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EVS in Kliment, Bulgaria

Arshak Movsissian — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:52:48 +0000

We are preparing a project called “Rural youth also deserve a chance” related to the topic of social inclusion for disadvantaged youth as well as the topic of intergenerational dialogue. The EVS project will be a six-month long project starting from May 2012 and ending in October 2012(but if all three interested volunteers are ready to stay longer we can extend the project duration).
The Community Centre has a lot of local, regional and international activities with its authentic folklore group, the tourist association, the local global library and youth club.
How to Apply
Send us your CV info@youthoffice.org.
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Application Deadline: 12th January 2012

Environmental Spring-Camps 2012, Marburg, Germany

Arshak Movsissian — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:28:53 +0000

Project: Host organisation is an Environmental Organisation – “Nature Friends” of Marburg. For many years they have organised international volunteer camps already. It is a workcamp including German Language Training. The lectures will be daily, two hours per day (excluding Saturday and Sunday when the group will go on excursions). During lessons the group will be devided in two classes, depending on level of knowledge. One topic during the lectures will be intercultural diversities. So the basis of the lectures will be firstly communication and secondly grammar. The teachers will be native speakers, partly trained teachers, partly students. The language-course won’t have the same standard like a professional language-school, but experiences with this concept in the past have shown its success.
Work: Participants are busy doing various manual works to prepare the area around the house of the nature-friends. It means for example clearing the place and doing little forest-work. Time of work will be 2-3 hours on two – three days per week, excluding Saturday and Sunday.
Accommodation: will be in a house with several-bed-rooms, kitchen, bathroom, showers. Cooking, cleaning, shopping etc. will be done by the group itself. Like in each workcamp, accommodation, food and travel-costs for excursions are free as well as materials/copies needed for the lectures.
Location: Marburg is a historical and picturesque old university town, 100 km north of Frankfurt/Main. It has 80.000 inhabitants, including 20.000 students (from actual 120 different countries). The camp is located approx. 2 km away from the town centre.
Terminal: Train-station Marburg; next airport Frankfurt/Main or Frankfurt-Hahn.
Special requirements: Participants must be able already to communicate in German, at least on a level which ensures simple communication; this course is not for absolute beginners. Participants also must be willing to communicate with each other during the camp in German and not in English or own mother tongue for the whole time, not only during the lectures. This is one important part of the concept.
Special remark: There is an (extra-) fee: 160,00 EUR – to be paid upon arrival. Official confirmation for participating in the language-course will be given at the end of the camp.
Age: 16-26 (exceptions for older volunteers are possible).
Language: German
Participation fee: 160 euro + 40.000 AMD
How to Apply: Click here to download application form, fill in and send back to info@youthoffice.org
Camps starting and ending dates:

Project Code	Dates	Quatity	Type	App. deadline
PI-11 MR-Marbach	19 February-02 March	16 vols.	ENVI/LANG	10 January
PI-12 MR-Marbach	15 April-27 April	16 vols.	ENVI/LANG	1st March

Manual Spring-Camps 2012, Marburg, Germany

Arshak Movsissian — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:16:24 +0000

Project: Host organisation is the municipality of Marburg. They already have organised international volunteer camps for many years. It is a workcamp including German language training. The lectures will be two hours every day (excluding Saturday and Sunday when the group will go on excursions). The main topic during the lectures will be intercultural diversities. So the basis of the lectures will be communication first and grammar second. The teachers will be native speakers, partly trained teachers, partly students. The language-course will not have the same standard like a professional language-school, but experiences with this concept in the past have shown its success.
Work: Participants are busy doing various manual works to prepare the area (youth-holiday-camp “Freizeitgelände Stadtwald”) for (or after) the summer leisure activities of the municipality. It means for example clearing the place, gardening, painting, building up/taking down tents. Time of work will be 4-5 hours on four days per week, excluding Saturday and Sunday.
Accommodation: Will be in a house with several-bed-rooms, kitchen, bathroom, shower. Cooking, cleaning, shopping etc. will be done by the group itself. Like in each workcamp, accommodation, food and travel-costs for excursions are free as well as materials/copies needed for the lectures.
Location: Marburg is an historical and picturesque old university town, 100 km north of Frankfurt/Main. It has 80.000 inhabitants, including 20.000 students (from actual 120 different countries). The camp is located in the area named “Stadtwald” in a youth-holiday-camp. It is not located in the centre, but not too far, and there is a good bus-connection.
Terminal: Train-station Marburg; next airport Frankfurt/Main or Frankfurt-Hahn.
Special requirements: Participants must already be able to communicate in German, at least on a level which ensures simple communication; this course is not for absolute beginners. Participants also must be willing to communicate with each other during the camp in German and not in English or in their own mother tongue for the whole time, not only during the lectures. This is one important part of the concept.
Special remark: Because of the language-course there is an (extra-) fee: 160,00 EUR – to be paid upon arrival. Official confirmation for participating in the language-course will be given at the end of the camp.
Age: 16-26 (exceptions for older volunteers are possible).
Language: German
Participation fee: 160 euro + 40.000 AMD
How to Apply: Click here to download application form, fill in and send back to info@youthoffice.org
Camps starting and ending dates:

Project Code	Dates	Quatity	Type	App. deadline
PI-1 Marburg	03 March-17 March	10 vols.	MANU	25 January
PI-2 Marburg	18 March-31 March	10 vols.	MANU	1st February
PI-3 Marburg	31 March-14 April	10 vols.	MANU	8 February
PI-4 Marburg	06 May-19 May	10 vols.	MANU	24 March

EVS in Karlovo, Bulgaria

Arshak Movsissian — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:23:49 +0000

Dear interested volunteers,

We are preparing a project called “New European Image of the Rose Festival of Karlovo” related to the topic of social inclusion, cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue.. The EVS project will be a two-month project starting from 7th May 2012 and ending in 7th July 2012.
The Rose Festival of Karlovo has a centuries-old tradition and is celebrated at the last weekend of May- first weekend of June every year. It involves various activities beforehand such as Miss Rose Contest, school contests, exhibitions etc. The Culmination is on the Saturday of the Rose Festival weekend when there are performances of various folklore groups, bazaars, street parades etc.
For these activities we need the help of volunteers, plus a special event we will organize with the volunteers – a European Bazaar where each volunteer will represent its country with souvenirs, art things he/she will have to bring or prepare with its sending organization or in the days before the festival. The tasks of the volunteers will involve leaflets preparation and distribution, helping the overall organization of the festival.
Volunteers will be accommodated in a hotel /hostel in the centre of the town.
How to Apply
Send us your CV info@youthoffice.org.
Click here to learn how to create Europass CV.
Application Deadline: 12th January 2012

EVS in Austira 2

Arshak Movsissian — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:12:01 +0000

The team of Pro Juventute is looking for one volunteer who wants to support their team from September 2012 to August 2013.

Pro Juventute Mikado is a foster care home, which provides a cozy, family-like environment where children can grow up safely with support. The volunteer will take part in the everyday life of the foster children (daily routine tasks e.g. to do homework, cooking, planning and doing leisure time activities).

Profile:

Your’re like to work with children and youngsters (2 – 21 years)
You’re at least 22 years (owing to the target group)
Your’re open-minded, enthusiastic
You like to play an active part in the work with children e.g. doing homework, cooking, doing sport activites
Willingness to learn German as the children can only speak German

Pro Juventute Kirchberg is situated in the near of the city Wörgl. Innsbruck, the capital of Tyrol, can be reached between 30 – 45 minutes by train.

How to Apply

Click here to download application form. Fill in and send to info@youthoffice.org email.

Selection Process:

All applications which are complete, will be considered.

Application Deadline: 5th January 2012

The applicants will be informed about the selection process.

EVS in Austria

Arshak Movsissian — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:59:55 +0000

Youth Coordination Wörgl is an organization within the city council, which coordinates several youth projects with different focuses – event centre KOMMA for art & culture, youth centre for leisure time and youth participation Zone jugend.freiraum Wörgl and youth information centre InfoEck Wörgl.

Most of the time the volunteer will work at youth centre – the target group of the youth centre are youngsters, aged 12 – 20, with different cultural backgrounds. The volunteer will have the possibility to work in all three projects.

Profile:

You enjoy working with young people (13 above) and young adults
be there for the youngsters e.g. in “their youth centre”
Like to get in contact with young persons
Plan, organise – together with staff members – youth leisure activities
You’re at least 22 years (owing to the target group)
You’re enthusiastic, open-minded, have a lot of ideas, like doing sport activities or planning/organising activities,
take an active interest in youth-culture, youth-related issues and common interest of young people
willingness to learn German

Youth Coordination Wörgl is situated in Wörgl. Innsbruck, the capital of Tyrol, can be reached between 30 – 45 minutes by train.

How to Apply

Click here to download application form. Fill in and send to info@youthoffice.org email.
Selection Process:

All applications which are complete, will be considered.

Application deadline: 05th January 2012

International Youth Camp “Patriot” in Anaklia, Georgia

Arshak Movsissian — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:12:44 +0000

We /Arthur Movsesyan, Mariam Gevorgyan, Lilit Manukyan, Davit Galstyan, David Sahradyan and Mkhitar Kafyan/ visited to Georgia, Anaklia (the sea-side of the Black Sea) from August 5-14, 2011. The theme was cataclysms and modern technologies. Duration of each camp was 12 days including arrival and departure. In each camp were 260 participants from Georgia and all around the world, and English was the main working language in the camp.

The aim of the camp was to involve youngsters in non-formal educational process; to increase youngster’s physical, emotional and intellectual potential; social integration; to promote international friendship amongst youngsters from all over the world and to involve them in intercultural learning process; to increase youth active participation in society.

We were in Tbilisi, Batumi, Zugdidi and of course Anaklia. It was a great opportunity to meet young people from all over the world. During the camp we participated in everyday life of the hosting community, as well as attended cultural and fun activities organized by authorities. We used to discuss our free time activities with camp leaders, organized excursions and visits around the area. There were olympic games, international evenings, trainings, group times and so on… Of course, the most impressive moment was, when Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili visited Patriotic Camp in Anaklia.

Positive impressions from this camp did not leave us till now, during 10 days camp became our home, participants – our friends, we learned how to treat each other equally no matter the race, religion, age or any other factor. Now, at the end, we have developed on a personal level and after the camp we all became good friends…

A New European Stay – Youth Exchange in France

Arshak Movsissian — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:55:53 +0000

On 21th of July, a group of 24 young Europeans of 15-18 ages, who came from Armenia, Belarus, France and Italy, was received in the city hall of Annville. During the project (from July 20 to August 3), the youth together with AVRIL association participated in the works of restoration of the ponds of Annville. It was the third camp hosted by the community and the first participation of Armenians and Belarusians. Besides these works, the youth prepared their meal together, shared their everyday life and had an intercultural evening. At the end of the project, the youth prepared postcards on environmental issues and thus declared to protect the environment and keep it as clean as possible.

International project in Swiss

Arshak Movsissian — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:24:52 +0000

Every year, around 15 young people aged from 18-30 from various European countries and the rest of the world get together with young Swiss people for two weeks to work on a project that culminates in the opening of an Intercultural text images exhibition.
This international project is organised by the “Intercultural Creative Factory Solothurn” (Interkulturellen Kreativwerkstatt Solothurn).
From 26 July to 6 August 2011 the “Intercultural Creative Factory Solothurn” (Interkulturelle Kreativwerkstatt Solothurn) organizes two international exchange projects with 19 young people from various countries. The artists from Armenia, Korea, the Georgian Republic, Germany, Argentina, Israel, Russia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Switzerland have designed text images.

Maria Khublaryan is from Republic of Armenia, she is art-historyien and journalist, and she presented Armenian language, Armenian letters and Armenian alphabet. For 11 days the participants painted by oil on canvas and created other interesting works each about him-national letters by differant shrifts. The last day of the project in the center of Solothurn was organized an exhibition where all works showed to people. They could buy each works.

Art Workshop

Arshak Movsissian — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:50:15 +0000

On June 13th AIYO organized a 2-day art workshop to provide an opportunity for Armenian young artists to get together and work as a team to encourage and promote volunteerism. The participants of the workshop painted colorful pictures on the walls outside our office thus beautifying the surroundings. They also printed AIYO’s logo and website address on the wall to let people know about its activities.

Among the volunteers were Aghunik Ghazaryan, Lilit Stepanyan (students at the Academy of Fine Arts), Marine Nikoghosyan (graduate from the Panos Terlemezyan State College of Fine Arts), Sergey Ghazaryan (pupil), Arthur Movsesyan (project coordinator), Vanuhy Ohanyan, Liana Dallaqyan, Arshak Movsisyan (president of AIYO and photographer) and Movses (our little participant).

The volunteers said they were inspired by the ideas and enthusiasm of the passersby and enjoyed working together on making the surroundings clean and attractive.

In future, we plan to organize other workshops like this and are open for partnerships with corporate and community sponsors.

Check back soon for dates and details of our next workshop. Please feel free to contact us with any questions.