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(R)evolucionarij se! - Do the (r)evolution!
(R)evolucionarij se! - Do the (r)evolution!
Start date: Jan 1, 2016,
End date: Jan 31, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
The main aim of the project Do the (r) evolution! is to develop high quality activities for young people in the fields of art, youth and civil engagement with the help of informal and nonformal learning. Encouraging critical thinking towards the existing power relations in the world , understanding differences in globalised world , taking responsibility of your actions, developing your own ideas, and to be able to plan and execute your ideas , are key components of our projects. The project will last for 10 months and give them the possibility to participate in the formation of cultural, youth, youth-information, volunteer and social activities of Pekarna Magdalenske mreže. Two volunteers, a 29 year old girl from Romania, a film lover and activist , and a 24 year old boy, a photographer by heart, from Slovakia, will be actively involved in the EVS project, and through that have the opportunities to achieve personal growth and acquire a sense of belonging to the organization and local community. Volunteers will be involved in: - Pekarna DOBIŠ DAŠ, activities with and for children and young people with less opportunities;- Footsteps of the city, urban walks and discussions about the city and the engaged use of public space;- Guest Room Maribor, artists in residence platform;- Aunt Rosa's Library, library with a critically engaged literature,- Gallery K18, gallery open to young artists,- Pekarna potopisi, travelogues with a critical note,- Program for helping refugees.Both volunteers will be strongly encourage to develop their own project ideas in the field of photography and civil engagement.Goals/intentions of the project (R)evolucioniraj se! / Do the (r)evolution! are following:1. To provide room for gaining key competences such as: communication in a foreign language, learning to learn, interpersonal, intercultural and social competences, cultural expression.2. To empower the EVS volunteer to work in creative and socially critical processes (active participation and active citizenship).3. To establish room for learning for young people through mutual transfer of knowledge and skills between EVS volunteer and other coworkers and young people within the organization.4. To direct, reflect and evaluate the gained knowledge and skills, to achieve volunteer’s knowledge of them.5. To develop intercultural and interpersonal understanding among young people in local environment.6. To establish basic conditions to increase autonomy of young people and raise possibilities for their employment.7. To establish and strengthen quality international partnerships (between organizations).8. To enable professional development of youth workers, who are included in the project, and therefore to enable professionalization of youth work.9. To support civil society organizations in the field of youth by developing quality projects with long term effects in the local environments of sending and hosting organizations.Expected effects and results of the project are following:- to strengthen the role of youth workers,- to empower volunteers towards increased participation in society (also in the field of non-conventional political participation),- to increase recognition of EVS among young people in our organization and among young people in the local environment,- to establish quality international partnerships,- to upgrade existing and gain new key competences in both volunteers,- increased sensibilty of the local enviroment/community in accepting the differences among cultures etc.Long term effects are following:- increased professionalization of youth work in our organization,- established quality of hosting and sending environments to carry out programs of mobility in partner organizations,- to prevent and overcome prejudices in hosting and sending environment,- to prevent social exclusion of young people,- a raised interest of young people in the local community in the mobility programmes.Methodology:- weekly meetings with EVS coordinator,- monthly meetings with EVS mentor,- weekly meetings with the team (coworkers),- monthly reports from volunteers,- interim and final evaluation of the project with volunteers and the organization,- lessons of Slovene language (2 hours per week),- organized team work,- individual work,- education,- workshops.