ABOUT GROUP EVS @ JEFF

The project will enable 15 volunteers from 6 different countries to spend 1 month in Koper, . Participating organisations are Omix Ribadavia (2 volunteers), INVOLVED NGO (3 volunteers), Vereniging Loesje (2 volunteers), CESIE (3 volunteers), ÚTON" Ifjúsági - Kulturális Egyesület (3 volunteers) and Loesje e.V. (2 volunteers).

The volunteers will be trained by professional trainers and mentors to use innovative multimedia, web and newspaper communication tools working on a practical festival case. Knowledge gained by the volunteers will not be aimed only for production of quality communication products, but also the dissemination of this knowledge base, which provides the raise of the qualitative level of the production and contents. The overall purpose of the project is to promote and upgrade the use of innovative communication tools as a method to promote and communicate activities and projects of the organizations in order to achieve better the set objectives in youth organizations. The project will be carried out before and during the JEFF – Jazz Ethno Funky Festival, which will serve as a platform for contents, offering large movement of people, performers, culinary heritage and ideas.

AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE EVS

Our aim is to increase active participation of young people by developing competencies (knowledge and skills) in creative usage od communicating tools like multimedia, blogs and print paper and use it as tools for properly promote and reflect youth (cultural) projects. The moto is The promotion of reflection .

Specific objectives of the project are: • To offer the substantive and technical competence and tools for creative promotion and to learn how to use the tools for active participation, • To promote ways of active participating of young people by giving them possibility to express their point of view, • To encourage development of values and virtues that enrich the personality, such as: activity, autonomy, innovation, creativity, patience with the communication, cooperation and sense of community work, • To develop solidarity and promote tolerance among young people and to strengthen mutual understanding between different cultural and social backgrounds, • Through the products of the project to encouraged the local authorities and the general public to contribute in reducing social disparities.

VOLUNTEER PROFILE

Highly motivated young people with basic skills in film, multimedia, design or photography.

Age: 18-30.

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SOME INFORMATION ABOUT JEFF - JAZZ ETHNO FUNKY FESTIVAL WWW.JEFF.SI

Festival JEFF is a part of summer evening for ten years and throughout the year it is maturing into referential jazz, ethno, funky festival for the region. The structure of the festival remains the same and is unique for the place, because the events happen weakly in July and August. Many visitors decided to be a part of JEFF and also known performers, such as: Vasko Atanasovski, Perpetuum Jazzile, Kelvis Ochoa (Cuba), Terra Folk produkcija, Kisha, Bratko Bibič, New Swing Quartet, Fake orchestra, Olivija, D jembaši, Dazhbog ensemble, Caña Flamenca, Ansasa Trio, Aritmija, Aljoša Jerič, Ratko Dautovski (Makedonija), Vocalissimo, Greentown Jazz Band, Areia, Ethnodelia, Die Resonanz (Austria), Kaneo, Sedef, Nino Mureškič, Caminoigra and many others.

Each year the festival offers versatile accompanying programme. Traditional Istrian corner enables the public interaction with local eco producers and their products and additional workshops (like Getting to know the vine and Loud thinking of Butal'man about accordion and cultural things in general in 2012) provide strong cultural heritage reference .

From the beginning the JEFF Festival collaborate with the Italian Community "Santorio Santorio" Koper, the organisation that represents the Italian minority in the Municipality of Koper. The festival and its music are a meeting point and a point of integration between different people, old and young, with different nationalities and musical knowledge.

Main objectives:

§ Promotion of quality music as a way of multicultural exchange § Revitalization of the Old City Centre § Presentation of talented young musicians § Provision of solid cultural development of the region with reinforcement of project’s role as the most important cultural event in wider region. § Promotion of healthy lifestyle by presenting local organic food and beverages § Intergenerational and intercultural dialogue through cultural events

More about JEFF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEM7Apzna7Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZsiAy7A_hs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WI2zggSw3g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXIh9mEQxSo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHeCAySLU3Y

Here you can check the old festival photos: http://www.ksok.si/jeff/index.php?option=com_expose&Itemid=56.

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ABOUT THE EVS AT JEFF

There are four relevant spheres of the festival on which participants will be able to work and volunteer: multimedia support // culinary heritage // event journalism // event promotion.

During the one month EVS service volunteers will be trained on the field of multimedia, communication, project management. We will test various techniques of independent reporting about the cultural event and its contents and thus we will learn the skills that are necessary for effective reporting about youth organizations cultural and other themes. At the same time, volunteers will be given an opportunity to select own field of interest and develop concrete products in service of the festival: it can be a documentary about traditional music of the region, a journalistic report of the festival bends, a promotional campaign of the festival for the tourists, ...

ABOUT THE VENUE (ACCOMODATION, FOOD ARANGEMENTS)

Volunteers will be placed in an old city centre of Koper.

ABOUT KOPER:

Carved grey Istrian limestone, eight squares situated at the outer edge of the town covered with a carpet of white stone, eleven other squares, remnants of an ancient city wall, narrow intertwining streets leading to the main square, boasting the largest cathedral in Slovenia - all this narrates the story of the past and of the present moment. Step by step the facades of the buildings and their interiors reveal the millennial history of Koper, once Iustinopolis, Capris, evoke the era of the Venetian Republic, the golden age of the Gothic and Renaissance - up to the present moment.

The old centre is a great location because everything is close and you will really be able to endulge into festival spirit. At the same time, it is good to let the volunteers know in advance that the accommodation will be modest and basic (small kitchen, small room that will be shared by the participants).

You will be staying here: http://www.koper.si/index.php?page=namestitev_single&item=234&id=21372

There will be basic kitchen in the house where, with the support of the team, participants will prepare their own food.

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