INFO - PACK - Progetto Giovani

KA 1 - EVS
‘ iVolunteering+ ’
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Read me! Take me with you!
Bucharest, Romania
03.07.2016 – 04.05.2017
About D.G.T. Association - Hosting & Coordinating Organisation
 D.G.T. Association was legally established in Romania at the beginning of March 2011;
 Our main targets are high-school and university students, young entrepreneurs,
disadvantaged young people and youth leaders. We work with volunteers from almost all
the universities in Bucharest and with students from 4 high-schools (among them: “Costin
C. Kiritescu” College). We collaborate also with other youngsters all across Romania
(Ploiesti, Brasov, Bacau, Iasi, Vatra Dornei, Suceava, Cluj, Arad, Constanta, Pitesti);
 D.G.T.’s mission focuses on national and international networking among young people,
students, trainers and teachers of different nationalities, cultures and backgrounds. It
tackles topics such as intercultural exchange, nonformal education, ecology, healthy
lifestyle, sport, climate change, sustainable and rural development, entrepreneurship,
creativity, human rights, European citizenship, international politics (geopolitics), new
media, communication. All these are added to facilitate the accumulation of experience by
young people, through voluntary activities, allowing them to put into practice the theory
learned in school;
About D.G.T. Association - Hosting & Coordinating Organisation
 We worked mainly with the former “Youth in Action” but also with “Council of Europe” and
“Europe for Citizens”. Now we are super active in the “Erasmus+“;
 We
are
active
members
of
Anna
Lindh
http://www.annalindhfoundation.org/networks/romania ;
Foundation
Network:
 Since 15.05.2013 we have EVS accreditation for sending, coordinating and hosting ;
 Starting January 2014 we established our D.G.T. Moldova Branch in Moldova Republic ;
 The “Do Great Things Network” Facebook Group :
https://www.facebook.com/groups/DoGreatThingsNetwork/
 You can find us on Facebook by accessing our Page: https://www.facebook.com/DGT122074001202951/?fref=ts
 Our Website is : http://www.dgtassociation.ro/
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Title of the project: " iVolunteering+ “
Type of the activity: KA 1 – Mobility of young people - Long Term European Voluntary Service - Programme Countries
Venue: Bucharest, Romania
Duration: 10 months
Dates of effective implementation: 03.07.2016 – 04.05.2017
Working methods used & working language : Nonformal education & English
Countries involved: Italy, Spain and Poland
Volunteers: 2 per country (6 in total)
D.G.T. Association is organising this project
Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
with the grant received through the
In this KA 1 - Mobility of young people – Long Term EVS (with Programme Countries)
called " iVolunteering+ ", youngsters between 18 and 30 years old, from 3 different EU
countries will live and work together for 10 months in Bucharest, Romania.
The topics that will be developed mainly are “ ICT - new technologies - digital
competences “ , “ Creativity and culture “ and “ EU Citizenship, EU awareness
and Democracy “.
ABOUT THE PROJECT – MAIN PURPOSE
The main aim of the “ iVolunteering+ ” project is
to teach the youngsters and organisations how to
use the internet and the new media in order to
maximize the access (theirs and others) to
relevant information, on one hand and on the
other hand how to wisely and widely promote
volunteering projects, nonformal education, the
work of the NGO’s and the Erasmus+
Programme.
The “ iVolunteering+ ” objectives are:
1. – Finding concrete ways and new innovative & creative tools that will better promote at
international, national and local level, the NGO’s, the nonformal education, volunteering in
general and the already available Funding Opportunities, among young people;
2. - Creating a Tool that will reach much more people and many more organizations and that
will have better and more efficient dissemination of the work and of the projects that the
NGO’s are implementing;
3. – Increase the number of youngsters that heard about the concept and that they know how
to use social media and new media AND raising awareness about the benefits but also
about the risks and dangers these technologies can bring;
4. – Contributing and taking part in some of the Radio shows of an on-line Radio (or more),
based in Bucharest, where and through which the EVS volunteers will talk and actively
promote the nonformal education, volunteering, NGO sector and Erasmus+ Programme;
5. - Promote the new and social media in the rural areas, in Ilfov County;
6. - Creating and running the activities of the Nonformal Club of the “Costin C. Kiritescu”
College (high school), in Bucharest.
Tasks of the Volunteer(s)
Each volunteer will have the chance to experience and work on a
variety of tasks, always in a fun way.
For sure you will never get bored here !
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Working @ the
Office :
 brainstorming on the D.G.T. website’s design, maintaining it
and keep it updated ;
 update D.G.T.’s Facebook Page an Group ;
 editing pictures and videos and uploading them on our FB
Page, Group and website.
Tasks of the Volunteer(s)
Experiencing the Radio :
 the volunteers will go to the headquarters
of the Radio and together with the professionals
there, they will actively involve and take part
in the radio shows that the Radio is running;
 the radio professionals will show and
present to the volunteers, in an interactive way,
how the weekly life in a Radio looks like.
Tasks of the Volunteer(s)
The Nonformal Club :
 the volunteers will set up a Nonformal Club at the “Costin C.
Kiritescu” College (high school) in Bucharest ;
 together with some of the students of this college and with a
local volunteer coordinator from our association, the volunteers
will run the activities of the High school’s Nonformal Club ;
 the activities will be based on nonformal education so a wide
range of nonformal methods and games will be used with and
for the high school’s students.
Tasks of the Volunteer(s)
Project Writing :
 Writing projects: in the first phase, all the volunteers will receive
proper Project
Writing Training
Courses so they will
have the chance
and possibility
to put their ideas
in practice by
writing projects
and implement
them through our NGO
and Network;
Tasks of the Volunteer(s)
Project Management :
 The EVS volunteers will have the chance to be part of our
management team that
various local and
like Youth
Training Courses,
and so on ;
will organise and implement
international projects
Exchanges,
Seminars, PBA’s
Tasks of the Volunteer(s)
Other tasks :
 the EVS volunteers will go (once or twice per week) to a
Nonformal Center of an association that we usually work with,
in the Ilfov County;
 this friend association of ours has also EVS volunteers in their
Center and they work (nonformal education) with youngsters
from the Ilfov County, which is the rural area that surrounds
Bucharest (just like the suburbs of a big city);
 our EVS volunteers could go in this Nonformal Center and help
them in their work with the local youngsters (in Ilfov County).
Profile of the Volunteer
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-age between 18 and 30 years old;
NOTE : THIS IS THE PROFILE OF THE IDEAL
-open-minded and dynamic person;VOLUNTEER.
WE
DON’T
EXPECT
THE
VOLUNTEER TO FULFILL EVERYTHING ON THIS
-proactive attitude;
-able to work in multicultural team; LIST. IT WILL BE ENOUGH ONLY IF SOME OF
THESE WILL BE CHECKED ! 
-very motivated and willing to learn from the international experience;
-good English skills (but not mandatory!) and eager to improve it;
-willing to try to learn new languages;
-interested to learn Romanian language (the local language);
-coming from families with social and/or geographical obstacles and/or cultural
obstacles and differences;
-strongly motivated to change something in good in their own local community
(when coming back home after this EVS project);
-learning by doing and learning to learn;
-have some international volunteering experience or volunteering experience in any
field of any kind and on any topic;
-able to share to and with others their experience and skills;
-able to work with high school youngsters;
Profile of the Volunteer
 -attitude in engaging in educational activities;
 -would like or thinking to work with children in the future;
 -already with some experience and skills in the social field & in the work with
children but this is going to be only something extra and the experience is NOT
mandatory, what is mandatory is the will to try to learn ! ;
 -good organisational qualities;
 -curious about how to write an Erasmus+ project;
 -studied already or willing to study in the field of journalism/mass-media;
 -having the wish and will to work in a Radio station (already having some Radio
experience would be a huge plus but it’s NOT mandatory!);
 -wanting to train on nonformal education methods;
 -always learning something new, new skills connected with the new media, social
media and mass-media;
 -willing to test its previous aptitudes and competences gained in other projects;
 -passionate about editing videos, audio files and pictures and willing to learn even
more about it;
 -be ready to present its country and culture as many times as needed, in a constant
multicultural and international environment.
ACTIVITY TIMETABLE
The EVS volunteers will work each week, 5 days, 8 hours per day (with
breaks included), from Monday to Friday.
Saturdays and Sundays will be totally free (unless the volunteers would like
to get involve even more in some activities, of course, depends only on
them).
They will have a mix of 3 main activities, weekly.
This mix will daily consist in a combination of activities
between two or one of these :
Working @ the D.G.T. Office
The Nonformal Club at the College
&
The Radio
We will send you the detailed PROPOSED WEEKLY
PROGRAMME with one or two weeks before the start of the Mobility !
Anyhow, we would like to establish the Final Weekly Programme, together
with all the selected EVS volunteers, once they will be here, in Bucharest.
Until then we will keep in touch on email and Facebook.
Practicalities - very important !
Our association is offering to the EVS volunteers as an Extra (among other things) :
 Project Writing Trainings and Project Management Trainings ;
 The possibility to use the Office of the association for any kind of initiative that the
volunteers will might have ;
Sending organisations will make the Pre-selection of the potential EVS
volunteers of this project !
The final selection of the EVS volunteers will be made by the Host &
Coordinating Organisation (D.G.T. Association), following a Skype
interview.
Practicalities – Transport (international)
The selected EVS volunteers should purchase 2 ways tickets (round trip)
from their country of origin to Bucharest, Romania.
The maximum amounts of money for travel, per EVS
volunteer, per country, are as following :
COUNTRY
Spain
Italy
Poland
Amount per
EVS volunteer
(in
euros)
No. of
EVS volunteers
820
2
1640
275
2
550
275
2
550
Total amount
(in euros)
Please use the cheapest ways of transportation possible - Second class ! If you come by
train, bus or plane please use the second class, this is very important !
Tickets
You can travel 3 days before the project
starts (3rd of July 2016) and 3 days after
the project ends (4th of May 2017) but
not more than these days !
Please
DO NOT lose your boarding
passes, train tickets and/or bus tickets !
We will not be able to reimburse you anymore, if
you lose them !
Mandatory, bring with you PRINTED (or SEND BY
EMAIL what you can):
-Booking confirmation / E-ticket
-Proof of payment/ Invoice
-Extras bank account if you paid with your card
-Boarding Pass(es) if you travel by plane
Reimbursement
We will NOT reimburse:
the expenses of renewal of passport
the charges of change of flight ticket
the travelling expenses outside of itinerary from
your country to Bucharest
the travelling expenses outside of project time
the price difference between the granted amount
and the real price of your trip
taxi or private car transport costs !
Reimbursement
You need to send us by email (or bring with you) all original
receipts, invoices, e-tickets and boarding passes!
We strongly encourage you to buy flights that have the
possibility to do online check-in and in this way you will be
able to give us the return boarding passes as well, without
sending them to us by post when you return home!
Of course, if for your airline is not possible, you still need to send
us the boarding passes by post after your arrival here,in Bucharest.
Please do not
loose your
boarding
passes, train
and/or bus
tickets !
It is very important to have all your travel and financial documents
with you for each person, otherwise the reimbursement is not
possible!
Reimbursement will be done by bank transfer ONLY in the
account of your sending organisation, according to the rules
of Erasmus+ !
!!!
IF you have any problems regarding these rules, please let us know
and maybe we will find a way and make an exception for you, but you have to
announce us in time.
!!!
Example of classic Boarding Pass
Documents
ID and/or Passport!
Do NOT forget your necessary
documents to enter in Romania.
Try to have with you
everything that’s relevant.
We will might need, for entering some places, documents that shows
that you're a student (in order to have a discount). Please bring a
document for this (student card, student ID or something similar) !
Practicalities - Local transport
The local transport in Bucharest during the EVS stage and also transport for all
project activities will be fully covered by our association.
Each EVS volunteer will receive, for the 10 months of the EVS stage the following
transport benefits:
 Monthly subscription to RATB, which is the Bucharest local transport company
(buses, trams and trolleys), with unlimited number of travels. More about RATB
you can check here :
http://www.ratb.ro/eng/index.php ;
 Monthly subscription to the Bucharest Metro system
(unlimited number of travels) called Metrorex. More about it:
http://www.metrorex.ro/
 Additionally, the transport outside Bucharest for the project activities will be
supported also by our association.
Practicalities - Accommodation
 The accommodation of the volunteers will be made in a 4 rooms flat in
Bucharest ;
 The flat is really close to the D.G.T. Office and to a Metro Station ;
 The volunteers will be hosted in rooms for 2 persons, with access to all
facilities (kitchen, bathroom) ;
 The volunteers will have a living room for leisure, meetings and free time ;
 The flat has Wi-Fi Internet ;
 Accommodation costs are fully covered by our organisation.
Practicalities - Food
 Each volunteer will receive 130 euro per month for food allocation ;
 The EVS volunteers will be able to use the fully equipped kitchen of
the flat, for cooking ;
 We strongly encourage the volunteers to do the food shopping and
the cooking, all together.
Practicalities - Logistics & Other
 Each volunteer will be provided with pocket money in the amount
of 60 euro/month ;
 For communication, we will provide one phone
number for each volunteer, with a monthly credit
limit of 5 euro ;
 Each volunteer will have one Mentor who will work closely with the person
and support the volunteer during the EVS stage. There will be also Group
Mentoring sessions provided ;
 3 hours per week of Romanian Language Lessons will be also provided
to all the EVS volunteers ;
 We strongly recommend to each sending organization to organize a prearrival meeting with the volunteers before departure from their country
and present the specific details of an EVS stage and of this project ;
 All the other information regarding logistics, safety measures, specific
activities during the EVS stage will be done at the arrival meeting of
volunteers in Bucharest .
Practicalities - Health Insurance
Our organisation will register
each EVS volunteer in the MSH
International Insurance System,
according to the general EVS
policy, so, in this way, each EVS
volunteer will be provided with
Health Insurance for the entire
stage.
Practicalities - Money Exchange
1 euro= 4,50 RON (Romanian LEI / money) on 6th of MAY 2016
http://www.cursbnr.ro/
You could bring euro with you and you can exchange them in RON currency in the
airport but we do NOT recommend you to change them in the airport ! Change just
for the bus tickets.
There are exchange offices and banks in town that are functioning until 17.00 o’clock
in the afternoon.
In Bucharest are many exchange offices (opened until 20.00 o’clock).
Youthpass
 Please don’t forget to tell us before coming here
if you want to receive a YOUTHPASS Certificate
 More about the Youthpass Certificate you can
find at: http://www.youthpass.eu/en/youthpass/
About ROMANIA
Time Zone:
GMT +2
Area: 91,725 sq. miles (237,502 sq. km)
Population: 19,350,000 (2012)
Official Language: Romanian (one of the 5 latin languages)
Capital: Bucharest (București)
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the
Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a border
with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and Moldova to the
northeast and east, and Bulgaria to the south.
Romania joined NATO on 29 March 2004, and the European Union on
1 January 2007.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania
 http://www.romaniatourism.com/
About Bucharest
 http://romaniatourism.com/bucharest.html
 https://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Romania/Municipiul_Buc
uresti/Bucharest-520545/TravelGuide-Bucharest.html
 https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g294458-ActivitiesBucharest.html
 http://wikitravel.org/en/Bucharest
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucharest
Driving
We drive on the RIGHT side of the
road like, for example, in Italy,
Germany, Spain, Poland, etc …
Socket (Plug In)
We use sockets (plug ins) like in Germany,
France, Bulgaria and other continental European
countries (besides Italy!).
To find out more about Romania visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania
http://www.romaniatourism.com/
In Romania we use the European emergency number for calling Police,
Ambulance and the Fire Department:
WEATHER CONDITIONS IN ROMANIA
Click on this link and check the weather again before packing:
http://www.accuweather.com/en/ro/bucharest/287430/weatherforecast/287430
Keep in mind that in Bucharest, the temperatures can vary from 35+
degrees, in the Summer and -20 degrees Celsius, in the Winter !
Facebook group
We will create a Facebook group
with all the EVS volunteers and all
the organisation team.
With the help of this Facebook
group we will be able to
communicate faster and better
with you, before coming in
Romania in our project and also
during the project.
We will let you know when the
time is right about the name and
address of this Facebook group
;-)
What to bring ?
 Take this INFO-PACK with you and read it all the way through at least once
 Bring an open-minded attitude, positive energy, good mood for you and a bit
more to share with others 
 Take your Passport and/or ID !
 Student Card if you have one or anything else that looks like a Student Card
 Bring your photo and video cameras (with chargers) – you will need them … 
 Also bring your laptop(s) and tablet(s) but please be careful with them!
 Health documents and or/medicines (if needed)
 Check your plane tickets, see if there is the date, destination and your name
clearly and correctly written
 Take all your travel documents: bills, tickets, invoices, boarding passes (for
those who travel by plane)
 Take your towels and personal hygienically products
 Take various clothes with you and bring some sneakers in order to feel
comfortable during nonformal activities and slippers (house shoe for indoor and
for shower)
E-mail:
Contact us!
Please, if you want to get a quick answer to
your questions, after you contacted your
sending organisation from your country,
send us an email to these email addresses :
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
… and also on Facebook :
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/andrei.dais
If you have any questions, please, first
contact the partner organisation from your
country and then contact us!
We are looking forward to meeting you in ROMANIA soon,
The D.G.T. team