[EVS Project] All good things come to an end

Last Saturday afternoon, we organised this meeting in Budapest to close properly our project. We would like to thank all participants for coming! We weren't that much people but we figured this out and made it as productive as possible. And it turned out to be very interesting in some way! Especially speaking about experiences, projects and networking

[EVS Life] One day in Eger!

The last weekend, we took the bus to spend one day in Eger. This picture is quite a good summary of our feelings about the city: #egernothingtodo

[ 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] How to manage the personal branding?

This week, we met Attila Tollas to speak about the personal branding. The main idea was to understand how young people can make the difference in their application process. 

The next three videos provide some answers. 

[EVS Life] Four days in Belgrade!

Szia Belgrád!

The last week-end, we enjoyed the days off work - celebration of the Hungarian uprising of 1956 - to travel in Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia.

Check our quick photo report of these four days!

[EVS Project] One day at the Mustár Rádió in Nyíregyháza

 

In the studio of the radio

Last Friday, we spent all the day at Nyíregyháza in the studio of the Mustár Rádió. The objective of the day: recording EVS testimonies and sharing experience.

After three hours and a half of train, we finally arrived in this city, in northeastern Hungary. Pierre, one the six EVS volunteers in the radio, picked us up at the train station. We have already met some of them in Budapest: Pierre (France), Giovanni and Stefano (Italy), Slavena (Bulgaria), Amaya (Spain) and Victoria (Russia). 

First, we began by recording a radio programme about our EVS experience. Then, we filmed each of them, talking about their expectations, what they think about the situation in their country, etc. And finally, we recorded a last programme in French with Pierre. 

We stayed on Friday night at their place and went out in the streets of Nyíregyháza. It was so great to see them and to escape from Budapest! So, the next step is to edit videos and to share them!

Stefano and Pierre

                                                                                                        

[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] "About your expectations": our second interview

Last time we recorded our friends from Germany, Hungary and Spain for a video about the CV. Now we are working on the next topic: "What are your job expectations?".
So this time we've decided to involve new faces into the project, that's why we asked Elisa from Romania. We met her during our on-arrival training, she is an EVS volunteer as well and she is specialised in theatre.
She likes acting and even directing a team, then her point of view is very interesting: thanks to her, we've got new ideas of topics!

[EVS Project] Quotes from young European people

 
We had this great idea to illustrate the answers we've collected from the survey transforming them in "picture quotes". Now we can share young people's expectations or disappointments on Facebook and make them referring to our survey.
It would be a good thing if people accept to share their experiences as well!

Ophélie

[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] NUMB3RS!

We launched the survey about young people almost three months ago and we have collected more than 200 answers. So now, let’s start to process the results!

[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 Life] PÉCS: check!

The last weekend, we moved to Pécs, to discover this cultural city, in the south of Hungary.

Le week-end dernier nous sommes partis á la découverte de Pécs, la capitale culturelle, située au sud de la Hongrie !