The youth Coordination of the city of Wörgl is a organisation within the city council, which coordinates several youth projects with different focuses. The volunteers will have the possibility to choose in which project they want to participate or to work on several projects at the same time. This is up to the volunteers to decide, depending on their preferences and interests.
The role of the volunteers will be to support the staff working in the projects, to make contact to the young people in Wörgl and to create and develop own projects, workshops or activities within existing projects. The volunteers will not replace paid staff, much more they will provide additional activities in the projects. The volunteers help us to expand the intercultural dimension of youth work an give young people the possibility to practice their foreign language skills. The volunteers offer our clients an insight in other youth cultures, as well as trends and interests of young people in foreign countries. Volunteers are a partner and connection between young people, the local community and the staff, but they are clearly members of the staff and participate in all meetings and activities like supervision or team building measures.

Activities of the volunteers:

Event centre "KOMMA" is a important culture facility in the city of Wörgl. We are organising different cultural events, mostly for young audience. This events are concerts, cabaret, theatre, etc. Beside the organisation of the events, we also rent the facility for different activities.The volunteers will have the opportunity to support the manager in all activities like processing the events from the idea to execution and finalisation. The volunteer is also invited to support our marketing activities. Here they will get an introduction and work on updating the homepage, make posters and flyers together with our designer, communicate with journalists and make press releases.
During the events a central issue is the catering and take care for the artists. Here the volunteers can organise the food supply and look after the artists, so they have a professional support. We can benefit from volunteer´s knowledge of foreign languages, because many bands and artists are coming abroad. Through this activities the EVS volunteers will make many contacts to other young people in Wörgl, but also to other institutions which are settled in the region which will quicken the integration to the local community.

InfoEck-Jugendinfo Tirol in Wörgl: The youth information centre is a place where young inhabitants of Wörgl and of the whole region can get various information, from the education to the leisure time. Our employees are making researches and they are forming the information, so the target group can deal with it. Our target group are young people between 13 and 30 years of age, looking for information about school, study, travel, voluntary work, sexuality, leisure time, au pair, etc. The volunteers will assist in research and transforming the information and in front office, in direct contact to the clients. The volunteer can use his intercultural competence and his own EVS service to make the information about foreign countries or voluntary work more plastic for the young people. It is also a place where young people come to read newspapers or to surf on internet. This is always a good possibility for intercultural dialogue, so the local youngsters will have direct information about youth culture in a foreign country and the volunteer can experience the local culture. The mobility of our clients is not extremely high and the foreign volunteer is for sure a good example to animate the youngsters to participate in different mobility programs, so they also can experience the stay in another country. Working in the front office will help the volunteer to integrate into the local community, because he/she will work with young people of similar age and it will be easier to make friends.
There will be also different projects beside the daily work and the volunteers are welcome to present their ideas and to work on this projects. Such project could be the "European Youth Week".


Youth Centre: in the youth centre we take care for young people between 13 and 19 years of age. We try to let teenagers feel secure in our centre and offer them different possibilities to spent their free time. We offer games like table top football or table tennis, but also a free access to the internet and they can play their own music. Beside this the young people get support from professional staff in case of different problems (drugs, job, sexuality, family issues, etc.). As well we organise outside the youth centre as "open youthwork" different activities, f.e. biking, hiking, games, etc.

The youth worker in the Youth Centre are not educators, who are telling the youngsters what they have to do and how to manage the life. We see ourselves as companions through the adolecence and as critical helpers, who look for a open and personal contact with the youngsters. The youth centre is open to everybody regardless to the origins, nationaliti or confession of the young visitors.
But open still means to follow the rules and to ensure a save coexistence of different youngsters with different backgrounds in the youth centre. The rules in the house are based on the learning the respectfor the youthworkers and other visitors.

TASKS AND ACTIVITIES
- We try to give our visitors offers according their desires. They can play different parlor games, billiard, tabletop football, playstation, listen to the music, watch films or just sitt around. The volunteer will accompany our visitors, while they are in the youth center and she/he will work with them on building groups to create new activities for and with the youngsters.
- The volunteer will have the possibility to organize and arrange different tournaments like football, dart, Table tennis, etc.
- There is also an opportunity to accompany gender specific project or to make workshops within those projects
- One of the elements of the youth culture is music and everything what goes together with the music. We are offering to our youngsters plenty of musical and dance events, so the volunteer will have chance to organize and manage those events together with other staff members and young people. The highlights ate parties, DJ workshops, Dancing courses, etc.
- To keep the youngsters busy not just indoors we have a lot of outdoor action. This are events like snowboarding, skiing, high rope, different excursions. Depending on volunteers preferences she/he could take the responsibility for some of this events.

Youth Project I-MOTION: The main aim of I-motion is to revitalise the neighbourhoods and to intensify the contacts among the neigbours. The participants in this project are young people who are willing to work for couple of hours in the week to get some additional pocket money. They actually don´t get the cash, but vouchers as a gesture to say thanks for their services. Those services can be gardening, to clear the yard from snow, to help other children with their homework, go shopping for elder people. After they get the voucher they can change them for different services, like cinema or different shops in the city. Our volunteer will not take part in this project as our youngsters, he /she will support our management.
The tasks for the volunteers will be:
- support the project management in daily routine
- to manage the offers for young people, which means to make contacts to private households, organizations and social facilities
- to make contact to young participants and to make "job" offers to them
- PR activities
- to organize and to carry out different workshops
- to make the documentation of current activities
This project is very interesting because the activities are very various and the volunteer will actually never have some routine. Beside this I-motion project has a very deep impact on the local community and is very well known. Through the EVS we will internationalize it. To run this project we need many strong contacts to institutions and private persons, so the volunteer will have a really deep insight into the local culture. On the other side this contact will help to improve the knowledge of the German language and to accelerate the integration into the local community.

Volunteer's profile
The volunteer's profile is very loose one because we want to address as many young people as possible. The EVS placement is open to all young people between 18 and 30 years of age.
We will be very happy to host a volunteer who:
…enjoys working with young people aged between 13 and 21.
…takes an active interest in youth-culture, youth related issues and common interests of young people.
… can inspire others.
…likes to develop and to realize his or her own.
…accepts ideas, proposals or initiatives from youngsters .
…is self-confident and willing to learn dealing with conflicts.
…has a friendly and self confident attitude towards young people.
…is communicative, open-hearted and open-minded.
…is willing to learn German.
…likes to work in a team.
…knows how to work self-dependently.
…is willing to learn and practise self-reflection.

The recruitment process for the EVS in our organisation is well planned and transparent.
" All our details are in the SOS EVS database.
" All volunteers who send us their application will be considered.
" Our coordination office on Innsbruck will receive the applications and forward them to us.
" We are making our decisions about the volunteer in the team.
" When we have made a selection of 3 best candidates, we are going to contact them and ask them more specific questions to figure out who has the biggest motivation to participate
" The final decision will be made together with the team and managing director.
The sending organisation can be anyone although we would appreciate an organisation which works in the same field, dealing youngsters.

Risk prevention
Our partner network in the EVS projects includes the mentor of the volunteer, the responsible person for project issues, the managing director and the coordinating organisation.
The volunteer will have the possibility to contact any of these persons if he or she has any questions.
The mentor is responsible for all personal issues and the integration of the volunteer in the local community.
The managing director will take care for all professional questions.
The coordinating organisation is going to be a partner for the volunteer in overall issues concerning the project. (Keep in touch with the volunteer, with the sending organisation, organising monthly meetings for volunteers, stay up to date to the project progress, etc.)

The volunteer will also take part in PDT and OAT and will be very good prepared for the service and all rights and duties the volunteers have will be known before the project starts. Beside this the volunteer will be accompanied by the SO all the time.
The volunteer will be instructed in all necessary methods and information concerning risk prevention in our house.
The volunteer will receive an informal tour through our town so he/she gets to know some nice places.
The volunteer has the chance to take part in supervision and in certain trainings which are offered for the staff in general.
All staff members are very experienced youth workers, so they all can provide a high quality support for the volunteer in all stages and issues of the project.

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