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INTERCULTURAL MEDIATORS
INTERCULTURAL MEDIATORS
Start date: Aug 1, 2014,
End date: Sep 30, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
The EVS project “INTERCULTURAL MEDIATORS” takes place in Narva, Estonia, within 14 months from 01.08.2014 to 30.09.2015. It brings to Narva 4 EVS volunteers, 2 males and 2 females, from France, Spain and Germany to make their voluntary services in local communities. Volunteers will be received by 3 organizations: VitaTiim NGO, kindergarten Sädemeke and Narva Vanalinna State School. Moreover, several partnering organizations - Narva Hobby Education School, Narva Vocational Centre and kindergarten Tuluke, will be involved into cooperation with volunteers more actively.
The main goal of the project is to create fair conditions and prerequisites for the development of multicultural and intercultural capacity and key competences of young people and organizations working in the field of education with the help of 4 EVS volunteers involved into activities of several local institutions. To achieve this goal we have set up the following objectives:
• to encourage intercultural dialogue and learning through providing international experience at local community and promoting learning mobility;
• to increase participation at voluntary work both on local and international level amongst young people and organizations;
• to increase cooperation between different organizations, especially providers of formal and non-formal education, on local level.
Every volunteer will have specific activities and programmes with individual priorities and objectives depending on his/her interests, needs, competences and HO's needs and activities. Though the volunteers are expected to work in a strong cooperation with each other as well to increase an intercultural and learning dimension and strengthen positive influence in local community. To encourage cooperation both between EVS volunteers and organizations in Narva, Ida-Viru county, volunteers will have joint working days weekly. They will develop own ideas and initiatives and plan some initiatives in cooperation with each other too.
The volunteers wil be of a great support for organizations’ daily activities, for making changes in the routine, bringing new ideas and developing new initiatives together with staff of receiving organizations.
All activities are mostly based on practical experience as well as non-formal and informal learning.
As a result and potential longterm benefit we expect local young people and organizations to become more open-minded and flexible, open for intercultural dialogue and willing to actively participate in social life and learning mobilities. We expect to increase participation in EVS both amongst young people and organizations. Moreover, it is expected that 4 EVS volunteers will essentially develop they professional and key competences and gain self-confidence, what help them to be happy, successful and productive in their careers.