A. Project environment: profile of the organisation and local community
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The European archeosite of Bliesbrück
The volunteers will be accomodated with other European volunteers in Metz suburbs or in flats in Bliesbruck. During the weekends or in low season, the volunteers can also join the Ambassy volunteers in Metz. Bliesbruck is 90 km away from Metz and rather difficult to reach.
Bliesbruck already welcomes international volunteers or trainees for several years, so the volunteer will not be the only "volunteer" on the spot. The staff members are present all year round.
The transportation between the working place and the living place, as well as local transportation will be taken in charge by the coordinating and hosting association if necessary.

The House of Robert Schumann:

The Robert Schuman home is a cultural spot of the Conseil Général de Moselle which allows to better know the founder of Europe through a guided tour in his private house.

It is situated in Scy-Chazelles, a small town 8 km from Metz city. The volunteer of this placement will live in a flat together with the other European volunteers in 5 min from the House. The abonnement for local transport will be also provided to the volunteer what will fascilitate the travelling to different places.

The volunteers will be coordinated by the Together association which already runs numerous volunteers in the region.
A language training in French will be given by the coordination with help of interactive methods.
The coordinator of Together will be their mentor, but each volunteer will receive an individual referee. This referee will have a daily contact with the volunteer. The coordinator of Together will be a support, but an everyday contact or when needed can be set up. The coordinator will meet regularly the tutor. This place welcoming an EVS for the 1st time, a deeper support will be organized for the start.
The volunteer service will organize campaigns to enhance Europe recognition. The objectives will be several and will vary due to the volunteers abilities, as well as the projects already running on the different places. These places being open to the public, the activity will vary following the seasons and the projects.
With the help of his tutor, the volunteer will find his own place in these activities.
The tutor responsible will be the director of Bliesbruck, Mr. Philippe Brunella, or the director of Robert Schuman home, Mme Nadege Mougel.


B.Proposed activities for international volunteers
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To be multi-culturally and inter-culturally is important and represents the basis why this volunteer programme has been chosen by the Conseil Général.

The volunteer will bring an added value to the project at different key moments for the daily routine.

He will help the staff and by his personal experience, his questions and his outside position, he will participate to the staff questioning. The volunteer will bring a European added value to the project.

In the House of Robert Schumann:

Tasks due to the volunteer:

Reception and cultural mediation: contribution to the reception, guided tours, (in English, French and following the volunteer language abilities other languages could be used), setting up of guided tours, general or thematic, preparation of more specific visits for a young public, organisation of pedagogical workshops, events organization (week for Europe, exhibitions, concerts, discovery day of another European country). These actions will be handled together with the hosting association and the pedagogical staff.

Scientific tasks: showing up the collections (historical items, archives, …). The volunteer will evolve together with a young and dynamic staff, open to different cultures. The volunteer will promote the European idea to the school and adult public through the site discovery. Autonomy and initiatives are recommended.

Some examples of workshop proposed:
"Petite graine de jardinier" the little gardener
The children will discover the different vegetables, flowers and fruits which are in the garden thanks to the smell and touch. Afterwards, they will learn some basic facts about gardening : seeding in small pots, growing vegetables at school or at home.
Public : from 3 to 6 years old.
Duration : 1h30
Participants : maximum 15
"Mon herbier" plant collection
The little garderners discover the plants in the garden (flowers, aromatic plants, …). Afterwards, they will put together their own collection in a small book.
Public : from 7 to 12 years old
Duration : 1h30
Participants : maximum 15
"Autour d'une médaille" about a medal
Children will get to know Robert Schuman, what he did for the European construction and will learn to read the message of the medal commemorating the 9th may 1950. They will make their own mould plaster.
Public : from 6 to 12 years old
Duration : 1h30
Participants : maximum 15
All these workshops are connected with a game discovery of the house.

In the European archeosite of Bliesbrück:

There several types of activities in the archiosite in order to preserve archeology that are divided into several axes. We will propose to our European volunteers to discover all the axes of our activities due to intergating them successively into different fields for the period of time of 2-6 months for every axe.

Hosting the visitors (about 2 months)
Leaded by public responsible, Mme Sandrine Metzger, the activities may look the following way:
- The tasks, connected with the hosting of public : providing with information about the parc and other touristic sites.
- The tasks, connected with the shopping space : decoration, arranging and revision of the production, sensibilisation of the public towards the nature of the production, especially during the innagurations.
- The tasks, connected with answering the phone: to answer and provide the information to those who call.

The foreign origin of a European volunteer will reinforce the international dimension of the Park and will give it the possibility to come in an everyday contact and better understanding of not only the Franco-German environment.

Public Service (about 4 months)
This axe is ensured by a qualified assistant Melle Alexandra Vincent, and it is directed towards the spreading around to a wider public, and this service will accompany the school students, children in outdoor centres, adults and individual visitors of the park.

The young volunteer will participate to:
The organisation of new visit ways and will also make better the existing ways in order to link with the working staff and the teacher.
His different way of seeing the reality and his own culture are advantages in the frame of our quality of standards.
During the season time and after a preparatory phase, the volunteer will participate to the visit organised by our service. He will ensure guided visits from groups in the park and workshops for kids.

Regarding to his knowledge and specific experience, the volunteer could lead workshops that he could imagine and create. It is important to stress the fact that there is no in Bliesbruck the visits or " typical " animations to write and to learn. Every guide find in fonction of his sensibility the way he wants to transmit what he has understood from archeology.

Research " axe " of archeology (6 months)

The research activity is in the center of the parc. Framed by a preserving of the inheritage. Miss Casadebaigthe will organise grabbing and organsie the treatment of the archeological informations. We porpose to the young volunteer to participate :
to the campaign of grabbing on place for an initiation on archeological practice. The volunteer will have the possibility to initiate all the aspects of the grabbing , topography, photographys, recording of datas.
To the treatement phase under the form of :
-washing and clening restauration of collections and updates
-to informatise the datas, manual draws of objects etc…
Of course, regarding ot the competences of the volunteer one or another aspect will be developped with an internal training provided by the structure for (example on computer skills).
The projects will be developped together with youngsters, children and adults looking for a cultural and european development.
These different places count several employees. A tutor, a pedagogical responsible will help the volunteers to accompany them and to support them during their service.


Staff members are numerous on the different spots, either administrative, pedagogical, tourist-oriented personnel. In the park of Bliesbruck-Rheinheim there are 24 employees, and apart from that up to 25-30 volunteers, students, and researchers are working there during a year.

The House of Robert Schuman includes the following staff:
-an office-worker, responsable for the site
-an assistant, qualified in inheritage preservance
-a territorial redactor
- two estate agents
-un garderner (and his practicatnts)

During the full-time opening of the site (that is from 1st April till 31st of October), we have additionally, for the year 2008:
-two temporarly agents half-time employed
-several practicants (5)
-one full-time summer period employee

The volunteer will be an active support in order to help in his personal development and getting new abilities, but he will be in no way a replacement working force.

Moreover, considering his abilities, the volunteer will have the opportunity to develop personal projects together with his tutor. The volunteer will be active on the site, but in some cases, but for different demonstrations or projects, he could be asked to realize projects in other places from the Conseil Général. The Ambassy coordination also ask the help of volunteers for common promotion actions during the EVS.

It is also possible to develop a personal project related to the needs of the association and the volunteer abilities.
The volunteer will take part in the staff meeting and to the different activities preparation for which the volunteer will be active.

The project allows the volunteer to develop numerous knowledge about language, culture and more generally he will get a non-formal apprenticeship. He will be able to develop several abilities, be able to become more autonomous and get a bigger self-esteem. With the volunteers' coordination, the association Together will set a tool for the auto-evaluation, the Youthpass and therefore, regular group meetings and more individual thinking on how to acquire new competences will take place.



C. Volunteer profiles and recruitment process
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We wish to welcome a volunteer who will bring an added value to the project. Therefore, we want him to be really volunteer and be interested by the project and he will develop a dynamic bringing some kind of added value to the staff and to the visitors he will meet.

These youngsters will have the willingness to develop themselves in a multicultural environment and will be able to be volunteering in a structure receiving lots of tourists. Easy contacts with the public are therefore a necessity.

Autonomy, responsible wise and good organisation are very important.

Basis in French or in German will facilitate a better integration, but are not mandatory and some computer knowledge, as well as some tourism knowledge is welcome.

An important asset is to have historical knowledge and develop a particular interest for the European construction.

The volunteer will be in contact with the public and will be responsible wise. He will be able to valorise the programme and EVS more specially.



D. Special needs (if applicable)
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If the volunteer has special needs, these will be looked at deeply before his arrival and for this, it is important that the preparation will be looked thoroughly by the sending association in order to let the project be ready for him.


E. Risk prevention, safety and protection
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Risk prevention and crisis management are very important in this project and to make it more efficient several meetings will happen before the EVS. The volunteer will be carefully integrated in the environment and we will try to meet his needs.

The responsible of the sending organisation, as well as the hosting and coordination associations will be in regular contacts with the volunteer family. It will be possible to get contacts with any of them at every moment in case of problems. The tutors already participated to such projects and are prepared for this work. They will fully bring their personnal support to the volunteer. In case of major problem, we also have contacts with specialists and we will try to solve them or reduce the risks.

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