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Youth for Environment
Start date: Jan 1, 2015,
End date: Jun 30, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The EVS project ‘Youth for Environment’ in Youth and Environment Europe (YEE), the network of youth environmental organisations from 27 countries, gives volunteers the opportunity to experience the daily work of an international youth organisation’s central office (in Prague, Czech Republic) and to contribute to various YEE projects with their own ideas, skills and enthusiasm.
Youth and Environment Europe hosted 2 volunteers from different countries (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Hungary) to ensure intercultural learning and the best learning opportunities. The volunteers stayed in YEE office in Prague, Czech Republic for 12 months.
During the EVS project in YEE two volunteers were able to implement tasks and develop skills in a wide scale of activities, which were split in three parts. First part was the work in YEE office – helping to organise campaigns, activities, publications, projects, maintain website about youth issues and environmental awareness. Volunteers could practice skills of: cooperating in an intercultural team with people from several different countries, working in English, organising, coordinating various projects, networking with member organisations, preparing publications, design, updating website, etc.
Second part consisted of practical activities in the ecological center Toulcuv Dvur, where YEE office is located – volunteers could integrate into local community, practice the Czech language, help in the farm and make practical workshops of environmental education.
Third part was the volunteers’ personal project. Volunteers prepared a project according to their interest to practice sense of initiative and entrepreneurship.
All these various activities enabled volunteers in different ways to raise their environmental awareness and inform other young people about environmental problems.