European Voluntary Service

Volunteers will gain experience of an office worker duties and acquire qualifications necessary to perform administrative tasks. Our aim is to make it possible for young volunteers to acquire basic competences that will contribute to their personal and socio-educational development and promote their active participation in social life to improve their employment in the future.

Acquire basic competences that will contribute to personal and socio-educational development and promote active participation in social life to improve employment in the future.

Increase the recognition of non formal education;
Empower young people to effectively transform their skills and preferences into employment;
Encourage youth to take part in different actions and become more independent;
Give young people the possibility to express their opinions and ideas, as well as the opportunity to put their acquired experience into effect.
Learn to communicate and work in groups with people of different origin and opinions.

Typical tasks for the volunteers will include the volunteers assistance while the staff will perform their duties:
- participating in meetings with foreign delegations visiting Slupsk by which the volunteers may perfect their language and communication skills,
- handling documents related to cooperation of the partners of Slupsk and preparing draft letters as part of international cooperation to acquire basic administrative competences,
- exploring possibilities of obtaining extra-budgetary funds for youth policy to get acquainted with possibilities of acquiring funds form the EU,
- acquainting with the office instruction, external circuit and internal documents ,
- participating in tasks undertaken by the Youth City Council on creating better opportunities for young people in the region,
- participating in cooperation with institutions of culture and education in order to encourage young people to get more evolved in cultural life of the city,
- participating in tasks undertaken by the Europe Direct Information Center in Slupsk on promoting European activities.

The project will provide opportunities for engagement and participation of youth. By using such methods as youth engagement, intercultural engagement and promoting equal opportunities for everyone to take part in the action, regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, age, etc. Project will aim at maintaining and developing community involvement. Efforts will be taken to include those with fewer opportunities and under-represented, as well as those target groups which have not yet engaged into or rejected the idea of the European Union.