SERVIZIO VOLONTARIO EUROPEO
FRANCIA

ORGANISATION: Association CAP Jeunes, Clermont Ferrand

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT: Fanzinothèque

Fanzinotheque (Fan Magazine library Project). Fanzines (Fan Magazine, shortened) are magazines written and produced by the fans, amateurs (often secondary school pupils or university students).
The phenomenon first appeared in the 70's and achieved major volumes in France, in all probability, many hundreds of Fanzines were published each year. The Cap jeunes project will ensure the distribution of these (Fanzines and the Parallel Press in general), not only French, but also from around Europe.
This project is linked to the rehearsal studio already suggested for EVS, in order to ensure the complementary nature of the services offered to young people. Sources of finance : State subsidies and Local Communities.

TASKS OF THE VOLUNTEER: To assist the permanent staff in the running of the Fanzine library and seek out the Fanzine databases.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: Other than the life in the Association, strongly involved locally, via their activity within the Fanzine Library the volunteers will be in contact with numerous young people and adults from the town.

ORGANISATION: Association DYNAMO, La montagne en mouvement, La Brigue

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT: Dynamo is a Non-Profit-Making Organisation (1901 Law) created in 1994. Based in a farm high in the mountains, possessing a small group lodging facility, it is entirely managed by 5 unpaid permanent staff (2 French, 2 German). These permanent staff have skills in the area of agricultural and that of the production of socio-cultural events (both experience and a Diplome d'etat). In common with other local partner associations, Dynamo is attempting to revitalise local life, with, as its main orientations : conserving the heritage, setting up a programme of fetes and local festivals, the organisation of sports and cultural activities (entertainments, concerts) - making people environmentally aware. We want to set up a local radio station.

TASKS OF THE VOLUNTEER: The volunteer will accompany and assist the team in its work preparing the programmes (mountain of projects, meetings with our partners, logistical organisation). He will be an integral part of the management team during the activities and will bring a personal touch. Any initiative will be left to him to organise with our support for example, activities linked with his own country. He will equally participate in all the other aspects of farm life (caring for the animals, cheese-making).

SUPPORT SYSTEM: Technical mentoring : passing on technical knowledge, whether agricultural, or in the area of the production of events, will be a daily occurrence. Personal mentoring : 3 of the 5 people are either Youth Leaders or professional educators used to working with young people and providing all the listening they need.
Linguistic mentoring : a specific time will be set up, the team possessing the skills require to teach the volunteer French.

ORGANISATION: Association Rencontre, Dunkerque

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT: The "Association Rencontre" - "Encounter", created in 1975, is, first of all, through its numerous activities, a site for exchanges, the exchange of thought and of communication. Encounter is first of all the intercultural Training Centre whose main aims are hosting, informing and orientating sectors in distress towards reintegration and, in particular, those arising out of immigration.
Still with the Training Centre, French and literacy courses were set up and financed bin part by the "fonds d'action social" (FAS - the Social Action Fund. Sales, secretarial, office work and accounts training are also provided. In 1982, Radio Rencontre (Encounter Radio) was born and today it is still evolving its intercultural communications and offers to a wide audience a place for training and education and an introduction to audio techniques. Since 1985, Encounter has been in a phase of major expansion with, first of all a change of format of its journal, published quarterly and then with the enlargement of its field of activities towards housing and lodging. Finally, since 1990, it opened up to international relations and cooperation. Thus, from 1993 to 1996, every year a "Europe/North Africa/Mediterranean orientated Summer University takes place allowing the promotion of economic exchange with the countries on the sides of the Mediterranean.

TASKS OF THE VOLUNTEER:
1 - Youth leadership and mentoring the tenants
2 - Mentoring and information, guiding the young people and adults in professional training situations
3 - Monitoring the language and culture workshops.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: The very existence of the Training Centre allows the young volunteer to be able to benefit from personal mentoring, integrating the French Courses. He will have the benefit of a tutor within the Association.

ORGANISATION: Centre social des Chatillons, Reims

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT: Within its task of general youth leadership for the Chatillons district, the Social Centre is particularly targeted at school-children in Primary School (7 to 11) and Secondary School (12 to 16 years of age), by offering them educational mentoring activities after school. It is also targeted at younger children (2 to 6).
The Centre provides a wide range of activities of a Socio-cultural character, provides an educational relationship intended to increase the child's self-esteem on his way to development : activities around dance, music, drawing, living languages ... the hosting project for a European Volunteer will be ratified within the framework of a Contrat local d'accompagnement scolaire (C.L.A.S. - Local Contract for Educational Mentoring) and financed by the Caisse d'allocation familiales (C.A.F. - The Family Allowances Funds) and the Fonds d'action social (F.A.S. - Social Programme Fund).

TASKS OF THE VOLUNTEER: The volunteer will participate via the socio-cultural activities (dance, music, drawing, living languages, etc.) in awakening the curiosity of the children. He will contribute to activities linked to the fight against xenophobia, as well as by sensitising to and a first approach, via games and entertainment, to a living language.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: Two members of the facility's leadership team will implement the initiation and support with respect to the activities. Personnel mentoring is planned in order to permit the young volunteer to find his own reference points as quickly as possible in his daily life. Language support will be provided in partnership with the international hosting centre.

ORGANISATION: La croisée des regards / Domaine de Mayne / Solidarités jeunesses, Saumane de Vaucluse

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT: In February 1993, the "La croisee des regards" adult education association leased, over long term period, the Domaine de Mayne / Les Icards. It set itself up in order to realise a consistent set of projects, environmental, social and cultural.
Its objective : to live happily in a magnificent setting.
Programme : Hosting young adults and children with psychological or social problems, renovation work, tree clearance for protection from fires, the installation of ethno-botanical and medical flower gardens, education and training on both flora and fauna, international work camps, creation of an open-air theatre. "La croisee des regards" is a member of Solidarities Jeunesses and there will be meetings with other structures of this national association.

TASKS OF THE VOLUNTEER: The volunteer will have the option of choosing a main activity from among the four priority activities in 1998 :
- Environment : the tree-nursery and the improvement of the scrubland, wood-cutting and the gardens.
- Building : bricklaying and interior building/conversion work.
- Office : developing his capacity for information.
- Social : hosting groups and the international work camps.
Versatility is a strong point and participation in other activities is necessary, however. It is important to emphasise that everyone must participate in the everyday activities on site (cooking, cleaning).

SUPPORT SYSTEM:
Language support : an outside teacher will provide the French course.
Technical support : To be provided by the 5 permanent staff.
Personal support : the permanent staff of the Hosting Centre are there to listen to the questions that could be raised by the volunteers. Alain Fesquet takes to heart the following-up of the development of the volunteer as well as helping him in his personal progress.

ORGANISATION: La Maison des Bateleurs / Solidarites-jeunesses Poitou-Charentes, Montendre

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT: LAM
The hosting project is the Maison des Bateleurs however, the volunteer will work part-time at the LAM (Association Liaison Animation Montendre Activity Liaison Association) with the aim of developing both its European activities and the development of activities for youth.
1) La Maison des Bateleurs : this project was set up in May 1996 and resulted from the desire of certain people who wished to open an International Centre dedicated to art, creativity and the expression of the desire of a local community to encourage the creation of an International Hosting and Meeting Centre. The concept was to set up a hosting centre both for groups and for individuals, but also a facility for local development in the Haute Saintonge Region. The specific choice of creating an Artistic and Cultural Centre was linked to the idea of promoting new artistic talent (whether local or international) via exchanges and personal development and to offer and alternative to the problems and difficulties of society currently, in particular, for the young who are suffering.
This International Centre hopes to promote exchange, training and a period of reflection and analysis for young European volunteers, in order to help them to become veritable citizens of Europe.
2) LAM was created 4 years ago by the executives of associations in order to set up a network of the various associations in Montendre. LAM creates and supports the communal activities of the Member associations.

TASKS OF THE VOLUNTEER:
1) At the Maison des Bateleurs : working part-time on artistic activities or on the workshop activities (building renovation) as well as all the tasks linked with community life.
2) At LAM : participating ion the activities of a local development association : - the development of various European projects for Montendre and its Region
- supervision of certain activities involving the young-people's sector
- sensitising the young people of the Region to SVE
- participation in the activities of the local associations.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: The Maison des Bateleurs, as a hosting project, takes care of individual mentoring, training in European inventions is also being contemplated. Language support will be provided by the Maison des Bateleurs' permanent staff youth leaders. Educational training at the LAM will be provided by a youth leader, Jean Claude Marceaux and, at the Maison des Bateleurs by Louis Leroux, the youth leader.

ORGANISATION: Mission locale de Lille, Lille

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT: This hosting project fits into the Global Project of the "European Voluntary Service" network, developed by the Mission Locale de Lille (the Local Mission at Lille) - the despatch of 20 French volunteers, the hosting of 20 European volunteers, currently constituted in Europe by a Spanish Partner (Diputacion of Granada - 5 Young People), an Italian Partner (Dar Voce - 3 Young People), a German-speaking Partner (5 Young People) and an English-speaking Partner (7 Young People), both of which still need to be identified - and locally, 12 Partners specialised in Social Reintegration (Training Organisations, Young Working People's Hostels, hosting structures, various Associations, etc.) for 20 Young French People.
The global objective being to reciprocate with the European Partners of Lille. The young volunteers "allocated" to the hosting structure will assist the professional staff in their duties. ITINERAIRES (Itineraries) is a preventative club responsible for both welcoming and the social supervision of young people in great distress, through Delinquency Prevention and Drug Abuse Programmes. For some years, ITINERAIRES (Itineraries) carries out its work via its work camp/school for social reintegration for young people in building skills.

TASKS OF THE VOLUNTEER:
Aid and support in the mentoring of young people in a reintegration work camp :
The volunteer assist in technical training at the work camp/school, in the training of young people in the work camp.
He will aware of the problems of reintegration for young people. In addition, he will have an open mind and capable of adapting to people in distress.
He should have a modicum of knowledge of French or of English.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: The Lille Local Mission is committed in the EVS programme at three levels :
1 : Technical and personal training and supervision by a Project Supervisor, in addition to a technical tutor from the Itineraires Association, who speaks English,
2 : linguistic tutoring, apart from the initial three week period of training, in the form of free do it yourself access to a Multimedia Language laboratory,
3 : Easy access to the cultural life of the Greater-Lille area (Credit Loisirs - Leisure activities vouchers)

ORGANISATION: Solidarités jeunesses Beauvoisin, Centre de la Garenne, Beauvoisin

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT: La Garenne

The "La Garenne" Hosting Centre is managed by a local association : a voluntary mutual aid network.
This Association has set as its objectives, the promotion of the values of tolerance, of participative democracy and of peace by setting its programme in local development. Its objectives are targeted at facilitating intercultural exchanges, via its hosting activities and the implementation of international work camps for young volunteers.
The mixing of different categories of people, within the framework of collective living, a job and activities shared by everyone, is the practical realisation of the communal project. This is spread over three types of programme:
- hosting groups (classes of exploration/discovery, the handicapped) - hosting young people having problems of social adaptation - international work camps for young volunteers, both short- and long-term. These programmes fit into a desire to be involved in local life, via the development of the necessary partnerships, amongst others. These partnerships are currently being realised in three areas :
local organisation via work undertaken with the Beauvoisin municipality with the local young people.
- Artistic and cultural creation with the Movid'art Association within the framework of local construction projects yet to be implemented.
- Concern for the environment with the Scamandre Research centre, close to Beauvoisin in the part of the Camargue in the Region of Gard. The activities of the Association and, in consequence, the "La Garenne" Centre, are being developed within the "Solidarites jeunesses" network and the close links existing between the regional delegations, which could well facilitate the volunteers meeting people, participating in programmes in other areas, other projects. Finally, the elected members of the association are actively involved in the life of the Centre and in the life of the Movement. They also are a point of reference for the volunteers.

TASKS OF THE VOLUNTEER: Participate in the hosting of the Groups and the day-to-day management of the Centre - to fit into local life by being involved with local young people in the spirit of partnership and community behaviour.
- Taking part in hosting young people in a social exclusion situation relying on the functioning of the permanent work camp.
- Developing personal projects linked with the activities of the association and fitting into local development. Quite often the activities will be manual in character and carried out collectively. Following the necessary period of adaptation, a extensive room will be given for personal and collective initiatives and for each person's creative bent.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: Language support : an unpaid teacher from the Association will provide the French course collectively, with some individual follow-up.
Technical support : Technical mentoring will be provided by a Technical Youth Leader responsible for keeping track of the work camps and also part of the permanent staff of the Centre.
Personal support : the Centre permanent staff are there to listen to the questions that could be raised by the volunteers.

ORGANISATION: Solidarités jeunesses Paris, Parigi

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT: Solidarites jeunesses is a national association for youth and adult education. It is the French branch of an international movement (Action Jeunesse pour le paix - the Youth Programme for Peace) and a member of the CNAJEP (Conseil National de la Jeunesse - the National Council for Youth) and of Cotravaux (Collectif d'associations de chantiers de jeunes - the Collective Association of Work Camps for Young people). Together with its regional delegations and its partner associations it is active in 10 regions in France in partnership with various public institutions or local associations. The national secretariat is based in Paris. It relays and centralises all the programmes run by the regional delegations and the partner associations. It is thus involved in all the areas of activity set up by Solidarites jeunesses : short and medium term voluntary service, environmental protection, work with disadvantaged, etc. On the other hand, the numerous international contacts maintained by Solidarites jeunesses permits it each year to send young volunteers on projects abroad.
The Objectives of the project: The national Secretariat of Solidarites jeunesses desires to evolve and thoroughly study its action programmes and, at the same time, allow young Europeans to be involved in the programmes implemented.
Activities : the volunteers will carry out canvassing type work amongst the local population, set up and develop new action programmes involving various sectors of the public (local population, disadvantaged young people, young people from various countries, etc.) and will assist the permanent staff team in their daily work, whether this by of an every-day secretarial nature, or at the level of local or international relations.
The target population : the National Secretariat will try to involve sectors of the public as diversified as possible, by placing the emphasis on international and intercultural encounter/meetings. The volunteers will thus work with very varied sectors of the public, whether at national or international level. It should not be forgotten that confrontation gives rise to comprehension.
Links with other projects : the volunteers will have the opportunity to work with each of the Solidarites jeunesses delegations and with partners abroad, without forgetting the various local communities. One of the objectives of hosting the volunteers is to allow them to be in contact with a maximum of different projects.
Sources of finance : Apart from the contribution anticipated from the European Union, the funds are the usual resources of Solidarites jeunesses : membership dues, co-financing by local and territorial communities and the State.

TASKS OF THE VOLUNTEER: The activities can be divided into two categories : - one abstract, the other practical.
Initially, the volunteers will work in the field, in order to seek out new contacts and new projects. These contacts will later need to be put into a practical form, in order to introduce new partnership action programmes. The volunteers should also seek out local projects allowing young people concerned by the programmes organised by Solidarites jeunesses to be involved. These activities should allow the volunteer to be involved in their own personal project, whether this is in the categories contacted or in the programmes being run, but, always in the pursuit of the objectives of the association. These activities are not intended to be substitution for salaried employees but an addition which allows everyone to develop their projects and their action programmes. The volunteers will thus participate in the development activity, including a group living period, team work and working alone, experiences which can only enrich both the volunteers and the various projects.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: The volunteers will have their own activities within the National Secretariat team, which will provide personal mentoring over the whole voluntary service period. Each volunteer will benefit from support by the person who will be mentoring them in their personal research, will help them to seek out any training required, will be supporting them and monitor them through their assessments over the whole of the period. On the other hand, the assessment points will be organised both during and at the end of the period with all volunteers working in the various Solidarites jeunesses structures. A period of information and preparation will also be organised at the outset of the voluntary service. Language courses will be offered to the volunteer, whether at basic level or for improving their knowledge of the language.

ORGANISATION: Mission locale de Lille, Lille

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT: This hosting project fits into the Global Project of the "European Voluntary Service" network, developed by the Mission Locale de Lille (the Local Mission at Lille) - the despatch of 20 French volunteers, the hosting of 20 European volunteers, currently constituted in Europe by a Spanish Partner (Diputacion of Granada - 5 Young People), an Italian Partner (Dar Voce - 3 Young People), a German-speaking Partner (5 Young People) and an English-speaking Partner (7 Young People), both of which still need to be identified - and locally, 12 Partners specialised in Social Reintegration (Training Organisations, Young Working People's Hostels, hosting structures, various Associations, etc.) for 20 Young French People.
The global objective being to reciprocate with the European Partners of Lille. The young volunteers "allocated" to the hosting structure will assist the professional staff in their duties. cited within a house in the district (Quartier Vaubin on the Northern edge of the City of Lille), Lieu ressources Grand-Nord is a staging-post for the local Mission, tasked with welcoming, informing and orientating the younger sector on matters of employment, training and support with the resolution of social problems.

TASKS OF THE VOLUNTEER: "Support with mentoring and providing information to young people in distress:
The volunteer will participate in the various activities of welcoming and the provision of information to young people, in particular through the setting up of a multimedia platform (even without prior knowledge of computing) and thus contribute to language tuition of the young people coming to the Lieu ressources. He should be well motivated to social work (and, if possible have a little experience in the domain) and be very capable of adapting and showing an open mind.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: The Lille Local Mission is committed in the EVS programme at three levels :
1 : Technical and personal training and supervision by a Project Supervisor, in addition to a technical tutor from the Atelier de Prefo, who speaks English,
2 : linguistic tutoring, apart from the initial three week period of training, in the form of free do it yourself access to a Multimedia Language laboratory,
3 : Easy access to the cultural life of the Greater-Lille area (Credit Loisirs - Leisure activities vouchers)