BREAKING BORDERS +

ERASMUS + KA 1
EVS (European Volunteer Service)

WHAT IS AN EVS PROJECT?

-An EVS is a learning process supported by the European commission where young European can participate and learn through the
methods of non-formal education.
- EVS is used to obtain different competences in the personal and education process
-Financial supported by the European commission
- Collaboration with the volunteers in different projects developed by our organization with the collaboration of the university.
- The volunteer is hosted by an NGO during a period in a foreign country.
- The volunteers must be supported by the organization during their residence in the country, before the arrival and after.
- An EVS project can be consider a process of knowledge in all the fields to young people
- Deeply information about EVS projects:
http://www.juventudenaccion.injuve.es/acciones/voluntariadoeuropeo/antesvoluntariado.html?__locale=es

SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT

Name of the project: Breaking borders +

Hosting 4 volunteers from Romania, turkey, Poland and Croatia to include them in a project of our
organization during the 2016-2017.
The project will be developed during 10 months. September 2016- June 2017. And we want the support
of the faculty of letters to develop our program during this period.
We want to offer our help to create a link between non-governmental organization and public
institutions in the educational field.
Our main objective is to promulgate an EVS focus on the languages exchanges where volunteers can
offer their mother tongue to teach them through courses in your centers.
Also we want to promote non-formal education in institutions through the point of view of young people
around Europe.
Activities of the project:

-Clinic animation in the hospital of Ciudad Real

- Languages lessons for teenagers and children with disabilities.
-story telling for children
-Support of children with social problems.
-free languages curses of minority languages from the European Union (at the university)
-classes supporter for new students (at the university)
-Book changes for good actions (this project could be develop in the university)
- Intercultural weeks (at the university)

ROLE OF THE FACULTY OF LETTERS

- The role will be the support of the faculty of letters to host 4 EVS volunteers during one year to collaborate with
them and preparing activities together with the organization mille cunti.
- The permission to create all these activities for free in your building. We will provide all the material and all the
economic cost. We only desire a place where we can develop our project and we can collaborate with the
university with the help of foreign volunteers.
- A room to do meetings when we need to prepare the new activities during the project.
- We want to promote the volunteer world to obtain the collaboration of students during our activities in
hospitals with children.
- Possibility to create seminars with our help.
- We need your support to have the opportunity to develop this project

ROLE OF MILLE CUNTI

-Financial support to the volunteers.
- organize the activities during the whole project.
- Visibility of the project in the social network.
- Create a good atmosphere for the volunteers.
- Develop the project of languages courses for free.
-collaborating with the university during the project.

METHODOLOGY

- We want to develop a project through the use of:

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Non-formal education
Debates
Group works
Seminars
workshops

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

- Creation of projects
- Intercultural learning process
- Opportunity to live a year abroad
- Learn a new languague
- Inmersion in the non-formal education world
- YOUTH PASS
- OLS (Linguistic suppor by the European commision with an official cerficate of level)

YOUTHPASS
- Youthpass is a tool where participants of Erasmus + projects can write the competences they have acquired during those period.
- While creating their Youthpass Certificate together with a support person, the participants of the
projects have the possibility to describe what they have done in their project and which competences
they have acquired. Thus, Youthpass supports the reflection upon the personal non-formal
learning process and outcomes.
- Being a Europe-wide validation instrument for non-formal learning in the youth field, Youthpass
contributes to strengthening the social recognition of youth work.
- Describing the added value of the project, Youthpass supports active European citizenship of young
people and of youth workers.
- Youthpass also aims at supporting the employability of young people and of youth workers by
documenting the acquisition of key competences on a certificate.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT

-Create a social awareness about volunteer service and Erasmus +
-Collaborate with public institutions (Universities) through non-formal methodology
-Participate in the process of learning of 4 young people from different countries of Europe.
-Increase and improve the project of hospital animation.
-Give the opportunity to institutions to include minority languages in their lessons through non-formal
methodology.
-create links between non-governmental organizations and educational institutions.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT
- The project costs are supported by the European commission and it Includes: travel cost,
accommodation, food, pocket money and sanitary insurance.
- The costs of the project will be covered by the Erasmus+ program according to its rules. (The
National Agencies have new criteria to finance travel costs, in the frame of Erasmus+. They calculate
them according to the distance. To calculate yours click
here:www.ec.europa.eu/programmes/Erasmus-plus/tools/distance_en.htm.)

MILLE CUNTI ORGANIZATION

The Association Mille Cunti was born in Ciudad Real in December 2014. The founding members are
young people that had been involved or are involved in European mobility programs, as Youth in
Action and Erasmus.
They are passionate of languages, photography, drawing and volunteering, so the association was
created with the objective to transform these passions in an occasion to foment the youth
participation and empowerment, and to increase the knowledge about Europe and its
opportunities.
For this reason we will work in the provincial area, realizing projects in the youth and cultural field
and the European Spirit diffusion, in collaboration with others national and internationals no-profit
organizations and public bodies.
We will be happy to receive your proposals and new volunteers that want join our common project.
The union makes the power!
More information: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Asociaci%C3%B3n-Mille-

Cunti/567584630040765