ACT for Community

Concretely, as a volunteer in our project you are involved in the following:

 Beneficiary/institutions needs analysis – we implement several needs analysis
methods such as surveys, panel and round table discussions with staff and
students of the partner institutions, non-formal games, role play etc.
 Leadership Development programme – workshops using non-formal methods to
transmit information, knowledge and develop skills competencies (Facilitation;
Negotiation; Public speaking; Decision; Dealing with changes; Dealing with crisis;
Working with difficult/challenging people; Communication techniques; Team
work, Motivation etc. ) and attitudes (Motivation to work for better results; Self-
confidence; Being organized; Tolerance; Valuing diversity) related to leadership.
 Implement facilitation and consensus building activities – workshops aimed at
encouraging the youth to aggregate around common issues. These range from
non-formal games that encourage youth to discuss and debate issues, games to
help with problem tree analysis, to games designed to inspire and call to action to
simple meetings that are run with facilitation methods and principles such as
“The Spokes council” or similar methods.
 Designing solidarity initiatives/projects – as a volunteer, you are involved in
planning, organizing and implementing non-formal workshops with the
beneficiaries to:
a. rise the beneficiaries knowledge and skills in project planning/writing;
b. brainstorm/generate/identify solutions for issues identified in earlier stages;
c. design a plan of action(chose activities, define timeframes, identify resources
needed);
 Promotion of Active Citizenship – non-formal workshops, games, events that aim
at the development of pro-EU, pro-democratic and civic skills, competences and
attitudes, Increased awareness and knowledge; about EU institutions and topics
and issues of EU importance; Increased level of European Active citizenship and
civic engagement. These can be debates about EU topics, simulation of EU
parliament, role play, local news agency game, etc.
 Stimulating creativity and cultural awareness programme: capitalizes on cultural
diversity among volunteer and contains activities such as presentations of
volunteers cultures, non-formal workshops on traditional arts & crafts, traditional
dances and music, arts workshops (painting, clay modeling, singing, handicrafts),
theatre, role play, creative play (use familiar materials in a new or unusual ways),
problem solving (application of knowledge and imagination to a given situation).
 Learning languages programme: under the form of language clubs that use non-
formal methods(games, workshops, movies, songs, role-plays, handcrafts, flash
cards etc.) to help the participant learn or strengthen their ability to speak other
languages
 Environmental awareness and skill development workshops – these activities
utilize various non-formal methods, some developed internally in past project,

others collected from partners and online handbook while new ones will be
developed with the volunteers during the planning meetings.
 Promotion of volunteering and the Solidarity Corps – running volunteering
promotion campaigns and activities at local level. These activities include
designing awareness building messages and materials (flyers, posters,
brochures), organizing presentations, distributing materials, online promotion,
organizing a final project conference on the topic of volunteering and social
inclusion. The main target groups for the campaign are young people in terminal
years of high school, university students and unemployed young people.