"Four EVS volunteers, two Russians, one French and one German, the three youngerones at first volunteer experience, all for 6 months were engaged with ""Legambiente Trani"", Southof Italy, all four working together full time with a weekly calendar, improving their socio-cultural values spreading and sharing essential lifestyles to face environmental ongoing changes and to spread the use of alternative energy sources and the reuse of natural resources as a way for the mitigation and the adjustment of climate changes politics. The basic objective was to acquire and share environmental issues and then spread them through practical and informative activities with students, young people, prisoners, migrants and local communities. Trough awareness-raising and informational campaigns about recycling and through practical intervention of environmental safeguard, monitoring of green areas and urban vegetable gardens, coastal areas and rescue of sea turtles, detection of abusive landfills and discovering tours of the landscaping and cultural heritage the local community was actively involved, along the commitments of the local administration and local police, stimulated by the presence of european volunteers. A process of social and personal growth has been created by allowing volunteers to get specific knowledge about the organic and synergistic farming, techniques concerning the intercultural and forum-theatre, the environmental communication and “ecological reading” and the active listening moving them into ""communicators"" of a path of sustainable future. Green areas recovered through volunteers’ work become natural places for the citizens in order to meet and gather for social activities, strengthening social relationships as stimulate an educational community. The intimacy coming and the awareness-raising campaigns held in schools strengthed the participation of the local governance thanks to a greater bond of the general public, seen as an essential chance to appreciate more the multicultural diversity and to manage it with success and promoting social peace. The presence of volunteers EVS has allowed to establish agreements with schools, local administration and penitentiary administration for future volunteering activities in the defense of the environment. Plus, disseminating activity in local centers for migrants (in particular young girls) has aleft a sign of permanent cooperation agreement on intercultural issues. Three of the volunteer EVS have decided to come back to Italy and meet up during the summer and, with the support of Legambiente, develop an inter-associative way to continue the activities of spreading environmental issues."

PROJECT;MY LIFE - Mobility for Youth. Learning the Interculture, Future of the Europe; of Fondazione Caritas Senigallia Onlus.The 2 volunteers – between 17 and 30 years old – lived an EVS experience for 12 months working at 2 shelters managed by Fondazione Caritas Senigallia Onlus . These 2 centres are located in Senigallia, an important and very nice city in the centre of Italy, on the Adriatic coast. 1. ME AND MY MUM hosts women with children or pregnant women living in difficult conditions, such as women alone and women victims of violence, for medium-long period. 2. CENTRO DI SOLIDARIETA includes a homeless Shelter, temporary accommodation solutions, a listening centre, day hospital and clothing collections and distribution. For a better and more enriching EVS experience, volunteers took Italian lesson. Volunteers worked 5 days a week, 35 hours in total (included evaluation, education meetings and Italian lessons). The principal role of the EVS volunteer was to go along marginalized people and people in need during their path to a dignified and satisfactory life and they collaborated with FCSO volunteers and workers in order to offer better and more efficient services. Volunteers promoted solidarity, social inclusion and active citizenship toward community needs.

Projekt »Research and improve – the labour market situation« je bil izveden z enim dolgoročnim prostovoljcem iz Rusije, iz mesta Čeboksary. To je kraj, v katerem je aktivna naša stalna partnerska organizacija Sodružestvo. Projekt si je zastavil dva glavna cilja, ki sta bila hkrati tudi glavna motivacija za njegovo izvedbo: nova energija, pristopi in nenazadnje tudi delovna pomoč, ki jih bo prostovoljec prinesel v organizacijo. Ta cilj je bil v celoti dosežen, saj je bil prostovoljec motiviran, hkrati pa zelo izkušen na določenih področjih (novinarstvo, komuniciranje z javnostmi, oblikovanje). Gibanje se je v času projekta zelo okrepilo z novimi člani, za kar je soodgovoren tudi prostovoljec, ki je pomagal pri komuniciranju in predstavitvah in predstavljal neke vrste 'dodano vrednost' organizacije. Drugi glavni cilj je bil raziskava trga dela oz. beleženja realne stopnje brezposelnosti. Zaradi specifične situacije v Sloveniji (veliko število ('fiktivnih') študentov, specifike beleženja brezposelnosti, naraščanje trenda prekarnih oblik dela) v Gibanju ocenjujemo, da je realna stopnja brezposelnosti v Sloveniji bistveno višja, kot jo navajajo uradni podatki. Cilj projekta je bil razviti metodološke nastavke za bolj realno merjenje stopnje brezposelnosti. Ta cilj je bil izpolnjen v manjši meri, in sicer iz dveh razlogov: 1. Prostovoljec ni imel na voljo zadosti ustrezne podpore. Zastavljeni cilj je bil zelo specifičen in zahteven, pri čemer bi prostovoljec potreboval izdatno visokostrokovno podporo. Zaradi določenih objektivnih okoliščin, opisanih v nadaljevanju, mu ta ni bila zagotovljena v zadostni meri. 2. Prostovoljec je bil bolj motiviran za izvajanje drugih aktivnosti, povezanih s komuniciranjem navzven in oblikovanjem. Več v nadaljevanju.Prostovoljec je bil vključen v načrtovanje, organizacijo in izvedbo vseh glavnih aktivnosti Gibanja: Nacionalna konferenca na temo prekarnega dela in Poletni tabor Gibanja; organizacija delavnic na temo problematike trga dela in možnih (npr. ekonomskih) rešitev, Šola za vse – projekt zbiranja šolskih potrebščin za otroke iz socialno šibkejših družin; prostovoljec je na lastno pobudo pričel z izvedbo filmskih večerov z debato, pomagal je pri vzdrževanju profilov na družabnih omrežjih in bil glavni akter obnove spletne strani, pričel pa je z razvijanjem ideje za mednarodno povezovanje Gibanja. Na lastno pobudo je ustanovil in sistematiziral interno knjižnico Gibanja. Bil je vključen tudi v izvajanje tekočih projektov UKOM in MOL.

"The EVS project ""Be Brave"" was carried out in the Brave Kids organization office in Wroclaw between 01/02/2017 and 31/10/2017 by the host organization ""Song of the Goat Theater Association"". The coordinating organization was - Fundacja Integracji Społecznej Prom.Two volunteers from Italy, Russia prepared an educational project Brave Kids. The project artistic and educational Brave Kids was created in order to, give the opportunity to children and young people from around the world to know each other and build relationships. In 2017 years more than 20 artistic groups of children from several countries of the world met at artistic workshops based on the principle of ""Children teach children"" By participating in this project, volunteers had the chance to get to know the children and adults from different countries and backgrounds, some of which are also representatives of ethnic minorities. Participation in the preparation for the festivals significantly deepened their knowledge of different cultures and the extent to which many of them are exposed to extinction.Four hours a week was devoted to the Polish language lessons. The methods used in the project (workshops, observations, exchange of views, group dynamics, multimedia presentations, team building) assumed volunteers active participation in all steps. Through participation in the project two young women leanred about Polish culture and the different cultures of the world, enhanced their interpersonal, intercultural and language skills, learned interesting methods of working with children and people with disabilities, increased self-reliance and responsibility through confrontation with another culture."

Promotion of solidarity and international volunteeringTatarstan regional youth public organization "International Voluntary Center" Sodrujestvo " aims to develop solidarity and promote tolerance between people, encouraging and supporting participation of youngsters in voluntary activities worldwide. For this reason we organize activities and campaigns for the promotion of peace, international solidarity and mutual understanding; besides workcamps and long term voluntary projects.The volunteer will develop his program mainly in the office of the organization, with the supervision and follow up of a responsible and trained person.Our volunteer candidate form Hungary is a good job for the position as he is interested in Russia and in the Russian culture and he studies the Russian language at the same time.Objectives of the proposed EVS project:- to involve a European volunteer in the promotion of international voluntarism as a practice of active citizenship, intercultural education and personal and social growth in the local youth community;- to spread the word about the initiatives organized in Russia or Tatarstan in order to promote the exchange of ideas and the intercultural respect, and to raise interest of youngsters in actions which stimulate international solidarity;-to start a discussion in the local community about the relationship between the Russian Federation and the EU.The proposed activites for the volunteer include among others the following points:-weekly intercultural discussion clubs with our project partners (Kazan Federal University, German-Russian House among others) about acute problems of the modern world as well as about volunteering-writing a blog about his experiences on our website, taking part in local TV and radio talk shows promoting international volunteering-giving English lessons in the rehabilitation center on disadvantaged kids, as well as taking part in the intercultural communication children camp organised by us every summer-The volunteer will also make Hungarian language communication club in Sodrujestvo office (the volunteer will carry out a number of workshops about Hungary and master-classes about the Hungarian language). The volunteer will have a mentor who will be helping him in the learning process. Each period of the service represents some kind of learning opportunity and so the mentor will help the volunteer to identify these learning opportunities and take advantage of them. Analysing and reflecting together with the mentor, summarizing the conclusions will make it more useful for the volunteer. These activities will give the volunteer a chance to develop his creativity and to learn how to follow up a project, from its visualisation to implementation, with a constant support and evaluation from the organization staff. We expect that after his voluntary service in our organization the participant will acquire our goals and will get involved in various other voluntary activities in the future. We also hope that as an impact of the time being spent in Russia, will help the participant to span the cultural differences between Russia and Hungary and to develop him a person who can can be an "ambassador" between the the two above mentioned countries through his experiences during his voluntary service as well as thorugh his acquaintenances gained while in Russia.For the hosting organization, taking into consideration our numerous and long-term projects, the opportunity of having a European volunteer on board, with his different intercultural background, would be very valuable for improving our already existing activities. For the target groups (local volunteers, orphans and the local community as a whole) the EVS volunteer is a valuable resource since his presence and commitment promotes the intercultural dimension of our activites, improves the socialization and raises new forms of expressions and relations.We, at Sodrujestvo believe that giving young people a chance to work abroad as long-term volunteers is an important opportunity. This chance helps them to develop as personalities and turn into active citizens, open minded people, tolerant to other cultures, races, religions, nationalities. Practice shows that the young people, who have served as long-term volunteers become politically and socially active and after their projects are finished, they do a lot in the field of youth and intercultural education, social inclusion and human rights, which is very important both national as well as on international level.Tatarstan regional youth public organization "International Voluntary Center" Sodrujestvo is sure that attracting a European volunteer to participate in its projects allows them to make a bigger impact on the society with their activities.