📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The APJC is an association that has been offering activities for all publics for 54 years, especially for young people.
The APJC promotes the values of solidarity, openness to the world, access to rights and culture, democracy and respect for human dignity. It is a place of conviviality and active participation of the members, in particular thanks to thematic commissions, places of participation and decision making.
The team is made up of 18 employees and nearly 40 volunteers who work together for the empowerment of residents.
The APJC concentrates its actions in two poles, the leisure pole and the social action pole.
The leisure sector includes :
- leisure activities, cultural and artistic activities from the age of 3 until 99 (theatre, singing, plastic arts, hip-hop, etc.) run by professionals employees or volunteers ;
- cultural events (shows, concerts, exhibitions, etc.) chosen and organised with the participation of residents and members.
The social action sector includes :
- support for rights and parenthood, specifically for people and families in precarious or fragile situations (individual and collective information and support, socialisation and initiative-taking spaces)
- support for schooling, for children aged 6 to 17;
- support for families for their first holiday resort.
The APJC shares the values of all the structures that make up the networks to which it is affiliated: the Federation of Social Centers of the county of Seine-Saint-Denis and the Regional Federation of Youth and Cultural Centres of Ile de France.
💼 What the programme involves
The APJC is a centre for socio-cultural activities. More than 25 employees and a large number of volunteers take part in the centre's activities: leisure, youth, artistic and cultural practices, social actions, European mobility.
The tasks of the volunteers at the APJC can be grouped into three areas : socio-cultural activities, youth activities and the promotion of voluntary programmes such as the CES.
A number of hours are also set aside for group projects, in conjunction with four other volunteers and host organisations.
You will :
Organise and lead activities to promote european mobility, participate in cultural events, festivals and shows of the APJC.
Take part of collective projects like maintain and enhance the external spaces of the house : garden, terrace. Organising social spaces foreigners volunteers.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteer lives in a shared house with four other volunteers in a large pavilion with a garden located in the commune of Villemomble in Seine-Saint-Denis. Each person has a private room and shares toilets, bathroom, kitchen, living room, terrace, garden... The house is equipped with wifi, TV, barbecue. 30 minutes by public transport or walking to reach the APJC. The city of Paris is accessible by train in about 45 minutes depending on the destination. The monthly subscription for the entire regional network is covered. The monthly allowance is 422 euros per month for food and pocket money.
🎒 Leisure activities
The first two days will be dedicated to a two-day training to best support the integration into the local life and the host structure.
Weekly participation in socio-linguistic workshops in French is offered if the person needs and wants to. Occasional training courses on subjects related to the socio-cultural field can be offered throughout the year.
In addition, two seminars are organised by the French agency ERASMUS+.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: We are looking for someone who is curious, interested, passionate and enjoys meeting different people and cultures. Who has an understanding of the positive aspects as well as the difficulties that can be encountered during a year-long intercultural sharing experience.
Open-mindedness and commitment to one or more of the following themes is appreciated: dance, music, democratic participation, environmental protection, youth and European citizenship.
To be a volunteer, in the first place, means for us: to have the desire to!
A basic level of French is a plus.
Deadline: Application deadline: 01/07/2022
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.