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Changing lives, opening minds in Cg2000
Start date: Sep 22, 2014, End date: Sep 22, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

“Changing lives, opening minds in Cg2000” is an EVS project addressed to two girls, Caroli Sophie from Germany and Adela from Romania. We intended to provide a strong learning experience through an operative full-time role in the organization (they never replaced educators and operators but will support them ); Sophie & Adela had the opportunity to integrate into activities with ideas, creativity and experience; we guaranteed the service to the local community through non-profit activities, emphasizing the intercultural dimension and the possibility of non-formal learning . The general objectives were : • Improvement of volunteers’ skills and the strengthening of key competences such as: communication in a foreign language , learning to learn , social and civic competences , sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, cultural awareness and expression . • To provide the ability to interconnect three specific areas of the life of a young European Volunteer : personal development , active citizenship and employability , through a process of non-formal learning customized on their skills and abilities . • To encourage and stimulate the mobility of young Europeans ( volunteers and locals) who participate in learning activities among the programme and partner countries in this way we try to provide tools to combat the problem of youth unemployment. • To encourage the participation in a shared project at the service of the local community. • To continue to expand the Cg2000’s educational proposals for all ages, reaching a greater number of addresses. This project and the activities contained in wanted to provide participants with the opportunity to acquire new skills and enhance existing ones ; It was intended to offer the possibility of growing towards the use of non-formal methods . The elements of learning that we aimed to achieve are : - Improved communication in Italian - Acquisition / reinforcement of social skills . - Acquisition / reinforcement of civic skills. - Acquisition / reinforcement of the skill to work in a team of educational experts . - Acquisition / reinforcement of educational competence and the acquisition / reinforcement of of planning skills and structuring activities targeted to different age groups. - Acquisition of simple formal/non-formal tools for the management of small groups. The activities that the volunteers performed can be divided into two main periods: - Winter : Alice's House , CAG , Dreambar , Peace Month. - Summer activities: GREST. The experience of community life proposed helped to deepen the exchange and dimension of knowledge, and it provided for no-formal intercultural learning, encouraed Carolin Sophie & Adela to participate actively and to social integration; encouraged the exchange of experiences and good practices between the partners , and the creation of partnerships and networks that ensure a solid future projects. The presence of EVS volunteers in an organization mainly based on voluntary activity is always a strong testimony of active citizenship , democracy and respect in the service for children. Through the various initiatives we aimed to promote knowledge, dismantle stereotypes and offer opportunities to meet and to develop a critical ability . The presence of young people who decided to spend ten months of their life for a volunteering experience in a European country , gives a significant testimony of generosity , openness and acceptance that can be an interesting opportunity to reflect about respect, volunteering , acceptance and openness to the other . The idea is to encourage the local population to come ever closer to the ERASMUS+ programme and to the opportunities that it offers . The dissemination of the project was noteworthy. The idea was to reach as many people as possible at the local, national, European and non-European level. .
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