Looking for EVS volunteer for project in Italy. 5 months. Work in process of organizing festival. Apply
- Contact person: Marie Borremans
- Coordinating organisation: ALCE NERO
- Host: Associazione Filofestival: http://www.festivaletteratura.it/filofestival.php
- Location: Mantova, Italy
- Deadline: 30/08/2014
- Start: 02/02/2015
- End: 02/07/2015
We are looking for 1 volunteer for 1st of October deadline. Each volunteer will work in the archive of Filofestival for 5 months.
At the archive: it opened its doors in 2010. Since then it has hosted students, scholars and all people who were interested in consulting materials. It comprises the digitization of a large part of the assets, which is divided into several sections: photographic, sound, audiovisual and graphics. All the publications of Festivaletteratura, the whole press release, a small library and an emeroteca (newspaper library) are available there, and testify the birth and the development of the Festival.
For more information please have a look at: http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_form_en.cfm?EID=42000820717
Tasks
The role of the volunteer consists in supporting archiving and promotion of the documentary materials connected with previous seasons (paper / audio /video / photo materials); scanning paper documents; inventorying and cataloguing; carrying out bio-bibliographic and documentary researches in order to prepare promotional leaflets and brochures; assisting students that research about Festivaletteratura throughout the year; updating and developing audio-video- photo material and producing information and advertising materials (programmes, and materials. During the first months of 2015, the volunteer will work on the Ob.line Public Access Catalogue (that will start on 2015) where the inventories of the archive will be put on line. The volunteer will get to controle the functionality of the website, elaborate institutional texts and FAQ and take part in the publishing process of the first inventories of the archive's heritage. During the first months of 2015, the volunteer will work on the Ob.line Public Access Catalogue (that will start on 2015) where the inventories of the archive will be put on line. The volunteer will get to controle the functionality of the website, elaborate institutional texts and FAQ and take part in the publishing process of the first inventories of the archive's heritage. In the same time, the volunteer will take part in the promotion of the archive's heritage in high school where students get to be formed for the archivistic research and to create projects with materials from the archive that will be published on the website of the festivaletteratura.Criteria
Candidates should: - Be flexible and smart - Be interested and sensitive towards culture and literature, in the publishing world, and in the relationship between Internet, new technologies and culture. - Have good familiarity with computers and the internet, as well as precision and problem solving - Know Italian at a good level (at least B1), due to the specificity of the proposed activities - Have a good knowledge of English - Have previous experienced cataloguing and data-entry. We will also take into account the professionalism and accessibility shown by the sending organisation on the basis of the contextual presentation of volunteers or of past collaborations, as well as the support and training they ensure before departure to them.Procedure
Candidates should download and fill in the EVS form from the library section here below, and send to cristina.ronconi@ilsegnoonlus.it (please specify for which project you are applying) BY AUGUST 30. Only volunteers who will be pre-selected among the candidacies will be notified. Please note that if you don’t receive any answer it means that you haven’t been pre-selected). Then they will be asked for a skype interview to be done during the first week of September.Details:
Themes: Art and culture, Media and communications
Targets: Local Community
Library:
Category: EVS
