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合作夥伴 / PARTNER

AstralUm is a youth association from Novi Sad, founded with the aim of improving the position of young people within social activities. One of our missions is to provide assistance and support to young artists in the independent art scene. In this regard, the idea of a volunteer camp was created, with the goal of engaging young volunteers to help and support the organization of a festival as a platform for the expression and affirmation of young artists.

工作 / WORK

The role of the volunteers is to assist in the preparation, implementation, and dismantling of the festival. The camp lasts 10 days, of which 5 days are dedicated to preparation, 2 days to the realization of the festival, and 3 days to dismantling and cleaning up the festival and the camp.Volunteers will support various areas of the festival, including the production of visual, audio, and performative aspects; decoration food preparation; dismantling and cleaning; and assisting with the overall organization and smooth implementation of the camp and the festival, together with other members of the organizing team.Volunteers will work 5 hours per day, at a time that suits them, in agreement with the organizers, and will have one free day, chosen individually in coordination with the organizers.When sending the infosheet, the camp and festival organizers will include a specially designed Google Form in order to create internal volunteer schedules based on volunteers preferences regarding working hours and task distribution.

住宿和食物 / ACCOMODATION AND FOOD

Volunteers will be accommodated in tents in a small forested area of a traditional rural farmstead in Chennai. Meals will be prepared by the camp volunteers together with other members of the organizing team, in the kitchen at the farm, according to a schedule agreed upon collectively.

位置與休閒活動 / LOCATION & LEISURE ACTIVITY

The farmhouse in Aenej is a unique location situated near Novi Sad. It offers an authentic atmosphere of a traditional farmhouse of the Vojvodina plains, with a small forested area at the back of the property. This area will accommodate volunteers in tents, as well as some of the young performers at the festival, organizers, and festival visitors who decide to stay for several days.This space represents a traditional cultural element of Vojvodina, allowing volunteers to become more familiar with the cultural and historical heritage of the region. During their free time, volunteers can visit rural areas of Vojvodina as well as Novi Sad, the second-largest city in Serbia.

要求 / REQUIREMENTS

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主辦單位 / Host organization

VOLUNTARY SERVICE SERBIA

Young Researchers of Serbia - Voluntary Service of Serbia (YRS-VSS) is a non-profit, non-political NGO officially established in 1976 as a network of organizations, societies, clubs and sections with research programmes, gathered around the coordinative office on the national level in Belgrade. Through its history the number of members changed, but there were over 50 different organizations taking part. In the 90’s YRS-VSS leaves the organizational form of vertical relationships following the current direction of civil sector development. Today YRS-VSS represents the organization on the national level and it unites three thematically different but interconnected sectors – Environmental Protection and Conservation Sector, Youth Sector and Voluntary Service of Serbia. Young Researchers of Serbia - Voluntary Service of Serbia involves mostly young people aged 15-30, but there is no upper age limit. We have developed in delivering good preparation and follow up of young people with fewer opportunities. THINK BIG - do little: start an avalanche! is our motto. Our vision is to be the driving force for all those whose aim is to make our planet a more peaceful, just and healthy place. Driven by science and education, our mission is to contribute: - to environmental protection and nature conservation, - to development of voluntarism and its values, - to scientific creativity and active participation of the youth. Our main aims are environmental protection, environmental education, youth exchange and work with young people, as well as the promotion of sustainable development, scientific creativity and volunteerism. We have organized hundreds of research projects and educative programmes for young people in various areas of natural and social sciences. INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE We usually send approx. 400-500 volunteers from Serbia abroad and host over 400 foreign volunteers to 35+ workcamps each year. Since 2015 our work on international volunteers exchange is supported by the Ministry for youth and sports of the Republic of Serbia. MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS YRS-VSS is a member of: Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organizations, CCIVS – Coordinative Committee of International Voluntary Service, YEE – Youth and Environment Europe, ANPED – Northern Alliance for Sustainability, CEEWEB – Central and East European Working Group for the Enhancement of Biodiversity, and a partner of the network SCI in Serbia. YRS-VSS is one of the founding members of SEEYN – South East European Youth Network. IN THE ALLIANCE We are full members of the Alliance since 2005 and in the IVS movement since 1980’s. Our main contribution to the network has been in delegating representatives to the Executive Committee (Jelena Ristic Beronja, Vice President of the Alliance 2010-2016, senior trainer in the Pool of Trainers since 2014) and Management Committees (Bojan Beronja as SDWG coordinator 2012 – 2014 and again in 2016 – 2017) and hosting EC meetings, the first Joint Meeting in 2012, Alliance Capacity Building Training in 2014, Alliance General Conference and General Assembly 2016.