📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our Mission is to enhance the dreams of young people via motilities within the frame of European Youth Goals and European Youth Strategy from grasroot level to European level.
Our fields of work includes: youth work and volunteering, social inclusion, environment well being and protection, social entrepreneurship and social innovation, community development, empowering the recognition of youth work, facilitating young people'sparticipation in active citizenship.
System and Generation target groups are: Youth, people with disabilities, youth with fewer opportunities such as migrants or refugees
We aim at developing a Volunteer Development Centre in Ankara/Turkey with the following overall objectives:
- to contribute for developing a sustainable civil society dialogue between Turkey and EU CSOs.
- to create a mutual understanding of volunteering and promote it as a value for everyone.
- to create maintenance of a favorable environment for volunteers and voluntary activities.
- to adopt various approaches to mobilize and facilitate volunteering.
- to establish long term sustainable cooperation at local, regional and national levels between CSOs in Turkey and their
European counterparts on areas within the scope of the promotion and support to volunteers and volunteering in
S&G has already established a youth center at ASBU: http://www.systemandgeneration.com/en/projects/social-innovation-youth-center
💼 What the programme involves
MAD you. You can Make a Difference we will give the chance to 50 volunteers directly involved (especially the young participants who are energetic, outgoing and passionate) to live a common experience abroad, to mark their contributions to the local communities where they will operate. It involves 5 partner organizations from 5 countries: Italy, Spain, Turkey, Morocco and Romania. In total 4 volunteers activities are planned. Each voluntary activity will last for 2 weeks (excluded 2 travel days). The objectives of this project are: To improve the living environment for the people and areas where the activities take place; To allow young people involved to give their contribution to the society; To increase the awareness of the local people to take care of their living environment; To improve self-discipline not only to participants but also the local citizens in order to keep their place clean-fresh.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation and full board are provided by the hosting partners.
🎒 Leisure activities
In this activity, volunteers participants will be in charge of collecting and cleaning the trash in the city, beaches and forests. They will plant trees in some specific areas and have the opportunity to perform some activities in protected areas for environmental preservation.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: - aged 18-30; - coming from the countries of the partner organizations; - having a basic knowledge of the English language; - having an interest in the environmental subject; - registered on the European Youth Platform; - showing commitment to serve under the European Solidarity Corps; - physical stamina and emotional stability to maintain effectiveness; -not mandatory (but preferable) coming from socio-economical obstacles situation and demonstrated interest to take part in such multicultural activity.
Deadline: No application deadline
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.