What is our project about? Whom did we get involved? Check the details below!
Topics
physical education and sport
skills development
Aim
promotion of sports, in particular volleyball
to raise awareness online and locally inside the community through local events that shall attract beneficiaries to sports
increased awareness of the role of sports for social inclusion
Objectives
O1. To involve 4 international and 2 Romanian young people in volunteering activities regarding organising and taking part in at least 90 sport related activities, in particular related to volleyball
O2. To develop the 6 youngsters’ competences (mainly organisational, communication and digital ones) during a 9-months and a 8-months volunteering activities in Baia Mare, Romania, and 12-months volunteering activities in Murcia, Spain
Directions of activities
Offering the hosting communities different sport events and activities they can join in order to promote the social inclusion of its members, to encourage young people to practise sports and/or to support the local sport clubs
Offering the involved international volunteers the context to develop certain skills, competences and gain experience that will further support and help them with the integration on the labour market
A1. 2 volunteers for 9 months and 2 volunteers for 8 months, in Romania
A2. 2 volunteers for 12 months in Spain
Expected impact
increased knowledge of the European Solidarity Corps
increased knowledge of the Murcia region/Baia Mare region local communities and their reality
raised awareness on the impact of volunteering in local communities through grassroots sports
personal and professional development by improving certain key competences, including organisational competences, working in foreign languages, computer and IT usage, cultural expression, leadership and team working through practical methods and instruments
increased capacity of understanding the importance of non-formal activities that apply as well in sports
awareness of the importance of peer to peer learning through testing, giving and receiving feedbacks
importance of collaboration and communication in the daily life and in sports
tolerance, adaptability, openness, cooperation, understanding diversity, flexibility, working in a team and other soft skills which will be stimulated intensive during the work for this project
improved chances of getting a job at the end of the volunteering experience
Volunteers' profile
aged 18-30 years old, as stipulated by the programme
has not participated in a long-term EVS before
registered in the ESC portal
not enrolled in an Erasmus student exchange programme or any other programme funded by the EU by the time of the volunteering period (avoiding double-financing)
availability for the entire period of the volunteering activity
In terms of volunteering work, their profile is complemented with the following requirements:
interest in sports, volleyball in particular, and communication and social media
motivation to work with sport related activities and to learn more about volleyball
interest to develop or having a basic background in social media, communication, graphic design or similar
long term thinker and planner, precise and organised way of working (or desire to become one)
capacity or desire to develop the work in a team, but also individually
open minded, communicative and pro-active attitude
ability and desire to establish and maintain a positive and professional relationship with the co-workers, athletes, club’s representatives and third parties
sense of initiative
eager to work with different age categories, in an international environment
PARTNERS
Yellow Shirts | Baia Mare, Romania
Yellow Shirts Association was established in 2010 from the will to sustain and help the young people to integrate in the community. Today, the organisation is led by young people as professional youth workers, which develop personalized activities for the beneficiaries, with the aim to help them develop in personal and professional terms. We propose activities with various profiles to offer the context to young people to discover new cultures or ways to spend the free time in an enjoyable, yet useful way in different educational environments.
CS Ştiința Explorări | Baia Mare, Romania
CS Știința Baia Mare is a sportive club that has branches such as athletics, box, orienteering, rugby, handball, notation and modern pentathlon, taekwondo ITF and volleyball. The branch for volleyball, ‘Știința Explorări’ has started in 1947 when the volleyball activity starts in Baia Mare with the first city championship.
Despite changing its name several times, the volleyball team manages to win numerous competitions and the internal championship several time, having as well important results at the international level.
UCAM | Murcia, Spain
Universidad Catolica San Antonio de Murcia or UCAM is a private foundation in which higher education is offered, researchers are trained and professionals are prepared by means of the generation and transmission of science, technology and culture. UCAM offers among others, studies at the Faculty of Science and Health with the grade in Physiotherapy, Faculty of Sports with the grade in Physical Activities and Sports.
UCAM has three own teams (UCAM Murcia Club de Baloncesto - basketball, UCAM Murcia Club de Fútbol - football and UCAM Cartagena Tenis de Mesa – table tennis) and sponsors other 18 teams in several sport (table tennis, judo, basketball, volleyball, football, rowing, athletics, handball, swimming, indoor football).
ProAtlantico | Oeiras, Portugal
ProAtlântico - Associação Juvenil is a non-profit youth organisation, founded in 2001 in Oeiras Council, based in Vila Fria (Porto Salvo) and carries out projects that aim the occupation of free time at the same time that gives the chance to young people to promote their active participation by taking part in European youth projects and in local voluntary activities.
We develop its work based in partnership with local Social Care organisations like Foster Homes, Support Centers for People with Disabilities, Senior Daily Centers offering the chance to their target groups to take part in the projects.
We started to develop activities in a local level like sports tournaments, National and International exchanges, Summer Camps, Youth Centre, entertaining and cultural activities, animation of school breaks and as educational support after school for children and young people. Soon, came the challenge to work with seniors and with people with disabilities in Summer Camps, New Year’s Eve, cultural trips and weekend leisure time activities.
Common Sense | Sumgait, Azerbaijan
"COMMON SENSE" Youth Organization was founded by a group of young people as a non-political, non-profit, non-governmental organization in the city of Sumgait in 2006. The main aims of our organization are: - to deliver the importance of non-formal education in life long learning process; - to make the youth be aware of their civic responsibility and increase active citizenship; - to promote healthy lifestyle and show the consequences of bad habits; - to raise environmental awareness and the significance of ecological protection among the youth; - to advocate for human rights and equality; - to underpin peace building and conflict prevention; - to promote the concept of social entrepreneurship; - to support local schoolchildren and students in their self-development process.
Mundus | Badalona, Spain
Asociación Mundus- Un mundo a tus pies, with headquarters in the city of Badalona (Barcelona) is an association created by young Catalan people passionate about mobility and exchange, as well as cultural diversity and non-formal development for youngsters. The Association begins his journey with the goals of implementing projects which facilitate the contact between cultures and with the idea of promoting a more inclusive and egalitarian society, it aims to give opportunities to young Catalans and Europeans to develop themselves, and learn through non-formal education.
Our organisation is mainly working in sending and coordinating EVS, even though we are hosting volunteers from 2015 both in Badalona, in different local organizations and in our office in Zaragoza, spreading the word about Erasmus+ and its brightness the most we can.
ESN | Valencia, Spain
ESN is the largest Student's organization in Europe. We share the same Values Europe-wide. ESN Spain has international recognition by its compromise with social projects. We promote mobility, help other NGOs on their duty and help the people of our communities while integrating those Erasmus students who come to our cities. The values are: unity in diversity, diversity in the unity (we all have different backgrounds, but share one common aim and goal), students helping students (we passionately commit ourselves to volunteering for the benefits of others), fun in friendship and respect (we enjoy relations based on respect), international dimension of the life (we are open-minded, mobile, like to discover and explore, to co-operate and to interact to break borders), love for Europe as an area of peace and cultural exchange (we live and benefit from the cultural richness of Europe to the utmost), openness with tolerance (we understand and accept others and learn from them), cooperation in the integration (we share an holistic view towards internationality).
VOLUNTEERS
Alexandra
From: Portugal
Support organisation: ProAtlantico
Period: April-December 2019
The project focuses on sports photography, more concretely in volleyball. As I am a sports fan but I haven’t played volleyball in years and I like photography, but I have never photographed sports before, I decided to take the challenge anyway, and move to the beautiful region of Maramures in Romania, to participate in this new and exciting project.
Azer
From: Azerbaijan
Support organisation: Common Sense
Period: September 2019 - May 2020
This project that I have been volunteering in has different kind of positive aspects. We create workshops, sport events, meet different people. One of these positive aspects is going to schools and making sport activities there. I like it that I can be creative in my work.
Alejandro
From: Spain
Support organisation: Mundus
Period: September 2019 - May 2020
We started sport activities in an high school helping in physical education classes, preparing activities related to volleyball and other sports. Then we went to different schools in which we would prepare activities for younger children. It is very nice to work with children, since you can see the purity, the desire to learn and enjoy that they have when it comes to interacting with us.
Ana
From: Spain
Support organisation: ESN Valencia
Period: February - October 2020
From the beginning everything was shown as an adventure to a new destination and a new place to adapt to. Being new to this team is just the beginning. Working together means winning as a team. So everyday is a new game to win...
Viorela
From: Romania
Support organisation: Yellow Shirts
Period: September 2019 - September 2020
I have always stayed active (even played basketball and volleyball in high school), so the idea of being part of the sports department sounds appealing. Moreover, being on the other side of the table is going to be really interesting because I have always been curious about how big sport events are actually being organized.
Andreea
From: Romania
Support organisation: Yellow Shirts
Period: September 2019 - September 2020
I've been waiting for this opportunity for, perhaps, way too long and now here I am: joining forces to create sport events, promoting active movement and the healthy lifestyle, raising the popularity of volleyball around Europe while exploring the volunteering opportunity. A journey of mind, soul and body development begins with a first daring step: accepting challenges.