Location: Katowice, Poland
Deadline: OPEN
Duration: 6 months
Mobility period: June 2022 – November 2022
Application deadline: ASAP
Main activities
Katowice Community Building and Organizing
• Research the national composition of the society in Katowice, collection of contacts of local foreigners.
• Identification of the areas that are more populated with foreigners in the city and research for interested local inhabitants of those areas (Polish and other cultures) to create a group to investigate relevant issues connected to that zone.
• Organization of meetings with local groups to discuss issues, improvements that may be done in their neighborhoods, ideas of events and others, set clear short–term and long–term goals with the group.
• Identification of relevant issues concerning vulnerable groups (seniors, minorities, people with disabilities, etc).
• Organization of meetings with local authorities to present ideas, request for improvements and changes and discuss with them the possibility to act for the benefit of the local community (accompanied by one of the members of our Association).
• Research on local, regional, national NGOs working for local people, including foreigners, to build new partnership and cooperation and explore further possibilities of intervention.
• Conduction of interviews with locals and collection of petitions to propose relevant changes in specific areas of the city.
• Organization of local campaigns to take collective actions involving locals to encourage active engagement and local sensitization (cleaning actions, workshops for competencies exchange, etc).
• Organization of the “Cultural Year” of Katowice: the volunteers will launch the idea of the dedicating one week a month or every two months to a different culture, and organize the cultural week (with national food, games, dances, events hold in Bona Fides and/or in the market square, if possible) to raise awareness on the variety of cultures in the city and create room for each of them to express their beauty and peculiarities.
• Organization of language exchanges in the city, to give the possibility to those willing to learn to meet and dedicate their time to learn a new language (organization of groups to meet and talk and\or tandem).
TRAVEL
Travel costs will be reimbursed following the rules of European Solidarity Corps projects