A. Project environment:
Regular activities in the host organisation

Pupils attending to Gymnasium are between the ages of 13 and 16. They learn in classes 1 to 3. The total number of pupils is 572 while there are 50 teachers and 21 administrative workers employed.There are no volunteers. The school is open from 7.00 a.m. till 4.00 p.m. At this school pupils learn foreign languages such as English and German. There are a lot of activities connected with the development of the language skills. Language teachers organize a lot of competitions connected with the knowledge about European Union. Our school organizes language-teaching tours e.g. to Prague.There are also other activities, which are organized by the teachers from this school. Our kids go to the swimming pool, ski in winter on a regular basis with the teachers of physical education.There is also a range of sport activites whose aim is to develop pupils' skills in: athletics, aerobics, basketball and handball.Our Gymnasium has a lot of clubs, which can be joined by the pupils from our school. There is a club called "KEKS". Its main aim is to help children to discover the cultural aspects. Children are taken to the theatre, to the opera and there are also tours organized connected with the history of Poland. For instance, members of the club went to Warsaw with some of the teachers from our school and they saw the National Musem's exhibition, a play in the theatre as well as many other monuments in the capital city of Poland. There is also a club that is in charge of movies (which are often displayed in the original language version). The teacher in charge of the club teaches music in Gymnasium and is the director of the school's choir. Thanks to the club and its members our school has its web site where all the events held in our school are later described: http://sugim1klodzko.w.interia.pl

Local community
The district of Klodzko (1,643 km2 and 182 thoursand inhabitants) is functionally and physio-graphically distinct from the rest of the Lower-Silesian Region. It is surrounded by mountain ranges forming a natural barrier, separating it from the rest of the country, and creating a form of an enclave.The relatively small area boasts of an exceptionally large number of various riches. It is the largest conlomeration of renowned health resorts, the rock labyrinths of the Sto?owe (Table) Mountains, the wilderness of the Bystrzyckie and the Bialskie Mountains, the famous sanctuaries, charming little towns situated in mountain dales, mountain strongholds, castle ruins, churches and caves. All of that is surrounded by a whole diversity of legends and stories of unusual charm, blending the influences of the various cultural values, as well as rich deposits of mineral waters, favours the development of the touristic, recreational and spa facilities. The five health resorts of the district of K³odzko, can receive over 12 thousand people at a time. The catering facilities of various standards offer over 20 tousand places. Among the mostly visited spots in the district are the Stolowe Mountains, the sancuary in Wambierzyce, Niedzwiedzia (Bear) Cave, as well as the health resorts.The location of Europejskie Forum M³odzie¿y's office is in a small town called Bystrzyca K³odzka. The town has around 15,000 inhabitants and is situated in the southern part of the district of Klodzko in Poland. The its location is picturesque and scenic, containing a history stretching back to the Middle Ages. The its future economy depends significantly on the development of tourism and its traditions. Klodzko is located 85 kilomenters away from Wroclaw, the biggest town in our region (with 700000 inhabitans) and located approximately 200 km away from Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. There are very good railway and road connections from the town to the Czech Republic.The biggest problem in Klodzko and the surrounding area is high and increasing unemployment, which currently stands at around 26 %. This results many economic and social concerns (e.g. lack of cultural life and youth facilities, lack of public transport, lack of eco-tourist facilities, etc.). There is a lack of youth facilities, giving birth to the necessity for more cultural and sports acivities. There are many groups of young people in Bystrzyca Klodzka and European Youth Clubs in the region, containing groups with interests in theatre, music, dancing, and sports. However it is critical that they have adequate support and options to further develop their interests, particularly on an internaional level. Similar future projects and extension of the Eurpean theme are vital to allowing the local community and the district of Klodzko to continue the balance and improve its social and economic infrastructure.

B. Proposed activities for EVS volunteers:
The volunteer will organise or take part in workshops, which are all carried out as after class activities and are not regular lessons. According to volunteer's interests, different clubs can be offered at school. These clubs function as the optional activity for pupils between the ages of 13 and 16. At these meetings they improve their language skills, knowledge about different areas of interest as wells as finding the chance to express their creative skills. The after class activities in which the volunteer can take part are as follows:
-Theatre club deals with teaching pupils language by performing in different school plays prepared by pupils and teachers from our school. Volunteers will work with the teacher and kids on performances or concentrate on language skills of the kids.
- KEKS. The main task is to get acquianted with different theatres, go to the movies as well as to watch the best theatre performances in the country. Pupils learn about literature, make web pages devoted to culture in Poland, Europe and most of all about our region. The volunteer can attend these after class activities, work with the students on preparing different information connected with culture, compare polish culture to the one of his/her own, talk about famous theatres in his /her country etc.
- Our school offers also a wide range of sport activities such as skiing, tennis, swimming, volleyball, basketball. The volunteer can take part in any of them depending on his/her interests. The main task here would be to be with kids and talk to them in a target language, to prepare and carry out projects about different sports in English.
- There is also a poetry club where pupils learn different types of poetry, poets. They even learn pieces of poetry. They read literature, make performances on the basis of famous literature. The volunteer can teach children about his/her favourite poet, learn with them different poems in foreign languages.
- Scout's club- all the scouts from Klodzko attend the meetings. They are held once a week, but the members have the access to the place everyday and do different range of activities - depending on the interest. They have a band, plan weekend's trips, holidays, camps, different range activities etc. The volunteer can take active part in all the activities held by scouts.
- There is a school choir where children have the chance both to sing and learn how to do it. They attend different range of singing competitions together with performing during assemblies, special meetings. There is going to be a music festival of songs to be sung in a foreign language where volunteer can help pupils learn the lyrics, with the intonation, choose the song, sing with the choir and participate in other activities held in our school.
- Geography club - children learn about our region, they go on various tours in our mountains, take part in different tourist meetings and they travel around the region. The volunteer can take part in all the tours and activities held by the club. He/she will help the pupils, with the co-operation of the teacher responsible for the club, with the preparation of different tours, choosing the place of the destination, making plan of the trips, preparing the maps etc.
Most of the above-mentioned clubs are held everyday and are mostly after-class activities. The volunteer can choose among them as well as introduce his or her own ideas of work.
- European Club is held in English as an after class activity. Its main objective is to raise awareness of different nations within European Union, the structure of European Parliament and to learn about different countries and their cultures. etc. Most of the work is done by the project method which requires research, guidance and group (team) work. We also organise different language trips for our students to the neighbouring countries such as Czech Republic, the capital city (Praque) of which we visited. The trips are held every school year and the volunteers can take part in them. They can help with the preparation, make plans, schedule for the trip, work on the most important information connected with the country etc.
The activities at the club could consist of information sharing, discussion with pupils, some games, quizzes or manual works, etc. During the subject presentation audio-visual materials like videos, maps, pictures, posters and other materials can be used.
At meetings at the European club, the volunteer should:
- present information and materials e.g. countries in the European Union ,
- organise some competitions, games, dramas, manual works or provide his/her own ideas connected with the daily subject,
- encourage pupils to answer the questions and lead conversations in a foreign language,
- organise some games, quizzes in lessons or realise his/her own ideas
- search for new ideas and structure workshops for pupils

Our school has its own newspaper, edited once a month, where the articles are written both in Polish as well as in English and German. All the people interested in writing, editing, taking photos can take active part in creating school newspaper. There is also a web page (in Polish). The plan is to make a new one also for the non polish speakers as well as to help with the edition of the already existing one. The main task of the volunteer with the co-operation of the teacher and pupils working for newspaper and web page is to find the most interesting articles to write about, to take photos connected with both school life and interesting cultural events.
The volunteers will have the chance to train and improve their skills throughout the project. They'll have possibility to increase their knowledge in the fields off:
- creating and managing youth projects
- working with a group, methods of team building, communication, intercultural learning
- pedagogic methods of working with children and youth

At the beginning of volunteer's programme he/she will be introduced his/her duties by the leaders who will provide support, but through time, it is hoped that the volunteer will learn more and require less and less assistance, carrying out tasks independently.
All volunteer's tasks do not substititute professional work. The volunteer's tasks do not contain an administrative character, because full-time employees of school perform these tasks. Tasks are not designed in order to achieve profit, because school is a public institution with no aim to make financial profit from their activities.
The Volunteer will learn his/her responsibilities for pupils with the support of teachers from school, how to structure language activities during the workshops, how to do research and preparation on a specific topic and how to communicate and work with children and youngsters. Moreover, the volunteer will learn throughout the project to speak in front of a group of people.
The volunteers will meet with their mentor regularly to talk about their work, problems, ideas etc. Individual meetings will also be held if needed or requested
Saturday and Sunday are free (Weekend).The volunteer will also take part in school festivals and trips e.g. sport trips, visiting exhibition, and he/she will be free to initiate his/her own projects and ideas. If there are trips or special events organised during the weekend, the volunteer will get another day off in return. Furthermore, the volunteer can participate in activities of the coordinating-organization - Europejskie Forum Mlodziezy by giving, for instance, country presentations on the youth seminar "Euroweek - school for leaders".

C. Volunteer profiles and recruitment process:

The characteristics and skills the volunteer is expected to have:
1)speaking English on a basic level (speaking a second language may also be useful but is not essential); there's a possibility to arrange language support for the volunteer if he/she has a desire to improve a language (volunteers often share their language skills) and there willl be Polish lessons provided to help the volunteer communicate with local people.
2)an ability to establish contact easily with children and young people
3)creativity, flexibility, energy, enthusiasm, initiativity, and the ability to be adapted to new environments
4)good listening and communication skills
5)interests in culture - music, art, languages, sport
6)an ability to organise oneself and act independently

D. Risk prevention, protection and safety:

We will prevent risks and crises by:
- integration activities (overcoming language barriers, ice breaking games)
- organizing individual meetings with the volunteers,
- meetings with educationalist and psychologist, if necessary,
- providing contact with a doctor in the volunteer's country, if necessary,
- we will inform the volunteer about his/ her rights, regulations in our organization, consequences of unacceptable behavior,
- the volunteer will have the opportunity to stay in contact with his family/ sending organization via e-mail or telephone ,
- the release negative emotions through meetings, talks and excurions.

Gimnazjum nr 1 im Adama Mickiewicza has been involved in European Voluntary Service since 2005. Ever since then we have been cooperating with the YOUTH program and also with Youth in Action Program. We have hosted volunteers from differetnt parts of Europe for long-term projects. We have cooperated very closly with Europejskie Forum Mlodziezy from Bystrzyca Klodzka (EFM).
The main aim of our school is that we would like to give the opportunity to our pupils to meet people from different countries, to teach them how to work in internaional groups, to form pro-European consciousness in pupils' minds, to teach them tolerance for different nations, cultures and religions, to form openness for European problems, to widen the knowledge about countries which belong to European Union, to create an atmosphere which integrate the members of the school club and to develop language skills.
The Project is very important for the local community in terms of their getting better understanding of European Integration.
We would also like to give the opportunity to youngsters from others countries to get to know Poland, a country often underestimated especially in Western Europe.

This school is The Gymnasium number 1 called with the name of Adam Mickiewicz. This school is a free local one, controlled and paid for by the state. These are some of the goals of this school:
- to make possilbe for children to gain knowledge and skills which are necessary to get the graduation from the Gymnasium;
- to provide the pupils with pedagogical care according to the needs and possibilities of the school;
- to provide pupils with full safety.
Pupils attending to Gymnasium are between the ages of 13 and 16. They learn in classes 1 to 3. The total number of pupils is 572; and there also are 50 teachers and 21 administrative workers employed. The school is open from 7.00 a.m. till 4.00 p.m.
At this school pupils learn foreign languages such as English and German. There are a lot of activities connected with the development of language skills. Language teachers organize a lot of competitions connected with the knowledge about European Union. Our school organizes language-teaching tours e.g. to Prague.There are also other activities, which are organized by the teachers from this school. Our kids go to the swimming pool, ski in winter on a regular basis with the teachers of physical education. There is also a range of sport activites the aim of which is to develop pupils' skills in athletics, aerobics, basketball and handball.Our Gymnasium has a lot of clubs, which can be joined by the pupils from our school. There is a club called "KEKS". Its main aim is to help children to discover the cultural aspects. Children are taken to the theatre, and opera. Besides, there are tours organized connected with the history of Poland, for instance, members of the club went to Warsaw with some of the teachers from our school. They saw the National Musem's exhibition, a play in the theatre as well as many other monuments in the capital city of Poland. There is also a club related to showing movies (which are often displayed in the original language version). The teacher in charge of the club teaches music in Gymnasium and is the director of the school's choir. Thanks to the club and its members our school has its web side where all the events, which are held in our school, are later described: http://sugim1klodzko.w.interia.pl