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Name: Lottje, Christine |
Social intervention in Molenbeek The volunteer wishes to develop a social project with the help of her current employer, a social restaurant "Snijboontje" in a deprived area of Brussels with a strong presence of North-African immigrants. The volunteer did her EVS in Brussels in an international environmental organisation. During her stay she got to know the European nature of Brussels and wishes now to make the socially excluded young people in Molenbeek "rediscover" their own town and with this break their isolation. She wants to give them practical guidance in finding their way in Europe, making them aware of the opportunities offered to them by different European youth programmes. |
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Name: Van Osta, Martine |
EVS News The two volunteers would like to start a newspaper for both Flemish volunteers abroad and foreign volunteers in Flanders (as well as their respective hosting and sending organisations), to keep them informed of what is happening with the programme. Their aim is to share good practices and experiences as well as reinforce the links between the different actors involved in EVS, and make them really work in a network. The newsletter will include statements written by the volunteers doing the programme, as well as articles of general interest on volunteering. |
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Name: Pierre-Henri, Dohogne |
Employment Service for Agronomy engineers
and students
The volunteer wishes to develop the employment services of his previous university. At present the AIALv, (Association des anciens ingιnieurs agronomes de Louvain), does not have neither a part-time nor a full-time person to provide students and graduates with information about training and job opportunities. However, this volunteer learned about EVS trough this association and he believes that providing a full-time service to the "clients" of the association would be very important not only to promote EVS but also to transform this service into a real path to employment for young students and graduates. He would like to create a web-site with information on jobs, collect relevant information and give advice to potential "clients" looking for engineering jobs. He has the support of the AIALv to develop this project. |
| France | |
| Name: Delpeyrou, Didier Gender: M Age: 22 Nationality: French Sending country: France Hosting country: Greece Strand: decentralised |
Video Workshop - bringing social issues to
schools through video
The volunteer wishes to develop, together with his own youth association, a number of video training sessions for young people for the creation of documentaries and fiction work relevant to young people. The result of these video sessions will later on be shown in different primary and secondary schools in France. Most of the topics will be related to young people’s integration difficulties in an urban environment. The volunteer has the support of his sending project to put the project into place. |
| Name: Feuilloley, Sιbastien Gender: M Age: 24 Nationality: French Sending country: France Hosting country: Belgium Strand: centralised (multilateral) |
Green Lessons to young people
The volunteer wishes to raise public awareness for the importance of protecting our environment. He intends to this in primary and secondary schools and other local youth and community associations. He hopes to promote a number of activities that can make people look at the environment with more care and respect, becoming true "eco-citizens". During his EVS in Belgium he developed a number of activities on ecological issues for the young foreigners staying at his youth centre. He is now working for a local municipality has "Animateur Nature". The volunteer would use Future Capital as a complement to the activities that he is carrying in his municipality responsible for providing the framework for the ecological work whereas the volunteer wishes to add to it the "youth element". To accomplish this the volunteer would like to follow a course of "Animateur Jeunesse" to be able to develop better his work with young people on ecological matters. He would also need special pedagogical materials directed at young people. |
| Name: Girault, Delphine Gender: F Age: 26 Nationality: French Sending country: France Hosting country: Bulgaria Strand: centralised (flagships) |
House of Bulgaria in France
The volunteer wishes to create a database on Internet containing information about this particular country where she has done her EVS. This database would be available for consultation for all those who would like to know more about Bulgaria (people in general but also enterprises wishing to start doing business in Bulgaria). This idea came to the volunteer after her EVS in a Bulgarian hosting project working on rural tourism that would like to attract more French clients to their facilities. Together with the Internet connection the volunteer wishes to set up a small office space for documentation and reception of people, to facilitate the links between France and Bulgaria. |
| Germany | |
| Name: Ribeiro, Sandrine Gender: F Age: 22 Nationality: French Sending country: France Hosting country: Germany Strand: centralised (flagships) |
Community Theatre Research and Documentation The volunteer wishes to stay in Germany and continue working on community theatre activities (one of the main activities of her previous hosting project). She will develop a research on the "Diskotheater Metropolis" – a youth theatre company - and collect documentation on small theatrical performances from young people in Berlin. This volunteer was the author of the "Lettre ΰ Ulrich" (a small book of poems, inspired by her EVS experience in Germany). |
| Name: Mindermann, Hanna Gender: F Age: 19 Nationality: German Sending country: Germany Hosting country: France Strand: centralised (flagships) Name: Ewins, Shona Gender: F Age: 26 Nationality: British Sending country: UK Hosting country: Germany Strand: centralised (flagships) |
"Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, No place I’d rather be, Where else can I do 1000 things, And be home for tea?" These two volunteers wish to write a book, a sort of city guide, for young foreigners coming to live in Berlin for a while, giving them practical, historical and cultural information. They want the guide to be quite different from a normal tourist guide, made instead for people who will live in Berlin and would therefore like to know the city from an insider’s perspective, avoiding the cultural stereotypes and touristy circuits. |
| Name: Meseci, άnver Gender: F Age: 26 Nationality: German Sending country: Germany Hosting country: Greece Strand: centralised (flagships) |
Intercultural learning through Cooking and Art The volunteer will be giving art lessons to multicultural groups of children. He will start his project in Greece in his previous hosting organisation with local children. He will later on go back to Germany and will try creating a cooking-book with tastes and smells, representing all the countries of the children participating in his project. His aim is to help children realise how important their cultural heritage is, and at the same time make them share their cultures. He wants to promote intercultural learning by the use of artistic expression and cooking, making it fun and interactive. |
| Name: Texter, Claudia Gender: F Age: N/A Nationality: German Sending country: Germany Hosting country: Italy Strand: centralised (flagships) |
Assistance to young disabled people The volunteer wishes to work as a professional carer in her hosting project in Italy, in which she learned how to work with disabled young people. The volunteer is physically handicapped herself and having participated in EVS was fundamental in the development of her sense of autonomy and independence, something she now wishes to give back. She will also follow a training course to become certified as a professional carer, something that only in Italy she was allowed to do, since in Germany she did not have enough qualifications for that. |
| Ireland | |
| Name: Klenz, Steffi Gender: F Age: 20 Nationality: German Sending country: Germany Hosting country: Ireland Strand: decentralised |
Setting-up of a photography workshop The volunteer wishes to set up a photography workshop for the trainees of the Clare Youth Centre in Ennis (her hosting project). She did a similar workshop while on EVS but she says that most of the goals were not achieved. She thinks that the money from Future Capital will give her more means to do a good job. She is planning to follow a course in photography to improve her own competencies (outside the Future Capital budget). At the end of the workshop, during which she will take the trainees to different parts of Ireland, an exhibition of the results is foreseen. Her trainees will be mainly young people from a disadvantaged background. |
| Name: Hardin, Geneviθve Gender: F Age: 25 Nationality: British Sending country: UK Hosting country: Ireland Strand: decentralised |
Drug rehabilitation through Art The volunteer wishes to work with a professional artist in Ireland, to bring a number of artistic workshops (painting, photography, etc.) to young people leaving drug addiction. She will be developing this in her previous hosting project though this time with the help of a professional artist, who has the same vision as her of art and its use in drug rehabilitation. She hopes to arrange 2-3 workshops per week with different people and she hopes that with the resources provided by Future Capital, the group will also achieve better results. These results will be posted weekly in the project’s web-site and an exhibition of the participants’ work will be organised in the Rehabilitation Centre. |
| Italy | |
| Name: Costantini, Claudio Gender: M Age: 24 Nationality: Italian Sending country: Italy Hosting country: UK Strand: decentralised |
Training to work with disabled people The volunteer spent his EVS working with disabled people and now wants to become a professional worker in this field; he has started looking for a job in this area but cannot find any without the required official diploma to become such a worker. Therefore he wants to get some funding to complete his studies with a 12 months course which would allow him to be a community’s director for disabled people in his hometown. |
| Name: Desiderio, Josiana Gender: F Age: 24 Nationality: Italian Sending country: Italy Hosting country: Belgium Strand: decentralised |
Training to become a youth worker The volunteer spent her EVS working with children in difficulty and now wants to follow a training course to become a professional youth worker. She has been given the chance to work in the orphanage of her city. She is also is thinking of further creating a volunteering association with the help of Future Capital to develop youth and children activities in her small city, where nothing like this exists at the moment. |
| Name: Gallina, Simona Gender: F Age: 21 Nationality: Italian Sending country: Italy Hosting country: Spain Strand: decentralised |
European opportunities The volunteers wishes to create a secretariat in her EVS sending organisation for the promotion of European funding opportunities (mainly youth programmes); contacts will be taken with the European commission to learn more about the different opportunities. The work will be done together with local youth and community associations. A database will be organised with potential trans-national partners for exchange activities. |
| Name: Grasso, Federica Gender: F Age: 25 Nationality: Italian Sending country: Italy Hosting country: Portugal Strand: decentralised |
Intercultural mediation with Roma (Gypsy) children After having worked with disadvantaged children in Portugal the volunteer would like to become an intercultural mediator and organise activities for children in a Roma camp in the suburbs of Rome. Through her work she wishes to increase the social integration of the Roma community and fight social prejudice. She wishes to follow a Roma language and culture course as well as one specifically on intercultural mediation and youth work. She has the support of her sending project with which she will develop the practical fieldwork. |
| Name: La Malfa, Graziamaria Gender: F Age: 27 Nationality: Italian Sending country: Italy Hosting country: Belgium Strand: decentralised |
Urban Garbage Recycling Project The volunteer wishes to develop in her region a project similar to that of her Belgian hosting project in which she learned about urban recycling techniques. Considering the great disparities between what she saw in Belgium and the reality in Sicily she wishes to develop a CD-ROM, training seminars for students and teachers and fun educational activities in schools to raise people’s awareness for this question. |
| Name: Lauren, Franηois Gender: M Age: 21 Nationality: French Sending country: France Hosting country: Italy Strand: decentralised |
Intercultural Services Co-operative – Training for Cultural Animation This volunteer is from a disadvantaged background and wishes to stay in Italy and create together with other EVS volunteers a social co-operative directed at providing training, animation and intercultural communication services. He is supported in this by another similar organisation and by his hosting project (YAP). His role in the co-operative will be to work on social communication and cultural animation with children. To develop this project he will also follow specific professional training in this area of work. |
| Name: Merola, Anna Gender: F Age: 25 Nationality: Italian Sending country: Italy Hosting country: France Strand: decentralised |
Creation of a Social Work association The volunteer wishes to set up her own local NGO working with the elderly and the homeless. She has worked with elderly people before in Italy and during EVS in France she worked with homeless people. She now wants to bring these two experiences together and create her own association to work with these two disadvantaged groups. |
| Name: Petralia, Ettore Gender: M Age: 23 Nationality: Italian Sending country: Italy Hosting country: France Strand: decentralised |
Comparing the populations of Myocastor Coypus in Sicily and France The volunteer wishes to develop a scientific research on the number of Myocastor Coypus (a sweet-water mammal) in Sicily and France. His hosting project in France was an environmental NGO that worked on this topic and he wishes now to do it in his region where no studies have been made so far. He will count with the help of his hosting organisation and the Landscape Ecology Laboratory of Utrecht (Netherlands) to analyse the faeces of the Myocastor Coypus and find out its importance to the local vegetation and the way it interacts with its surrounding ecosystem. |
| Name: Roccia, Sandro Gender: M Age: 23 Nationality: Italian Sending country: Italy Hosting country: Portugal Strand: decentralised |
Creation of a CD-ROM about youth work in Portugal and Italy The volunteer brought back audio-visual material from his EVS project in Portugal where he worked with youth, doing theatre activities amongst many others. He now wants to find more related material in Rome, and have exchanges of material with other European associations with similar objectives. He aims at creating a CD-Rom about artistic activities and the integration of disadvantaged young people. The project shall last 4 months. |
| Netherlands | |
| Name: Van den Bogaard,
Marianne Gender: F Age: 27 Nationality: Dutch Sending country: Netherlands Hosting country: Austria Strand: centralised (flagships) |
European Unity through Diversity – A Photo Project The volunteer wishes to travel to several cultural youth centres (part of the Trans-Europe-Halles network that co-ordinated her EVS project) and take several pictures of their porters (the people who supervise the different centres’ entrance policy and physical wellbeing). She is a professional photographer and during her EVS programme in Austria she had already developed a similar project, via a group of portraits of Austrian porters. This series was shown in Austria and the Netherlands and it was a huge success. Her aim is to show how those who work in different youth centres represent different cultural identities and at the same time cultural unity. She hopes that by showing porters from the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, UK and Belgium she will be able to show what keeps Europe together and what makes it different. In the end she wishes to organise a photo exhibition in all of the participating centres. Her Flagship network co-ordinator is supporting this project. |
| Name: Pinxt, Doeko Gender: M Age: 21 Nationality: Dutch Sending country: Netherlands Hosting country: Sweden Strand: decentralised |
Bringing East and West together through Multimedia The volunteer wishes to use the expertise he has gained on creative writing and Internet while on EVS, as well as his interest in culture and art to set up a number of multimedia activities with the aim of bringing together young people from Eastern and Western Europe. The project consists of a photography and film documentary with young people from 3 Western countries and two Eastern countries. He will interview them about their lives, their opinion on Europe, the world’s economic and social situation. This information will then be input in an Internet web-site that he will create in at least two languages, to show the differences and similarities between the different countries. His sending organisation will help him with the implementation of this project. |
| Name: Gosker, Merijn Gender: M Age: 19 Nationality: Dutch Sending country: Netherlands Hosting country: UK Strand: decentralised |
A musical weekend for disadvantaged children The volunteer worked with handicapped children during his EVS project and realised how prejudiced other people could be towards them. Now back to his home country he is working as a trainee in a Shelter Home for young people. He would like to organise in September 99 a long weekend for 5 handicapped children and 10 young people from the Shelter Home. He aims at making both groups integrate and get to know one another. He will be using music to make this happen making the communication easier between the two groups of participants. He will count with the collaboration of professional musicians for a music workshop and with the local music band for entertainment. Several cultural and fun activities are also foreseen for the weekend. His current employer his helping him with this original project. |
| Spain | |
| Name: Bronchales, Laura Gender: F Age: 23 Nationality: Spanish Sending country: Spain Hosting country: Italy Strand: decentralised |
Training & Self-employment for Women The volunteer will participate in the activities of a group of women dealing with poverty and social exclusion issues in the industrial outskirts of Barcelona. This group is a self-employment group, working on both social and work related matters. The volunteer will be one of the group’s facilitators trying to raise the women’s level of social awareness and empowerment, eventually leading to the creation of small individual businesses run by these women. |
| Name: Oliveras i Palahν, Marc Gender: M Age: 23 Nationality: Spanish Sending country: Spain Hosting country: UK Strand: decentralised Name: Serrano i Ventσs, Nϊria |
Creation of association to promote EVS – Alternativa Joven The volunteers wish to create their own association to promote EVS and other European youth programmes in their region (Catalunya). They wish to promote EVS in schools and universities, organise training conferences and discussion seminars for local and regional youth organisations. They also wish to become a sending project and help the local EVS structure to prepare and accompany Catalan volunteers sent abroad with EVS. They wish to become later on a hosting project and host at least 6 volunteers. They have the support of local youth organisations and the municipality to implement their project. |
| Name: Terrades, Tomeu Gender: M Age: 25 Nationality: Spanish Sending country: Spain Hosting country: France Strand: decentralised |
Butxaca – a pocket cultural agenda for Barcelona The volunteer will develop an agenda of cultural activities for distribution in youth centres and other meeting places for young people in his region. The agenda is pocket size and will contain a selection of all the relevant cultural events in Barcelona on a monthly basis (theatre, music, cinema, conferences, etc.) The agenda will contain the price of the activities, together with information about the cheapest venues. The spirit of the agenda will be young and multicultural. |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name : Flower, Steven Gender : M Age : 24 Nationality : British Sending country : UK Hosting country : Germany Strand : decentralised |
Interactive CD-Rom – Memories of twin-towns of Manchester (UK) and Chemnitz (DE) The volunteer wishes to co-ordinate the creation of a CD-Rom containing the memories of today and yesterday’s youth of both towns. He will film interview both young and old people about their past, present and future. This will allow for a cross-generational and cultural dialogue. The project will take place both in the UK and Germany. The volunteer will follow simultaneously a German language course and a Film making course, to assure the project’s quality. He has the support of his hosting organisation for the development of this project. |
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