Nómadas - nomadas.org.es - Asociación Juvenil

Nomadas is looking for partners interested in joining our new international project. We are planning to apply for a Youth in Action 4.3 Training Workshop on EVS. The project will be hold -if it is finally funded- in Murcia (Spain), in September 2010. The project will be organiced in collaboration with Code-X International, from The Netherlands, they will host the same project in The Netherlands in July 2010. Please read carefully the following information if you are interested in this project:

This project will be submitted for funding via Youth in Action 4.3 for the April 1st, 2010 deadline. We will apply to run this project both in The Netherlands (June) and in Spain (September). At this moment you can only apply for the Spanish training.

Project Background

More and more young people struggle to get a job. The percentage of unemployed youth is steadily increasing, especially during this time of economic crisis. Youth in Action has made it a priority to tackle this issue in 2010. One way is by providing young people with the opportunity to gain work experience by joining an EVS project. Not only do the youth gain work experience, but they also learn to live independently in a different culture.

From experiences and research we know that many volunteers struggle with transferring their international experiences into competences and skills they can describe in a meaningful way for their future careers. This training will provide youth workers with the tools to support volunteers in this process and to stimulate their self-awareness before, during and after the EVS project.

The main goals of the project are to:

• Train youth workers on skills and methods to increase self-awareness of EVS volunteers and to facilitate the transfer of self-awareness into marketable competencies, thus improving the youth’s chances in the job market,
• Share knowledge of National and European job markets, skill discovery methods, learning cycle methods, reflection methods, interview techniques, CV writing techniques and more,
• Improve the use of the Youth Pass and methods to make it more useful and youth-friendly,
• Develop a toolkit with strategies and methods employed during the week to spread throughout each partner’s network,
• Maximize the use of EVS experience in the fight against youth unemployment! 

Activity dates

September 4th – 10th, 2010 (excluding travel days) 

We are searching for

Partners in EU countries. Participants should have some experience with implementing EVS projects or/and supporting EVS volunteers and be able to work in English.

Costs involved

We are applying for funding through the European Union Youth in Action Programme. You will have to pay for your own travel health insurance and 30% of your travel costs.

Apply

To participate, please complete the attached Part III and send a signed document by email, to asociacion@nomadas.org.es, before March 15th, 2010, the original agreements should arrive compulsory, by post, before March 27th, 2010. We expect to have more interested people than spaces, so those who include their motivation (for example a letter explaining why they would like to participate) are more likely to be selected. Rememeber, at this moment we are looking for partners for our Spanish training only.

Postal Address for original agreements