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Training Course

“Step inside volunteering”

10-16 October 2018 Ruse,

“Step inside volunteering” is an Erasmus+ youth workers mobility project funded by the through Erasmus+ Programme . The project coordinator is Association “Inspiration”-Bulgaria which will implement it in partnership with Municipal Youth Centre Ruse, Bulgaria.

Dates of project activities: 10.10 - 16.10.2018 Ruse, Bulgaria

Partners in the project:

1. ASOCIACION JUVENIL INTERCAMBIA – Malaga, . 2. YOU IN – Nea Moudania, 3. ASSOCIACAO CHECK-IN -COOPERACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO- BEJA, 4. BRIGHT SIDE - Calimera, 5. COMITATO D'INTESA TRA LE ASSOCIAZIONI VOLONTARISTICHE DELLA PROVINCIA DI BELLUNO – BELLUNO ITALY 6. ASOCIATIA CENTRUL DE EXCELENTA IN DEZVOLTARE PERSONALA SOLOMON - Brashov, 7. URBANA MLADEZ – , 8. EduEra – Kosice, 9. Soroptimist Business and Professional Women Club Yalova Association– Turkey 10. Stowarzyszenie Inicjatyw Kulturalno- Spolecznych "PROGRES"- Wroclaw, 11. Municipal Youth Centre Ruse, Bulgaria 12. Association Inspiration – Ruse, Bulgaria

SUMMARY OF PROJECT:

The project "Step inside volunteering" is a training activity for youth workers, coordinators and representatives of European youth organizations. The main objective of the project is to enable participants to gain new knowledge, exchange experience with colleagues, share best practices and motivate them to continue or start working on volunteer projects under "Erasmus+" KA1 and European Solidarity Corps in partnership with partner organizations involved in the training. From 10th to 16th October in Rousse, experienced trainers will familiarize participants with the essence of Erasmus+ volunteering and volunteering in general, with the opportunities and perspectives it opens to a young person, the local community and youth organizations. They will familiarize participants with the new volunteer programs under the Erasmus + Program KA1 and with the newly approved European Solidarity Corps. Participants will learn how to manage volunteering projects and deal with conflicting and unpredictable situations during the project implementation. Most activities during the project will be implemented with interactive methods such as role-plays, theatrical techniques, SWOT analysis and other typical non- formal education. We expect that after the project, the participants will be actively involved in volunteering programs of the European Comission and will implement the joint project ideas they have developed under the program, sending and hosting volunteers from their organizations. Another aspect of the project is to meet the cultures of our countries. With intercultural nights, presentation of our cultures and traditions and spending informal time together, we are strengthening unique European identity.

Some of the topics in the programme are:

- Background and Principles of Volunteering - European Voluntary Service/Erasmus+ volunteering - European Solidarity Corps - Volunteering regulations in the European countries - Recognition of volunteering work - Project management in volunteering projects - Working with project applications - Conflict management - Good practices in volunteering projects - News about the new volunteering programme in the next period

Participants: youth workers, coordinators of volunteers, representatives of NGO or other organizations who would like to develop volunteering. The participants have to be over 18 years old. It will be better if you can send people who don’t have experience in EVS/Erasmus+ volunteering or have a little experience. Of course we will welcome experienced participants too so that they can share their knowledge with the group 

WHAT TO PREPARE BEFORE THE TRAINING

1. We are planning one intercultural night where every country will have 10 minutes for presentations. Please bring some food or drinks from your national cuisine (not much). Don’t bring anything that needs to be cooked. Think how to present your culture and country in a best way? 2. Leaflets, posters, brochures, and other materials presenting your organization if you have. 3. Brochures, movies and other materials presenting volunteering projects of your organization if you have. 4. As a small homework project, please make a research and team discussions with colleagues from your organization and collect information about volunteering in your country (i.e. is it officially recognized, is it popular; do you have a law for volunteering, do you have special national volunteering programmes etc?/ 5. Declaration from the president for the reimbursement (see the section Reimbursement)

IMPORTANT INFO

INSURANCE

The European Health Insurance Card -Every EU citizen has right to European Health Insurance Card – get one before coming to Bulgaria. The European Health Insurance Card (or EHIC) is issued free of charge and allows anyone who is insured by or covered by a statutory social security scheme of the EU, EEA countries and Switzerland to receive medical treatment in another member state for free or at a reduced cost, if that treatment becomes necessary during their visit (for example, due to illness or an accident), or if they have a chronic pre-existing condition which requires care such as kidney dialysis. The term of validity of the card varies according to the issuing country. More info on http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1073.aspx.

We recommend to organize an additional health insurance before your arrival to Bulgaria, but it will be not be subject to reimbursement from the project.

Youthpass At the end of a project you will get Youthpass certificate. More about Youthpass will be presented during the training, but you can also read here www.youthpass.eu

Accommodation and food

The participants will stay in a hotel in Ruse. We will send information about the hotel as soon as possible.

The food will be in restaurants, but we would like to have intercultural impact, so we will try to do our best and offer you to taste traditional Bulgarian meals 

TRAVEL AND REIMBURSEMENT

You have to book and buy your tickets to Bulgaria as soon as possible. We recommend you to discuss in advance with us your flight and time of arrivals /departure before you buy the tickets. The airport is closer to Ruse, so we recommend you to use it if you have appropriate flights We would like to remind you to take and keep an invoice about the tickets. Please, send us your place and time of arrival in order to support you in your travel to Ruse.

Arrival in Bucharest

Please send us your arrival time and we will try to help you with the travel to Ruse. There is a travel company which makes transfers from Bucharest airport to Ruse. Here is the website: http://www.pegasusbg.com/. If the time is not appropriate, please write us, we can give you advice.

For those who arrive in Sofia

From the airport you have to go to the Central bus station. You can use an underground from the

You will arrive in Sofia airport – Terminal 1 or 2. When you arrive on Terminal 1or 2 you should exchange in bank or exchange office around 20 euro (which is around 39 leva) for bus and metro tickets.

To get to the central bus station you have to take a metro. The metro station is on Terminal 2. If you arrive in terminal 1 there is free-of-charge transportation between Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 going every 30 minutes between 07:00 and 19:00 local time, with no intermediate stops on the route. If you arrive after 19.00 you have to take bus line 684 from the bus station in direction – Terminal 2. Get off in Terminal 2 bus station.

You have to find a kiosk or ticket machine where you have to buy tickets. If you not find in Terminal 1 you can buy from the driver of the bus. The bus ticket costs 1.60 BGN and you can use it only once. Try to have coins for the bus.

When you get off you will see the entrance of metro station airport.

If you arrive in Terminal 2 you have to follow the floor markings in blue at the public area of Terminal 2. Go to the metro station and buy a ticket from the kiosk or from the ticket machine

Take the metro Line 1 .  You have to stop on station "". Then go to the other level of the metro in direction Obelya and take line 2. You have to get off on the second stop which is Central Railway Station. The Railway Station is next to Central Bus Station.

This is the building of the Central bus station in Sofia.

You have to take the bus to Ruse. The timetable of the busses is here http://www.centralnaavtogara.bg/index.php#b

The ticket from Sofia to Ruse costs 23.00 BGN. You have to buy it from the kiosk depending of the bus company. You have to look for ticket to Ruse/РУСЕ. The journey from Sofia to Ruse is around 5 hours. There is one or two stops during the trip.

KEEP ALL YOUR TRAVEL DOCUMENTS!

WE NEED IT FOR THE REIMBURSEMENT!!!

For the participants from Yalova, Turkey – there is every day buses from to Ruse.

REIMBURSEMENT

This project is co-funded by the / Erasmus+ programme offers a fixed amount for the trip of the participants based on the distance between the sending organization and the receiving one. If your trip is more expensive than the maximum limit set below, it will be the participant to pay the difference between the maximum amount and the real price of the ticket. The travel expense limits per country are as follows:

Travel budget per Country City Organization person Spain Malaga Intercambia 360 Euro Greece Nea Moudania You in Europe 180 Euro Portugal Baja Check-In 360 Euro Italy Belluno Comitato D’Intesa 275 Euro Turkey Yalova Sorooptimist 180 Euro Romania Brashov Solomon 180 Euro Slovakia Kosice EduEru 275Euro Poland Wroclaw Progres 275Euro Croatia Zagreb Urbana Mladez 275 Euro Italy Calimera Bright Side 275Euro

We will reimburse the travel costs after the project activities by one bank transfer to the sending organization (for all the participants) but only after receiving all the original documents from the participants from the respective organization. If the sending organization prefer to transfer the travel costs to the bank account of one of the participants we need a declaration from the President of the organization that he/she is agree(we will send you a copy of the declaration in the beginning of September)

You have to keep and send us:

1. Your invoices for the plane tickets 2. Plane tickets 3. Boarding cards 4. Bus tickets 5. Train tickets 6. Other documents for your travel showing clearly the price paid and the date of travel

N.P The travel calculations are based on the distance of the Europen Comission https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/resources/distance- calculator_en for traveling of the participants from the of the Sending organization to Ruse. If there is a participant traveling from another place we have to calculate the distance by the distance calculator from the actual place of departure to Ruse and check the band and the amount of the travel costs which can be covered and which can be less that the maximum amount indicated in the aforementioned table.

There is no participation fee for the participants in this project!

Deadlines:

- Till 05.09.2018 you have to buy your plane tickets, but do not forget to discuss with us before buying them. We would like to ask you to send us your possible flights as soon as possible! - Till 10.09.2018 you have to send us your travel details, time of arriving, plane tickets etc. We will ask to fill in and send us a special form, which will be sent to you in the beginning of September. - Till 25.09.2016 – The participants have to fill in and send back a questionnaire for the personal expectations, practical information, food allergies, special needs etc. (the questionnaire will be sent to you in the beginning of September).

If you have any questions or need additional information, don’t hesitate to contact with us:

Project coordinator and contact info Association Inspiration; Teodora Trayanova (FB), tel. +359 894 406 421, [email protected] About Ruse

Rousse is the fifth largest city in Bulgaria and the biggest city in the country on the bank of the River. It is a situated 320 km away from the capital of Bulgaria- Sofia and 203 km from Varna. The city is also called “The small ”, because of its unique ancient architecture. Almost 200 buildings in Rousse are included in the list for historical and architectural inheritance. The Dohodno building was build in 1902 and the liberty monument was officially opened in 1908. The first was built in German classic style and the monument is unique creation of the Florentine architect and sculptor Arlondo Tsoki. The museums in the city are numerous: The Pantheon of the men, the City’s historical museum, Baba Tonka museum, Museum of the city’s style and living standards in the Kaliopa’s house, the National museum of transport and communications and etc. The Leventabiya fortress, the door of Mitiriza, Mahamudova column, the “St. Trinity” Church and the Flotilla fortress are also attractions in the city. Rousse is a big and modern city with live nightlife, many night clubs and restaurants that suite even the most sophisticated taste. You can receive more information in the Tourism Information centre Rousse- http://rusetourism.org/index.php?lang=en