Exchange of Cultures

KÖZ-Pont Ifjúsági Egyesület

EVS in Hungary

Exchange of Cultures

Debrecen, Hungary 12 months

EVS in Hungary Hosting organisation:

KÖZ-Pont Ifjúsági Egyesület

City:

Debrecen

Activity duration:

12 months

Dates:

1/10/2018 - 30/09/2019

Topic:

Education, youth leisure

Number of volunteers:

4

We are looking for motivated volunteers from Spain, Germany and Italy who want to participate in an EVS project in Hungary and work with youngsters.

Volunteers’ profile: volunteers from Spain, Germany, Poland, Italy (one per each country) 18-30 years old motivated and active personality inner motivation to develop creativity is a plus

Volunteers’ activities: Teaching their mother tongue to local youngsters.

Organising informal language classes, conversation clubs, etc., through these activities they will make the learning process easier for the local youngsters.

Promoting EVS and the Erasmus+ programs.

Helping local youngsters in schools to develop their foreign language skills.

We will also give volunteers a place to realize their own ideas and projects.

Allowance: monthly ticket to access public transport each volunteer will get phone with Hungarian phone number to contact with colleagues each volunteer will receive 120 EUR pocket money and 120 EUR food money travel cost covered by the project the volunteers will be insured by their whole stay the volunteers will get mentors hungarian lessons are provided the volunteers will be accomodated in a private room in a flat in Debrecen with other volunteers Accommodation is provided in flats. Each volunteer will have their own room. Bathroom and kitchen are common areas. Internet access is provided. Kitchen is well equipped, with microwave, kettle, coffee machine, fridge, cooker and oven, so volunteers can prepare their own meals.

About the Association Our association was founded in 2001 with the aim to support Youth Associations with financial, professional and juristical background as well as taking the role ont he field of youth policy. The target group of the Youth Centre Association are people aged between 10 and 30. Those people who would like tod o something to their community, through themselves.

We provide space and opportunity for them to become parts of the society.

Those who are working in out association accept the common value as openness, creativity, and trust toward to each other. In our community we realize these values through help support and team work. We provide support for informal youth group in the framework for Association and respect towards each other’s interests. We also consider our goals it to empower young people and to operate a network of the volunteers in the North-Plain region. Those young people who get in touch with us can have such experiences that can be determinig factors in their lives.

About the Association Currently our Association operate three offices in different cities: Debrecen, Szolnok, Nyíregyháza. We actively take part in youth policy of the region, and continuesly looking after connections with several youth governments, NGO’s, elementary and high schools. We have strong partneships with animal shelters, Institutions of Deaf People, Orphanage House.

From 2010 have hosted more than 20 volunteers from Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Latvia, Georgia, Romania, Serbia, Russia, Turkey. During the project, the volunteer will get an opportunity to improve the local youth community and make the youngsters more active members of the society.

If you would like to know more about our association, visit our web page: http://www.kozpontegyesulet.hu/

Description of the project: The name of the project is Exchange of Cultures, symbolizes that the volunteers from different countries working together with Hungarian volunteers will make an impact that can help to develop each other. The main aim of the project is promoting the multicultural actions and giving possibilities for the volunteers to learn how they can motivate young people to participate.

Volunteers can put into practical ideas, share things about their culture and make a kind of „intercultural dialogue� about important questions in society.

The way of getting it can be clubs, sport, volunteering, and other cultural actions in the office of the association. During the project, the volunteers can improve their language knowledge, communication skills, social and life guide competences, get to know more about new cultures and people as well as get lifelong experiences.

Debrecen, Hungary: It is the second largest city of Hungary with around 200.000 inhabitants. It is a University City, and there are always EVS volunteers and exchange students from different countries.

At the local level, three or more organizations are accepting volunteers, and we always find the opportunity to introduce our volunteers to each other.

An example of local prices: bread (1kg): 300-350 HUF potato (1kg): 200-250 HUF pork (1kg): 1200 HUF bottled beer (in pubs): 300-350 HUF cappucino (in cafÊ): 350-400 HUF

1 EUR = 330 HUF

Application: If you are interested in our project please send a motivation letter, your CV with your profile picture and your European Solidarity Corps number to email:

international@kozpontegyesulet.hu You can also contact us via phone:

+36 309 036 135

Please, keep in mind that in order to apply for EVS registration on European Solidarity Corps is required.

Application deadline: 1st of August, 2018 Check these blogs and pages about previuos EVS projects, which are written by our german, spanish, polish, georgian, finnish, italian volunteers: https://www.facebook.com/centreyouthassociation https://centreyouthassociationblog.wordpress.com https://www.instagram.com/centre_youth_association/ http://evscentreyouth.blogspot.hu/ http://letsshowtheworld.blogspot.com/ http://commonlanguageislaughing.blogspot.com/