Η ΕΛΙΞ σας προτείνει ένα πρόγραμμα EVS στην Ιταλία στην οργάνωση Legambiente διάρκειας δώδεκα μηνών, από 06/11/2015 έως 06/11/2016, για 2 εθελοντές.
Η προθεσμία για τις αιτήσεις είναι 28/05/2015 12/8/2015.
Λίγα λόγια για το πρόγραμμα:
ACTIVITIES:
- Environmental Education: EVS volunteers will support the staff of educators of Legambiente Prato in specific tasks: preparing equipment for schools seminars, preparing pictures & presentations, support staff during the lessons, support students during activities and games on energy. EVS volunteers according to their knowledge of Italian language may lead also the seminars with support of educators.
During the year, Legambiente Prato is also involved in other educational projects for schools. In case of activation of the following projects, EVS volunteers will be involved with the same tasks described above, including all the aspects related to promotion - advertisement (social network-mailing list- local press) of the environmental education activities that schools and groups may join in.
Laboratories for young students on Animal and Biodiversity contents: Nesting and Homing of Animals, Animal's footprints, Water and Energy Experiments. This action of environmental education is in collaboration with the local natural sciences center/museum of Prato
Outdoor activities: Hiking in the natural protected areas of Prato. Our province has one of the largest extension of green areas in Italy. Legambiente Prato wants to promote the culture of environment by involving students and citizenship to visit these heritages that are under their eyes.
Projects on WATER-CLIMATE CHANGE-MOBILITY
Environmental Education in the provincial Natural Reserve of Acquerino Cantagallo where Legambiente Prato manage the Mountain Hut Rifugio Le Cave
- European and International Volunteering: Legambiente Prato promotes among youngsters the opportunity of the new ERASMUS+ programme as well as those ones related to international environmental workcamps ran out by Legambiente national department of Volunteerism.
EVS volunteers will be involved in the action related to:
1) Organization of at least 3-4 info-days/seminars during the year, on Erasmus+ opportunities for young people of Prato. These events will be organized in several contexts: local youth centers, high schools, local center for youth employment and in collaboration with other local realities that are engaged in volunteering and social inclusion.
2) Organization of 2 monthly meetings on Erasmus+ Volunteering opportunities in the office of Legambiente Prato where young participants can ask to our EVS volunteers suggestions and useful details about EVS abroad, how to prepare a good candidacy, how to find hosting organizations. These informal meeting will favor also the local integration of evs volunteers with people from Prato. This integration process can be enhanced by coupling these meetings to recreational activities which are available in our office: Table Tennis - Tea point – Language exchange (tandem) or any other recreational activities proposed by EVS volunteers!
Before the organization and general planning of the above mentioned activities EVS volunteers will be involved in the preparation of leaflets, advertisement on social network, mailing lists, website, local press and so on.
- International Workcamps: Legambiente Prato is one of the local groups that hosts international workcamps in several structures of the Province of Prato. The workcamps are set-up thanks to the collaboration with local municipalities of Prato (Vaiano - Montemurlo -Carmignano ect..) During the summer in the last decade, Legambiente Prato hosted several international workcamps where youngsters coming from all over the world joined local communities of the Province of Prato for 2 weeks. The main objectives of a workcamp consist in recovering natural areas or green urban places (public gardens-cycling pathways ect..) while living in a local community favoring integration, cultural exchange and knowledge of cultural heritage of less-known places of Italy. The concrete tasks of working usually consists in cleaning pathways or naturalistic areas, wood collecting, grass cutting. During afternoon and evenings there will be the opportunity to visit places in the surroundings, organizing dinners, games and happenings with the local community. EVS volunteers, after having gained experience of Italian culture and the local communities of Prato will act as camp leader during these workcamps and they will be supervised by the Legambiente Prato's coordinator of workcamps. 2-3 EVS volunteers will attend a workcamp (usually 3 workcamps every summer) with the following task:
-working in natural areas and organize the work shifts of the participants,
-organize the shifts and the work related to clean and cook in the hosting structure.
-Planning free-time activities inside the local community or in the close town
- Rifugio “Cascina Le Cave” Rifugio Le Cave is a mountain hut in the middle of natural reserve Acquerino Cantagallo in the Province of Prato. From April to November Rifugio Cave hosts tourists and trekkers as well as families, students groups who want to eat or sleep inside a wonderful green area. Evs volunteers are involved in hostelling and housekeeping activities giving their support to Legambiente Prato's staff. Main activities of the Rifugio are:
- cleaning rooms
- preparing and washing linens
- help in the kitchen (managing simple food items, clean & wash dishes, clean the kitchen)
- preparing tables and deliver meals to hosts
- preparing and collecting wood from the surrounding woods
- maintain the temperature of the heater
- help customers with their needs
The activities related to hosting tourist inside Rifugio will be mainly during the week-ends from April to mid November according to meteorological conditions that has to be evaluated case by case
Rifugio “Cascina Le Cave” hosts also these activities where EVS volunteers will be involved:
1) Environmental Education projects: Young students of Prato together with their teachers can spend their stay in Rifugio Le Cave and adding also some environmental education activities: hiking – workshops on: Gardening, Honeybees, Deer's love call, animals of the reserve and so on
EVS Volunteers' tasks is to support Legambiente's trainers in the group working, in the preparation for didactical supports and games, advertisement and promotion of environmental education activities through social network – local press – website and creation of leaflets and brochures.
2) Hiking in Natural reserve: Natural reserve of Acquerino Cantagallo (where the Rifugio Le Cave is displaced) is a popular destination for hikers and tourists of Prato. Legambiente Prato' thanks to its environmental guides can arrange day or night hiking to gather people and showing them the importance of this natural heritage. EVS volunteers tasks' is to support local guide during the hiking, monitoring the group of people while they are walking and support for any needs. Before the excursions, EVS volunteers will support all the advertisement actions to promote these initiatives and increasing the numbers of visitors.
3) Summer Camps and Youth Exchange: During the summer period Legambiente Prato hosts 5 children summer camps in Rifugio Le Cave. Every camp lasts 1 week and hosts 20-25 children (8-14 y.o). EVS volunteers are actively involved in the 2 main tasks of the summer camp: support for housekeeping (see up for description) of Rifugio le Cave and support to environmental education – outdoor and hiking activities that has to be run out every day for the group of children. Together with EVS volunteers there will be 2-3 responsible of camps. EVS volunteers may be involved also in the administrative tasks: such as collection of Inscription to summer camps, activation of Legambiente's cards for children.
During summer period some Youth Exchanges may take place in Rifugio Le Cave. Youth exchanges will involve 20-25 participants all over Europe (age 16-25) focused on specific topics. EVS volunteers will be involved in the general organization of Youth Exchange including some collateral administrative tasks (gathering inscriptions of participants and so on) as well as all the above mentioned tasks of the Rifugio Le Cave.
- Legambiente Campaigns and Festivals: “Clean up the world”- “Energy Festival”- “Volunteering Festival”- “Festa dell'albero”. These are local happenings lasting 2 or 3 days in different period of the year, directed to citizens, students, families and youngsters in order to actively participate and follow common environmental/social values.
EVS volunteers will support local staff of Legambiente in all the promotion, advertisement, and development of the campaigns
- The Garden in the theatre: Prato has had a very strong tradition in textile industry. In a small ex-industrial district close to city center raises “Fabbrichino” a theater that was born by an old industry. In the last 2 years “Fabbrichino” saw its second transformation...In fact this theater is now connected to a renewed garden where children, families and students can enjoy environmental workshop such as “Bamboo … the changing Garden”. “Bamboo” is a theater show followed by a workshop in the outside garden where old shoes boxes will gain a “second life” thanks to humus and paper flower that children can build from re-used items! The garden boxes will enrich the biodiversity of the little outside garden. EVS volunteers will be involved in the environmental workshop supporting little children in building their own “garden box”. This is one of the first up-cycling experiment involving theater and environment in town!
- At any time of the year EVS volunteers are encouraged to create new events, recreational activities (for example: photo/video exhibition, vernissage, photo marathon, seminars and so on ) to carry out in Legambiente's Prato office and/or Rifugio Le Cave and/or in collaboration with other local associations that cooperate with Legambiente Prato.
VOLUNTEER'S PROFILE
- Motivation and interest in environmental/educational/youth topics
- Willing to live together and share with other 4 – 5 evs volunteers
- Good proficiency in English language (both written and spoken)
- Good command of Microsoft Office (PowerPoint-excel-word) -Internet - Social network
- Knowledge of Italian language (basic level is ok)
- Knowledge of specific software (Adobe InDesign or Photoshop, Wordpress for Websites, GIS-GPS software)
- Video/Photo editing
PRACTICAL ARRAGEMENTS
- Working time: The mean number of working time is 5-6 hours per day. During summer, several engagements like summer camps for children, international workcamps, Rifugio Le cave hostelling will require a permanent stay up to 14 days in the place where those activities will occur.
- Accommodation: The volunteers will live together in shared accommodation (apartment) in the historical center of Prato, close to the main kind of facilities and amusements. The apartment has 3 independent double beds - rooms with shared cooking, washing, laundry and bathroom. Every volunteer is expected to live together with other 4-5 volunteers. Cleaning, basic hygienic conditions, energy saving strategies (gas, electricity and water) of the apartment are expected to accomplished by volunteers trough a well defined plan of “living together” rules.
- Monthly Allowance and Food Budget: Pocket money is 115 euro every month + 145 euro monthly to spend in 2 supermarket of Prato with a credit card that will be provided by the association.
- Local transport: Every volunteer will receive a urban carnet for bus transportation (every 3 months bus carnet has to be renovated) + 2 bikes.
-Training and support of volunteers
- Language support
- Travel costs: Travel costs will be calculated in accordance with the European Calculator available at this webpage http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/tools/distance_en.htm
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