The pleasure of movement and the desire to promote sport as one of the basic elements of a healthy lifestyle has brought us together. We started to become a team by running in a group and especially, by participating at organizing events dedicated to sport. At the end of 2012 we set up in a sport club called Multisport Experience Association Club. On long term we aim to promote and practice a wide range of individual and team sports, depending also on the preferences of the members.
We began with: promoting and practicing especially short or long distance running,
swimming and cycling; promoting and practicing marathon, half marathon, ultra marathon; promoting and practicing triathlon. In the future we also want to reach other levels.

Promoting sport is an European Volunteering Project, belonging to the European Solidarity Corps, that aims to promote sport activities in the local community.

STAGES: ALPHA&OMEGA

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:

ALPHA STAGE: 8

OMEGA STAGE: 40

Starting date of the project(period): October-November 2021

*Considering the current situation we take into account the possibility to start the stage physical or virtual, depending on the restrictions to be imposed. During the virtual stage, the volunteer will start the activities in his country and if the situation requires it, the hole stage will continue like this. During the physical stage, the activities will be carried out as it will be presented bellow.

How will the project promote solidarity?

The promotion of solidarity is achieved through:

1. Support for participants in sports competitions who have the opportunity to practice one sport, framework also provided by volunteers; 2. Actions to promote various opportunities

to practice sports in Arad, to encourage in this kind of young people in particular to practice a sport and choose from a wider range;

3. Promoting blood donation at least once a year at a major support event .We mention that the organization promotes blood donation, regularly, in addition to

promotion several members donate blood to the Arad Transfusion Center;

4. Inclusion of young people with reduced opportunities in the project and support for their personal and professional development;
5. Promoting European cooperation, taking into account the international participation in this project;
6. Promoting European and international participation by facilitating access for people from other countries at organized events;
7. Promoting the movement among disadvantaged people in Arad schools;
8. Encouraging the spirit of fair play in all sports activities we organize;
9. Emphasis on the idea of covering a distance and not the competition itself. In this regard we specify that all participants in our events receive as mall medal-type souvenir, regardless of the place occupied;
10. The common fight against a European and international scourge,

The activities during the long term stage contains all of the following A1-A25, some of them lasting for days and some of them lasting for months.

A1 – promo at local level – conducting actions to bring the details about or sport events to the attention of the public through presentations in schools, companies, institutions, public spaces.

A2 – promo at national level – contacting active sports structures at national level and informing them about our events, contact runners, cyclists.

A3 – promo at international level – reffers to potentially interesting structures in the region, including our events in online calendars, special registers.

A4 – foto-video – making photos that can help to promote our events on social networks, making impact videos that can support sharing our message.

A5 – online promo – sharing information on different pages, groups, promotion on various social network.

A6 – design – contributions to the production of promotional materials that contribute to good visibility of activities and events.

A7 – sports art – adding an artistic flavor to the sport events and activities.

A8 – human resource management – support in early recruitment and training, training local volunteers needed for events.

A9 – partnerships – making strategic partnerships with structures that can support our events.

A10 – sponsorships – finding sponsors to cover the expenses occasioned by events dedicated to amateur athletes, prizes, etc.

A11 – trainings with local community participants – training with the public, preparing, implementing and evaluating training sessions with the Group Running audience.

A12 – logistics – managing all the logistical materials for the events that will be organized.

A13 – sport routes – creating and keeping the sport routs prepared for our events but also creating hydration points for participants.

A14 – registration

A15 – interventions – interventions in case there is any need in emercency situations.

A16 – practicing sport – at least 5 hours/week. Volunteers will be offered a training model and they will be accompanied periodically by an instructor.

A17 – online sports platform – updating the database with sport opportunities in Arad. www.cautasport.ro

A18 – ecology

A19 – awards and certification – writing and offering the certificates for participants.

A20 – communicating with the public – through out the trainings and post events.

A21 – timing

A22 – entrepreneurship trainings – own initiatives, personal and professional development , activities.

A23 – language and culture workshop

A24 – mentorship workshop – personal support, community integration, support and evidence of skills aquisition, Youthpass process and recognition.

A25 – partners management

A26 – Career development workshop – career orientation workshops;

A27 – Missions – a system of rewards, prizes through monthly activities included in the mission;

A28 – Quality management

A29 – Team meetings – with the team, local volunteers, in order to plan the activities;

A30 – Educational sport activities and events – group running, blood donation

The volunteers will have proper trainings offered during their stage:

During the project there will be two internal trainings provided for ESC volunteers by CSEM: INTRODUCTORY TRAINING 2, ONARRIVALTRAINING AND MID TERM TRAINING.

Introductory training provided by CSEM will take place right after the arrival of ESC volunteers to Romania. It will have an aim of preparing them for ESC experience.

Apart from internal CSEM trainings, there will be series of compulsory official trainings only for long term volunteers: ON ARRIVAL TRAININGANDMIDTERM TRAINNG.

All of the trainings provided for ESC volunteers provide experience in: using non formal methods, adopting an healthy lifestyle, learning to learn integration to local community.

We currently have a contract with UAV University and the volunteers can have good and suitable conditions in their dormitory as well as intercultural environment – as other NGO host EVS/ESC volunteers there, there are also University Erasmus students and the regular students from Romania.

Following behaviors are forbidden in the room:

• excessive drinking of alcohol;
• drugs;
• smoking;
• parties;
• making noise between 06 AM and 22 PM;
• having guests to sleep

Local transport can be covered and we will strongly recommend after a training about safty routes and RO regulations, to use the bike in the summer/good season in order to promote and encourage our own team to practice more sport. The estimated time from the accommodation place to the office is 15-20 min. When the weather will not allow it, the volunteer will receive a tram season ticket. What the volunteer needs to know is that if he choose the tram season ticket then he/she will not have the possibility to receive also a bicycle and vice versa. At the end of the month, the tram season ticket must be returned, in order for the volunteer to receive the money spent; otherwise, if the volunteer doesn’t have the tram season ticket but he/she received the money for it, at the end of the month he/she will have to return that amount of money.

The volunteers will receive every month food money (150 Euro/month) and pocket money(90 Euro/month).

From this amount of money, the volunteers will cook and prepare food for themselves in the accomodation place.

Also, each volunteer will have to open a Romanian bank account where he/she will receive every month the money for food and volunteer’s allowance. In order to open this account, the volunteer must have his/her ID and the passport(if he/she has one).

budget for flights between 275-360 euros