Ladbergen is a village with 6.400 inhabitants on a field of 52,29 quadrate km. A basic transforma-tion of the economy structure turned out in the last 20 years. New companies have been settled and so created new places of work. Favoured by land redistribution and village rehabilitation, how-ever also the essential improvement of its infrastructure, took place the transformation from a dreamy healthen village to a modern community with a central-local importance. Nearby is situated the Münster/ Osnabrück airport. These two bigger university cities are 30 km far away in both sides and are to be reached quickly with the public local traffic.
The volunteer is bound into the team, through that he learns the organization of pedagogical target plans and their conversion. He has an important role as a voluntary employee and will be prepared and accompanied for a responsible activity. The volunteer is looked after through a mentor with whom he comes together to regular meetings during the entire duration of the service. The volun-teer will be supported by the team in order to be integrated into the project, into the country and into the culture. The volunteer is also encouraged, to bring his own ideas, creativity and experiences in the evolution of the project.
His activities lie in particularly in the 3 following fields which can be organized in part and carried out by themselves.
Working times are Tuesday- Saturday in the rule at 15.00-22.00 o'clock
- to plan and shape international activities (Youth meetings)
- to organise socio-cultural projects with young people for example Broadcast- and Video-workshops, theater and music events as also sport activities
- Collaboration in the open meeting club and at (for example service and bar services).
- Aid during the fulfillment of other services (for example mailing, advertising campaigns)

The volunteer should be in particular communicative and not afraid of learning new people. He should have the ability to work in a team. It would be good if she/ he had already experiences in the work with children and young people. Creativity and ideas as well as a particular initiative are needed. Computer knowledge and contact with Internet are helpful.
We cooperate with every sending-organization. Organizations which work with children and young people and have experiences in the work with foreign young people would be useful..

The supporting organization provides an appropriate accommodation possibility for the volunteer. According to the place of the project, the volunteer will live in Ibbenbüren or Westerkappeln in a dwelling, which many volunteers are sharing or in the accommodation of the clinical center Ibbenbüren. Here the volunteer has its own room, kitchen and a bath are common rooms, which are available for several persons.
Between the tutor and the volunteer periodically conversations will take place in order to accompany progress and to help the volunteer with the solution of probably arising problems. Additionally the tutor guarantees the receive of continual support for the volunteer.
For the first time in the project a training plan will be arranged. Volunteers receive each necessary support for the realization of their tasks and enough time to get into the new job.
The training plan will help in the integration in the local district and the project surrounding field.
The supporting organization ensures that the volunteer participates in the on-arrival-training and the mid-term-meeting. EVS- volunteers receives an appropriate language training during their stay, which is organized by the supporting organization.
Co-workers of the supporting organization look after the volunteer and will take care. They are also organizing meetings, which take place every 4-6 weeks, where all volunteers of the region meet each other. In special meetings they become acquainted intensively with the German culture. In the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the EVS a conversation between the volunteer, the tutor and the supporting organization takes place and there are special meetings only for the tutors, where they can exchange their experiences. The youth-welfare-office has developed some quality-standards, which includes the on-arrival-conversation and the mid-term-conversation and also a questionnaire, which is to be filled by the tutor and the volunteer in the beginning of the EVS.