XCHANGE 2.0 PROJECT: Call for workcamp leaders’ training and practice phase in Serbia

Deadline for applications: 15/03/2019
More than 18.000 workcamp volunteers experience the diversity as richness by an active hands-on interaction with 1500 local communities around the globe conducted by workcamp leaders

Workcamps respond to questions, and we will teach you how to ask them and how to get the answers to: how to manage an international group of volunteers to participate actively following the democratic process, how to support world peace, how to develop and help others develop valuable life skills, how to take concrete initiatives of public interest within local communities.

See more about workcamp leaders’ experiences at our web documentary www.youthleaders.online

This call for international workcamp leaders includes:
 Participating at one of the two trainings in Serbia 12-20 April or 5-13 May 2019, including arrival and departure days) by certified trainers from the Pool of Trainers of the Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations,
 leading a workcamp in Serbia during the summer 2019,
 getting a certificate as a trained workcamp leader under the Alliance standards and being promoted within the network for future workcamp leading and, for those who want to go forward in their non-formal education, for the next Alliance long term training for trainers for workcamp leaders in 2020, which is the entry level for the Alliance Pool of Trainers!

HOW TO APPLY
Please fill in the online application form by the 15th of March. We will confirm selected participants if they match the profile as soon as they apply (not waiting the end of deadline), and in coordination with your sending organisations. Find the online application form HERE and for the call in PDF HERE.
Please find the list of workcamps in Serbia attached HERE so to make your priority list and include it in the application form.
For any clarification, please write to j.ristic@mis.org.rs or on skype at jelena.yrs

Steps in becoming an international workcamp leader:
• make a priority list of workcamps you would like to and be available to lead in Serbia
• apply by the 15th of March through the online link
• participate at the training in Serbia
• get matched with your co-leader and assigned to a workcamp in
• lead the workcamp during the summer 2019
• write a report
• get a certificate
• join the network!

The international exchange of workcamp leaders is made possible through an Erasmus+ project “XCHANGE 2.0” co-funded by European Commission and coordinated by Young Researchers of Serbia, in partnership with member organisations of the Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations: Lunaria and YAP (Italy), INEX (Slovakia), IJGD and IBG (Germany), INEX SDA (Czech Republic), Concordia (France), GSM (Turkey), COCAT and Deamicitia (Spain), Compagnons Batisseurs (Belgium). The external partner to the Alliance is Cr.O.M.A. (Italy) in charge of the upgrade of the web documentary www.youthleaders.online.