A:
The municipality Hopsten is situated in a charming corner of the Tecklenburg Country in the north-western Münsterland. It forms the boundary to the Emsland and thus the gate to Westphalia. The municipality is of 9.980 ha; with approx. 80 inhabitants on the square kilometre is the municipality Hopsten the face-biggest municipality in relation to the inhabitants in the Steinfurt District.
The municipality Hopsten is in charge of standard centres, well sorted businesses, well-kept restau-rants and hotels, sport and leisure time places as well as neat residential quarters. The cultural life of the community reflects in the activities and events of the local associations again. The nearest bigger cities within the area of 20 km are Rheine (75.000 inhabitants), Ibbenbüren (51.000 inhabi-tants) or Lingen (45.000 inhabitants). To Holland (for example to a city Enschede with 150.000 in-habitants) there are approx. 70 km.
The centre has already been active in the youth program for 5 years, in particular with the "Euro-pean volunteer service" and gains international experiences since then.

B: The volunteer is a team - member. She/ he will support the daily work. The volunteer will work in the team and will get own responsibilities within the youth work. The work will be orientated at the abilities and the interests of the volunteer. She/ he will participate at all national and international activities of the youth centre.
Concrete tasks are:
o Being a contact person in the meeting point/ café
o Offering freetime and leisure activities, like crafts, music, video
o Creating information materials about the European Union, her/ his homecountry and other important youth information
o Preparing with the team together the (holiday-) activities and trips for the young people
o And everything the volunteer has good ideas about......
Base working times are Monday, Wednesday from 3pm to 8pm, Tuesday, Thursday from 3pm to6pm, Friday from 3pm to 9pm and every first and third Sunday/month from 3pm to 6pm.
The volunteer will be accommodated in Ibbenbüren (50 000 inhabitants, 15 mins away) for better contact to other volunteers and better options for recreational activities.

C:
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.

E:
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.

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_form_en.cfm?EID=6001575596