"Experimental" Technology Education Sports

Title: Media and Sport Adventure

Organisation: "Experimental" Technology Education Sports

Duration: 12months

Location of the project: Vrontados Chios (Greece)

Start: 01 May 2010

Number of volunteers: 4 open places

Deadline for applications: 20 January 2010

Summary:

Our project focus is on helping the young people who live in Chios Island, to work with New Technologies, be involved in sports and get information about many subjects. From doing Sailing or Swimming to building a networking Portal or any other educational program from our youngsters can be a big challenge.
The European volunteer, under the guidance and help of TES's people, will work together with our youngsters, and they will help them to get in touch with the European Dimension & New Technologies and to inform them about how to reach new possibilities in the field of Education and Employment. The Young Voluntary workers undertake to participate voluntarily in an active citizen and informative experience with the aim of acquiring social, intercultural and personal skills, working with different kind of computer software, taking part in the realisation of Educational, Cultural and other projects, take part in sport events and at the same contribute to the well being of the community. After learning Greek, they will help our staff to realise different educational and sport events and inform the young Greek people, especially the people with less opportunities (emigrants, unemployed and families with many children), about the actions of the "Youth in action" Program.
Our youngsters learn, in a non profit basis, how to use computers and how to construct internet programs, electronic presentations, multimedia etc.

Tasks:

"Experimental", through its members will take the responsibility of training our European Volunteers on how to use a big variety of computer programs, and is providing them with the necessary cultural and linguistic competences in order to help them adjust to the Greek way of living. In order to provide them with this knowledge, we organize the teaching material, the teaching notes and the evaluation of each lesson under the guidance and assistance of special trainers. For the creation of each webpage, we work in working-groups. We organize systematically the working teams that will participate to the research, the collection and translation of information, we discuss the contents and we share the responsibilities of each working group. We also clarify the way each working group will work with each organization we cooperate. The working and coordination meetings, are done with the participation of each person that works in each program. A very important matter concerning the preparation and the realization part, is that in each stage of the program (collection of information, articles, creation of web pages and mechanisms) both TES youngsters and EVS volunteers take active part as valuable partners.Volunteers, have the possibility to take part to the creation from Sport events to a Serious Educational program from the very beginning, by watching the special technicians. Moreover, we organize the collection of information concerning the matters that trouble all youngsters and we try to include them to social matters. We promote "Youth in Action" program in any possible way and we inform people for its assistance to our efforts. The best evaluation is done from the creators themselves and this is what happens to each one of our projects. Our work is also evaluated in daily basis by the millions of people that visit our WebPages which we create end preserve with the assistance of both our youngsters and our EVS volunteers. The European Volunteers will try to gain the attention to the young people who come to our organization and make their own contribution for the development and dinamization of European programs: "Youth in action", European Voluntary Service (E.V.S), Leonardo, etc. They will help the youngsters, members of TES on the discovery of new challenges and open new horizons. Their task will be to promote the participation of young people in the process of Sport, New Technologies, Social development, Cultural activities and the European dimension. They, with guidance and help from our people, will try to make contacts with local young people and children, to encourage and share with them their own experience to develop the values of democracy, solidarity, sports, tolerance and to promote new ways of access to the information like Internet and offer them the way to get this information. As a conclusion, everything that is done will be under discussion and an evaluation will take place.
The main activities of the Volunteers are to help in the realisation of Non profit making Educational and Cultural programs and Presentations (e.g. A cultural Web Site for Piraeus (www.pireasweb.gr) or about an Aegean Island, (www.lesvos.net) a web site about program "Youth" (www.eurotool.net) or a cd-rom about Young people's problems, plus some Sport events, etc. A very important aim for us is to give them the opportunity to come closer to New Technologies and develop creative projects through practical and theoretical exchange of knowledge and feel free to express them selves, and gain knowledge that will help them for all their life.One other basic activity is to work with our members, (especially the people with less opportunities, emigrants and youngsters from families with many children) on the use of the Computers -software and basic information terminology- and cooperate with the Young people participating in the Institutes work groups. One other activity is to help in the organisation and realization of Youth Exchanges, Youth and sport Events and other youth activities, we are doing. The Volunteers will help in texts translation from English or Greek to their mother language. The volunteers will also participate in other social activities developed by T.E.S. such as in the preparation of our magazine and many web sites (depends of the period) They can also be involved in the preparation of host projects, drawing on their own culture and putting forward a new approach based on their own experience, thereby benefiting the project and expending time, energy and enthusiasm in the interest of the host organization. Through this way, they will also help us find common cultural, folklore as well as other positive social elements thus serving as a communication bridge between their and our civilization. They will have essential contact with members of our Youth Club aiming at the exchange of ideas that might lead to the realization of a project on an Educational, Sport or Youth issue. The volunteers, if interested, may also benefit from other activities of the Institute in the field of New Technologies. The volunteers will help us keep our Institute in order (electronic and other equipment), gardening etc. The volunteers can take any responsibility, after they have spend some time in T.E.S., in cooperation with the other volunteers and mentors. We cannot specify from now, because we do not know the people. Of course the volunteers can propose a personal project. This has to fit to our organization goals and to be possible to find the funds for it.

Selection:

Our volunteers have to be youngsters with willing to learn, offer and cooperate.
Of course it will be good if they love working with computers.
It will be a plus if the candidate has experience in sailing with small boats or Yachts.
The selection of our new volunteers is done besed to their CV and the answers to a questionare.
It is also important for us to work with volunteers from different countries of all over Europe in order to give a Multicultural character to our team.
The present volunteers have an active partIn the selection of the new Volunteers.

Specific selection:

Selection after e-mail exchange with the candidate.

Tab

Title: Greece

Organisation: Bilal YAVAS

Location of the project: Greece

Summary:

We are running Youth Information Offices in cooperation with the Municipality of Xylokastro, Municipality of Velo, Municipality of Vocha and the Municipality of Assos-Lehaio and we host/ coordinate 32 long/short term voluntary placements all year long.
Above of our long term projects we coordinate we are running 2 short term programmes that is described below and we would like to present for the April deadline.
About the background of the youngsters we can host: Τhe EVS placements for youngsters with fewer opportunities to join European Youth Program. The profile of the volunteers is youth with less opportunity, typically youngsters with educational difficulties, cultural differences, social-economical and/or geographical difficulties..etc.. For most of them this could be the first time to travel abroad, to have international experience, to experience being European citizen and they are given the opportunity for mobility.
If you are interested in this cooperation to send youngsters to these programmes, please let me know.

Musical instruments laboratory 2007-GR-15
starting date: 5th July, duration: 4 weeks

In the project the volunteers will participate actively in the building and reconstruction of traditional and modern musical instruments, creation of a step-by-step guide with photographs and text concerning the building and conservation of traditional musical instruments, developing presentations through the computer (Power Point) about the building of the musical instruments and the activities of the host organization, organize exhibitions with the musical instruments, which are made through the voluntary work and presentations about the European voluntary work, promotion of the European Voluntary Service in the local schools.

Youth together for the forest of Xylokastro 2007-gr-17
Read More!
starting date: 5th July, duration: 4 weeks
We would like to host EVS volunteers to support and help in the everyday work of the environmental program of the municipality of Xilokastro. This includes helping to protect the forest of Xilokastro, protect the coast, planting new trees, they will help making new and repairing the old footpath, benches, tables, wooden and metal fences in the forest, making researches about new and different methods about how to protect the nature.

For more information you can visit our website on www.orfeas.org