KA 1 - EVS

‘ iVolunteering+ ’

INFO - PACK

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 Foundation Network:

http://www.annalindhfoundation.org/networks/romania ;

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/DGT-

122074001202951/?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 with the grant received through the

Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

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 !

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.

Working @ the Office :

Tasks of the Volunteer(s)

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.

Experiencing the Radio :

Tasks of the Volunteer(s)

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.

The Nonformal Club :

Tasks of the Volunteer(s)

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;

Project Writing :

Tasks of the Volunteer(s)

The EVS volunteers will have the chance to be part of our

management team that will organise and implement

various local and international projects

like Youth Exchanges,

Training Courses, Seminars, PBA’s

and so on ;

Project Management :

Tasks of the Volunteer(s)

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).

Other tasks :

Profile of the Volunteer -age between 18 and 30 years old;

-open-minded and dynamic person;

-proactive attitude;

-able to work in multicultural team;

-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;

NOTE : THIS IS THE PROFILE OF THE IDEAL

VOLUNTEER. WE DON’T EXPECT THE

VOLUNTEER TO FULFILL EVERYTHING ON THIS

LIST. IT WILL BE ENOUGH ONLY IF SOME OF

THESE WILL BE CHECKED !

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.

The maximum amounts of money for travel, per EVS

volunteer, per country, are as following :

COUNTRY

Amount perEVS volunteer

(ineuros)

No. ofEVS volunteers

Total amount

(in euros)

Spain 820 2 1640

Italy 275 2 550

Poland 275 2 550

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 !

Practicalities – Transport (international)

The selected EVS volunteers should purchase 2 ways tickets (round trip)

from their country of origin to Bucharest, Romania.

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.

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. !!!

Please do not

loose your

boarding

passes, train

and/or bus

tickets !

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 pre-

arrival 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 South-eastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside theCarpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a borderwith Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and Moldova to thenortheast and east, and Bulgaria to the south.

Romania joined NATO on 29 March 2004, and the European Union on1 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-Activities-

Bucharest.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/Romaniahttp://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/weather-

forecast/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)

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E-mail:

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 :

ivolunteeringplus@gmail.com

d.g.t.andrei@gmail.com

andrei@asociatiadgt.ro

… 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