AYUNTAMIENTO DE ZARAGOZA

“Zaragoza City Council has assigned to Youth and Volunteer Service the promotion of citizenship activities especially young people, in order to promote their training in participation, creativity, solidarity, and European culture. To achieve those goals, the Volunteering for Zaragoza was created in 2009, as a municipal action program, which usually plans different actions in coordination with local services ( sports, culture, mobility, environme TRAMPOLINE. POCTEFA JOB D’ETÉ. Ayuntamiento de Toulouss nt,...) so thatInterested people can develop their initiatives. Volunteering for Zaragoza was born as a result of the unquestionable success of the Expo Zaragoza 2008 Volunteers, as a response to the movement of citizen participation from which an important voluntary group was formed, committed, organized, well trained and with its own entity, with recognition, future stability and continuity. Currently the Volunteer team is formed by 4.700 people, many of them young people, with the commitment of being part of a big family which is gradually growing with the incorporation of new volunteers. The volunteers take action in coordination with the rest of the municipal areas and services to develop activities of interest to the city, and also with collaborating entities” General objectives of the 4 Youth Plan (Youth service): 1. Contribute to the emancipation and personal development of youth. 2. Empower young people through the implementation of participatory processes. 3. Progress in transversality within the City Council and with other institutions. These objectives must be completed with the Transversal Lines that reports this 4 Youth Plan and which are the following: 1 Interculturality Collecting this reality as part of the complexity of youth is necessary to guide all actions and measures in the fundamental strategic lines. 2 Gender Incorporating the gender perspective, mainstreaming, is essential to get out stereotypes and build a better society. TRAMPOLINE. POCTEFA JOB D’ETÉ. Ayuntamiento de Toulouss 3 Socio-educational training Begin programs based on training people potential’s. 4 Empowerment The main objective of youth policies is to make young people feel the main charactersof their own life, make conscious decisions, feel able and confident to develop develop dreams and projects. 5 Functional diversity We incorporate the vision of people with functional diversity, who handle bigger challenges than other youth groups. With regard to volunteering in Zaragoza: 1.- Facilitate solidarity 2.- Allow voluntary action in the City Council 3.- Help supportive people to find channels of participation in the Zaragoza City Council. 4.- Offer the city and citizens solidarity channels of participation Local Youth Service promotes a Network of Youth Houses, Centers in which young people between 14 and 30 years old can meet and carry out Free Time activities, cultural and artistic learning, personal development, etc. being part of the organization and collaborating voluntarity. Likewise, a socio-educational intervention is carried out in Secondary Education Centers, also promoting extracurricular activities using school spaces and giving them a participatory dimension... Volunteering in Zaragoza collaborates in five areas: .- Visitor attention .- Let's take care of citizens .-culture, sports and major events TRAMPOLINE. POCTEFA JOB D’ETÉ. Ayuntamiento de Toulouss .-Volunteering in the organization .- Animal Protection In addition to the collaborations with the different local areas and services, collaboration agreements have been signed with non-profit entities such as Amac Gema and FADEMA Young people between 18 and 30 years old , and especially those people for whom international volunteering is a motivating incentive in their process of personal and social development. Youth Service develops many programs in the city to all kinds of young people. We want CES and European volunteering to be an experience accessible to young people with fe