A.
The Youth education centre Blossin is an organisation of public utility. Being an educational centre with 230 Beds, it offers Youth federations, youth groups and vocational training centres variable key activities for processing individual designed educational and leisure time programms.
The from Blossin and in in co-operation with the Sports Youth Brandenburg developed educational programms in the field of out-school education are adressed directly to young people and young adults as well to volunteer employees in youth work. On the generous outdoor territory, in the middle of a pinewood and directly situated at the Wolziger See, various educational, leisure time, sport and vocational activities can be realised. The educational centre has a direct connection to the aquatic sport areas in Brandenburg through its own port.
Young people can be trained as vacation-leader or youth leader. Doing this they obtain he necessary qualities in order to engage themselves to develop their own leisure time activities self dependent. In the centre of intrest are the possibilities of sportorientated youth work. Whether aquatic sports, adventure or outdoor education, nature experiences or dealing with modern communication tools- the educational offers of the Educational Centre target for more capacity to act, personal responsibility and partizipation of young people.
The Youth Educational Centre Blossin is situated south-east to Berlin direcion Frankfurt/Oder near the Wolziger See. Berlin Centre is about 40 km away and Königs Wusterhausen, the nearest city about 15 km. The Youth Educational Centre Blossin is situated in the middle of a pinewood at the Wolziger see and covers a big territory. The village Blossin is very small (200 inhibitants), the nearest bigger locality is Friedersdorf and is 3 km away. It has an own railway station wit trains to Berlin or Frankfurt/Oder, a supermarket, a pharmacy, a church, etc.. The population is more or less rural, but because of the closeness of Berlin they are very open-minded.

B.
The main working field of the international volunteers will be the domain "Youthwork and schoolprojects". The volunteer will assist the groupleaders mainly in the outdooractivities and will get the needed formation (security training for climbing, sailing, inline skating, etc.). The volunteer will be assistant but will partly also have to lead small groups on his own. The attendence of international volunteers helps the educational centre to strenghten the "international panache" and to encouragean intercultural co-operation in the team. The volnteers have the possibility to bring in their own ideas in accordance with their capability, they can improve their skills (For example to acquire the youth leader card, and to attend other trainings). The volunteers get acquainted with live in an educational centre. They also learn how to organise international youth exchanges.
Tasks:
Youthwork and schoolclasses: reception of the groups, assistence in group leading, outdooractivities (climbing, sailing, canoeing, etc.)
international work: office work, look after groups, publicity (photo documentations) Port: support the canoe renting agency, support in the fun sports hall

C.
- open-minded - interest in working with young people - interest in living in a rural area - possibly: experience in outdoor and watersportactivities
- min. 18 years
- language knowledge (at least english) - you have a driver licence - you have a health identification certificate
Selection procedure: all potential volunteers are asked to fill in the same application form so that every volunteer can be assessed on the same base and with equal chances. These forms are the base for an assessment/selection in close co-operation with the host organisation. Important is the motivation of the vounteer and how his estimated abilities fit in the project and how the project can fulfill the expectations of the volunteer. At the same time we try to involve young people from different countries. It is also planed that we offer possibilities to young people with less opportunities.
Partner organisations: the Brandenburgische Sportjugend participates regularly and organisse themselves contact making-/ cooperation- seminars in order to get acquainted with partners personally and with their projects. Good reliable partners are a very important part for a succesfull voluntary service.

E.
The better the co-operation between the EVS-partners, the enriching the experience for everybody, especialy for young people with less opportunities. Communication before, during and after their service between sending and hosting organisation is very important.
In each of the projects there is an instructor appointed as well the mentor to contact (the referent for international education). Beside that there is a regular contact with the head office of the Brandenburgische Sportjugend (Co-ordinator) where Mister Cools act as a tutor.
Because we also work with german volunteers (FSJ = voluntary social service) we will use the opportunity to create a peer situation between a german volunteer and an european volunteer. The german volunteer could support the european volunteer (supplementary to the instructor/mentor and the tutor)

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