The Cluj-Napoca Volunteer Centre is looking for 6 volunteers for an EVS project due to start in September 2015.

Theme of the project: youth participation, active citizenship
When?: September 2015 - August 2016 (12 months)
Where?: Cluj-Napoca is the second biggest city in Romania, one of the few growing cities regarding its population. Cluj-Napoca is the regional center and economic powerhouse of Transylvania. Cluj-Napoca is 2015’s European Youth Capital and it aims to become European Capital of Culture in 2021. Cluj-Napoca. The city has a high number of students officially not registered in the city as inhabitants but living most of the year here in fact. Because of this the real number of inhabitants goes beyond 400,000 people, while the percentage of its young population is over 50 percent.
Cluj-Napoca is the friendliest city towards foreigners, according to Eurostat. 96% of its inhabitants feel good in this city. Cluj-Napoca ranks among the top quarter cities related to how easy it is to find a job.

Coordinating organization – Cluj-Napoca Volunteer Centre (2012-RO-19): CVCN (Cluj-Napoca Volunteer Centre) has as mission the development of volunteering as a means of involvement in solving out the problems of the local community.Since the date of legal establishment in 2004,the different services provided to the local community involve:recruiting and recommending volunteers for other NGOs,training and supervising volunteer managers,offering a set of instruments useful in working with volunteers,informing volunteers about volunteering opportunities in Cluj-Napoca,organizing volunteering campaigns and promotion events,organizing training sessions for the development of volunteers,etc. Since 2010, CVCN has started to be involved also in EVS projects.Up to this point we have hosted 60 volunteers in different projects in Cluj (mainly long-term) and we have sent 62 young romanians in projects abroad.

Activities – The activities of the project are divided into two main areas of work: clinic animation in the local children's hospital and developing cultural events and activities with a local independent theatre. More details about both of these can be found in the call attached.

Selection procedure – this involves two steps:

1. All interested volunteers are asked to send their CV and motivation letter (both in English) until the 27th of March, to the following email: international@centruldevoluntariat.ro
Please mention in the subject of your email for which of the two activities described above you are applying.
2. Applicants selected after the first phase will be contacted directly by e-mail for setting up a Skype interview (these will take place between 7-10 April 2015).