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Lika Eco Art Youth
Short description:
LEAY is project that opens possibilities for youth volunteers to spend up to 12 months in rural mountain area of Croatia, Lika, Lovinac, learning and helping with environmentally friendly projects spanning from cultural to social. Our organisation is accredited to run projects under European Voluntary Service, part of the European Union's Erasmus+ Programme.
Dates
Dates of project: 01.01.2016. - 01.04.2017
Dates of volonteers activites: 01.06.2016 - 01.04.2017
Location:
Lovinac, Lika, Croatia
Accomodation
tags:
voluntarism, environment, permaculture, culture, youth, art, environmental art.
UKE's projects in 2016:
1.) Artist-in-Residence Laboratory (AiR Lab)
UKE offers residencies and support in Lovinac for artists and scientists throughout the whole year. AiR Lab collaborates with several European organizations in artists exchange, transdisciplinary art practices and environmental art. At the residency artist, scientists and hackers work collaboratively in the rural environment of Lovinac municipality. AiR Lab is supporting their work through the collaboration with companies, local community and local authorities as well as with galleries and social designers throughout Croatia. The special feature of the AiR Lab is the emphasis on collaborative and transdisciplinary strategies that develop the mental and emotional health of the local community with creativity and free culture. Methods and topics focus on environmental or eco-art, the relations between art and science, renewable energy, community support, experiments and collaboration.
2.) Youth Club Lovinac
Youth Club Lovinac is a project that focuses on informal education, planing of free-time activities, cultural programmes and promotion of voluntariness and creativity in order to develop social inclusion of youth and their social responsibility. The main objective of the project is to provide conditions for quality leisure time, raising the overall level of knowledge through informal education, to encourage cultural creativity, encourage initiatives and actions that contribute to the full social inclusion of young people in order to reduce the migration of young people in the region and develop their expertise. The volunteers strengthen and develop the local community of Lovinac with their work and activities, offer help and support to those in need, organize public events for all generations and spread the spirit of voluntarism among local youth.
3.) MMK
MMK is an international (extended/hybrid) cultural event taking place at the eco-camp in Lovinac each year from 1th July to 1th September. MMK invites artist, activists, hackers, environmentalists, common-ists and survivalists to gather around the theme “Future Environments”. MMK combines research, experiment and workshops with creative thinking and environmental consciousness using transdisciplinary strategies and collaborative efforts.
4.) Permacultural garden
UKE promotes a healthy life style and self-sufficiency throughout its activities. Part of UKE's activities is therefore dedicated to the production of own food supply and learning about environmental issues. In the permacultural garden the volunteers and local community grow different varieties of vegetables and fruits that are high quality. Through the work in the garden people can learn about different methods of growing food as well as about the nutritional value of vegetables and fruits. Learning about the vegetarian cuisine is an important part of these activities and aims to enrich the daily menu with healthy and nutritional food.
5.) Support to local community
Offer support and help to elderly and youth and those in need in the local community. Spending time with them, doing simple tasks as chopping wood, bringing groceries, taking them to walk while learning about local history, culture and customs. Also, as there is no kindergarden UKE is collaborating on children playground where parents can bring their kids for couple of days in the week. All-in-all the EVS volunteers are contributing to the diversity in the local community and contributing to cultural broad-mindedness.
Project timetable
February
- 15.02. EVS project start
- Arrival & get to know each other
- Get to know the office, Cultural Centre and its house routine and other infrastructure
- Draft the EVS project cycle
- Defining learning goals
- Croatian language course
- Open-source computer progrm
- On-arrival training 29.02.
March
- Supporting the organizations activities: Youth Club Lovinac
- Supporting the organizations activities: AiR Lab
- Supporting the organizations activities: Support to local community
- Croatian language course
- How to give workshops, hold presentations and discussions
- administration
- documentation
April
- Supporting the organizations activities: Youth Club Lovinac
- Supporting the organizations activities: AiR Lab
- Supporting the organizations activities: Support to local community
- Disseminating publicity and corresponding with local organisations, individuals and groups within the UKE network
- Skillsharing
May
- Supporting the organizations activities: Permacultural garden
- Supporting the organizations activities: Youth Club Lovinac
- Supporting the organizations activities: AiR Lab
- Supporting the organizations activities: Support to local community
- meetings with local organisations
- Introduction to administration
- Collaborative and non-hierarchical organising
- Organising projects
June
- Supporting the organizations activities: Permacultural garden
- Supporting the organizations activities: Youth Club Lovinac
- Supporting the organizations activities: AiR Lab
- Supporting the organizations activities: Support to local community
- Disseminating publicity and corresponding with local organisations, individuals and groups within the UKE network
One week vacation
- permaculture an gardening
July
- Supporting the organizations activities: MMK
- Supporting the organizations activities: Permacultural garden
- Supporting the organizations activities: Youth Club Lovinac
- Supporting the organizations activities: AiR Lab
- Supporting the organizations activities: Support to local community
- Support in UKE's administration
- Cultural differences and discrimination
- Facilitating for consensus
August
- Supporting the organizations activities: MMK
- Supporting the organizations activities: Permacultural garden
- Supporting the organizations activities: Youth Club Lovinac
- Supporting the organizations activities: AiR Lab
- Supporting the organizations activities: Support to local community
- Support in UKE's administration
Eco-Art Colony in collaboration with the Lovinac municipality
Municipal commemoration ceremony
- Combating precarity and social exclusion
September
- Supporting the organizations activities: MMK
- Supporting the organizations activities: Permacultural garden
- Supporting the organizations activities: Youth Club Lovinac
- Supporting the organizations activities: AiR Lab
- Supporting the organizations activities: Support to local community
- Support in UKE's administration
Lost Theory festival
Municipal celebration: 'Day of Lika potato'
Transdisciplinarity in art
October
- Supporting the organizations activities: Permacultural garden
- Supporting the organizations activities: Youth Club Lovinac
- Supporting the organizations activities: AiR Lab
- Supporting the organizations activities: Support to local community
- Support in UKE's administration
- Disseminating publicity and corresponding with local organisations, individuals and groups within the UKE network
Mid-term training
- Fundraising and grants in the NGO sector
November
- Supporting the organizations activities: Permacultural garden
- Supporting the organizations activities: Youth Club Lovinac
- Supporting the organizations activities: AiR Lab
- Supporting the organizations activities: Support to local community
- Support in UKE's administration
- Disseminating publicity and corresponding with local organisations, individuals and groups within the UKE network
One week vacation
- youth leader and culture centre administration
December
- Preparation and organisation of EVS informational evening
- Supporting the organizations activities: Youth Club Lovinac
- Supporting the organizations activities: AiR Lab
- Supporting the organizations activities: Support to local community
- Support in UKE's administration
January
- Support in UKE's administration
- Plans for future cooperation session
- EVS evaluation and closing
15.02 Project activities end date
FAQ
1. What is the monthly allowance?
90€
2. How many hours do I work a day?
6 hours a day
3. Where do I sleep and eat?
At the hostel
4. What can I buy for monthly allowance
Around 70 beers
5. Whether is there Support for volunteers?
Supervisor and mentor will be here every day for volunteers.
6. Language support?
It is provided for 2 months.
7.Is there a health insurance?
Yes CIGNA.
8. Training for volunteers?
On arrival and Mid term.
9. If the trip is covered here and back?
Yes with 275€.
Free-time activities (organized according to the volunteers preferences):
Well being activities:
1.Yoga & meditation
2.Walks in the forest and mountain climbing
3.Cycling
4.Ping-pong
5.Body building
6.Swimming
7.Visiting nearby caves
Social activities:
1.Evening discussion around the fire place
2.Meeting locals
3.Visiting and volunteering at the Lost Theory festival in Deringaj
4.Reading hours
5.Discussions on spirituality and society
6.Visiting local wild-life society
7.Visiting asylum for bears in Kuterevo http://www.kuterevo-medvjedi.org/hr/index.php
8.Visiting the Memorial Center of Nikola Tesla in Smiljan http://www.mcnikolatesla.hr/
9.Visiting National Park Plitvice Lakes http://www.np-plitvicka-jezera.hr/en/
10.Visiting National Park Velebit http://www.np-sjeverni-velebit.hr/?lang=en
11.Visit the sights in Zadar the city on Adriatic sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadar
12.Concerts
13.Documentary and film nights
14. Local art exhibitions and other cultural events and manifestations
Handicraft activities and similar:
1.Mushroom & herb picking
2.Learning about herbs and their medicinal value
3.Sowing workshops
4.Vegetarian cuisine
5.Recycling / upcycling
6.Natural building
Further info and links
Information about our municipality and county:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovinac
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lika
Information on culture and Education Association:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gentlejunk/sets/72157663075469992
https://web.facebook.com/MmKamp13/?fref=ts
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
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