ESC: Volunteering project in Italy about sustainability - interculturality

Comitato d'Intesa was created in 1977 from the initiative of 9 organizations that are still working for the social problems of the provincial area. Now it gathers 171 associations operating in many different sector such as: youth policy, sustainable development, social solidarity, assistance of people with special needs. In order to organize better its activities and to permit a real exchange of information and experiences between all associations, those are divided into the following 7 thematic groups: youth, environment, health, disability, elderly, assistance, specific disease. The main reason for setting up this coordination body were the following: - to promote information, cooperation and exchange of resources; - to have an unique reference point for all actions in the health, environmental and social fields; - to fight more effectively against the segregation of disadvantaged groups and social excluded people; - to improve the dialogue among the participating associations; - to coordinate contacts with the public bodies, so as to promote dialogue and consensus around the most effective solutions to the local problems; - to enforce new services and help communities, based on innovative projects. The current plan of actions includes the following objectives: - promoting youth policy; - promoting and supporting school integration; - promoting and support sustainable development policy; - supporting youth entrepreneurship to create employment opportunities; - promoting campaigns for young people on any kind of social exclusion (disability, alcoholism, drug, dependence, etc.); - promoting the rights of disadvantaged people; - increasing the quality of life of any person with special needs; - promoting and inspecting the quality of public rehabilitation, assistance and support. Since 2007 Comitato d'Intesa guarantees a stable partnership with schools and Local Educational Office (UST-Ufficio Scolastico Territoriale) in order to promote youth volunteering with the specific program "CSV Volontario anche tu!" The last edition, in 2018, has involved 1051 youngsters, aged between 12 to 18. Since 2008 Comitato d'Intesa has Inquadrati Lab, a production studio provided with camera, editing program and everything necessary to produce video. The main aim of Inquadrati is to promote non profit organisations' activities using social network (Facebook and Twitter), Youtube and Comitato d'Intesa's website. Inquadrati Lab has now a new communication channel, a CSVLog (Vlog like Video Blog), that promotes voluntary values by realizing video tutorials and interviews that are available on a specific Youtube channel(CSVlog Belluno). Inquadrati Lab works to involve young directors, students and volunteers in training courses on video production. Comitato d'Intesa is actively working on the frame of Erasmus+ program since 2014 organizing mobility opportunities (mainly youth exchanges but also training courses and international seminars) both in Belluno and abroad. Comitato d'Intesa already has an EVS accreditation as sending-coordinating and receiving organization. In these years we have implementing various EVS projects in Belluno: - 2016-2-IT03-KA105-008564 "All you need is VOLunteering": short term EVS project (2 months) implemented in Belluno (2 volunteers); - 2016-1-IT03-KA105-007714 "Think Green": short term EVS project (2 months) implemented in Belluno (2 volunteers); - 2016-3-IT03-KA105-009412 "Skills for YOU(th)": long term EVS project (7 months) implemented in Belluno (2 volunteers); - 2017-3-IT03-KA105-012015 "EVS Radio Network": long term EVS project (12 months) implemented in Belluno (2 volunteers); - 2018-1-IT03-KA125-013008 "YOUng Culture" long term EVS project (12 months) implemented in Belluno (2 volunteers). At the moment we have the accreditation for hosting at the same time only 2 volunteers. Since the experience is getting very fruitful, Comitato d'Intesa would like to ask now the opportunity to host at the same time 4 volunteers, not more 2. We think to have not only the right human resources to guarantee a good implementation of the project, but also the material ones: our apartment has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, and since we would like to create a family dimension at atmosphere, we are asking now to update the number of volunteers that we can host at the same time: from 2 to 4.