Creative leisure and Cultural diversity

Project description
We invite creative participants with art (music, theatre, painting, handicrafts etc.) interests to our project! We look for participants with a great deal of initiative and joyful minds!

The work we do, with/for the youngsters of Sundsvall, needs continuous updating to broaden and increase awareness of similarities and differences in Europe, between youngsters, working staff in our organisation and participants joining our project from all over Europe.

Our project objective above all, is to increase solidarity between different cultures through its basic theme of inclusion of young people in our city and the participants’ different ideas for their own projects.

We prefer participants to do their EVS during 12 months in our organisation, starting either in February or in September. In this way, we intend to host at least 2 volunteers at the same time, overlapping each other. We have noticed that this way makes the facilitation easier for new arriving participants, since they are supported by former participants in the project, when needed and in much of the initial work with the youngsters.

City of Sundsvall is the biggest city in the north area and close to the middle of Sweden. Approximately 100.000 inhabitants live in the city and its surroundings. The city has major industries which develops paper, aluminium and chemicals. Sundsvall is surrounded by a great deal of forests, mountains, rivers, lakes and the Baltic Sea. Many inhabitants spend their leisure time in surrounding forests to hike and cross country skiing, fishing, picking mushrooms and berries. Of course, we sunbathe on the beaches, if the weather is good enough! North of Sundsvall and 200 km further up is the world heritage "The High Coast" situated, with its marvellous coastline.
Typical tasks for the volunteers and how they will be involved, describing also what you can offer to them in terms of learning opportunities.
• Work in youth venues (organize, plan, order, sell, economic tasks, marketing etc.)
• Work with youngsters with intellectual and physical disabilities
• Organize and arrange art events
• Work as a promoter for Erasmus+ program, which include sharing information to young people of Sundsvall about possibilities to be moveable in Europe
• Create posters, flyers, update information about activities for older young people in website
• Support coordinator/staff/young people in current and future Erasmus+ activities in Sundsvall and Europe
Sundsvalls kommun as HO can offer the volunteers learning opportunities as follows:
• Learn to learn and teach
• Learn to participate
• Learn to reflect and listen to other opinions
• Get an insight in how it is to work in a café
• Leadership skills
• Organisation skills and how to arrange (mostly) music events
• Learn to cooperate with colleagues and youth
• Communication skills
• Intercultural communication skills
• Language ability skills in dealing with new environments, terminology and situations
• Related to current topics
• Layout and design skills in poster production and marketing
• Increase (or initiate) skills in presentations, to do and show slide-shows, to hold lectures to young people and politicians
• Swedish culture
Participants which are interested to join us should “possess” these features:
• host a big interest in people in general and particularly in young people
• own a genuine interest in his/her own achieving in learning new things
• be independent enough to organize and implement art projects of any kind
• Favourably, participant has knowledge and experience in some kind of arranging and organizing art events, music skills, is open-minded, ethical conscious and socially equipped. Participants with these qualities will be given a preferential treatment.
Recruitment of volunteer will involve current participants in our project, participants sending organization and staff in host organization. Initially, an application form will be sent to all participants to fill.