Urban print tales
Start date: Aug 1, 2016,
End date: Nov 30, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
Society House! is active in the field of culture, modern art, non-formal education, youth and volunteering not only locally, but also at a national and international level. Society's main focus is to act as a link between the city, its micro-communities, the city's agents, its population, visitors and tourists with the aim of also including the wider community. The project Urban print tales is a great way to achieve the goals towards which the society aspires, and they are promotion of volunteering, social engagement of young people and their active participation, and finally, the creation of new and innovative ways of cooperation between the city's different agents in the field of culture and youth with the residents of the city. Urban print tales – the project, is a wonderful opportunity for international volunteers to get familiar and become integrated with the local community, meaning the city's residents. Key aims of the project include:-develop and promote active citizenship, solidarity and mutual understanding of young people using the tools of art and alternative methods of integration (nanoturizem, graphic arts, building community, street theater, ...)-new competencies to facilitate the integration into the labor market,-awareness of society and engage in activities Erasmus + and consequently stereotypes,-active participation of young people with fewer opportunities,-integration of different cultures - intercultural and the European dimension - promotion of integration of young people with fewer opportunities- promotion of international volunteering-discovering alternative methods of employment and promotion of them- development of organizational skills and develop its own ideas.We are looking for one young person, aged between 21 and 30 years, to be involved in the project. We would like to find a person who is enthusiastic about acquiring new skills, learning new things and meeting new people; he or she should have an interest in learning about new cultures, readiness to act intergenerationally and intrigued by new work methods in community building. He or she should have a general interest in art, culture and youth work. Our main criteria in the selection process are going to be economic disadvantages and geographical challenges of the candidates. The main activities of the project are going to include: help in carrying out projects of Hiša! society, learning Slovene, networking of the volunteers in the local community, opportunities for implementing volunteers' own projects, learning development, finding alternative ways of volunteers' employment and creating his or hers own job, getting to know good examples of active participation of young people, becoming familiar with art methodology, developing volunteers' ideas in the course of the project and later on when they return home; by putting volunteers' ideas into practice others will be encouraged to participate in the Erasmus+ programme, at the same time these ideas will present an added value to the local community. And finally, volunteers' work will bring together young people in the local community, promote international volunteering, interculturality and the common European consciousness.