[ EVS Project ] Infographic: expectations of young people in Europe

We launched our survey few months ago, now you can check the main results in this infographic. 

[EVS Life] Mid-term Training in Budapest

This traditional group picture was made during our "EVS mid-term training", the second and last one of our year of volunteering.
We were so excited about it! We weren't such a big group, just 15 youngsters from all over Hungary. We almost had already met each other during the year so it appeared that we were already all friends: we lived this experience with a lot of joy!
The training was named "EVS (mid-term) Master Chef Hungary" with an inspiring theme: sustainable food - as vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free food. Thanks to our 2 amazing trainers, all of it - activities, topics, participants - was well thought and allows us to enjoy a very great time!

[EVS Project] Videos "How to": tips for a job-seeking period

How to be successful? How to stay positive?
These 6 videos below are the ones we made with several coaches or specialists during the HVG jobfair (this is almost the end of our videos concerning this event).
We hope we have made them enough short and efficient: we know how much it is hard to be focused on a speech for more than 3 minutes. We are working now on our "real project" composed with stories from young people all over Europe.

[EVS Project] Videos: Interviews with companies

During the HVG jobfair, we had the opportunity to speak with several companies. We interviewed HP, Decathlon and Sigma Technology to know their opinion about young graduates: do they recruit them? What advantages do they get when they hire them?
Click on "play" for the videos below.

[EVS Project] Our videos are online

We finally have started our Youtube channel! Almost all of our videos concerning the HVG Állásbörze are online.
It was a hard task to edit them properly because we had to be more familiar with the After Effect software first. These past days made us really busy, dealing with our computers at the office and improving our editing skills.

[EVS Project] We are going to HVG Állásbörze!

Next week, on the 23rd and 24th of September, the biggest jobfair in Hungary named HVG Állásbörze will take place in Budapest.
We had already thought about going there with the MediaGo's staff, but it was hard to know exactly how we could take profit on this event.
Thanks to our coordinator, we have found out two main ideas:

Idea 1: involving young job-seekers in our project, making them putting a "Like" on our FB page.
Idea 2: going straight to the companies (or their HR leader) for interviewing them quickly.

[EVS Project] "About the CV": first video recording

 

Our first recording is done! And we were so excited to make it :)

Three weeks ago, we decided to interview some friends about this topic: the CV. We wanted to have points of view from 3 different countries: Hungary, Germany and Spain.

Through these videos, our purpose is to show and highlight differences between them, thinking it could be useful to know how it's working "all over Europe".

[EVS Project] We are creating a "Question box"

We are entering in the third part of our project: creating videos.

As an introduction, we would like to make a little video project based on the model of a "question box". In France, we have a famous TV channel where this "game" is played with celebrities: they read a question on a screen, mostly asked by viewers, and they have to answer in a funny way while the camera is recording in front of them.

I already created this kind of video in the past, during an event with teenagers. On one hand it was really fun (especially for them), on the other hand it was helpful to involve people in my project 'cause all participants shared the video on the social networks.

So I was thinking it can be awesome to do the same thing again!

[EVS Life] Video "Tell me about Europe, episode 4"

Parlez-moi d'Europe - Episode 4 by CRIJ-Haute-Normandie

So this is the last video that I made for my sending organisation, one month after the first one.
Here I am speaking about the capital of Budapest, trying to introduce all the famous places that a tourist can visit (and some of my favourite ones as well!). Hopefully the weather was wonderful to film it, therefore you can enjoy how awesome is this city in summer!

Of course, because I am speaking in French during the whole video, you can read the translation of what I am saying here:

[EVS Project] "I'm in the swim" is on Facebook now!

One week ago, we decided to create a facebook page about our project. 

[EVS Life] Video "Tell me about Europe, episode 3".

Parlez-moi d'Europe - Episode 3 by CRIJ-Haute-Normandie

As I mentioned it here and there, I'm making 4 videos about my EVS life in Budapest since my sending organisation, CRIJ Haute-Normandie, asked me to create them one month ago.

For this one, I had to talk about my social life. So I decided to introduce almost all of my friends in Hungary.

Because this video doesn't have any comment from me, I guess a whole translation is useless.

Enjoy! :)

[EVS Project] Feedback: “Let’s think together!”

Last friday, we organised our first brainstorming. Fourteen european volunteers and hungarian students exchanged views about job seeking topics. 

Samedi dernier, nous avons organisé notre premier brainstorming. Quatorze volontaires européens et étudiants hongrois ont échangé autour de plusieurs thématiques sur la recherche d’emploi.

[EVS Project] Let's think together!

At the same time as our survey, we begin the qualitative phase of the project. It starts by the organisation of a brainstorming about the same theme, that is to say the youth employment.

En parallèle de notre questionnaire, nous commençons la phase qualitative du projet. Cette dernière débute par l’organisation d’un brainstorming autour du même thème, à savoir l’emploi des jeunes en général.

[EVS Life] About the video "Tell me about Europe, episode 1".

Parlez-moi d'Europe - Episode 1 by CRIJ-Haute-Normandie

My sending organisation named "CRIJ Haute-Normandie" asked me to create 4 videos about my life in Budapest as an EVS volunteer. During one month, I'm going to make 1 video per week and this serie is called "Parlez-moi d'Europe" ("Tell me about Europe").

This first one is about my arrival in Budapest, my routine, my workplace and my expectations. Sorry, the video is only available in French without subtitles... But if you want to understand it, take a look to this translation:

[EVS Life] 3 days in Warsaw!

For our first trip out of Hungary, we chose Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. Three days of walk with two volunteer friends, one German and one Latvian. We flew away from 7th to 9th of June, taking profit of the Monday off.

[EVS Life] #happyEVS Part 2

The aim of our on-arrival training was to inform us about all questions referred to our EVS experience. Our trainers, Judith and Attila, helped us to think about the “why” and the “how” during those five days training.

The reflection sessions were interspersed with games to divert us and to get closer to each other.

[EVS Life] #happyEVS Part 1

The best volunteers!

After three months of fights to obtain some information from the Hungarian national agency, we finally took part in an on-arrival training. The main aims of this training are to meet the new volunteers freshly arrived in Hungary and to inform each volunteer of his rights and his responsibilities.

Après trois mois de lutte archanée pour obtenir des informations auprès de l’agence nationale hongroise, nous avons enfin pu effectuer notre “on-arrival” training. Le but de ce training est de rencontrer une partie des volontaires récemment arrivés en Hongrie et de nous informer de manière générale sur les droits et les responsabilités du volontaire.

[EVS Life] "Big Volunteer Meeting" in Várpalota

After a busy and exhausting work week, we took the bus to spend a weekend in Várpalota in the Hungarian countryside. This break has been eagerly awaited!

This event was planned for two months, organised by the fourth volunteers of the youth center (read our article about our first visit there): they had created an event on Facebook to invite European volunteers from Hungary for two days of games, talks and discoveries.

 To participate in this weekend, we had to “apply” for it, completing a silly questionnaire about our blood group, our favorite superhero or our shoe size. Why not?

[EVS Project] We need YOUth!

Link: bit.ly/1n0gt10

Finally, here we are! As I said before, we worked on the creation of the survey for two months: one targets the young adults and the other one targets the companies.

Enfin, nous y voilà! Comme je le disais dans l’article précédent, cela fait pratiquement deux mois que nous travaillons sur l’élaboration de deux questionnaires: l’un est destiné aux jeunes et l’autre aux entreprises.

[EVS Project] The survey is almost ready!

Brainstorming time! 

After one month of researches, structures and reflexion, the first step of our project can be launched. 

Après un mois de recherche, de construction et de réflexion, la première étape de notre projet peut être lancée.