Different cultures on the same wavelength - EVS XV
Location: Nyíregyháza, Hungary
Duration: 1st February, 2017- 31st January, 2018
Participants: 11 volunteers from 5 countries (Italy, Spain, France, Russia, Czech Republic)
Description of the role and tasks of the volunteer(s)
Radio:
The aim of the project „Different cultures on the same wavelength” is that the volunteers
take an active part in the editing and broadcasting of the Mustár FM (89.6) local civilian
radio, working in team with the Hungarian youngsters (brainstorming, collecting
information, editing, technical tasks, etc…) and they have the opportunity to make their own
regular radio programme which presents the culture and language of the country they come
from in their own language. This program’s name is Language Lesson. Besides they have to
record and edit 6 common programmes called ETW (Experience the World-interviews with
interesting people and stories), Point of View (about the EU actions), Free Topic (as the
name suggests they have free topic choice in this programme), World Politics (about the
worldwide political actions) Gossip show (where they speak about the glamour life) and
Cultural Programme (discussing cultural topics, aspects). During their stay they will be
guided by specialists, and of course we will help them in everything to get to know how to
record and edit radio shows. Besides making radio programmes, they will also have a task,
namingly to provide language club lessons to the residents of the town in their own
languages. These are mainly informal conversations to help the people of the town to
practice the language. The volunteers also get involved in the life of Mustárház, participate
in different programmes and also get to know the Hungarian language and culture.
Besides the radio-related tasks, volunteers can take part in the following project activities:
Our organization coordinates a youth professional network, called Juventus Soliditas, from
2012, in which 30 organizations of the 7 countries of the Carpathian Basin are involved, and
we are jointly trying to generate cooperation and to influence the region's youth life. As to
join 30 youth organizations together, to coordinate them and to make communication between
them in 7 countries is not an easy task, we thought about involving foreign volunteers in this
task, in the framework of European Voluntary Service.
The network coordination involves
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ongoing communication between members (email, phone, Facebook page / group,
Skype, email, etc.);
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editing and constantly updating the joint Facebook page and website (so web design
knowledge is needed!);
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sharing news; organizing the annual meetings of the network, working on joint
applications;
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the exchange of ideas; sharing opportunities, etc.
On the joint website, the annual program of the member organizations will be uploaded so
everyone can keep track of the different activities and cooperation can be generated.
Regarding our running international projects, we would count on the help of our volunteers in
the organization and implementation of info days, workshops, events and conferences as well
as in the organization and implementation of the annual meetings of Juventus Soliditas
network.
Besides, we are planning to give the following tasks to the volunteers:
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managing internal communication,
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website maintenance,
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strengthening Facebook communication and cooperation within the network,
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arranging help, organize workshops within the network, etc.
The generation of ongoing cooperation is also among their tasks, as well as the organization
of the trips abroad, meetings related to the Juventus Soliditas network, communication and
participation in these workshops, meetings and events, and the implementation of
organizational tasks. The justification of the project implementation is that we would like to
emphasize the importance of cross-border projects, cooperation and joint actions, and by the
fact that 4 foreign young people as members of the "working group" constantly help in
finding the opportunities, in joint applications and in generating cooperation, these crossborder projects receive more emphasis, and the members can be involved in more
applications. For young people it is advantageous to carry out this kind of tasks because their
social capital develops by it, they establish new relationships, they take part in generating
partnerships and applications; they can check what phases application writing has, and in the
future, in case of a winning project, how organization and implementation take place.
Our EVS volunteers in the Different cultures on the same wavelength XII program
Our volunteers in the „Different cultures on the same wavelength XIII” project
Our volunteers in the „Different cultures on the same wavelength XIV”
and „Youth across borders I” projects