Η ΕΛΙΞ σας προτείνει ένα κοινωνικό EVS με δράσεις στήριξης των προσφύγων και τίτλο “Welcome Refugees” στην Γερμανία διάρκειας 12 μηνών.
Το πρόγραμμα φιλοξενείτε από την οργάνωση ICJA Freiwilligenaustausch weltweit e.V..
Το πρόγραμμα μπορεί να ξεκινήσει στις αρχές Φεβρουαρίου ή Μαρτίου 2016. Προθεσμία για τις αιτήσεις σας είναι η 7η Ιανουαρίου 2016.
Είναι αναγκαία η βασική γνώση Γερμανικών (επίπεδο Good-B or even C-Level)
Μια συνοπτική περιγραφή του προγράμματος:
Project: Young Activists for Peace - Welcome Refugees
Start: 01.02.2016 / 01.03.2016 duration 12 months
Hosting project: office of ICJA
City: Berlin or Frankfurt am Main
Work: Support of the work of the office, mainly related to international youth exchange and workcamps. Support of the activities of the Erasmus+ project “Welcome Refugees”
ICJA Freiwilligenaustausch weltweit e.V. was founded as a reconciliation program between the USA and Germany in 1949. Today ICJA organizes volunteer exchange programmes all over the world and the current management has long-standing experience in working with volunteers and partner organisations from over 40 different countries on all continents. ICJA is an independent, non-profit registered association recognised by the German government. Our aim is to facilitate respectful and open interaction between people from different cultures and backgrounds. We understand our exchange programmes as educational offers, which allow people to meet at eye level, to work together and to learn from each other. Anyone who supports the aims of ICJA is invited to become a member and volunteer coworker. The headquarter of ICJA is located in Berlin where currently 30 staff and 3 apprentices and 3 volunteers are working. A very important part of the work is done by voluntary coworkers in regional and local committees all over Germany.
ICJA's main projects and programmes focus on peace work, intercultural education and the promotion of active citizenship, global learning and social commitment. ICJA received the QUIFD certificate for »Quality in Voluntary Service« which is based on ten carefully defined quality aspects. ICJA coordinates and carries out a variety of exchange programmes for volunteering, like the EFD ( European Voluntary Service), the IJFD (International Youth Voluntary Service), the BFD (Federal Voluntary Service), "weltwärts" (sending and receiving to/from countries in the Global South), volunteer exchange programmes within the framework of our umbrella organisation, the "ICYE Federation" and the programme for volunteers of all ages above 26 (Ü26).
Since the 1990's ICJA has been a host co-ordinating and sending organisation for the European Voluntary Service programme. The main aim and focus of our host projects is to enable young people from all over Europe to work with and for youth with fewer opportunities and people with different abilities. We have long-standing cooperations with local associations working in these fields. ICJA is also cooperating with the National Agency in running the EVS on-arrival trainings and mid-term seminars for EVS volunteers in Germany. As sending organisation every year we send abroad several interested young people to participate in EVS projects in a variety of different European countries. The ICJA staff guides and advises candidates in their search for host projects, and supplies support throughout the whole year. As the learning and educational aspect of volunteering is especially important to us, EVS volunteers take part in a ten day training course before departing to their EVS experience.
The EVS volunteer will mainly support the project "Welcome Refugees”
Description: Contrary to the fundamental aims of the EU, the increasing number of people who have to flee to the EU to look for protection and asylum lead to division and undermine the basic principle of unity. Instead of a common approach in working out solutions
New border fences are being built at the EU border and refugees who finally managed to get into an EU country are being sent on to neighboring countries without humanitarian aid. The scenario of increased migration into the EU is more and more considered a threat to own interest and social peace. Xenophobia and racism as well as hatred towards all migrants are once again on the rise also among young people. It is proven that particularly for those who have had little or no possibilities to meet and talk with refugees. Against this background the project „Young Activists for Peace – Welcome Refugees“ brings together youth and voluntary service organisations from Belgium, Germany, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Croatia, Serbia and Turkey with the aim to enable personal encounters and dialogue between young people from EU and neighboring partner countries and refugees in the frame of Erasmus+ Main aim is to break down stereotypes, prejudices and hatred by offering positive encounters and standing up together for a culture of "encounters and welcome" and peace.
The project activities will take place from February 2016 - January 2017 and consist of: - a 12 - month EVS of a young volunteer from Greece in the organisation ICJA in Berlin, - an introduction training of 6 days for 22 youth workers (Berlin) and -two youth exchanges with a total of 55 participants. The introductory training will enable youth leaders and organizers to learn about the pedagogical concept „peace maker“ as well as to acquire competences in working with diverse and sensitive groups of children and youth and to prepare the youth exchanges of summer 2016. Two youth exchanges will be carried out in with local peace education associations dealing with refugees: „Friedenswerkstatt Antikriegshaus“, Sievershausen and "Petrusgemeinde" in Gießen. 5 to 6 groups of 5 young people of the participating countries, (including some people who have fled from their countries) will live and work together, reflect and practice democratic decision making processes as well as non-violent conflict resolution methods in the frame of the concept peace maker. The aim of the working part is to prepare and offer creative sports and play workshop for disadvantaged children and youth and to get to know and support the work of local initiatives for refugees. Two additional similar youth exchanges as well as a follow-up training course (Athens autumn 2016) will be carried out by the partners in Belgium and Greece. (Erasmus+ application at their national agencies).
The overall project enhances the methodological and peace-building competence of the participating youth workers and fosters the European cooperation of youth and voluntary service organisation aiming at integration and improvement of the situation of refugees in the participating countries. The critical debate of the current geopolitical conflicts and the refugee situation in the frame of the concept "Peacemaker" will enable the recognition of common interests in striving for peace within the EU and beyond. Furthermore the methods acquired can be put into practice and participants will be actively involved in looking for ways to improve the situation of refugees at the youth exchange and in their own countries. The youth exchanges will contribute to a culture of dialogue among the participants and they will look from a different perspective on each other and on those who have to flee from their countries and homes. This experience will lay the ground for common strategies and actions for building peaceful societies which welcome and recognize the needs of refugees to be well-integrated.
According to Erasmus + rules, we provide all volunteers with: accommodation, food allowance, pocket money, local transportation, insurance etc.
Για να κάνεις αίτηση:
Θα πρέπει να αποστείλεις στα Αγγλικά το βιογραφικό σου και ένα Motivation Letter στο Αυτή η διεύθυνση ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου προστατεύεται από τους αυτοματισμούς αποστολέων ανεπιθύμητων μηνυμάτων. Χρειάζεται να ενεργοποιήσετε τη JavaScript για να μπορέσετε να τη δείτε. με τίτλο στο email “EVS application - Welcome Refugees” και να συμπληρώσεις την παρακάτω φόρμα έως τις 7 Ιανουαρίου 2016.
