I N C A S E Y O U W A N T A N A M A Z I N G E X P E R I E N C E I N B E L G I U M , A P P L Y F O R E V S A T The Outsider Club

A L L Y O U N E E D T O K N O W . . . A B O U T T H E P R O J E C T A B O U T T H E C I T Y O F O U D E N A A R D E A B O U T T H E P R O F I L E W E ' R E S E A R C H I N G F O R A B O U T T H E P R A C T I C A L S T U F F A N D M O R E ABOUT THE OUTSIDER CLUB AND THE PROJECT

The Outsider Club is active in international youth-work and in camps organization. It works together with The Outsider on the activities and camps. The main office is located in at the beautiful lake 'De Donk'.

In addition we organise a number of leisure, outdoor and cultural activities such as canoeing, laser battle, visits to archaeological sites and viewing museum, survival workshops and an opportunity to work in our Adventure park/Cable park. Sometimes we might build something completely new, plant flowers, trees or repair something broken. You're also responsible, with the rest of the team, to make the whole area attractive and beautiful. If you have new ideas, you can always bring them in.

All the activities are focused on increasing, sustainable environmental education and helping the development of life leading skills.

Our organization gives the possibility to discover and develop your hidden resources through real adventures and challenges.

"I love working with kids and teenagers"

WORKDAYS & FREE DAYS

Working days can be planned in weekends, holidays and regular days. The working hours always depend from who's coming to visit The Outsider. Normally, you start at 8 and finish at 17, with a lunch break between 12:30 and 13:30. If the circumstances allow it, we try to eat all together with the whole Outsiderteam. As an EVS-volunteer you work 5 days a week, at least one of those days will be during the weekend. Exception during school holidays only during the week.

Every month you can spend 2 extra free days beside weekends. For a stay of a year you can use a maximum of 24 free days.

2 OUDENAARDE: YOUR NEW HOME

During your project you will live in Oudenaarde, a city in the Flemish , in East-. The city and its surroundings (with 12 townships) have a population of 28.000 inhabitants. Located on the banks of a river, the Schelde, Oudenaarde is world-wide famous for cloth and tapestry industry. Oudenaarde also has four breweries. We're masters in brewing. So you should definitely try all of them.

Your "international house" and your workspace are located near the lake De Donk and are 800m separated from each other, both close to the township of Bevere, really close to the city center. The house has three floors and consists of four bedrooms, a kitchen/living room, an extra living room, a bathroom with a shower and a separated toilet. The house has even a big garden with plenty of space. Every volunteer has his own bedroom and shares the common spaces with the others. You also take care of the maintenance of the house. The house needs to be clean for you, for the other volunteers and for the new volunteers after you leave.

The city center contains some touristic sights: the main square (Markt) with the gothic city hall (Stadhuis), the Saint-Walburga church, the main museum (MOU) and the museum of the . You also find all the main services as bars, restaurants, chemists and banks.

During your stay in Oudenaarde, you will have to be registered as an inhabitant of the municipality. "Oudenaarde is a cosy city in the middle of the beautiful environment 'Flemish Ardennes'"

3 "The Outsider is a family of enthusiastic adventure lovers"

PROFILE

Age: 18 - 30 Nationality: European Skills: Microsoft Office Communicative Fluent in English Tend to work in teams Creative Open minded Willing to learn new languages Interested in other cultures and habits You must like working with young people and doing outdoor acitivities Able to deliver work properly and on time Having a drivers licence is a plus. RESPONSIBILITIES Supporting local volunteers. Guiding youth camps, youth groups and activities. Be Outsider-minded: adventurous, friendly and energetic! Contribute to the environment of The Outsider . Managing our association's social media accounts/supporting local volunteers in charge of this issue. To take photos the events and activities of the Association. To participate in Dutch language trainings prepared for them. To writing blogs for in the website of volunteering activities.

4 BUDGET DISTRIBUTION

As an EVS-voluteer you will get an account and a card at KBC Bank. On that account you receive a total amount of €500 per month: €110 as pocket money and €390 as "living cost" for your stay. At the beginning of each month, you will receive the payment via your bank account at KBC. The rent for the house is directly payed by The Outsider. You also get one free meal every week in our tavern at The Donk.

You receive max. €275 for your arrival and departure costs.

LOCAL TRANSPORT

During the months as EVS-volunteer in Oudenaarde, you will go around in the city mainly by bike, a very common means of transport in . To reach other cities and travel around, you can take trains and buses from the trainstation, not far from the EVS-house.

You receive a bike from The Outsider and a lock as well. We give you also a Go Pass or Rail Pass with 10 yourneys for using the train. The public transport isn't very expensive.

INSURANCE

Every EVS-volunteer has a health insurance with Cigna, as a part of the Erasmus+ program. Your sending organisation will provide this for you. We need the registration number before the start of the project.

As a part of The Outsiderteam, you're also insured for accidents that may happen during your working hours.

LANGUAGE COURSE AND MENTOR

The Outsider is locaded in the Flemish part of Belgium, where people speak Dutch as first langurage. Most of the times, when you have to communicate and deal with colleagues and other people from this area, you can speak English but a basic level of Dutch can be very useful, especially if you work with groups of kids.

As an EVS-volunteer you will have the opportunity to learn Dutch on the platform Erasmus+ Online Linguistic Support (OLS). However, learning Dutch only through the online course can be quite difficult. That's why The Outsider organizes two informal language evenings per week, with two local volunteers that will come to your house to help you learn Dutch.

5 Furthermore as an EVS-volunteer you will have a mentor, a person who doesn't belong to the hosting organization and with whom you can talk about any possible personal issues. For this task The Outsider will name a person for you, depending on how you will get along with your mentor. In any case if your mentor can't help you, you can always ask someone else for a particular problem.

EVS TRAINING

All the EVS volunteers receive an arrival training and a midterm training organized by the Belgian National Agency (JINT). In these training you will meet a lot of EVS from Belgium and The Nederlands. You will take part in the midterm training only if you stay more than 6 months. These occasions will help you meeting new friends. YOUTHPASS/CERTIFICATE

At the end of your EVS, you will receive a Youthpass. This is a document attesting all the skills and achievements acquired during your project. It consists on a personal assessment, checked and signed by your EVS-coordinator in the last weeks of your project. In order to enrich it with as many features as possible you will have to work on it at least once a month by writing your achievements in a text document, following the Youthpass structure for areas of competences. At the end of your stay you will transfer those contents on the official website in order to create your Youthpass.

6 APPLY TODAY!

"During my EVS, I've travelled a lot in Belgium. I've met a lot of nice people and other volunteers coming from many different countries in Europe with different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles"

Send your CV and motivation letter (In English) to: [email protected] Be creative to show who you are! Rather today than tomorrow!

Take a look inside: https://www.facebook.com/EVS-adventures-aan-de-Donk-2082686935286588/ https://www.facebook.com/club.theoutsider/

Meet our EVS-volunteer Zeypnep from Turkey https://www.facebook.com/club.theoutsider/videos/10155237239175194/

Meet other volunteers: https://theoutsiderclub.be/evs/

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