European Solidarity Corps – Individual Volunteering Activities

Dates: 1st October 2022 until 26th September 2023

Description of the activities

ProAtlântico works in partnership with the Portuguese Navy, that has

several structures: cultural centers, museums, a planetary, an aquarium. So,
the volunteer will collaborate directly with the target groups of these 1
structures. In the frame of these activities, volunteer can be involved as
following:

VACANCY 13 - SEA SCIENCES

• Aquatic organisms maintenance activities;
• Control of water quality;
• Support for educational activities.

VACANCY 15 - CARPENTRY, JOINERY & ELECTRICIANS

• Support in the various maintenance works
• Support to exhibitions;
• Support in the preparation of visiting circuits.

Volunteers will also do tasks of Divulgation of Erasmus + (in schools,

Universities, youth clubs and youth events):
• Organization of exhibitions, presentations and conversations with
Portuguese young people or future volunteers to motivate young
people to be more active or give visibility to their project;
• Inform young people about the volunteering experience as a EVS/
volunteer in Portugal and provide information about some aspects of
the volunteer's country (ex: culture, language, cultural places, etc.).

In these activities, the volunteer must use the clothes provided to that
activity (t-shirt, cap, etc).

The volunteer will not be involved in all these activities, it will depend of the
motivation of the volunteer and the need of volunteers in each activity
along the project, beside those the activities the volunteer will have the
chance to implement personal project, the time that those will take will
depend of the activities proposed by the volunteer.

Profile of the volunteers

The profile of the volunteer will have general requirements: proactive,

motivated to work in a social environment, with sense of responsibility, like
to work in a team, flexible, with handwork skills, with communication
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ability, mature to work with social and economic disadvantaged
community.

A high motivation to work with the target groups and special interest on
music, dance, theatre, sports, cooking, computers, handicrafts, gardening,
history, photography, arts, can be an added value, since these areas their
fields of interest and will be the way to reach their attention.

It’s expected the volunteers have a positive attitude, patience and good
listening capacity.

We will look for volunteers who are interested in working with a

commitment to volunteering and had chosen our project because of the
experience and development they will gain, not only because it's in
Portugal.

The volunteer has to be between 18 and 30 years, with: good integration

capability; willingness to share experiences and cultural habits.

When recruiting volunteers, the HO organization maintains the overall

accessibility of ESC for all young people, without prejudice related to ethnic
group, religion, sexual orientation or political opinion. If the project targets
volunteers with fewer opportunities, facilities and capacity in providing
tailor-made preparation, support and follow-up are provided.

After, we make a pre-selection of the participants, initially based on

practical issues, selecting only the candidates that send CV and motivation
letter. After reading the documents, we do a preliminary choice,
considering the interest of the volunteers to work with the target group
according to activity they applied, their commitment to volunteering
service and the reason presented to choose the project.
During this process some online interviews are done to understand better
the motivation of the volunteers and to eventually to explain the details of
each project, the environment of the receiving organization, the role of the
volunteer, the logistic conditions provided and clarify some doubts the
volunteers might have.

Afterwards we finish the recruitment and volunteer will obtain a final

decision.
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Monitoring
During the project the volunteer needs to make weekly evaluation to give
to the mentor and make a monthly evaluation report to give to
ProAtlântico.

Dissemination
Each month, the volunteer must write a small article about his/her most
positive moments in the volunteering experience and add some photos to
be used in social media to promote CES.

Timetable

The volunteers will collaborate 35 hours per week during 5 days a week (30
hours of activities + 5 hours for trainings, language support, mentorship
meetings, reports, etc.). Although, the volunteers might work different
hours per day.

The schedule will be defined by the hosting organization on arrival of the

volunteer and it can change according to the activities.

The volunteers will have 2 consecutive free days each week that can vary
from week to week according to the needs of the hosting organization.
However, when the hosting organization has activities on volunteer’s free
days and the volunteers are asked to work, they might have to choose
another free day, since the collaboration of the volunteers is important.

The volunteers have the right to take the Portuguese National official
holidays as free days, when they match with working days. They can’t use
their own national holiday as a free day, unless they use a vacation day.
It is not possible to work more hours in each day to have 3 days free each
week. It is needed to work 5 days each week.

The volunteers have the right to take the Portuguese National official
holidays as free days, when they match with working days.

The volunteers will have 2 days of holidays per month for the duration of
the project, to be taken in agreement between the volunteers and the
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team. The volunteers can join the holidays or take them by month. The
volunteers must discuss with the project supervisor from the hosting
organization the dates of holidays at least one month before.

Project conditions

TRAVEL

The volunteer is entitled to one return travel ticket between the sending
and the receiving country. The sending organization will help the volunteer
to purchase tickets in case of need. If the cost of the ticket is more expensive
than the amount of money approved, the volunteer will be responsible to
cover the difference. An itinerary must be sent to ProAtlântico to get an
approval before the ticket is bought.

The calculation of the travel cost of each country has in consideration the
place of the sending organization. In case the departure place of the
volunteer is different, a justification must be given, and a new calculation
must be done using the distance calculator from European Commission,
available at the official website:
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/tools/distance_en.htm

The amount of the travel costs that can be reimbursed can be different. It
can decrease, but it can’t increase.

TRANSPORTS
A monthly local transport allowance is provided by the receiving
organization (if need to go from the accommodation to the working place)
to cover costs with local transports.
FOOD
ProAtlântico – Associação Juvenil will provide 5€ per day to cover costs of
food and extra expenses (ex: cleaning materials, …) during non-working
time. The volunteer can use the food money to buy own food, cook in the
apartment, eat in a restaurant, etc.).
In the working days the receiving organization provides a suitable meal in
the organization’s facilities, which is based on a Mediterranean diet. It Is
important to refer that this project doesn’t provide Vegan meals.
It is not possible for the volunteer to get money instead of the food
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provided during the working time.

ACCOMMODATION
ProAtlântico will provide accommodation always shared. The bedroom will
be placed in a University Residence, or in a Hostel, or in a family house, at
Casa Europa or in a flat. The place of the accommodation will be decided by
ProAtlântico according to the availability. There might be different solutions
found for each volunteer.

Is not possible to sticks, nails, pins, and make holes on the walls, in case the
volunteer do it he/she will be responsible to pay for the painting of the walls
that might be needed in order to make it look like it was before.

ProAtlântico will provide towels and bed clothes in the beginning of the
project, the volunteer is responsible to keep it and deliver it in good
condition in the end of the project, in case the volunteer have special needs
(mattress, pillow, bed clothes, etc.) that should be mentioned before the
project starts so that ProAtlântico can see if there is a chance to provide
them. If some special need is not mentioned and agreed before the project
ProAtlântico can’t be responsible to provide any special item.

Each volunteer will have one key from the accommodation. The volunteer
can’t borrow the keys to someone that doesn’t live in the accommodation.
In the end of the project the volunteer must give the keys back to
ProAtlântico team.

The accommodation might host local volunteers, Erasmus/Leonardo da

Vinci students, etc. indicated by ProAtlântico and the volunteer will share
his/her bedroom. If needed, ProAtlântico might have to change the
volunteers from their rooms or accommodation place during the project in
order to better rationalization of the accommodations available or to
accommodate new volunteers.
The excessive consumption by negligence and/or carelessness of the
volunteer will be carried out by her/him (ex: Ex.: turn the lights on in the
entire flat, let on the heating while the windows continue open, etc.).
ProAtlântico will have the legal authority to break the project of the
volunteer in case the volunteer has been notified repeatedly to follow the
rules and conditions already cited. ProAtlântico will do regular visits to the
accommodation in order to make repairs, maintenance or check if the
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accommodation is being well used.

The management and the cleaning of the accommodation have to be done

in agreement with the other residents. If the volunteers don’t manage to
keep the house cleaned and organized, ProAtlântico will hire a cleaning
service that will be paid by the volunteers.

Smoking inside of the accommodation is forbidden (even at the windows).

The legal silence time must be followed in order to respect the sleeping
time of neighbors. From Every day the silence must be respected between
11 p.m. and 8 a.m.

All the requests from volunteers must be done by e-mail (ex: house utensils,
touristic information, money issues, etc.

Host guests and Couch Surfing is not allowed in the accommodation

provided by ProAtlântico. ProAtlântico can help you to find a cheap place
for accommodation for your friends or relatives.
Hosting guests in the Accommodation provided by ProAtlântico without
consent can result in the cancelation of the EVS project.

In the accommodations provided by ProAtlântico the volunteer will live

always in multiple bedrooms with fully equipped kitchen, toilet, and laundry
machine. The costs with electricity, water, TV (4 channels) and wireless
Internet (it will be available in the accommodation but not necessarily in
the bedroom) are covered by ProAtlântico.

POCKET MONEY
The volunteer will receive a pocket money for personal expenses of 5,00€
per day.

LINGUISTIC SUPPORT
ProAtlântico guarantees that the volunteer will have online linguistic
support available in the European Comission Platform.
Before the activity starts, the volunteer is asked to make an online test. A 7
new test will be made in the end of the activity to assess the level of learning
of Portuguese language.
Learning Portuguese language will depend much of the volunteers work at
home and in their daily contact with the local community.

HOW TO APPLY?
Send e-mail with CV, motivation letter and application form to
applications.proatlantico@gmail.com with the subject VACANCY XX
(number of the vacancy you are interested in) – Your name.