"We organized a stay at the cottage Erve, Saulges in the Coevrons, Mayenne, from August 6 to 17, 2018, with a group of 45 young Spanish, Polish, Irish, Estonian and French, from 13 to 17 years. The project was an environmental project, we wanted to fight against food waste The 2 strong ideas of this project were: -To consume better not to waste and indirectly fight against global warming by proposing other modes of consumption - Difficult to produce, easy to throw To carry out our project, we proposed to the groups to leave a statement of departure and weighed our food waste every day. Following the observation of departure, using different means such as: * work the menus with the teams and the young people during the stay, * cook the right amount rather than being delivered, * promote self-service: the salad'bar, * adapt the portions served, * use fresh products, * work, get supplies from local producers, * use unsold, ugly vegetables, ""broken jaws"" We tried to reduce our waste during the whole stay We were helped by the association Synergies 53 and the environmental service of the Community of communes of Coëvrons to propose or build quality animations.To promote the project, raise awareness about food waste, we organized a DISCO SOUPA DISCO SOUPE is a moment of gastronomy and celebration in a friendly and musical atmosphere. The principle: transform declassed fruits and vegetables, intended to be thrown away, into a supportive feast. We also participated in a party in a village -installation of a booth to promote and present our action -help to set up animations In parallel, we worked on another axis: Difficult to produce, easy to throw We spent a whole day on a farm to do different jobsWe proposed to the young people to harvest themselves vegetables, to maintain a parcel at a maraicherWe visited a mill, bought our flour to produce breadWe visited a bee farm and collected honey, met local producers who explained their work,We had the opportunity to ""hay"" to really understand the work to do to produce food, feed animals,We cooked and prepared our meals as often as possible This year, we focused more specifically on the project's methodology, the learning of young people.We have included a daily brainstorming session to allow young people to learn to analyze themselves, to take stock of their skills and abilities, while getting used to taking initiatives within a group and measure their impacts. We also worked on: - the European dimension of the project (Game on Europe at Le Mans, promotion of youth exchanges, the ERASMUS + system, European mobility during the DISCO SOUPE) -the active involvement of young people in the workshops, in our daily exchanges, in the preparation of the days -the intercultural dimension by proposing role plays like BON APPETIT -visibility of the project by disseminating widely on the website of the Community of communes of Coëvrons, relaying our creations on the net, with our partners, local elected officials, families Of course, we have not forgotten the play time, energizers essential to the cohesion of the group."

El proyecto es un Seminario (KA1) llamado SABER ERASMUS+ ,ES MÁS. El encuentro ha sido en Jerez de la Frontera, España, del 8 al 14 de octubre de 2018.TEMA: Participación de la juventud y reconocimiento de la NFE.PERFIL PARTICIPANTES: líderes juveniles, trabajadores juveniles, voluntarios en Erasmus+ (+18 años). 31 participantes de: España, Bulgaria, Chequia, Estonia, Grecia, Hungría, Italia, Letonia, Polonia, Portugal, Rumanía, Turquía y Reino Unido.AJ Inter comenzó a crear proyectos de Juventud en Acción hace 21 años, inicialmente como grupo juvenil que a partir de 2011 se convirtió en coordinador de una red informal de organizaciones europeas coordinando un proyecto multianual centralizado en KA3, cooperando con la sociedad en potenciar y difundir Erasmus+ Juventud. Durante este tiempo, hemos creado numerosos proyectos Erasmus+ siendo premiado un seminario por la EACEA en 2013. En 2017 fuimos llamados en Bruselas a una reunión para definir nuevos programas (European solidarity corps). Nos llamaron en calidad de expertos de Juventud en el seminario “Assises regionals de mobilité Européenne et internationale des jeunes! Cooperando con la AN francesa. En 2015 organizamos un seminario “Move Youth exchanges up!” con 11 países para mejorar la calidad de los intercambios juveniles.Hemos detectado debilidades en la difusión y preparación de proyectos de movilidad llegando a la conclusión de que una preparación/expectativa mejor contribuye al alto nivel de calidad de un proyecto juvenil.Un factor clave es la forma en la que los jóvenes perciben Erasmus+. Podría llevar al fracaso si tienen expectativas equivocadas ya que puede impedir la implicación en las fases del proyecto. La importancia de proporcionar información de calidad a los jóvenes de antemano, así como una buena preparación, involucrándolos en la preparación y metas del proyecto (diseño incluido). Comprobamos que en docenas de proyectos no se hace.Otro factor clave es la difusión, la forma en la que los participantes explican sus experiencias después del proyecto. A veces, no saben cómo explicar el aprendizaje obtenido a través de la educación no formal. Por esto, queremos trabajar en formar a trabajadores juveniles dotándoles de herramientas para que estos formen a los jóvenes en el reconocimiento de aprendizaje, los valores de Erasmus+, cómo anuncian/comunican su participación en proyectos.OBJETIVOS GENERALES: - Promover el reconocimiento del valor educativo de los proyectos de Erasmus+. - Mejorar la calidad de Erasmus+ en la preparación de los participantes, la difusión/visibilidad del proyecto, centrándose en la realizada por los jóvenes.OBJETIVOS ESPECÍFICOS: - Aumentar las competencias de las organizaciones para sensibilizar a los jóvenes sobre el aprendizaje durante los proyectos Erasmus+. - Proporcionar herramientas para trabajar en la valorización de la educación no formal e informal. - Aumentar las competencias de las organizaciones para mejorar el proceso de aprendizaje de un proyecto durante la fase de preparación. - Mejorar las habilidades de los trabajadores juveniles para guiar a los jóvenes en la expresión del aprendizaje auto dirigido en el Youthpass. - Debatir cómo guiar a los jóvenes a crear acciones de difusión que promuevan el aprendizaje del proyecto.ACTIVIDADES: Talleres con aportaciones de expertos, simulaciones, debates, grupos de reflexión, recepción en Ayuntamiento, rueda de presa, dinámicas de grupo, evaluaciones, creación de herramientas que pusieron en práctica en IES, Noches Nacionales para mostrar su diversidad cultural.MÉTODOS: Trabajamos desde la experiencia, compartiendo buenas prácticas, haciendo que los participantes prueben métodos y herramientas con jóvenes utilizando el aprendizaje experimental. Trabajo en equipo para promover la participación activa, intercambio de opiniones, uso de nuevos métodos de TI. Los métodos de trabajo se basan en la educación no formal, utilizando métodos del departamento de Servicios Humanos de los EU, SALTO y nuestra experiencia en red.Las actividades de visibilidad incluyen conferencias de prensa de periódicos locales, cárteles, folletos, artículos, talleres en IES, redes sociales/publicación web.La comunidad local y los jóvenes participaron en nuestras actividades, dándoles la posibilidad de interactuar y conocer el programa Erasmus+ Juventud.RESULTADOS ESPERADOS: Mayor capacidad de los trabajadores y organizaciones juveniles para organizar proyectos Erasmus+ de calidad (esp. en preparación, reconocimiento del aprendizaje y difusión) más innovación, aumentar los beneficios de la comunidad local en Erasmus+, crear un folleto con recomendaciones y prácticas eficaces.A largo plazo esperamos mejor preparación de proyectos, mayor participación de los jóvenes

European voluntary service project Future Is Now will be carried out in Viimsi Parish, which is a popular living area with about 18 000 citizens next to Tallinn. Viimsi Kindergartens and the Youth Centre of Viimsi have both strong ambition to host a foreign volunteer based on the experience with several ones from the past. We would like to host two volunteers to ensure efficient cooperation and synergy between volunteers and to affect more intensively local population’s solidarity. The main target of the project is to increase the volunteers self-assesment and self-management skills, work habits, lifelong learning and social initiative through various supported activities in youth organizations of Viimsi. Activities of the project should help youngsters to develop their independence, courage and openness as personality characteristics and to learn about Estonian culture, manners and traditions. They can get work experience and find new friends. We hope to intensify cooperation between the partners and to inspire youngsters in Viimsi to take part of voluntary projects themselves; to have positive experience with the project and insure the continuation of it.Viimsi Municipality is willing to host volunteers from Germany and France. Both of volunteers have strong motivation to be hosted by Estonians and to have knowledge about Estonian language, culture and history:The young woman working in the Youth Centre is educated as an educator. Volunteerism is a challenge for her as she hopes to learn new working skills and technics here. She is very interested in working with youth in the youth centre to be outside the formal education’s limits and to put different possibilities of the non-formal education into practice. The young man working in the Viimsi Kindergartens desires to work with children through sports and movement exercises. He has no experience with pre-school aged children, but is motivated to have the challenge and to realize his strength - sports in its different forms. He believes that sports and different ways of movement is an efficient option to contact children. His interest is to practice the possibilities of contacting children without verbal communication.Both possible volunteers desire to live alone in a foreign culture and to learn to manage with alien people to define themselves and their abilities better.Kindergarten is municipal organization offering formal pre-school education for children aged 3-7. The work tasks of the volunteer there is to assist the teacher with performing movement exercises and sports activities, to guide children in their time free of courses to be more active and ready for physical activities and sports games, to help with organizing sports events for children.The Youth Centre in Viimsi is an organization giving non-formal education to youngsters aged 7-26 and there are no limited age groups there. The main task of the volunteer’s work in the centre is to support youngster in their activities and to propose new ideas for spending their free time valuably in multiple forms. Leading of the project is hold in mutual partnership between partners in Estonia in which the functions and responsibilities are divided. General management, documentation management and financing is hold by Viimsi Municipality. The hosting organization is responsible for ensuring accomplishable work for volunteers, also to solve the practical aspects – accommodation, transportation, domestic issues, free time activities etc. Sending organizations are obliged to prepare volunteers for the project period and to support them during their volunteering. Project leading is inspected and aimed to support the welfare of the volunteers and good cooperation between project partners.As a result of the project volunteers who passed the period should be more opened to the world, more active and independent, motivated to continue lifelong studying to realize themselves in their work fields. Youth organizations in Viimsi Parish are richer with great experiences and ready to continue international projects. Local population is more tolerant with foreigners, employees of the kindergarten and youth organizations are motivated to educate themselves continually.The project affects: volunteers taking part of it can manage their working career more efficiently; youngsters of Viimsi region to participate in the international voluntary work projects and to form multiple skills, values and attitudes thereby.

EVS project Me and my Skills will be carried out in Viimsi Parish, which is a popular living area with about 19 000 inhabitants next to Tallinn. Municipal kindergartens MLA Viimsi Lasteaiad and the Youth Centre of Viimsi have both the ambition to host a foreign volunteer as the first experience from 1st half-year of 2016 was really successful.We would like to host two volunteers for 11 months to ensure efficient cooperation and create synergy with volunteers and to affect more intensively local population’s solidarity. The main target of the project is focusing on different skills in order to develop the volunteers` working habits, lifelong learning, social initiative through various supported activities in youth and children institutions of Viimsi. Project activities will help volunteers to raise their special skills, independence, courage and openness and to learn about Estonian culture, manners and traditions. They can get work experience and find new friends. In addition we hope to enlarge cooperation between the partners and to inspire young people in Viimsi to take part in voluntary projects themselves; to get positive experience with the project and ensure the continuation of them. Viimsi Municipality is willing to host 2 volunteers from 12th Aug 2017 until 15th July 2018. Both volunteers should have strong motivation to be hosted by Estonians, they should be interested in learning about Estonian culture , history, the Estonian language. A volunteer should be an active person who likes communication with children and young people. We expect the volunteer to come up with interesting and innovative ideas for different activities and carry out events for young people. A volunteer should be interested in working in Youth Centre which is outside the formal education’s limits. The activities allow to put different possibilities for the non-formal education into practice. It would benefit for the project if the volunteer has any specific skills and sharing them would be very valuable both ways-for the volunteers and locals. The hosting institution is ready to cooperate in case the volunteer has the wish to go on with developing them. Viimsi Kindergartens expects to host a volunteer who is flexible, enjoys challenges, likes children and working with them. As the volunteer will work in the kindergarten, he/she should be ready to spend time with children daily, play with them, assist them. Finding contact with children should be one of the volunteers strong sides. As the language communication is limited, the manual activities are of great importance. It means he/she should be able to use his/her different skills for teaching children. We would be happy if the person is interested in using experiences gained from the project for finding work in the future life . Both volunteers should be motivated to live alone in different culture and try managing in different surroundings. It gives the volunteer a possibility to find out more about his/her own personality. A kindergarten is a municipal institution offering formal pre-school education for children aged 3-7. The role of a volunteer is to assist a teacher with preparing and carrying out different activities and events, keeping children active during the whole day. The volunteer shoud be able to support the activities to open up the personal abilities of every child. The Youth Centre in Viimsi is an institution giving non-formal education to young people aged 7-26 and there are no limited age groups there. The main task of the volunteer’s work in the centre is to support young people in their activities and to propose new ideas for spending their free time valuably in different forms. Taking part in planning and implementig activities in cooperation with local youth trainers and proposing their own ideas is the way how it is achieved. As a result of the project the volunteers should have learnt a lot about themselves and their skills, they should be more opened and tolerating. The project could be a good start and motivation to continue lifelong studying through realizing themselves in their future work fields. Youth institutions participating in the project in Viimsi Parish will get richer with new experiences and will be ready to continue with international projects. Local population will get the experience of being more tolerant with foreigners, people of the kindergarten and youth organizations will have the motivation to educate themselves continually.As the result of the project young people can see voluteering as a part of their working career. Young people from Viimsi region are interested in participating in the international voluntary work projects and developing their skills, values and attitudes thereby.