Six months of continuous growth and discovery of myself. An experience that I would repeat other thousand times”. These are Francesca’s words, an Italian girl from Palermo, who carried out an European Voluntary Service (EVS) in Portugal at the hosting organisation ProAtlântico – Associação Juvenil. She partecipated to the project Many Opportunities Real Equality (MORE).
MORE has been a 24-month project co-funded by the Erasmus + programme (KA1 – Youth mobility), coordinated by CESIE. From February 2015 to January 2017, 20 young people living in Italy had the opportunity to carry out an European Voluntary Service in some European countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia, Turkey.
The project had two different type of service: short term (2 months) and long term (6 months).
MORE allowed these youngsters:
- increase personal, social and professional skills through the activities in the receiving organisations
- improve intercultural, social and civic competences through the contact with people from other cultures and backgrounds
- foster solidarity and tolerance and active citizenship through the relationships with other volunteers and local staff
- develop autonomy, independence, self-confidence and European awareness thanks to living in different contexts than their own, with new people, conditions and responsibilities.
The MORE project ended, but that’s not the case for the European Voluntary Service. CESIE always promotes this type of mobility in Europe but also in the other Countries through Capacity Building projects such as Planting Cities and Moving People in Volunteering.
If you want to discover stories about the other type of mobility projects (youth exchange and training course), here you can find a dedicated online space!
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