Involve! Include! Improve!
26th April brought together Tartu's young people interested in the activities and projects offered by Seiklejate Vennaskond. We met in the evening in one of the university buildings, to share some stories and give overview of Seiklejate Vennaskond's activities. This event was part of Tartu student days.
On 6th, 9th and 10th April Seiklejate Vennaskond organized analyze meetings for our ex-EVS volunteers. Meeting on 6th was in Tartu, on 9th and 10th in Tallinn. Volunteers shared their great experiences, but also some horror stories and crazy happenings. Together we discussed, how EVS changed their lives, and how they have used this experience for the future life. Useful tips were exchanged about host organizations and now we definitely know better, what should we keep in mind on the matter of specific projects.
On 6th April, EVS information event took place in Tartu. First of all, Orvi shared her 10 months experience in Romania, with some great stories and unexpected events. After that Rauno shared his experience from Sheffield, in United Kingdom (6 months project). It was great to hear, that even though host organization was hosting EVS volunteers for the first time, they did a great job! After that, Heleri from Seiklejate Vennaskond gave a little overview how could future volunteers apply themselves. All stories must have been inspiring, as after the information event several participants decided to apply for EVS themselves, and one of them, got right away accepted to the same UK project, where Rauno participated before! :)
In the evening of 22nd March, international opportunities evening took place in Tartu Art House, organized by Lille Maja youth center. Seiklejate Vennaskond was represented by Kaidi, Karolina, Eliisa, Kristin, Käti, Kaur, Greete, Orvi and Heleri. Everyone shared their project stories and experiences from international projects.
There was totally 3 rooms - one for short lectures, other for experience sharing and a general fair area. Heleri made a short presentation about international opportunities in lecture area and Kaidi talked about her EVS experience in Portugal. Others shared their experience about projects in Romania, Turkey, Estonia, Poland, Italy and other places in fair area, in small conversations with youngsters. We enjoyed it, hopefully the participants of the event liked it, too! :) In February and March "Back to School" campaign took place in Estonia. That meant, that people of different professions shared their stories with youngsters. The idea was, that young people would have about either future plans either easier or more difficult choices take make after the lecture (depending on your point of view). Anyway, the idea was to share inspiration and fulfill the 45 minutes of time with emotions and sparkle up new ideas. Seiklejate Vennaskond, represented by Heleri and Kaidi, visited Tartu Hansa Gymnasium, and shared their stories with 3 different classes of 8th graders. Heleri shared her experience in discovering the world through adventure and Kaidi shared her one year EVS experience from Portugal. On 11th of January we organized project writing training day in Tartu. During the event we talked about Seiklejate Vennaskond, Erasmus + opportunities and developed several project ideas with different youth groups who joined the event. We discussed the needs for their project ideas, set together SMART objectives and tried to match them with Erasmus + priorities. Feedback was shared to the ideas between different participating groups. We also took a closer look to frequently asked questions (by participants) and in the end introduced opportunities for the volunteers who would like to join in in making international partnerships. Event was very popular, as almost 50 people wanted to join, but due to our capacity, we could register only 35 participants. So for sure, we will repeat the event! :)
Training was facilitated by Heleri and Kristi, and supported by our lovely volunteers/mentors Birgit, Greete, Elen and Mariliis. Training information is available here. |
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