ESC: Storytelling, filmmaking, and project creation

Name: ESC: Storytelling, filmmaking, and project creation
Start: 2024-09-01
End: 2025-08-31
Location: Sweden

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About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Öppna Kanalen Kronoberg is a regional TV Channel organization. All content on the channel is represented by people with local connections. It’s a non-profit organization. The idea with ÖKK is that all people in society should have a chance to express themselves and be heard. At ÖKK everyone is welcome regardless of background. We work to make it possible for everyone to make TV. Our work is to deliver ideas and opportunities to citizens, associations and organizations in Kronoberg. In a democratic society, it is important that all citizens have an actual opportunity to make their voices heard as everyone's opinions are of equal value. By giving all citizens a TV channel where they themselves decide the content, where they have the chance to be seen and also influence what is to be broadcast, is a privilege that many today fight for in other more turbulent parts of the world. ÖKK embodies the basic ideas on which a democratic society is based. The content we are sending varies depending on who wants to make the program. ÖKK is a non-profit organization that stands on its own two feet. The channel differs from other TV channels that are almost exclusively commercial or dependent on other players. ÖKK is instead dependent on its members and citizens. The reason why the channel is a non-profit organization instead of a commercial TV channel is that all citizens, and the members of the organization, should have the strongest influence over what ÖKK airs. Öppna Kanalen Kronoberg is and has always been a channel for and by the citizen.

💼 What the programme involves

A normal working day can consist of planning a short film about another organisation in SIP, editing previously filmed material or packing material for a production or shoot. If the volunteer has no specific work tasks that they, the volunteer will work on their own project or the Kinematora Film festival. During productions, the volunteer will follow along with the staff of Öppna Kanalen, assisting in the filming and the production. Activities for the volunteer: ● set up and operate equipment during ÖKK productions ● create short films that document the work and life of the staff and people working within the SIP network ● communicate Öppna Kanalen’s technical solutions to potential customers ● taking photos, editing photos, writing texts, making your own short films or cutting short films from previous material ● support with social media: collecting or creating new content ->READ MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT: https://www.globalakronoberg.se/esc-at-oumlppna-kanalen-kronoberg.html

🏠 Accommodation on site

The volunteer will live in a shared house/apartment with other volunteers, students or workers. He/She will have a single room and share the bathroom, a fully equipped kitchen and other common areas. There is Wi-Fi in the accommodation. The housing is either situated inside the city of Växjö or in the surrounding towns of Växjö.

🍲 Food

The pocket money will be 180 euros/month and the food money will be around 2500 SEK/month.

🎒 Leisure activities

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We are looking for a volunteer who: • is interested in and enjoys working with production of audiovisual content • enjoys both office work (planning, brainstorming, editing) and filming in other locations • is open, flexible, and sees themself as responsible and independent • likes to communicate and interact with the target group (participating actors, staff of the NGOs, and relevant stakeholders) • wants to take initiative and bring new ideas into action • open to do their own projects and activities • enjoys working in a team with people with different backgrounds
Deadline: Application deadline: 10/06/2024

ℹ️ Additional information

The volunteer will be provided with a yearlong bus card or a bicycle to travel from home to the office, depending on the distance in between them.

The volunteers will participate in two trainings with the Swedish national agency, arrival training and mid term-training. The course will take place in Stockholm, Sweden. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS PROJECT, send us your CV and a motivation/cover letter (both documents in English) to [email protected]

The project is implemented under the European Solidarity Corps Programme, financed by the European Commission.

The participating organisations have to be mindful of these needs as they are responsible for providing a respectful and trusting hosting environment. At the same time, the organisations participating in the initiative devote a great deal of time, energy and resources to set up a high-quality activity; they should therefore expect that European Solidarity Corps participants show a similar level of respect for the local communities and the people that are directly concerned by the activities (https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/mission_en).
What do we provide ?

Training before and after the project
Health insurance during your project
round-trip travel reimbursement
accommodation and food
pocket money
language course
Return Week-end
Youth Pass and SVI international Volunteer passport

Before applying for this volunteering project, you need to enroll yourself at European Solidarity Corps Platform (https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en) and specify your European Solidarity Corps Participant Number (PRN).
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.
Contact the ESC coordinator at +32 2 888 67 13 to get more informations.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.