The Youth Programme
The European Voluntary Service (EVS) is part of the YOUTH programme, a European Union programme that promotes the mobility of young people through international activities with a non-formal education dimension such as youth exchanges, voluntary services, youth initiatives and training of youth workers. (youth.org.pl)
EVS is one of the opportunities for young people to get actively involved in European project work. An EVS project gains from intercultural experience, it builds on a trans-national partnership between youth organisations and the volunteer. It promotes local project that is based on everybody’s commitment.
If you are between 18 and 25 years old, willing to dedicate 6 to 12 months of your time contributing to a local a project and gaining personal development, and if you are enthusiastic and full of dynamism, you are the right candidate.
Volunteer, sending organisation and host organisation are the key partners of an EVS project. The willingness of close co-operation between these three is crucial for a successful experience.
The FERSO Foundation would like to invite all the institutions working with children and youth to participate in the Youth Programme. If you are willing to host a Euro-volunteer who will implement a project in your institution, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will assist you with the organizational and administrative matters.
Your task will be:
- to create an outline project and a description of volunteer’s tasks
- to choose a suitable volunteer from the received offers
- to supervise the volunteer’s work
- to keep in touch with the project’s coordinator
The FERSO foundation will:
- submit the application to the National Agency
- search for a volunteer
- provide the volunteer with an accommodation, alimentation, mentor, trainings and so on
- supervise the finances
- coordinate the project
More details:
Joanna Perkowska
phone +48 509 851 704
In January 2006 a project the Young citizens of the World have been launched. Three young Europeans take part in it: Anniina from Finalnd, Merce from Spain and Ida from Czech Republic.
During their 7 month stay they will conduct a series of workshops addressed to the gymnasium and high school youth, intercultural evenings once per month, a festive event on the second anniversary of Poland’s access to the EU, they will also assist with the workshops for children organized by the FERSO foundation.
What have happened so far?
In January the girls came to know the most interesting places in Lodz; learnt how to prepare their individual workshops for youth, took part in a training in Warsaw organized by the National Agency of the Youth Programme and in the beginning of February organized their first workshops for youth from the Gymnasium No 4 called Intercultural Market.
Would you like our volunteers to organize workshops in your school? Do not hesitate to contact us! +48 509 851 704,
On 11 of August 2005 a Polish-Dutch exchange in the town of Sumow ended. The exchange called Our little homelands was implemented thank to the EU funds and the Youth Programme.
Eleven volunteers from the FERSO foundation took part in the exchange as well as nine volunteers from the Groen Oog Foundation in Holland. Our principal aim was to gain skills useful in a youth leaders and culture instructors work. We also strove to learn how important our nature and culture are and how significant it is to discover and protect their beauty. During our two week camp we managed to make a film Pszczelarka i Holendrzy (The beekeeper woman and the Dutch), to publish a booklet Culture Shock between Poland and Holland, to organise an exhibition Our little homelands – culture and nature, prepare a performance and a multimedial presentation regarding the exchange.
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