Ofensiva Tinerilor and Millennium Center organizations announce two EVS projects in Romania (Arad) for volunteers on Youth in Action Programme. Number of EI references: EI - 2007-RO-6, EI - 2005-RO-9.
I) Project: Branding Europe - Celebrating Diversity
Period of the stage: 6 months, starting in January 2008. Number of volunteers: 20
Volunteers will have activities in two counties of Romania: Arad and Alba (Rosia Montana)
This project will facilitate the access of the children from 10 kindergartens to the European cultural diversity through the activity of 20 European volunteers. These 20 volunteers will help children to create songs, play games, learn words from a foreign language, prepare theatrical plays, participate in different contests, etc.
At the end of the stage it will be prepared a common festivity with all the children and volunteers where all of them can show their new abilities.
One teacher from each kindergarten will be always near the volunteers in order to help them during the stage. Daily work is scheduled for 6 hours/day.
Our volunteers are encouraged to come with new ideas, youth initiative, or other kind of projects which can be suitable with our organization.
Volunteers' age: 18 - 29. A normal level of English is advisable to exist.
II)Project: Cultural clusters - to be discovered
Period of the stage: 6 months, starting in January 2008. Number of volunteers: 15
Themes: art and culture, minorities
Volunteers will have activities in two counties of Romania: Arad and Alba (Rosia Montana)
They will prepare reportage in the following fields:a.. traditional local events, festivals;b. . ethnic minorities;c. . ancient, Roman - culture in the area;d.. archaeology and site visits;e.. specific activities in youth centres;Also our volunteers will be involved in making local news letters and local promotional materials, exhibitions of photos and films;Our volunteers are encouraged to come with new ideas, youth initiative, or other kind of projects which can be suitable with our organization.
Volunteers' age: 18 - 29. A normal level of English is advisable to exist.
If you are interested, please send a CV with photo and a motivational letter to center1.org@ gmail.com or ofensivatinerilor@ gmail.com until 27th of July 2007 . Please specify the project which you prefer and if you want to apply for both of them to increase your changes to be selected in one, also point out this in your motivational letter. You are sure that your application is received by us when you get a confirmation email so if you do not have it perhaps there are some problems with emails so try again. If you have any questions you can contact us at ofensivatinerilor@ gmail.com, center1.org@ gmail.com or 0040722977094, 0040 722 811301, 0040 357 408524, Sorin and Daniel.
Organizations are especially encouraged to apply with more than one volunteers if they have more persons interested in these projects.
As soon as you apply we will tell you about the other documents which you have to send before 27th of July. Take care, according to the Youth in Action rules every sending organisation located in a Programme Country or in a SEE Country must be accredited and have a reference to an approved Expression of Interest (EI).
Other detalies for these two project:We are looking for volunteers from the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russian Federation, Ukraine. We are also open to host volunteers from other countries according with Youth in Action Programme rules.
Our volunteers are going to be a member of a youth team and he/she will work in a Intercultural environment, non-formal, helping to:
a.. Improve his abilities to work in a team
b.. Learn a new language, getting information about another culture;
c.. Improve his level of tolerance and understanding;
d.. Improve his knowledge about European opportunities in Youth field;
So, our volunteers are going to put his contribution in opening new opportunities for the young people from our local community.
In the first days of the project, our volunteers are introduced to our members, he/she can see the town, opportunities, main partners, host organization, the main partners of or organization, the role of each colleagues. Then, he/she will receive information about the project and the tasks which he/she will have.
The mentor will have a regular meeting with our volunteer and also every time when is needed.
We are going to organize different evaluation sessions with programme coordinator and also with the mentor to see results and difficulties which appeared and if there are some problems, to be solved. These sessions will take place once in a two weeks period. Also, in connection with objectives which we had, at the end of the project we can make a final evaluation which can be very useful for our organization and our volunteer.
For spending his leisure time, our volunteers will have a season ticket to our local swimming pool, and also Arad "strand". Also, he/she can participate in different canoe, kayak courses, at the local or national trips organized by a partner, a tourist organization. He/she will have a holiday doring a few weeks, when our volunteers could explore different locations from Romania.
Accommodation: The accommodation for our volunteers is going to be in a room from a flat in Arad, together with a member of our organization or/and other volunteers, 1-2 persons/room. He/She is going to have access to a kitchen, bathroom, TV. In Rosia Montana it is possible to have different conditions but the stage there will not be very long.
Food: In a discussion with our volunteers we will establish the best option for her/him, choosing from opportunities which we are going to give:
a.. Food from a local canteen, in an university or high school;
b.. Food from month allowance in he/she wants to prepare himself/herself the meals ;
Organisations description:
One project will be applied by Ofensiva Tinerilor organization (EI - 2007-RO-6) and another one by Millennium Center organization. (EI - 2005-RO-9)
Ofensiva Tinerilor:
The association Ofensiva Tinerilor is a youth organization of the Romanian citizens who are a Polish national minority and it was founded in September 2004, an organization whose activities take place in the intercultural area and in the area of protecting the rights and the culture of the Polish community from Romania.
The association Ofensiva Tinerilor in the area of protecting the human rights is developing a program of information, consulting and supervising regarding the citizens' right to express and assume without any restrictions their ethno-cultural and religious identity according to the Convention- frame regarding the protection of the national minorities and the other documents and international documents concerning this field. In this perspective as a communication and presentation line the pilot site had been launched www.ofensivatineril or.ro and a partnership had been made with the Center of the Juridical Resources being attached to SOROS Open Network.
The association OFENSIVA TINERILOR is involved in partnerships with other youth structures, and its members participated several times in activities such as youth exchanges mainly in Poland. Hence, the members of our organization have a very rich intercultural experience being volunteers or participants to many activities even in the frame of some non-governmental and civic youth organizations as The Romanian Scouts, Millennium Center, AEGEE etc.
Other activities:
a.. Participating in youth exchanges in Europe and also organizing youth exchanges in Romania;
b.. Promoting european values in Highschools, in Arad county,
Millennium Center - www.millenniumcente r.org
Millennium was created in April 2000, in Arad, a town with 180 000 inhabitants from the west of Romania. Our purpose is to promote youth interest on economic, social, politic, cultural, educational plan.
OBJECTIVES:
a.. Know and respect all the legal rights and obligations by youth, advocacy the youth in their relation with the central and local authorities.
b.. Promote the democratic principles and combating the totalitarian system and extremist ideology
c.. Promote the ecologist principle, environment protection and educate the young generation in nature protection spirit
d.. Organize cultural-artistic spectacle, sportive contest and educational entertainment
e.. Inform the young people about the educational, cultural, social opportunities
f.. Promote a new inter-cultural dimension, and European dimension
MAIN ACTIVITIES:
a.. Youth exchanges in Europe, 40 youth exchanges in the last 5 years on the subjects like: youth leisure, environment protection, cultural heritage, freedom, xenophobia, theatre, natural disasters, dances and so on.
b.. EVS hosting and sending, training courses, local seminars, establishing regional networks
c.. Promoting European Values in Highschools from Arad county among more than 2500 teenagers;
d.. Trainings: project management, financial application writing forms, european youth programs, volunteering, values and institutions of the European Union, creativity, civic participation, comunication, strategic planning, management of human resources, conflict management, team-building, interculturality, human rights;
TARGET GROUP/ MEMBERS Number of members: 100, number of volunteers: 100
Our members are students, pupils from a lot of areas especially with the age 18-25. We have clubs of: Human Rights, Dance, Theatre and Environment Protection.
Local comunity:
ARAD
The Municipality of Arad is placed in the western part of Romania, in the alluvial field of Arad, at the intersection of some important national and international traffic highways. The Mures River crosses it from east to the west. The Municipality of Arad has a rich cultural and historical patrimony. It offers to the visitors a real out-door museum of the architectural styles specific to the XVIII, XIX and XX centuries, art and historical monuments, theatre performances, philharmonic orchestra concerts, plastic art exhibitions, history museum exhibitions, art and sciences of the nature, festivals and feasts.
The architecture lovers can admire buildings erected in baroque, renaissance, eclectic, classic, neo-gothic and secession style, and the most well known monuments of architecture being mentioned below:
Total population (2002): 172.824 inhabitants out of which 82.6 % are Romanians, 12,9 % Hungarians, 1.7 % gypsy, 1.3 % Germans, 0.3 % Serbians, 0.2 % Slovakians, Bulgarians: 0,15%, other 0,85%.
Average altitude - 110 m,
Climate - continental- moderate, with slight Mediterranean influences.
Images you can see at:
http://www.primaria arad.ro
Arad town has a multi-ethnic and multi confessional character. We have Orthodox church here, in two communities Romanian and Serbian, Catholic church, Reformat church, Lutheran church, Mosaic religion. We have also neo Protestants churches like: Baptist, Adventist and Pentecostal churches.
Arad is an academic town; here we have two well-known universities, Vasile Goldis and Aurel Vlaicu with more than 7 000 students.
High schools from Arad have around 10 000 teenagers.
Arad offers great leisure opportunities to its inhabitants and visitors.
In the summer time the best place to be in Arad is Neptun "Strand", a kind of swimming pool with a lot of things added, a recreational area situated in the very heart of the city, near to the fortress.
It is the second from Europe from size point of view and it is situated on Mures river, near the Arad center, on 28 hectares place which is annually visited by 3 000000 people. Here you can see paved paths, green space with more than 30 trees species.
On daytime the opportunities for entertainment are given by special spaces prepared for sun-bating, and on the night you can visit a lot of bars, restaurants, clubs, terraces, disco clubs.
Inside the "Strand", which is like a tourist resort, there are: 5 swimming pools, some of them with thermal water, 2 tennis ground fields, places for roller skates, field of football, 2 volley fields, more than 300 small lodges, 1500 cabins for people. You can feel the Arad young spirit through the night from this place, "Strand".
ROSIA MONTANA
Rosia Montana is one of the famous area from Romania because of a big gold deposit in Europe (330 tonnes of gold and 1200 tonnes of silver)
Rosia Montana is a small village in the forested mountains of western Romania, and the site of gold deposits believed to be the largest in all of Europe.
The area has been mined for at least two millennia, from the time of Caesar to the days of Ceaucescu, and owes its name - "red mountain" - to stream waters turned red from toxic runoff produced by 2000 years of gold mining.
Though little reported outside the Balkans, the Rosia Montana project is a matter of intense controversy in Romania, in neighboring Hungary, and in Brussels where the mine is viewed by some as a test of Romania's transition from a planned to a market economy.
Much of the debate centers on the need to use cyanide to extract pure gold from the low-density, widely distributed ore -- a method commonly used in over 400 gold mines around the globe, including Europe.
http://www.truestor y.ro
http://www.drumulau rului.ro
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