by Eleni Kavazidou, Thessaloniki, Greece
EERco Representative, MACs AUTUMN Pr. Supervisor, EVS e+ | Thessaloniki, GR
Maximize Arts and Creativity Project concerns a Youth Mobility in the frames of European Voluntary Service funded by Erasmus+ program of European Union. The sending organization was SFERA Movement Association, located in Nojgorov, Russian Federation; the hosting and coordinating organization was EERco, located in Alexandreia Imathias. Since 2019 EERco has already moved its central office in Thessaloniki; Alexandreia's office serves as an EERco branch.
The activities have been held in Alexandreia Imathias except from the activities of the 1st week (DHIA festival activities, for more information about the events, please visit the site http://esai.gr/dhias.html. The volunteers participated in the events that have been held in
a) 24.09 > Thessaloniki,
b) 25.09 > Athens,
c) 26.09 > Litochoro and
d) 28-30.09 > Preveza.
Between 2nd and 8th week Volunteers focused on
a) creative activities,
b) training courses,
c) job shadowing experiences and
d) a project that has been proposed by each of them.
The first 2 weeks were basically a period of adaptation and the 5th to 8th week were the main weeks of high productivity and program regularity.
During the last week (W9) have been organized a Goodbye Party, EERco Events for talented youth in Performing Arts, supported by our volunteers and Dissemination Activities of the Volunteers' Project.
Each week have been scheduled self-reflection activities for the volutneers. After the youth mobility the volunteers have been asked to participate in the Youthpass certificate proccess as it is reccomended. They have also been asked to participate in EERco evaluation proccess for the current project and except of working as authors of the current magazine, to create youth forums related to topics of their interest.
The final dissemination event, after the Youth Mobility, has been organized for the 19th of January 2019 and we hope that our Volunteers will honor us with their presence via recorded videos of a short salute and wishes for the new year!