Through this project we are aiming (short-long term) to promoting volunteering and its benefits as well as Non Formal Education as a tool for societal development, cohesion and solidarity organising a large scale event/ festival: “Experiential Learning Forum”. The Festival is aimed at inviting all ESC volunteers and organisations, schools, universities, representatives of educational institutions, public bodies, companies, and every member of the public who is interested in discovering more of the benefits that are encompassed in the ESC program, and other related programes like Erasmus+.
We want to create a space where education public, private, institutionalized, free, formal, informal and non-formal can be positively affected, innovated, debated, and mostly experienced. Organising such an event through solidarity intervention of volunteers from various countries and backgrounds, including those with fewer opportunities plays a big role into bringing also various inputs, perspectives on education, youth, adulthood, growth, cultural heritage, employability, environmental sustainability, and underlining inclusion through the factual presence of so many individuals, backgrounds, ages, cultures in the same place, with the same purpose.
OBJECTIVES:
O1 is to invite a team of volunteers to organise various small and one large scale event (festival) that attracts the interest of youth, educators, youth organisations, public & private institutions in education, companies/employers,
O2 observe, learn and do as tools for promoting solidarity as value for communities to grow, unite (cohesion & inclusion), act democratically, lower the carbon footprint, with the ultimate goal to increase the quality of life. Within these short-term objectives we plan to host two teams of volunteers of 20 people, each for two consecutive periods of two months.
O3 In the first place (first team), in order to promote the ESC and NFE we will be organising local events in disadvantaged urban areas and rural areas with the goal to promoting the aims and objectives mentioned above as well as the festival.
O4 In the second phase (second team) we will be working on and with NFE & ETS methods development, planning, organising, and setting up all the details related to organising the large scale event in September (Experiential Learning Forum).
O5 volunteers are preparing the promotional materials after the festival, and dissemination to increase the visibility and share the outcomes on larger scale. In the long run we are aiming at creating a recurring event to organise the Experiential Learning Festival yearly and dedicate this event to youth, education, culture, environment, solidarity, cohesion, societal growth and participation. We are aiming at creating a space where education public, private, institutionalised, free, formal, informal and non-formal can be positively affected, innovated, debated, and mostly experienced. Organising such an event through solidarity intervention of volunteers from various countries and backgrounds, including those with fewer opportunities plays a big role into bringing also various inputs, perspectives on education, youth, adulthood, growth, cultural heritage, employability, environmental sustainability, and underlining inclusion through the factual presence of so many individuals, backgrounds, ages, cultures in the same place, with the same purpose.
DATES:
15 June – 12 August Volunteering TEAM 1 x 20 EU volunteers
15 August – 8 October Volunteering TEAM 2 x 20 EU volunteers
CONTACT:
friends.of.children.romania@gmail.com http://friendsofchildreninromania.org