The city
The Town of Pau counts 80.000 inhabitants. It is the main city of Pau-Pyrenees town agglomeration gathering 14 communes and 140.000 inhabitants approximately. The city is located in South-west, very close to the Pyrenees, the Spanish border and the Atlantic Ocean.
The city is equipped with modern infrastructures and its economy is based on the aircraft industries, petrol chemistry and the agriculture. Its associative actions and its sport activities contribute to the animation of the city.
Pau in the capital of our department of the Pyrenees Atlantiques and it is the second town of Aquitaine after Bordeaux and the third of South-west with Toulouse and Bordeaux.
Housing
The volunteer will be living in Pau, with the three other volunteers in a residence of young people managed by association Habitat Young people Pau the Pyrenees. The residence counts 75 residences and is located in full heart of the city near shops and cultural places like museums, cinemas and, library, hall Gymnasium and so on.
The volunteer will be logged in an apartment for two in a individual room. The apartment is equipped with kitchenette and bathroom. The volunteers will have accesses to collective spaces which lay out of a computer room with connection Internet, a laundry, a professional kitchen entirely equipped where the volunteers will share the meals with the other inhabitants of the residence, an associative bar with audio-visual equipment and all the activities of the residence (babyfoot, billar, hall sports, library…).
The volunteer is totally free in his appartment and collective spaces in the respect of others.
AMPLI is opened from Tuesday to Friday from 9h30 to 22h30, Saturdays from 11h30 to 19h and Sunday from 14h to 19h. This Schedule is related to the repetitions activity. The regular workers has traditional schedules (9h30 - 12h30 and 14h - 18h), except the in the days that we concerts and particular events. We work in an activity sector that has very fluctuating schedules, and that's why it's difficult to be more precise. Some workers stay during the hole journey and they have a quick meal in loco. Generally the concerts take place on Friday or Saturday and sometimes Thursday or Sunday.

B/ Activités proposées aux volontaires S.V.E.
The role of the Volunteer will be
- To promote the community life of AMPLI by setting up meetings, animations, by requesting the interest of local voluntarys, users and members to take part in our actions.
For examples: installation of one evening/aperitif/concert with members and users of our studios; to make a questionnaire about user's waitings; work on the image of AMPLI; diversion of the use of a place etc
- To take part in the development of our projects in a European scale: exchanges of music bands, valorization of the culture and the local products, to compare practices of each country on the sector of the actual musics.
SVE, beyond his role, will will have the chance to discover, initiating or perfectionalyse his practice or his knowledge on: techniques of the sound and lights, shows organization, graphics, communication and so on.
We are used to recive people in our organisation for more or less long periods and each employee is ready to devote time to meet the needs for each one.

C/ Profils des volontaires et procédure de sélection
We do not have a special profile of volunteer and all the candidatures are welcome.
We will receive all the candidatures via Internet. To ensure an objective selection during recruitment we ask the volunteers to send their data and motivation letter separately.
So strengthening the network objectives, recruitment will be carried out by a commission of all hosting projects and the contact point organization .
The only criteria we will attach a greater importance will be the motivation of the volunteer and the importance of this project for its future. We will develop the candidates showing dynamism, good wheel, curiosity motivation to integrate our project.

D/ Nombre de volontaires accueillis
In order to ensuring a good coherence with the activities of associative development we wish to host one volunteer over a given period.
However, the volunteer will be host by the reception facilities of our network. Moreover volunteers will be brought to work together and will follow the language training courses together.

E/ Besoins spécifiques (le cas échéant)
Our structure is used to host youngsters for trainings, students or even people with less opportunities, we would prefer for the first year not to have volunteers with hard social/physical difficulties.