We will apply for the 1st of September deadline.

If you have volunteers interested in the mentioned projects, please let us have:
- short description and person in charge of the S.O
- Cv and motivation letter of the volunteer (including also the telephone number)
- how many months the volunteer wants to join the project.

Description of organisation and environment

The Youth Aggregation Centre "Geyser" was founded in 1994 by the Municipality of Pesaro, since territorial needs requested a dedicated space for the youth and pre-youth population. The Centre is a stimulating place where young people can meet, have fun and spend their time in a constructive way, by following the common rules of living and respecting the structure and the material supplied by the comune within an informal environment. The Centre has different working areas and it is directed towards preventing the social exclusion through both animation activities and free congregation among the young people. At the same time we try to include in the Centre young people coming from socio-cultural disadvantaged environments.
Two professional educators work permanently in the Centre. The Staff, composed of the mentioned educators, the Responsable of the Socio-Relationl Department, the Co-ordinator of the Youth Centres and the Person in Charge for the EVS project, is a reference point for the european volunteers both for the educational activities and the personal needs and it is in charge for inclusion of the volunteer in the work place and in the wider context of the local community. Beside that the Staff has the same role with regard to the Italian trainees and the national civil service volunteers integrated in the Centre. In particular, the Coordinator of the Youth Centres of Pesaro, ensures the regular and correct functioning of the Centre "Geyser" and is responsible for the programming of activities, of their internal organisation and testing of the programmes that have been realised. It represents a reference and technical support for the job of the operators and at the same time surveys and checks activities and educational paths. The introduction of the European volunteers in the Youth Centre "Geyser" is made by the Staff and consists in a welcome moment during which the volunteer is gradually introduced to the kind of service he/she will be doing and to the organisational aspects, the people involved, the type of intervention, the aims and the theoretical issues related to the single activities. At the end of the initial introduction, the Staff confirms or redefines the activities and the tasks of the European volunteers according to the needs both of the volunteers themselves and of the structure and working in strict collaboration with the educators of the centre. The Staff together with the young volunteers, spend time and resouces in order to carry on an autentique relation with the young people of the centre paying attention to their needs and prblems and encouraging the self promotion.
The strong point of the service is therefore the interaction between the staff and the adolescents that attend the Youth Centre.
Activities of supervision, that mark out the functioning of the service, by youth workers and, are planed volunteers.

Tasks

Volunteers will support the Staff in the realization of the several activities made by the Youth Centre. They will have the opportunity to acquire further competence learning and comparing the different ways of working. This gradual process of learning that we hope will make the volunteers more aware of their own skills, will also favour some specific acquirements, especially those related to organisational, relational, communication and also language skills. We consider the volunteers as a real resource and believe that through the European Voluntary Service some personal resources can and must be valued. Volunteers should help to introduce an intercultural dimension in our activities and projects. We will therefore focus on the aspect of help that the young volunteers will bring to the Centre with different approaches from the usual ones and we will stress the social educational value of this experience, since they come from a different cultural environment. The social and educational value of those new experiences will also be emphasized throught our Youth Politics Department. We cannot deny that the choice of European instead of Italian volunteers rises from the need to let out youth establish a contact with different cultures and trigger out their curiosity ad desire to open up to cultural approach and learn new languages. Intercultural confrontation and dialogue are becoming two fundamental aspects of our centre. Volunteers will be supported by The Municipality of Pesaro, throught the specific Staff composed of the Responsable of the Socio-Relationl Department, the Co-ordinator of the Youth Centres and the Person in Charge for the EVS project, trhat will take care of their introduction to the job, planning, organisation and monitoring of the activities. Volunteers will also have regular meeting with their tutor and with the staff of the Municipality of Pesaro, including also the two educators of the Social Cooperative and regular meeting with the Co-ordinatingOorganisation. In particular the internal instruments and procedures for the testing, monitoring and evaluation of the activities of the European volunteer are structured as follows:
- quarterly meetings among the European volunteers, the O.U. Social Relation Responsible and the Responsible of the project;
- meetings between the Responsible of the Project of the Municipality of Pesaro and the Person in Charge for the EVSproject;
- weekly meetings with the educational staff of the project.
The European volunteers are also asked to participate to specific moments of survey organised by the Local Administration and to the monthly plenary meetings that involve all the educators, the young volunteers and the trainees employed in the service at the presence of the Coordinator of the Youth Centres of the Municipality of Pesaro.
Further instruments will be the intermediate and final reports written by the volunteers and the initial introductive phase where it will be possible to check the developing of the project and its final result.

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_form_en.cfm?EID=42000279009