27 Aug 2022

Location: Bucharest, Romania

Date: 28.09.2022-28.03.2023

Deadline: ASAP

The project

Europe cannot afford wasted talent, social exclusion, and youth disengagement; therefore EPVP 3.0 project provides youngsters with easily accessible opportunities to engage in solidarity actions, enabling them to act for the benefit of the community as active citizenship while gaining valuable experience and competences, thereby improving their further employability.
Thus, the project is focusing on five objectives:
1. Involve 6 NEET volunteers in COSI and its solidarity activities; hence, supporting them to become active, responsible, independent, development-seeker citizens; and equip them with further labor market and/or entrepreneurship competences.
2. Improve COSI’s target group knowledge/attitude regarding aspects such as Human rights, sense of solidarity, volunteering, and active citizenship; as well as inclusion, inter-cultural dialogue, and tolerance; and combating: stereotypes and prejudices, racism and xenophobia, discrimination, social inequality, poverty, and exclusion by conducting monthly raise awareness campaigns/humanitarian actions (according to UN calendar).
3. Increase the participation level of Romanian young NEETs in E+, ESC and EYE programs, by providing accessible and effective growth opportunities for at least 100 beneficiaries from the community, to gain useful experience and develop their competences, as well as facilitating their active citizenship attitude.
4. Grow the awareness and participation enthusiasm level of youngsters/students in Bucharest/Ilfov regarding Erasmus+, ESC, EYE programs.
5. Strengthen inter-cultural dialogue by building attitudes of tolerance and acceptance among local Romanian, EU, and EaP youngsters; discovering common roots, overcoming prejudices and stereotypes according to EU values.

Local Activities

1. 6 Monthly Raise Awareness Campaigns according to UN Calendar, promoting: human rights, solidarity, volunteering, active citizenship and inclusion, inter-cultural acceptance, tolerance, and other important topics, with and for the local youth in Bucharest, through topic related outdoor events, non-formal workshops, seminars, training and debates, content creation (videos, posters, booklet, brochures, etc.). Each month will follow a topic and within the topic we will organise min. 5 related activities. The monthly topics will be decided among the whole COSI team.
2. 3 Promotional workshops of ESC, E+ in faculties/high-schools with min. 50 young participants, where volunteers will share their ESC experience, promote the Programs and COSI’s opportunities.
3. 6 Monthly inter-cultural evenings by promoting each country’s cultural aspects;
4. 1 Humanitarian Aid initiative, by collecting, arranging, dividing clothes, food, hygiene articles, school supplies and other necessary benefits from donors, and providing to the disadvantaged youth. COSI will collaborate with our local partners who provides urgent aid and long-term inclusion support for homeless individuals, disadvantaged families, orphanages, and others. Besides, volunteers will participate in their on-going activities (one day per week) to work directly with the beneficiaries to promote the Erasmus+/ESC opportunities for the beneficiaries.

International Activities


Volunteers will be involved in COSI’s ongoing Erasmus+ and ESC projects. Usually, COSI is engaged (as partner/supporting NGO) in approx. 10 projects per year, involving around 50 Romanian
participants/year in total, with focus on NEETs (future ESC volunteers abroad and E+ participants). Volunteers will promote the opportunities online and outdoor with the local beneficiaries
and provide support, coordinate the project logistically, implement the selection and preparation process, keep communication with the participants, post-mobility workshops, evaluations, and
dissemination. Nonetheless, we will organize Erasmus+ projects in Bucharest, and volunteers will be involved in the project’s implementation, not only in the mobility period (by facilitating sessions, ensuring the logistics, support for the participants) but in all the project life cycle (project management, logistic arrangements: hotels,
catering, materials, stationery, etc.). Moreover, all volunteers will learn structurally from the coordinator how to write a project grant and afterwards apply with grant proposals the following deadline or a business plan to join the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs program afterwards.

PARTICIPANTS’ PROFILE
  • Conventionally unemployed, opportunity-seekers or voluntary NEETs (Not in Employment, Education, Training) youngster;
  • Available to commit for the full duration of the project;
  • Committed to promote Human rights, sense of solidarity and inter-cultural dialogue, volunteering and active citizenship;
  • Eager to foster social inclusion, acceptance and tolerance and reduce: stereotypes/prejudices, racism, discrimination, social inequality, poverty;
  • Keen to develop within a multi-cultural environment;
  • Motivated to acquire project management/writing, ICT and social media proficiency and events organizing skills;
  • Able to impact COSI development and the community with passion and civic spirit;
  • Curious about Romanian, EU and EaP cultural diversity;
  • Speaks English (at least conversational level).

REWARD

  • 240 Euro – Monthly income (pocket and food money);
  • Nice apartment with shared bedrooms (two people by gender);
  • International transportation and local Metro card;
  • Cigna international health insurance for the whole period;
  • Weekly mentoring meetings;
  • Youthpass and VOLUNTpass certificates;
  • Pre-departure, on-arrival and mid-term trainings;
  • Support for VISA issuing process;
  • Friendly team, fun atmosphere and a lot of learning

Learning Outcomes


SKILLS
– Personal autonomy and independence;
– Entrepreneurship skills: problem solving, analytical and critical thinking, effectively mobilize/select resources, decision-making, plan, organize and persist with the learning objectives, evaluate, seek support, reflect on the learning growth and personal development, identify own capacities, deal with complex tasks;
– Presentation, facilitation and public speaking;
– Learn and work in a multi-cultural team as well as individually;
– Act as responsible citizen and fully participate in the civic/social life of Romania and engage effectively for the community development.
– Digital skills:
a. working on social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube;
b. digital media content creation in: BeFunky, Canva, Movavi, Filmora, Powtoon, Prezi and
PowerPoint, Mysimpleshow software: posters, videos, and other editing materials,
c. communication on: ZOOM, emails, WhatsApp, Facebook groups, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive
and Teams, Interactive White Boards or Smart Boards, Kahoot and Mentimeter, Padlets, Miro, etc.;
– Presentation, non-formal activities facilitation, and public speaking

ATTITUDES
– Respect for Human Rights and willingness to promote it;
– Appreciation towards the sense of solidarity, participatory democracy, volunteering, and active citizenship; inter-cultural dialogue, inclusion, acceptance, and tolerance, expressing and understanding different viewpoints;
– Positive attitude and curiosity on the participating countries multilingual context, language similarities, and backgrounds, interest in interaction with other youngsters from different regional
backgrounds through open dialogue;
– Critical, ethical and responsible, confident usage of digital platforms;
– Will to setting goals, self-motivation, develop resilience and confidence, problem-solving attitude in the learning process and ability to overcome obstacles and cope with changes, enthusiasm to
apply former experience in daily tasks, curiosity in looking for development opportunities;
– Support for social and cultural diversity, gender equality and social cohesion, a culture of peace and non-violence, courage and perseverance in achieving objectives, pro-activity, forward-looking;
– Enthusiasm in empowering other NEET youngsters

KNOWLEDGE

– Key concepts such as European common values, Human Rights, sense of solidarity, participatory democracy, volunteering and active citizenship, inter-cultural dialogue, social inclusion, acceptance and tolerance, stereotypes and prejudices, racism and xenophobia, discrimination, social inequality;
– How to implement a successful raise awareness campaign, disseminate the outcomes and ensure its’ visibility offline and online;
– In-depth understanding of ESC, EYE, and Erasmus+ programs in all life cycle: writing applications, managing, coordinating national teams, and evaluating the impact;
– How to: successfully write a project grant; conduct the participant’s selection process, coordinate and prepare the national team for a mobility project, evaluate and disseminate the projects’
outcomes, design follow-up, evaluate;
– Multicultural and socioeconomic dimensions of EU societies and how cultural identities contribute to European identity; understanding local, national, EU/EaP cultures and expressions, languages, heritage and traditions, cultural diversity;
– Complex/effective communication in English and basic communication in Romanian

Volunteers will work around 32.5 hours/week from Monday to Friday with free weekends and 2 free days/month.

How to apply?

For application follow the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14k7gehmlpTH1jN8fPbBOivcsC4rl6pNj2h9RuLEJtg4/edit