EUROCIRCLE is a European NGO that develops and implements European projects for young people. We are a sending and hosting organization for EVS volunteers (Action 2, Youth in Action Program) as well as a coordinating organization for hosting and sending organizations in France.

Currently we are looking for new partners, hosting organizations in particular, for our next EVS project called « Able to act sustain’able? ». We will apply to the Executive Agency in Brussels on the 1st of September 2010 that means the beginning of the EVS activities will be after march 2011 if the project is accepted.

So far we have successfully developed similar projects called « MOVING GENERATION and Act for Eur’hope ». Our priority is to send and host young volunteers with fewer opportunities, that is why we would like to establish a partnership, not exclusive, with other organizations that have the same objective.

In this 1 st of September project, we will apply to organize a short term group EVS in april and may 2011 about Euro-Mediterranean eco-citizenship in the bay of Marseille. So if you’d like to send us youngsters on this project, please tell us and do not hesitate to ask us questions about this project.

You will see that the project (described enclosed) is in priority for organizations who participate with us on a Training Course called “Hand in Hand For a Sustainable Future” lead in Portugal, Alentejo, but even if you did not participate to it, you are more than welcome to be part of this new project especially if you d be ready to host in your organization some our great volunteers on short term project on a reciprocity way. (-:

The NGO Language and cultural centre “World at Our Home” (2007-LV-33) from Latvia is looking for one volunteer from Spain or France for approved project with duration 9-12 months, which starts in September 2010.

This Youth in Action orientated work will allow the volunteer a unique insight into the process of international work, European exchanges, seminars, EVS, international cultural projects, as well as the chance to work actively in a well established organisation.

Please send the CV and motivation letter by the 27th of August 2010.

Orfeas Organization  is a host/ coordinating and sending organization in Greece. At present we have EVS placements in different hosting projects that I would like to present for the September, 2010 deadline.
If you have any candidate interested in taking part in these projects, please inform me.

Let’s play together in the kindergarten of Velo (2010-GR-5)
activity start: 05th March, 2011
http://www.orfeas.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22&Itemid=20
Let’s play together in the kindergarten of Xylokastro (2010-GR-7)
Activity start: 05th March, 2011
http://www.orfeas.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=19
Let’s play together in the kindergarten of Assos-Leheio (2009-GR-27)
Activity start: 05th March, 2011
http://www.orfeas.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&Itemid=106
Centre of creative work with children (Municipality of Xylokastro) 2010-GR-7
activity start: 05th January 2011
http://www.orfeas.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=37&Itemid=57
duration of the projects: 6 months
EVS volunteers support and help in the every day work of the kindergarten. This includes helping in the fine-art workshop, painting lessons, theatrical workshop, playing games with the children, to take part in the workshop in the subject of tastes (sweet, salty, bitter and sour), join the trips, excursions and helping in the kitchen of the kindergarten.

Help at Home in Xylokastro 2010-GR-7
activity start: 05th January, 2011
Help at Home in Velo 2010-GR-5
activity start: 05th March, 2011
Help at Home in Vocha 2010-GR-8
activity start: 05th March, 2011
Help at Home in Assos-Leheio 2009-GR-27
activity start: 05th March, 2011
http://www.orfeas.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26&Itemid=23
duration: 6 months
The target group of our program is the elderly people with special needs who need help, have problem with their health, with the physical condition of their body, who can’t do the everyday living activities by themselves (cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping, etc.). The volunteers can help us to be able to give help more elderly people, they will participate in visiting and helping in the elderly people’s homes, taking care of them, paying attention, helping in the assistants’ work (bring the medicines, the food, they can clean the house, cook for them, pay the bills etc.), furthermore the volunteers help in the centre of elderly.


Athletic Center of Velo 2010-GR-5
activity start: 05th March, 2011
http://www.orfeas.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=34&Itemid=105
Athletic Center of Vocha 2010-GR-8
activity start: 05th March, 2011
http://www.orfeas.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98&Itemid=104
duration: 6 months
EVS volunteer will provide additional support to the educational staff team, which includes qualified and trainee teaching staff and activity instructors- such as basketball trainer, volleyball trainer, mini-soccer trainer, tennis trainer and a secretary – as well as the volunteer will be involved extensively with the groups who visit the centre.


Informative activities and equal opportunities 2010-GR-11
Activity start: 05th March, 2011
http://www.orfeas.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=113&Itemid=60
duration: 6 months
This project takes place in the youth information offices of the organization in Xylokastro, Vocha, Velo and Assos-Leheio municipalities.
Through these offices we want to show the possibilities to the young people of the region age between 16-30 Volunteer’s activities: The activities include working in the information offices, carrying out projects such as seminars, youth exchanges…etc. The volunteers participate in the presentations in the schools, promoting the activities of the Information offices. They will also help in the preparation of the local youngsters that participate in EVS. The volunteers will help to develop the webpage of the organization by filling up with new information, photos, announcements…etc. They will also make researches for organizations, institutes from the European countries, becoming the contact person of Orfeas, sending them information, news and propositions for future plans.
If you have any question, don’t hesitate to contact me.

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

As a sending and co-ordinating organization for EVS we will apply on the
1st September 2010 for our 3 hosting projects. We would like to inform you
about free places. If you are interested to be part of our EVS group-
application get in contact with us!

The next deadline: 1st September 2010
The start date of the activity: 1st January 2011
The end date of the activity: 31th August 2011

The following hosting projects are free:
2009-DE-42 Wespe e.V. 1 volunteer
2009-DE-44 ANTL Naturschutzzentrum 1 volunteer
2007-DE-80 Mehrgenerationenhaus Saerbeck 1 volunteer

Please let us know during the next few days if you would like to cooperate
with us and if you have furthermore motivated volunteers.
We will inform you about the selection of the volunteers via E-Mail.

We request that the volunteer is able to speak at least basic German or
English. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us!

Associazione Joint (2009-IT-25) is looking for one female EVS volunteer.

The project will start the 30th of January and will finish the 31st of August 2011.

We will apply on 1st September deadline.

The volunteer will share this experience with another girl coming from the UK.

They will sleep in the same room.

You can see the project description in the Database, our code is 2009-IT-25.

How is interested should sent CV and motivation letter to this address not after the 24th of August

We have a great possibility for you! We have a sudden opening in one of our EVS project, which is already approved!



Project: 2008-NL-14

Where: Netherlands

When: Preferably starting between September 1 – 15 2010

Duration: 12 months

Gender: Preferably a girl



You won’t be alone, there is another volunteer from Spain, also for 12 months.



Description of the organization:

The “Beekhoeve”is a family run, owned and operated organic dairy farm. The family consists of Koos and Monique van der Laan. They have 3 children aging 2 to 7 years.

The farm is open to occasional volunteers and visitors. We have worked with WWOOFers (World- Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, an international volunteer organisation).

The target group involves everyone with an interest in farm work, farm life, nature, the environment and especially organic farming.

The non-profit organisation is established in corporation with friends of the farm, this contains the activities that cannot be developed as a profit organisation. Activities that we want to set up are; a route where you can experience all the beautiful things of nature; together with the EVS’er we want to transform the ordinary walking routes into discovery routes where walkers will experience the beauty of nature; We want to make a point in the middle of the route where they can find a lot of information and where they can learn things about nature; the local plants, frogs, birds, etc. This point will also be the centre of educational activities.. From this central point we would like to organise group activities around different subjects, maintenance of the area and set out information points on the routes such as the kind of animals that are living in the canals/ditches, the typical birdlife, varieties of grass. .These are activities that the EVS’er can do. The EVS’er can also do promotion of these activities; create leaflets and other promotion materials. They can also organise special promotion days and work out themes for that.

Target groups will be families, older couples and children.



Description of your activities:

EVS volunteers have to join in on the following activities/jobs: flower garden, vegetable garden, bird watching (sensational), agricultural nature conservation, prepare and have meals together, yoghurt making, carpentry, general cow maintenance, taking care of the calves, farm life as broad as it is.

Typical volunteer jobs are: constructing hedges from wood and braches, forest (bush) maintenance (to provide bird habitat).

Writing experiences on the weblog of weidse buurt, making invitations and news letters. (optional)

Maintenance of the routes and the information point.

If it happens to be that they have knowledge about IT, and if they like to do it, they can make a website for the stichting. This is not really a requirement.

Making a new bicycle route through all the local biological farms.



What you can learn:

Learning about local plant and animal life,

Teaching city dwellers about rural life

Be a part in the family life on the farm, see how an organic farm operates

The possibility to do various jobs on the farm together and under guidance of the farmers

Explore their own capabilities or limitations in working as a team, working individually, taking responsibility as a person or as a group.

Find their talents whilst doing various jobs and learning new skills

They will learn about nature (the environment), about healthy food and about animals.



Your role:

They will be a part of the family. They will help with the animals and other farmwork. Every season has different kind of jobs (for example: picking fruit, weeding, cutting trees for firewood, feeding and take care of the cows in the winter). Their role will be also organising educational activities, such as developing the information points, creating new walking routes, maintenance and promotion of the walking routes, planning educational days, materials for these days, promoting the continuance of rural life side by side city life. We appreciate their creativity in this.

If you are interested in one of these projects please send your application 1-2 month before the deadline

Applications shall consist of cv, foto and a motivationletter concerning the project you are interested in. A general motivationletter is not enough. Please explain why you are interested in the project. And please name the project number otherwise it is not possible for me to relate your application to the single project.
 

2008-DE-181

September/Oktober 2010

November 2010

February/March 2011

6 –7 month

1 – 2 volunteer(s)

good English and German language skills required

 

 2008-DE-195
February/March 2011

April 2011

September/Oktober 2010

12 month

1 volunteer

 

 2009-DE-38
August 2010

September 2010

Januar 2011

9 -12 month

2 volunteers

(good) German language skills required

 
2009-DE-72

August 2010

September 2010

Januar 2011

12 month

1 volunteer

 

2009-DE-125

Juli/August 2010

September 2010

February/March 2011

12 month

Minimum basic German language skills

 

2009-DE-122

September – October 2010

November 2010

February/March 2011

9 month

German language skills necessary; big interest in archeological topics, very good drawing and protracting skills!!!

 

2009-DE-155

Juli/August 2010

September 2010

February/March 2011

12 months

Minimum basic German knowledge!

 

Regional Youth Center of Kosice, Slovakia is going to apply for a grant for EVS project for Spetember deadline. Now we are looking for 3 new volunteers to spend 6 months doing EVS in Slovakia. If you have an interested volunteer, please pass the information. More details about the project you can find and download at:
http://www.rcm.sk/en/show/542-european-voluntary-service-in-rcm-

The youth organisation “SOCIAL ACTION” from Vilnius ( Lithuania ) is looking for young motivated people to volunteer in social projects. We are going to apply for 1st of September deadline. All projects start in December 2010 and continue for 7 months. Please send applications of volunteer (CV and motivation letter) until 20th of August. For more information you can contact us by e-mail: evs_action@yahoo.com, or by phone: 00370.6702.5576
Our projects:
1.Caritas of Vilnius archdiocese. Shelter for homeless people and ex-in-prisoners (waiting for the new number).
Number of volunteers: 1 (better to speak Russian).
Period: 15th of December 2010 - 15th of July 2011
Info about the project: Homeless people live in the shelter, here are also some activities proposed for them. The stuff is composed from young people who are working in an innovative way with social disadvantaged people.
Task of volunteer:
• to help in organising some work therapy activities, various handicrafts for homeless people
• to assist stuff in developing life skills of target group
• to help stuff in daily activities and administrative work to organise additional activities
2.Caritas of Vilnius archdiocese. Mother and child shelter (waiting for the new number).
Number of volunteers: 1.
Period: 15th of December 2010 - 15th of July 2011
Info about the project: The mother and child shelter is located in the old town. Young girls with their babies up to 1 year have a living place, they get opportunities to learn in a school, and they have leisure activities in the shelter.
Task of volunteer:
• to help in organizing work therapy proposals for young mothers
• to assist young mothers in taking care of their babies
• to organize art therapy proposals to raise self awareness of young mothers
3.Blessed J. Matulaitis family help center. Day care center "Biciuliai" (2010-LT-8).
Number of volunteers: 1.
Period: 15th of December 2010 - 15th of July 2011
Info about the project: The day center is for the children of the preschool age (from 3 to 7 years). The group for children is working every working day and is constant. The pedagogic is based on catholic principles.
Task of volunteer:
• to look after the children (help them to eat, to dress, to go outside)
• to play with children
• to create and participate in art projects with children
• to participate in a group process where children are actively communicating
• to participate in meetings with educators working in the group
• to look after the common order (to put dishes to the dish washing-machine, to clean the room and other)

For the next deadline we are searching for 1 female volunteer to support the organisation SOMOS for 6 months!

Verein SOMOS Salzburg is a non-profit organisation active in Salzburg. Their main aim is to fascilitate intercultural dialogue and inclusion between migrants and Salzburg’s population.
One of their main concerns is the integration of female migrants. The organisation supports migrants to integrate with the local population through networking and mentoring.
The volunteer will be asked to support our team in many different tasks. We regularely host intercultural evenings where people have the opportunity to present their country of origin and their culture to a mixed audience. We would like to integrate the volunteer in these evenings (organisation, presentation of their own).
The main activity the volunteer will be responsible of is the annual intercultural women’s conference in Salzburg in March. The volunteer will be involved in this conference regarding the organisation, invitation of guests and speakers, first info for interested people, support of the team and general preperation months before the conference. SOMOS often works together with an organisation very alike: Verein Viele. 10-15h per week the volunteer will have the possibility to work with the team of Verein Viele in various projects (intercultural and multicultural women’s work, basic consulting, integrational courses, culture work, etc). A special project the volunteer will be included in, is the alphabetization course for women and assistance during the childcare hours.

The project has not been accreditated yet but we expect to apply for a 6 month EVS in September 1. Anyway, there is a slight chance that we will have to pospone the application for the November deadline!
Our prefered dates will be beginning of december – beginning of may OR in case of posponing the project: beginning of february – beginning of july!
As we would like to start at the earliest date possible we can only consider applications from EU citizens for the september deadline!
All applications need to be sent to trainee@akzente.net untill friday August 20!

For a full application please make sure to send us:
- motivation letter (please make sure you state why would you like to take part in this project, what do you expect to gain, what can you contribute?)
- CV (please add you date of birth, the full contact of your sending organisation and your emergency contact)
- Picture (no passport pictures please)