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EVS - Chios Island Volunteering Learning Experienc..
EVS - Chios Island Volunteering Learning Experience
Start date: Sep 1, 2016,
End date: Aug 31, 2018
PROJECT
FINISHED
The “Chios Island Volunteering Learning Experience” project has a dual purpose. The project focuses first of all on helping the young people who live in Chios Island, to work with New Technologies and learn about many subjects, like Education, Culture, Sports etc. The project also helps the three Norwegian volunteers - who are early school leavers - to learn important skills for life, to learn about themselves and to get self-esteem, to integrate in the local community, to cooperate with other people, in addition to intercultural competences. The EVS will give the volunteers important skills and qualifications. Too many young people leave school prematurely running a high risk of being unemployed and socially marginalised. Fighting rising levels of unemployment, particularly among young people, has become one of the most urgent tasks for European governments (Erasmus+ Programme Guide -Part A and Europe 2020 Strategy). The three volunteers will help, on a non-profit basis, teaching how to use computers, how to realize Educational, Youth, Sport and Touristic programs effectively and in a positive way. The EVS volunteers deal with the development of projects in educational, youth and sport organizations. [ www.4youth.info (project activities description) www.chiosradio.gr (EVS Radio Station)]The European volunteers, under the guidance and help of TES’s people, will work together with the youngsters on Chios island and help them to learn, to create, to get in touch with the European Dimension & New Technologies.The Young Voluntary workers undertake to participate voluntarily in an active citizen and informative experience with the aim of acquiring social, intercultural and personal skills and contribute to the wellbeing of the community.They will also take active part in the creation and presentation of all kind of broadcastings in our EVS Internet Radio Station (www.chiosradio.gr) presenting also the “Erasmus plus” and “E-twinning” Program.The volunteers are early school leavers. They are interested in new technologies activities (as web pages management and updating, teaching IT, using them for the improvement of educational projects and learning them for running the platforms of the association); the volunteers are also interested in living in a multicultural environment, and getting to know the local community in a new country. They will learn to be flexible, capable to adapt to different situations and dealing with unexpected changes. The cooperation between the association and the volunteers is constant and through a cooperative and collaborative way of learning the participants will help each other in achieving the objectives. No experience is needed but a big motivation and disposition for learning in a positive attitude is essential, also for sharing the knowledge the volunteers already have about any topic interesting for the project. The aimed results and impact is to help the volunteers in their future after their EVS and to achieve a wide learning experience on computer programs, new technologies, languages, cultures, dealing with different personalities and have a positive and useful experience for life. Knowledge in new technologies is always useful and we expect that the content the volunteers learn here will increase the job opportunities and help realizing any kind of future projects.