📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Real passion for youth work!
SYSTEM AND G is a real volunteering success story:
Was June 2010 when two ex evs volunters after they finished their service, decided to create an iformal group in order to offer mobility and non formal education opportunities to Greek youth of Olympic Village.
Not Another organization for youth:
December 2010 System and G became an organization (NGO). Created by young people with fewer opportunities for young prople with fewer opportunities!
Our compass it's You(th):
Our aim is to educate young people giving priority to youngsters with fewer opportunities. We offer local, national and international quality projects giving youth the opportunity to acquire new international experience, knowledge and skills supporting them to develop a set of competences in a tailor's made approach.
Serious Fun Learning :
Combining outdoor activities with digital tools, traditional and new methods we believe that learner "choose" the method and not the other way around. You(th) can learn individually, interacting with society, with others, Online, outdoor and indoor, in groups, in couples. You(th) can learn beyond any imagination and always you can learn better Your Way! Creativity, HR, culture, art, nature and environmental awareness, intercultural dialogue, joy, European awareness, research, democracy, active participation, tolerance, inclusion, information, informal education and voluntary - these are the key themes of System and G activities.
💼 What the programme involves
This activity is taking place in the frame of "Upgrade your Neighborhood Brand your City" , a volunteering team project means changing - improving the neighborhood, the society we live in. Through nonformal learning activities and methods, our program redifines the habits and needs of citizens (especially young people) in Komotini, focus on the need to respect our environment. Concepts which are also included in the meaning of the neighborhood that includes: both geographically (place-oriented) and social (human-centered) components.
The neighborhood is a specific place where people live in a defined environment with similar needs and lifestyles. Moving within it,our volunteers will redefine it, redefining themselves by developing new competences about a multitude of environmental and youth-related issues, focusing on the neighborhood itself. Our organization gives volunteers a variety of creative activities on the field of green skills, community development and healthy lifestyle.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteer will provide his/her services between 6 hours per day for 5 days of a week, depending on needs of the NGO. The volunteer will have 2 days of holidays per month which can be accumulated and taken, upon pre-vious agreement with the project coordinator with a minimum of 2 weeks notice. All days off must be communicated as soon as possible and cannot coincide with main activities and deadlines of the host-ing organisation. The travel costs will be covered according the Distance Band calculator. Accommodation is 5' on foot from the office.
🎒 Leisure activities
The volunteering team will have a 2 days welcome training on non formal education methodology and our organization activities.Mentor support as well as reinforced mentorship.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: We expect enthusiastic, energetic volunteers aged 18-30 who is eager to learn, enjoy working with youth and are full of creative ideas. All activities are done in the mixed groups of volunteers from different nationalities that will have their ESC at the same time at our organisation. Volunteers are expected to be interested in the themes of our project and strive to continue working on them during their voluntary service in Greece. Related studies with social work will be taken under consideration.
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.