EVS: Partnerships for Participation
Start date: Jul 1, 2014,
End date: Sep 30, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
This individual EVS project involved a volunteer from Georgia spending eleven months in Brussels to volunteer for the international youth-led organisation IFM-SEI. The main theme of the project was Education for Democratic Citizenship (participation) and Human Rights Education. The volunteer supported a global project on participation, and assisted in the implementation of several international trainings and seminars on HRE/EDC.
Objectives:
• To provide the opportunity for a young volunteer to develop her competencies through volunteering in IFM-SEI in order to strengthen a youth organisation in Georgia
• To enhance the quality of the international projects of IFM-SEI through the input of a volunteer.
• To enhance internal communication and raise awareness of Erasmus+ and EVS
The volunteer worked on different international projects, all focusing on different aspects of youth participation and Human Rights Education.
1) A project on social inclusion of young people: the volunteer developed a set of educational activities on social inclusion
2) Participation and Democratic Citizenship: The volunteer supported the organisation of three international seminars on participation, democratic citizenship and the role of youth for peace. She had the role of a junior trainer during the activities, learning about training and facilitation by teams of experienced trainers through delivering training to the participants
3) Contributing to the development of information and communication strategies in IFM-SEI and spreading information about Erasmus+. She supported a group of international volunteers in producing a blog "Stories of Conflict and Peace" and was involved in the production of the IFM-SEI newsletter.
The project was based on non-formal education, as this is the core of our movement. Non-formal education is used in all our activities, whether local or international, and we led the volunteer through a carefully structured participatory learning process in her office activities.
We gained from this project a young volunteer full of self-confidence and new competencies that now support her in strengthening the Georgian Falcons organisation. She was especially interested in learning more about project management and training, as these are competencies that she can directly apply in her volunteering in Georgia. She was also offered a job in an international environment upon her return to Georgia.
Furthermore, her volunteering project impacted strongly on the local Falcon groups in Georgia who now feel stronger connected to the international level through their contact with the volunteer throughout the year.
IFM-SEI benefitted from new ideas and input from a volunteer who comes from a region that we worked very little with in the past. We learned from her about the situation of a conflict region neighbouring the EU and about EVS and other Erasmus+ activities during short workshops conducted by her.
The long-term benefit will be felt on children and young people worldwide through all of these results that are built with multiplication in mind.
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