Oeiras is an important Village (45,8/km2) that offers the dynamism of large number of habitants (162.124) mainly young, near Lisbon the capital of Portugal (15 minutes), and 20 minutes from Sintra - World Patrimony, and 10 minutes from Cascais bay.
Oeiras has got many infrastructures of economic development such as TagusPark, Lagoas Park and Quinta da Fonte (business and biotechnological centers). The Cultural opportunities are guaranteed not just because of the village environment and heritage (such as the Palace of Marquês, the gunpowder factory, the Poets Park and the recreation harbour) as for the preservation and good use of the space by the local authorities.
The Shopping Center Oeiras Parque is a good example of an infrastructure that provides entertaining activities (shopping, cinemas) and rapid access to basic primary products to the inhabitants of the municipality.
Porto Salvo is a small village, part of Oeiras municipality, between the sea and the mountains. As far as public transportation is concerned, bus is the only service available, offering several regular connections to several train stations of the two lines (Cascais and Sintra) and that allow us to reach easily to the Lisbon (15 min), Sintra (30 min) and Cascais (20 min).
According to the last statistics information from 2001, the village of Porto Salvo (7,35/km2) has 13724 inhabitants.
In terms of social-economic context, the economics activity of Porto Salvo reflects a typical urban structure. The creation, in the last decade, of large business and commercial structures, has strongly contributed to the development and urbanism of he village, which has grown from a rural border area to a more dynamic place.
It is an area where most population can be considered average economic class, but has also some population with low financial incomes. In the surrounding Porto Salvo's village there are 3 social neighborhoods.
Nowadays, Porto Salvo has several restaurants, mini-markets, one market, 3 banks, 2 football clubs, a cultural society, several private clinics, 2 pharmacies, 5 primary schools, kinder garden, 1 university.
It has a Mediterranean continental climate with very hot summers, long and rigorous winters with low precipitation levels.
Concerning the stay of the EVS volunteer, ProAtlântico will provide the lodging in a flat and meals according to their preferences. He/She may find a variety of eating choices in Oeiras (self-services, small local restaurants, supermarkets, local food markets, etc.). ProAtlântico members will help him/her become familiar with these.

The EVS volunteers will be able to develop several competencies, in order to improve their performance. Therefore, ProAtlântico will provide the opportunity to EVS volunteers to have learning opportunities in different fields, such as:
- approach to the tasks of the project: develop responsibility for the project; become more open to new ideas; develop the sense of initiative; ability to plan and organize activities to the project; flexibility/adaptability and coping to new challenges; proactive attitude and independent work
- leadership abilities: ability to face problems; ability to manage conflicts; develop positive attitude in difficult situations; positive attitude in order to take pride in team performance; team work with colleagues to achieve desired goals; ability to maintain open communication; ability to contribute to an environment of motivation
- team orientation: work effectively with others volunteers and other members of the team; active attitude to contribute to the achievement of group and organizational goals; acceptance of shared responsibility and ownership of projects; maintenance of open communication among team members; assume commitment to team success; consistent contribution with new ideas to the organization / new projects;
- innovation and creativity: ability to develop and implement innovate ideas to the projects; ability to provide unique/different perspectives to improve activities; ability to encourage innovation in themselves and others;
- Personal characteristics: maintain a positive attitude on the work; ability to act responsibly; ability to share information willingly; ability to make judgement and to make decisions;
- Cultural expression: knowledge about Portuguese culture; knowledge about different techniques of children and youngsters cultural dynamics; willing to show volunteer's culture and spread among the children and youngsters multicultural projects
- Communication in a foreign language: ability to communicate in Portuguese in order to feel more integrated among the others; positive attitude in learning process of Portuguese language; persistence to improve communication in Portuguese language

Activities with Children and Youngsters take place, mainly in ProAtlântico Office, a place open to the public, where children and youngsters can go after school to spend their leisure time.
The EVS Volunteer will be able to take part in the school support and in the organization of Cultural, Sport and Leisure activities.
The young volunteers will have the chance to run these following activities:
- To help create dynamics of occupation of free times, trough the realization of games and group dynamics, cooking workshops, fashion shows, photos exhibitions, and thematic conversations;
- Go out with them like study visits;
- Establish contacts with other organizations, from European countries, in order to promote exchanges;
- Monitoring and helping the children and youngsters in their homework's, helping more intensively in areas where he/she feels more comfortable (for instance: English language tutoring, Math's, Geography, etc ), but also motivating them to study and to complete their objectives;
- Support in organizing the space for the youth: the adequate organization of the space is important for the specificities of the activities implemented.

The other half of the day (3.5 hours) will be spent working in the field Youth Information for Citizenship.
The Youth Information for Citizenship consists in the creation and development of strategies that contribute to the awareness of the young people of their role in the society they live in, and the opportunities available for them to become more active.
One of the strategies used is giving the youngsters the chance to have contact with other people through the participation in courses, seminars and youth exchanges. This will be possible by creating workshops in public schools directed to youngsters, where the volunteers can provide information about Youth in Action Program.
The EVS volunteers have also the task of motivating these youngsters to have a more active participation in local community. This can be achieved by promoting the group work, and by their participation in group activities where they can reinforce their relation and find out mutual interests.
The EVS volunteers will have a schedule of 6 daily hours and can take place from 14h till 20h, between Tuesday and Saturday, once in this period of time the children/youngsters are more available to attend Meeting Point. In this way the volunteers would have his/her free time on Sunday and Monday.

At the Meeting Point project, there are no specific requirements for the volunteers: generally they must be self-motivated, willing to take on new challenges, and open to working with people of all backgrounds and cultures, dynamic, versatile, good mood, flexible, with self initiative, experienced in children work, willing to take on new challenges, with ability to manage and solve conflicts in a creative way; enthusiastic to participate in the project; mature to work and to relate to a group of children/youngsters and willing to develop new activities with sense of responsibility.
In order to receive applications of candidates to the Meeting Point project, ProAtlântico will promote a transparent recruitment process by taking different actions:
- sending information about the project to European networks, to National Agencies by e-mail
- creating a website that can give information about the project and all the selection process.

We will create a selection group that will make a pre-selection of the participants, firstly based on practical issues (selecting only the candidates that had the CV, motivation letter, and sending organization). After reading the CV and Motivation letters, the selection group make a choice, considering the interest of the volunteers to work with, children and young people, their commitment to volunteering service, and the reason presented to have chosen our project.
During this process all the information about the candidates, the selection process and the results will be available in the Internet site.
We also choose volunteers, who can bring something of their own experiences and culture, to enrich the hosting projects and local community.
Our project is totally based in activities, that are free to the participants. Therefore, the presence of EVS volunteers can't be at any moment seen as job substitution.

In order to guarantee safety and protection, EVS volunteers will be informed about the general procedures in case of a dangerous situation. The volunteers will also have the main telephone numbers and localisation of useful services like, national emergency number, fire department, police office, hospitals, and pharmacies.
They will also be aware about the contact people inside the organisation like mentor, children/ youngsters monitors, etc.
In order to prepare the hosting of EVS volunteers will be created a Welcome Guide, which will provide information about the lodging, cleaning of the flat, consumption of supplies (water, electricity and gas), transports available, money issues (food, transport and pocket money), training and formation, extra information: map between ProAtlântico's office and the flat, services available nearby (restaurants, pharmacies, shops, etc.)
The volunteers will also be covered by health and accidents insurances, in order to guarantee their safety and protection.
Every EVS Volunteer will have a Mentor to whom they can turn in case of problems. The Mentor will be also responsible for