About Kumulus
• National resource center for youth policy 2003-2007 commissioned by the Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs.
• Mission: develop and create new opportunities for young people to develop through international experiences.
• EVS as one tool for doing this
Claudia KjellstrandMathias LarssonE-mail: [email protected]: +46 480 450196
Coordinating EVS organisation
Since 2004:• Hosted 22 volunteers • Sent 6 volunteers• Started 14 EVS projects
E-mail: [email protected]: +46 70 474 8841
Kumulus offers youth
• Information about EVS• Function as sending organization• Help and support to find EVS projects in Europe• Application assistance• Flight, train reservations, visa applications• Contact during your stay in a foreign country• Follow-ups after the project period
Kumulus offers organisations
• Information about EVS• Support in getting started as a sending or hosting
organization• Application assistance• Administration of language courses, payment of pocket
money etc• Continuous meetings with EVS-supervisors to secure the
quality of the projects• Trainings
Who is the winner?
• Everybody…Volunteers
• Self confidence, belief in oneself• New perspectives to see things, wider view, to be open-
minded• New (working) experience• Language training • Meeting a new culture• A year that can help you find out where you are going and
what you want to do• Non-formal education• Traveling• New friends• …………………………………………
Who is the winner?
• Hosting Organisation• New view of work• New methods for working• New experience to the stuff by “know how”• A young person as a resource of opinions and experience• Motivation – one is capable – that motivate others• An intercultural dimension – intercultural learning• International cooperation – local publicity to the
organisation• ………………..
Who is the winner?
• Local community• People with different view to look at the city• Higher tolerance and better understanding for other
people.• Development of new ideas and new projects after EVS
projects• More interested in taking part in local activities • Spread information to local youth• Economic incomes (7000 Euro)• ……………………………..
Youth Centre Ladan
Youth Centre ZokkerHouse of Possibilities
Skälby 4H-farmYouth centres in Kalmar
Development departmentElderly care centre
Culture centre
Youth Center in Oskarshamn
EVS-projects in Kalmar County
Youth café LumbusYouth office
Table tennis club
EVS PROJECT: SKÄLBY 4H FARM IN KALMAR
• Hosted 5 EVS-volunteers since 2005
• Volunteers help out with taking care of the animals, work in the café and arrange activities for children and youth visiting the farm.
EVS PROJECT IN EMMABODA: HOUSE OF POSSIBLITIES
• Hosts 2 volunteers in 2007 (Latvia and France)
• Volunteers help out in the various activites at the House of Possibilities: environmental station, second-hand shop and at the Youth Centre in the city.
EVS PROJECT IN HÖGSBY: CULTURE CENTRE
• Hosts 3 volunteers in 2007/08 (Germany and France)
• Volunteers help out with the cultural activities such as music, theatre and dance classes.
Start working with EVS?
• Being a part of European Voluntary Service is an adventure giving young people the exciting opportunity to widen their horizons and develop themselves both on a personal and professional level while at the same being able to enjoy the benefits and security offered by a well established organization.