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Learn to get Involved, Volunteer in Europe
Start date: Jul 15, 2014, End date: Nov 15, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

"Learn to get Involved, Volunteer in Europe" – LIVE is an EVS mobility, developped during 16 months, between 15th July 2014- 15th November 2015. The project’s main activity, mobility of young people, Key action 1- Erasmus+, represents the opportunity of 5 volunteers from Turkey and Italy to bennefit from experiencing a learning service, during 6 months, in Ramnicu Sarat, Romania from 1st October 2014 to 1st May 2015. The project’s theme will reach 2 European dimensions: European awareness and promoting non-formal methods and instruments; will consist in enlarging the offer of non-formal methods and instruments in primary schools and kindergartens. The purpose of the project is in fact to develop the offer of non-formal methods and instruments and also to train young people to use and apply the benefits of non-formal education in their personal and professional life. The project’s objectives are established according to the Erasmus Plus objectives, and targets: 1. Increasing the stream of 5 EVS volunteers coming from Turkey and Italy, in non-formal education, applied in primary schools and kindergartens, during 6 months, in Ramnicu Sarat 2. Developing Youthpass competences for 5 EVS volunteers through the 6 moths stage in Ramnicu Sarat 3. Increasing the non-formal methods and instruments applications’ level in primary schools and kindergartens, with the help of 5 EVS volunteers, in a 6 months period of activities. 4. Developing solidarity through intercultural knowledge among 5 EVS volunteers and local community, by exchanging Romanian, Turkish and Italian cultural values (languages, traditions, customs, etc) in 6 month period Main themes of the project are: art, culture, international cooperation in the youth field and developing competences through facilitating the volunteers’ participation in a long-term learning process. The activities developed during the stage, using non-formal education, will led to achieving the objectives and will assure transferable results and a sustainable impact. During the working hours, the volunteers will prepare street activities and campaigns on different themes (art, culture, lobby) using non-formal methods, such as forum theatre, labyrinth theatre, Photovoice, Public cafe, flashmob, open space, debate, fishbowl, workshops, energizers, icebreakers, case study, evaluation activities, living library, etc. During the stage, the volunteers will organize public events, in order to promote the non-formal education methodology in open spaces: city center, local park, F.O.R.T.E.S youth center, Municipal museum, the town hall’s conference room, the cultural Centre "Florica Cristoforeanu". Following the stage implementation, the 5 volunteers and the target group will develop new competences, new non-formal methods and instruments, in an intercultural, European learning dimension. The volunteers will earn knowlegde and communication abilities in the romanian language, will learn about romanian culture and will have the chance to present their own culture in a process of intercultural understanding, tolerance, respect, active citizenship and social cohezion. The impact on the local comunity from Ramnicu Sarat will be a positive one, the target group having the chance to learn in a non-formal framework, at an early age, thus making it easier for the youth sector from the new programme, Erasmus+. Furthermore, the school and kindergarten teachers will develope non-formal implementation abilities, beeing able to apply these methods in the educational offer, bringing new methodes and working instruments for their programme. The impact on the promoters’ local comunities, E-genclik and EUFEMIA, will be given by the visibility and dissemination of the project but also by the gatherd experience of the 5 volunteers, put into practice.
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