The project general objective is to develop non-formal activities that increase the level of European active citizenship and civic engagement of both the target group and the volunteers while also contributing to their personal and professional development.

The volunteers of the Get Involved! Project will be directly involved in the planning, organization and implementation of non-formal activities in educational institutions in the city of Craiova, activities directed towards the achievements of the project objectives.

The project will be structured in 3 phases:

-           Preparation, Adaptation and Training Phase(PAT) – a programe designed to transmit to the volunteer all the theoretical and practical knowledge about the project  and prepare them for the rest of the project.

 

-           Community Action phase - In this phase the volunteers will get busy working on planning, organizing and implementing non-formal activities in educational institutions (high schools, youth club, community library etc) with the purpose of raising the level of active citizenship and civic involvement of the youth attending these institution. The activities of the volunteers will structured in 2 types: daily activities in the educational institutions using non-formal methods; Scale Events - These are activities done in a limited period of time that have a bigger scale than the daily activities. The objectives of scale events are to give visibility of the organization, the project and the YiA programme in the community, raise awareness on certain topics, create the culture of celebrating major European events, give the volunteer learning opportunities in what concerns the organization of bigger events that involve a lot of coronation and organization.

 

-           Evaluation and follow-up phase. This will be take place in the last month of the project and will be orientated towards evaluating the degree to which the project achieved its objectives, the impact of the activities and planning the follow-up activities to the project.