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A Taste Of Mobility
A Taste Of Mobility
Start date: Aug 1, 2015,
End date: Jul 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The project "A Taste of Mobility" (ATOM) coordinated by the Groupe d'Appui et de Solidarité, sending organisation, includes 2 different mobilities, one with the Italian partner Jump In and the other one with OpportUNITY, the English partner. For each activity, we will send a group of 6 young participants for a short-term EVS (2 weeks).
The objectives of this project are :
- to give the chance to French young people with fewer opportunities to live a civic engagement through a community service,
- to acquire and to strengthen knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for a better civic, social and professional inclusion,
- to gain more independence and responsibility
- to develop cultural knowledge and intercultural skills and to be aware of other realities and ways of living thanks to exchanges with other people
The activities revolve around 2 main lines:
- To improve the return to work through a manual team work in cooperation with an Italian partner in Salento: the renovation and decoration of a youth center in Salento, using recycling materials
- To discover and to make discover the different tools of citizenship education used in both GAS and OpportUNITY: to visit and to identify the means used to communicate about philanthropic commitment (Fair trade, second-hand clothes shops, social and solidarity stores etc.) using the New Information and Communication Technologies.
Through the EVS, we wish to give a new dimension to the social and solidarity actions lead by our organisation in France and more precisely in Picardie Region. In fact, allowing our regional young people to live such a civic and intercultural experience, we would like to promote their commitment within organisations invested in regional community service projects.
The mobility and the civic engagement have to be considered as tools of personal, social and professional development which fall within a perspective of global inclusion here and elsewhere.