📝 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
Within the scope of our approved project 2021-2-TR0l-ESCSl-VTJ-000044566, Highly Motivated Volunteers are kindly invited to short and long-term volunteering services starting from July or August 2022. In this frame, our association is inviting you to a volunteering team for two months or individual volunteering for 10 months in Ankara / Turkey. In this volunteering opportunity, the participants from EU countries and Erasmus+ program countries are eligible between 18-30. In this frame travel costs and if needed visa costs will be reimbursed. Also; accommodation, volunteer allowance, and food money will be provided for each month. In the frame of our project, the activities are targeted 2030 European Union Youth targets. So, the volunteer will be enrolled on activities related to green, digitalization and inclusion topics. For this project, we already completed it for the volunteering team. If you want to apply please consider too long-term volunteers in Turkiye.
🏠 Accommodation on site
S&G provides accommodation in Volunteer houses that it has. Our Volunteer houses are located in the city centre and so close to our offices. In these houses, each room is shared by two or three volunteers. All furniture and the kitchen are also commonly shared. For food, we provide food money to our volunteers each month besides the volunteer allowance. Transport arrangements: S&G provides mentorship according to Erasmus+ rules to the volunteers before they arrive.
🎒 Leisure activities
Within the scope of this project, we have activities on Green, Digitalization and Inclusivity. On green, there will be activities on garbage collection, planting saplings and CSR. Within the scope of digitalization, we will have activities such as vlogging, database creation, podcasting and online magazine creation. On the subject of inclusion, English speaking club, language course for local participants, documentary sessions and sports activities will be organized. In addition to these, workshops will be prepared within the scope of each subject.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: We would like to see volunteers who are highly motivated, open to getting to know a new culture, living in a shared home, and who are aware of the fact that this project is a non-formal education program, as participants in our project.
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.