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Seven months of volunteering in Romania

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New month of my EVS and I still can’t believe the time passed so fast. They say that when you do things that you like, you don’t understand how fast the time passes. This happen to me. When they ask me how much time I am here in Romania, I still can’t realize I am here for seven months and I only have five month left.  So enough with the things that make me sad and let’s see the happy things which are the things I learned this month. The first two weeks with Valentin from France, Sandro from Sardinia and the Norwegian volunteers, we organized together some activities in our youth center and in local schools in Tîrgu Frumos, Cucuteni and Zmeu. We started with treasure hunt game in the city, so they learnt the area. I tried to show them as many as possible of what I like in Tîrgu Frumos. The next days we made four teams and I was the leader in one of these. We developed our programs to use them at the schools we would visit, using non-formal education based on multiple intelligence the

Arts Lab Report: The beginning of an adventure

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Hi, I'm Sandro, I'm twenty-six and I come from Sardinia, an island in Italy. I left for Romania about a month ago to start a volunteering project. Why? Because I have a dream: to be able to give an emotion and help people with my artistic expression, painting. From the very first days the Asirys association welcomed me warmly, introducing me to other volunteers from other parts of the world such as France, Norway, Belgium, Mexico and Romania. Despite my elementary English I didn't have big problems communicating, they were all patient and understanding and thanks to this environment I was impressed to know the diversity of culture and tradition of the different countries. In the following days I collaborated with them in some nearby schools with children of all ages. It was a very strong experience. I helped blind children to express themselves with artistic games, I played with other kids to give them the opportunity to open their minds, to be curious to know the world wit

Arts Lab Report: First impressions about Romania

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Sandro and I arrived in Romania at the beginning of April. The first fifteen days were quiet intense because we were meeting Romania's environment, new work space and a lot of people. Among them, the Norwegian team. Through their stay we created workshops around the thematic of multiple intelligence. By small groups we started to run it in different types of schools, some that has high failure rates, particular community appurtenance, some with autistic or blind students. I was not used to this kind of work, with this kind of audience in this new environment, so the learning process was highly stimulating and efficient, despite the fatigue. The common life and structure of the place we stayed was an interesting human experience, as Alin, our host, and Nikolia, made us feel comfortable and introduced us to the Romanian life. Meanwhile Mihaela try her best to support our arrival and planning our activities. So, the Norwegians and us get the most we can from this experience. After tho

Sixth month as Volunteer in Romania

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March, the month that the spring officially starts and one of the most beautiful months of the year. For me, March meant something more. It is the middle month of my EVS, here in Romania. At the beginning of the month, I was the only European volunteer in Tîrgu Frumos, Iaşi, but on the last day of the month, we were twelve volunteers! Starting the month activities, with Florin, a volunteer of our organization, we continue the multiple intelligence workshops, at Petru Rareş Technological school. The workshops went very good. We had everyday participation from the students and they really enjoyed it, especially the music intelligence workshop. Also with Jamal and Martha, who came from Norway, we discussed and organized the last details about the upcoming short-term EVS project we would have at the end of the month. We visited all together Iaşi and Paşcani, a very beautiful nearby town and we connected more to each other. Something important about Erasmus+ projects is the connectio

Fifth month as Volunteer in Romania

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February, my fifth month as a volunteer in Romania, it was so full of nice people and learning achievements. Everything I learned I will keep it to use for my future plans! If January was the month of organizing things, February was the month when everything we planned got in "flesh and bone".  The first activity was a chemistry workshop by Alina-Mirela Ipate, in our youth center. Many children came, we played, we did the experiments that Alina showed us and I learned a lot of new words with the help of my new little friends.  Then with Mihaela, we visited Petru Rareş Technological High-School and the High-School for youth with a sight-impairment "Moldova" to establish new activities for the students. At Petru Rareş school we did “The Polite project”. It was a very useful project for the students, the teachers and us. The aim of the project was for the students to realize the importance of behaving politely in the school and in general, in society.  In the aft

Fourth month as Volunteer in Romania

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The new year arrived and I am reflecting about everything I did in the previous year, on all the learning achievements and I am defining all the things I want to do this year. I try to organise my mind and my time, so I will learn as much as possible and I rely as always, on the help of my mentor Dragoş, Mihaela, the coordinator of my EVS project, and of course, on the help of Alin, my Romanian teacher, who I say sorry cause I still can't pronounce correct ă and â. January was the month of organising and planning the projects of the year, so before doing that I did a fast journey to Cluj Napoca. I visited the city center, museums, and Salina Turda, a place that was used to export salt. I sailed with a small boat inside that place and it was so captivating to be inside the earth in the dark with my boat and just to row! After charging my batteries I returned to my base, in Tîrgu Frumos and we started to organise the projects that we will do at the youth center with the other v

Erasmus + 2019: Te trimitem în Europa / Lume!

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În ultimii 11 ani, am trimis aprox. 750 de tineri în peste 260 de proiecte internaţionale. Acest articol conţine lista de oportunităţi de mobilitate, pe care o oferim în 2019, voluntarilor, colaboratorilor şi partenerilor noştri. Lista e împărţită în două categorii. Proiecte Erasmus Plus - KA1 :  Training "EU Briefing training", Zlotoryja, Polonia - 23-26 aprilie 2019 - Luiza Maria Pantiru, Dragoş Ionuţ Spatariu   Training "Gender out of the Box", Durres, Albania - 2-10 mai 2019, 3 participanţi Training "HERO: human rights education opportunity", Karlovac, Croaţia - 3-10 august 2019 Training "Employability Boost Laboratory", Trikala, Grecia, ultima săptămână din august 2019 Schimb de tineri "The World of Roma", Rakican Castle, Slovenia, septembrie 2019, 6 participanţi Training "Imagine your Dance"  Navarra, Spania, 14-20 octombrie 2019 Proiecte Erasmus Plus - KA2 :  Gender Out Of The Box - 15 November 2018 –

Inteligenţele multiple sau de ce m-aş întoarce la şcoală?

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De ce m-aş întoarce la şcoală? Asta e întrebarea pe care mi-am pus-o şi eu cu câteva zile în urmă când Nikolia, un voluntar din Grecia, venit în Târgu Frumos printr-un proiect EVS, m-a rugat să o ajut cu un program în cadrul liceului Petru Rareş, numit "Programul de dezvoltare a inteligenţelor multiple", care a presupus ca timp de două ore pe zi, să interacţionăm cu 15-20 de elevi şi să le explicăm prin metode non-formale, conceptul inteligenţelor multiple. La început am vrut să refuz, gândindu-mă ca şi voi, că am aşteptat doisprezece ani să termin liceul iar acum nu ar trebui să mă întorc acolo de bună voie. Până la urmă am acceptat fiindcă am mai lucrat şi în alte ocazii cu Nikolia şi am făcut-o bine, dar şi fiindcă nu am vrut să o las să se lupte singură cu traducerea engleză-română. Prima zi a început cu o uimire plăcută din partea elevilor şi profesorilor, majoritatea neştiind de ce sunt doi străini în şcoală, dar şi din partea noastră văzând un număr mare de elevi l

APV: Youth Work Students in Action (YWSiA)

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  Between 27 February - 2 March 2019, we had the pleasure to host for the Advance Planning Meeting (APV), two representatives: Marthe and Jamal, from the group of Norwegian volunteers that will come for two weeks volunteering service, in April, in our organisation.  The project is called Youth Work Students in Action (YWSiA) and aims to develop through relevant practice, the youth-working skills of 7 high-school students from Bergen, Norway. Our organisation will provide the opportunity to the students and leaders, to work in 5 contexts, involving 5 of our local partners: - Technological High-School "Petru Rareş" Tîrgu Frumos - Special High-School "Trinitas" Tîrgu Frumos - Special High-School "Moldova" Tîrgu Frumos  - General School "Petru Poni" Cucuteni - Day Center for Rroma Children Zmeu.  The conclusions of the APV are written bellow by Marthe and Jamal: " We are two young students from Norway, that have had the privil

Kick-off Meeting in Uganda

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  Our colleague, Andreea Negoi is these days in Uganda, attending the first event of the KA2 project "Empowering Ugandan youth with EVS". We will share in this post, her experience and pictures from the hosting organisation. Today was the first day of the transnational kick-off-meeting in Uganda to begin work on the project called "Empowering Ugandan youth with EVS". This project is part of Erasmus KA 2 -  Capacity building in the field of youth. Together with partners from Turkey (Uçarlı Gençlik Derneğiand) and Spain (Asociación, Cultural Social Educativa Segundas Oportunidades), we are having the first visit to our partner association, Kawempe Youth Development Association, an organisation that works with the street children, orphans and young people, providing them a home and education. The project is based on volunteering activities, therefore our partner will host volunteers from Romania, Spain, and Turkey, for 3 months. The tasks of the volunteers will be