Organizatia Fort Monostor din Ungaria, care se implica in transformarea cetatilor din Komarom in puncte de atractie culturala, cauta voluntari pentru un proiect EVS ce va fi depus la termenul limita 1 septembrie.  Voluntarii vor ajuta la organizarea de expozitii, programe, tabere internationale, vor lua legatura cu vizitatorii straini pe parcursul programelor culturale si al celorlalte evenimente si pot realiza programe interactive despre propria lor tara.

Proiectul se va derula intre martie-septembrie 2009.

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The working athmosphere in the fortress is very calm and balanced. The volunteer will meet helpful and understanding attitude on behalf of the colleagues. The job he or she will do will develop his or her communication, cooperation and organisational skills, self confidence and separateness, creativity, since we also would like to motivate the volunteer to elaborate intercultural programmes for the local community or visitors or develop new methods in our museum pedagogy on his or her alone. (With our help if it is needed.) As at the first workplace usual she or he may meet job conflicts at the first time. In this case we will give him or her help how to solve problems like this, and the volunteer will learn how to find compromises and sort out problems caused by differences based on other way of thinking or cultural background.

The role of the volunteer will be

- helping our work with the international groups, leading guided tours around the fortress

- help the foreign visitors with information during events, cultural programmes

- help us to organise and implement international youth camps, programmes, exibitions, art projects

- can elaborate interactive methods on behalf of varied information widespreading for the visitors of the museum in the fortress, develop our museum-pedagogy methods as an own task

- can work out interactive programmes about his or her country or about the fortress for inhabitants of the city

- part of the tasks will depend on the personality, knowledge and interest of the volunteer, after the arrival we will elaborate a personal development and job plan together , which will take into account his or her goals and abilities.

We are organizing a youth exchange and a camp for the summer time, where we will host youngsters from 4 countries of Europe. The preparation, communication before during and after the camp with the leaders and participants, and the implementation, problem solving will give excellent possibility to the volunteer to get to know the methods, steps of project management. During spring and summer time there are many groups visiting the fortress. Some of them are English or German speaking. In case he volunteer is interested in wide spreading knowledge about the system, he or she can help our guides. The other programmes, exhibitions will also mean experience in negotiation with artists, inviting guests, furnish the room etc. Our cultural programmes are popular among foreigners, it would be a help to have somebody at the reception desk who is able to give information about the details of the programme in a foreign language. Some of the tasks will be created after framing the personal learning plan for the volunteer and some time will be open for realizing own ideas. Intercultural programmes f.i. for local inhabitants in order to gain closer contact to people living in Komárom, dealing with the homepage…

We will offer the volunteer possibility to learn Hungarian, and he or she slowly will be able to communicate with visitors, local people in everyday life in Hungarian.

Volunteer profiles and recruitment process

We would like to receive an open-minded, creative and communicative volunteer who feels able to arrange the given tasks, cherish the old, historical buildings, monuments and would take part gladly at "weakening" the Monostor Fortress. It is also essential that the volunteer speaks German or English at communication level, because part of the task are related to international tourists.

As we are open for hosting a volunteer from any European country we will take the motivation and aims of the candidats into consideration during the selection process. The recriutment process will be transparent for any controll and the final decision will be made based on the consensus of the colleagues upon the two criteria above.

It would be advantage in respect of sustainability of the project to gain a sending organisation with similar profile. We would especially welcome organisations which deal with national heritage, monuments.

We are oranising a project for fortresses in Central Europe called FORCE. One of the common activities is planned to be organising youth exchanges and EVS programmes for young adults aroung the fortresses.

Special needs

We are open for hosting volunteer from geografically, culturally and economicaly disadvantaged background. We are going to give him or her help in integration into the communitiy in the fortress and in the town. We will also give information at any field starting from how to travel to the next city till how to valorise the results of the project and how to utilize them in his or her future life.

Part of the colleagues have good pedagogical skills or even have an own teenager child, so we hope we have the appropriate competence for dealing successfully with a youngster.