Proposed activities for EVS volunteers

It is foreseen that 2 volunteers will work together . They will help each other to fulfil their daily tasks and realize their own ideas in order to aid in the provision of information for young people in the area of European awareness.
Some of the volunteer's tasks will be different; each one will have his or her own responsibilities. But some of the activities, such as helping in organizing of big cultural events or different celebrations, they will organize together.
Our Centre works a lot with international projects and it could be interesting for our EVS volunteers to help us in our daily work and developing new contacts with European organizations, in order to strenghten relations between our community inhabitants and people from other European countries. This project will give to our volunteers new knowledge and practical experience in his future professional work.
Furthermore, they will have (twice a week) the opportunity to attend language lessons (Latvian or Russian), in order to improve their communication process inside our organization, during the daily activities, and outside, with local community, enriching in this way their personal skills and culture.
Volunteers will work at the Language and Cultural Centre from Monday to Friday, from 14:00 till 20:00, in order to support our staff in their daily work. This means helping them with preparation and running of courses, seminars, meetings, cultural and youth events in the organization and also maintaining a basic service to inform young people visiting the cultural centre.
The main common task of our volunteers will be to interact with society sharing information about their own national culture, exchanging of our views on European culture, our experiences in cultural work and learning some new things from each other.

In particular, one of the volunteers will be busy to organize different intercultural activities, events, workshops and celebration with volunteer's national tradition. He/she will help young people in looking for information and documentation in Internet about European issues and themes (10%). He/she will be in charge to develop the resource & multiethnic centre, visiting different schools for meeting students, presenting himself/herself and his/her country, proposing them to participate in the activities of our organization, in the European Youth in Action Programme and EVS Programme (40%). Moreover, he/she will lead language interactive activities and conversations, organize also meetings with youngsters, with the aim to speak in his/her mother tongue and share more useful information about his/her own country, promoting in this way a better understanding between different culture (30%).
He/she will take an active part in the regular work for our Language and Cultural Centre as implementing meetings about specific European topics according to the wishes and needs of our youngsters (20%).

The second volunteer will be involved in the follow mainly activities:
He/she will take an active part in the regular work for our Language and Cultural Centre promoting and organizing intercultural exchanges according to our international projects and the special focus of the Youth in Action Programme (40%).
The volunteer will have also the opportunity to add his/her own ideas during the editing of our international projects, European exchanges, seminars and workshops (30%). If these ideas are in keeping with the aims of our organization, we will give him/her the opportunity to realise these ideas. We fully support interesting and new opinion from the volunteers.
He/she will be in charge also to develop the official Website of our organization: collecting all the information, pictures, comments… about our staff, Rezekne community, Rezekne youth, our international projects, seminars, training and workshops, together with the contact list of our European partners and friends(20%).
As a consequence our volunteer will have the opportunity to maintain and improve all these links with the other European Youth organizations, through his/her personal opinion and contribution (10%).

. Volunteer profiles and recruitment process

Please describe the profiles of volunteers you would like to receive in your organisation. Include information on how you ensure an open and transparent recruitment process as well as the overall accessibility of EVS to all young people. Consider further information about the type of sending organisation you want to cooperate with. This information can help the match-making between volunteer candidates, sending organisations and your organisation.
The volunteers will have to show interest and sensibility towards the work with young people and adults, and will be able to use and show empathy, integrity and consideration. All skills which can allow him/her to develop new activities in our centre are welcomed. We hope him/her to be ready to take creative duties and to be responsible and autonomous enough to propose, prepare and organize new activities and his/her own work according to these skills.
Factors that will be important for the future volunteer work:
- Be interested on European issues and/or in art and culture topics;
- Like and be able to establish contacts with both young people and adults;
- Have the ability to organize his/her own work and be ready for independent acting;
- Have the ability to take initiative;
- Speak English on at least a basic level ( German or French may be useful as well );
- Have basic skills concerning computers ( Word, Internet… )
All European sending and hosting organizations are invited for cooperation in EVS programme.

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