profile of the organisation and local community
The Kolar Psy is located in Vienna's 17th district in the west of Vienna, which traditionally is a 'workers' district, which now has a highly mixed cultural community. The 17th district borders the Vienna Woods, and has many wine fields on its territory. This means that there are many traditional 'Heurigen' (Wine restaurants). On the other hand several cultural institutions like theatres and cabarets have their seat in this district. Right next to the Kolar Psy is a big high school. Some of the pupils visit the Kolar Psy in the school breaks.
The project will take place in Vienna. Vienna is the capital of Austria and has about 1.8 million inhabitants.
This project is coordinated by Grenzenlos, and the volunteer will be integrated into the MELANGE program. This means that he/she will have the opportunity to meet the 23 other foreign EVS volunteers as well as Austrian returnees. All volunteers will be offered leisure time activities, in order to become acquainted with specifics about Austrian and Viennese culture. There are monthly meetings that provide continuous follow-up of the volunteers and are a social event where current, future and former volunteers can meet. Grenzenlos also organises housing, helps find language courses for the volunteers and offers a mentoring program as well as help with all administrative matters.

B. Proposed activities for EVS volunteers
The Kolar Psy (the greek sign 'psi' stands for everything concerning the human psyche) is also one of the training projects of Komit Gmbh: It is a project in the form of a pub, with the goal to offer occupational therapy that brings the clients into contact with the local community and the world. Its target group is adults, who have a psychological illness. The Kolar Psy teaches 21 clients during this social therapy how to work in a pub, how to cook, to serve, to do the accounting etc., but also how to take over responsibility, how to work in a team. The concept of the Kolar Psy wants to integrate modern technology with traditional technics: on the one hand there is free acces to the internet and there is a beamer and other technologies to organise events during the evening, on the other hand is the central point of our gastronomy the traditional stone oven, where the typical unleavened breads of the pub are baked and prepared.
As mentioned before one of the goals of the project is to get the clients in touch with the local community and the world. This is done in the followings ways: since nearly six years the Kolar Psy has been developping with the goal to make the pub into a communication centre in the neighbourhood. Therefore, one special focus of the Kolar Psy are the regular events: lectures, music evenings, cabarets etc, in this way inviting the local neighbourhood to come to the café and integrating the clients and their neighbours. These activities are integrated with another characteristic of the pub: getting the clients in touch with the world. At least once every year we try to organise an international trip to similar projects abroad. The groups of clients and staff travelled together in order to share experiences with coworkers and clients in other countries. In the past visits to Berlin, Hamburg and Steyr have been organised.
We expect the volunteer to work together with the clients of the daily work: helping them with their tasks, participating in their projects and the projects planned by the team. In this way, the clients are challenged to work with a different language and in a different team. The regluar tasks for the clients are to prepare the typical breads of the Kolar Psy, prepare the orders, to clean the pub, and together with the staff prepare the special events. The volunteer will partly work on the same tasks: keeping an eye on how the clients are coping and assist them when necessary. This will be a learning-by-doing process for the volunteer, where he/she will be supported by the seven project trainers. The staff will also assist to make the volunteer feel at home and finding his/her own position within the team and the group. He/she will also be involved in the promotion of the project: speak to visitors of the pub, as well as visiting events in the district together with the clients, handing out brochures (designed by the own grafic workshop of Komit), speaking to people about the pub and its goals, promoting special events. (40%)
As specific task for the volunteer, we would like him/her to think of activities that could be offered in the pub: this could be an international afternoon/evening, where music of the country of the volunteer is played, some culinary specialty of the country served etc. Together with the social workers in the team, he/she can think of ways how to invole the clients in this project: do a workshop on the food, tell the clients about the country, so that they learn something new, to plan the programm of such an event. Another possibility could be a music evening, if the volunteers is involved in music. These events will stimulate the integration effect of the pub in the local neighbourhood. We would also stimulate the volunteer to organise a social afternoon/evening for the other volunteers in Vienna, stimulating mutual contact between the volunteers and the clients (20-30%)
As mentioned above, once per year the team and clients of the Kolar Psy go on an international trip, visiting similar projects in other countries. These trips enable the exchange of
experiences and offers a new insight to similar work in other countries, for both team and clients. We would like the volunteer to look for the possibilities to visit a similar project in his/her country: do research on the kind of projects that exist, make contact to these organisations, try to set up the trip etc. The team of social workers will of course support with this. (5-10%)

C. Volunteer profiles and recruitment process
The personal contact of the volunteer with the clients, communicating on a personal basis during the regular work, in the breaks and during quiet times, we also consider part of the project- as it will mean an enrichment of the daily life of the clients in a european way. We hope that the presence of a volunteer, who might not speak german yet, will challenge the clients to learn english or to communicate in another way. It is highly necessary, that the volunteer begins his work with basic geman knowledges. Most of our clients do not speak and understand a foreign language, the communication is mostly verbal. Therefore the volunteer should be in general interested in working with people with psychological illnesses. He or she should be open and a communicative person.
The volunteer should be prepared to expect the unexpected- the target group of the Kolar Psy might be difficult to get used to and to work with at first. We would like a volunteer to think about his/her concept of people with psychological illness before coming to Vienna, to realize prejudices and possible ways of working with this group

E. Risk prevention, safety and protection
We do not host volunteers aged under 18. The volunteer will never have the sole responsibility and will not be left alone during the project. The volunteer will also get clear instructions whom to contact in emergency cases. Furthermore the volunteers do have the possibility to observe the situation with the clients in the pub during their first weeks and will also receive a clear explanation how to deal with different situations. They will also take part in internal courses to support their own confidence and security in working with our psychological ill clients.
Our volunteers are also part of the MELANGE programm, the EVS programm in Vienna supported by the city of Vienna wienXtra and coordinated by GRENZENLOS - Intercultural exchanges. Within MELANGE, Grenzenlos organises YOUTH activities on behalf of the City of Vienna, mainly EVS. Each year GRENZENLOS sends and receivse an average of 30 young people each, plus short term exchanges.The main priorities are working with disadvantaged youth (e.g. handicapped people, young migrants, long term unemployed,...) and exchanges with countries in Eastern Europe, Southern Eastern Europe and the MEDA region. All participants of MELANGE are connected and have the possibility to take part in a variety of different freetime activities. Within MELANGE GRENZENLOS offers furthermore mentoring for the volunteers and regular informal and formal evaluations about the project to guarantee the success and well-beeing of all actors involved. The volunteers are also provided with an emergency number where one of Grenzenlos staff can always help.