Project ¨Voluntariado Visible¨ will bring together 38 young people from 13 different countries such as Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Austria, Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Portugal, Italy, Estonia, Turkey, Malta, and Spain in a 6 days training course, that will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in winter of 2012. During this project the participants together will learn various ways and means how to make volunteer work more visible, they will learn how to promote volunteerism in society so that representatives of government and businesses could realize the value of volunteering, in order to obtain recognition of volunteerism in the future, to get the political and financial support, and to be observed and multiplied by various media. Objectives of this project are contribute to achieving the objectives of the European Year of Volunteering 2011, to raise awareness about the value and importance of the volunteerism and strengthening of voluntary organizations, by encouraging cooperation and exchange of experiences. Participants will learn specific practical skills - to create strategies for promotion and to create a professional video that will promote volunteers work in attractive way. Activities: doing short videoclips and videos, working in groups, making interviews in the streets, visiting various entities that are active in volunteering in Gran Canaria. The non-formal education methods will be used in this training course; participants will be consulted by experts in the promotion and producers companies that work for TV, documentaries and short-movies. Project is organized by Association Centro Intercultural ideas de Colores, financed by the EU programme ¨Youth in Action¨
