MANIFESTAÇÃO DE INTERESSE PARA ACOLHIMENTO DE VISITAS E ASSISTENTES GRUNDTVIG EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FORM FOR HOSTING GRUNDTVIG VISITS AND ASSISTANTS O presente Formulário é destinado a instituições que desejem acolher um Assistente Grundtvig ou um Educador de Adultos no âmbito da acção Visitas e Intercâmbios. This form is directed to organizations willing to host a Grundtvig Assistant or an Adult Learning Professional for a Visit. Esta manifestação de Interesse é destinada à acção: This form is intended for: Visitas e Intercâmbios Grundtvig Períodos de Assistência Grundtvig Grundtvig Visits and Exchanges Grundtvig Assistantships Duração e datas desejadas: Desired duration and dates: During All Year Nome da Instituição Name of the Organization SOCIOHABITAFUNCHAL, E.E.M - Housing Municipal Council País Country Portugal Perfil da Organização Organisation’s Profile How would you describe the activities provided to adult learners by your institution? How would you describe the context in which your institution operates? Does your institution already have experience in European co-operation activities? Empresa Municipal de Habitação Social (Housing Municipal Council) Belonging to Funchal Town Hall, is a judicial, administrative autonomous, financial and patrimonial Council. Its aims are the housing social project, management of the housing area of the City Council and the social work with families living in these quarters. The Council has as Mission the Integration, development and empowerment of people from disadvantages background. We work with people from disadvantages backgrounds we have 1227 families living in our social houses and our aim is to give then skills to live in Community, we give social houses to people that don´t have conditions to rent or to buy one but our mission is to promote in then social and professional skills. To implement our adult education we have Social Centers in total of 7 centers where we provide activities in different areas: Health, Education, Training, Environment, Sport, Social - Cultural Activities, Social Skills, Parental training and Plastic Arts and has been aimed at several target groups namely children, youngsters and adults/ elderly. 2- we operate in local context with the families that live in our social houses, Adults, Senior, Youngster’s and children´s 3- We already host volunteers from European Volunteer Service – Youth in Action Programme in our Social Centers, and from Eurodisseia Programme For more information http://www1.cm-funchal.pt/sociohabitafunchal/ Can your institution be easily reached by public transport? yes, by: BUS no, explain: Can you help the Visitor / Assistant to find suitable accommodation? yes, we can find accommodation and take care of the practical arrangements yes, we can give information on potential accommodation, but we cannot take on any practical arrangements Motivação para acolher um visitante/assistente Motivation to host a Visitor/Assistant We are very motivated to host an Assistant to show and to transmit the work that we are doing in social field and at the same time to learn whit him/her. Tarefas possíveis para o visitante/assistente Possible tasks for a Visitor/Assistant In which areas of work will the Visitor/Assistant be involved and how? How will the Visitor/Assistant be involved in extra-curricular activities of your institution and, if applicable, in other activities of the local community? Will the Visitor/Assistant have an opportunity to teach his/her culture and mother tongue? 1- The Assistant will be involved in several projects in this areas : Adult Education Health, Education, Training, Environment, Sport, Social - Cultural Activities, Social Skills, and Plastic Arts 2- We will include our assistant in our extra-curricular activities that we have access in our city, visits to the theatre, Museums, Festivals etc. 3- The Culture and mother tongue of the assistant is very important for us because the intercultural learning is something that we want to use in our Centers. For us its important to learn and understand the culture and she or he will have the opportunity to show us his/her culture and mother tongue. Perfil desejado do Visitante/Assistente Desired Visitor/Assistant Profile A very motivated person that want to join us in our social work in The City of Funchal We need people from several areas to join our team: Dance, Art, English Teachers, Music, theatre, social Educators, phycology, social work , sport We want assistant that want to experience, learn and develop activities in these places that we have available and we give the guaranty that they will have a good integration. Contactos (referir pessoa de contacto) Contact (input contact person) Mara Silva – [email protected] Esta Ficha de Manifestação de Interesse deverá ser enviada para um dos seguintes endereços electrónicos: [email protected] ou [email protected]. Os candidatos às acções “Visitas e Intercâmbios” e “Períodos de Assistência” Grundtvig deverão indicar a Organização de Acolhimento no seu formulário de Candidatura e provar a aceitação do seu período de assistência. As Instituições portuguesas deverão preencher a informação solicitada na língua de comunicação desejada. As fichas serão reenviadas para as Agências Nacionais e serão disponibilizadas na página electrónica da Agência Nacional PROALV (www.proalv.pt – por favor, clique Grundtvig e depois Meeting Point) This form should be sent to one of the following e-mail addresses: [email protected] or [email protected] Applications for Grundtvig “Visits and Exchanges” and “Assistantships” should give details of the Host Organisation and show proof that it is willing to support the activity and take the necessary organizational measures. The information presented in the form will be presented in our National Agency Website (www.proalv.pt – please, clik Grundtvig and then Meeting Point)