[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 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] 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 Project] What about the companies?

This week, the second step in our study started: we launched the survey about the companies.

La deuxième phase de notre étude commence cette semaine, avec le lancement du questionnaire pour les entreprises.

[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 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 Life] Memories: Delphine's birthday party

 

Last saturday, Delphine became 25 years old. Big event.

One month earlier, our coordinator had a great idea: we should organise a surprise party for her. In addition to think about the perfect present, we called Zita and Dia to book a bar and to create a secret event on Facebook to invite MediaSales colleagues.

On my side, my duty was to invite our new friends.

[EVS Project] ÁVF Jobfair : we did it! (video inside)

 

It was on Wednesday, the 16th of April. We went to a university in Buda, named ÁVF (or most longer: “Általános Vállalkozási Főiskola”) with our coordinator and two colleagues from MediaGo Foundation.

Students of the university had organised a jobfair for this day. Along the morning, Delphine and I asked young Hungarians because of our project, while our colleagues were on the stand.

Our aim is not a secret, if you know our project a little bit, you know that we’re still looking for emails for our database. 

[EVS Project] Beszélsz magyarul ?

 

Mennyi az idő ? 

After learning hungarian during one month, what about our first feelings?

Après un mois d’apprentissage de la langue hongroise, quelles sont nos premières impressions ?

[EVS Project] Work in progress

"Don't make coffee, make decisions”, you can read it on a flyer I brought from one of our excursions in Budapest’s universities last Wednesday. That day, we were in the prestigious Corvinus University to put copies of our new poster on the charts.

“Don’t make coffee, make decisions”, peut-on lire sur un flyer que j’ai rapporté de l’une de nos excursions dans les universités de Budapest, mercredi dernier. Ce jour-là, nous étions dans les locaux de la prestigieuse Université Corvinus pour y coller des exemplaires de notre nouveau poster sur les tableaux d’affichage.

[EVS Project] Internet safety for primary school-age children

Last wednesday, we joined Szilárd, the CEO of MediaGo Holding, at a primary school to deal with privacy and security on Internet.

Mercredi dernier, nous avons accompagé Szilárd, PDG de MediaGo Holding, qui intervenait auprès d’une classe de primaire afin de parler sécurité sur Internet.

[EVS Project] Wanted : contacts from young people

Our project is still a “big baby”. After one month and a half of work in MediaGo Foundation, we have started collecting emails to build up our database. 

Notre projet est encore un “gros bébé”. Après un mois et demi de travail au sein de la fondation MediaGo, nous avons débuté la collecte d’emails dans le but de constituer notre base de données.

[EVS Project] What about our project ?

“I’m in the swim”, is the name of the project which MediaGo has given us. The aim is to study youngsters employment situation in Europe, basing the findings on researches and statistics.

The idea is to have an expert knowledge of this subject that can be used for creating one or multiple videos.

“I’m in the swim”, c’est le nom du projet que nous a confié la fondation MediaGo. Le but : étudier la situation de l’emploi des jeunes en Europe en se basant sur des recherches et des statistiques.

L’idée est de maîtriser suffisamment le sujet pour créer une ou des vidéos.

[EVS Life] Why have we chosen this program ?

You can see our first presentation here.

Ophélie's story

My choice of leaving my country is not linked to an idea to run away.

After I missed an opportunity to live abroad with the Erasmus program (because of lack of courage, a big fear of the unknown and other personal reasons), it is just at the end of my studies that I realised that I had to do something to take advantage of life, the real life, the one with big discovers and revelations. I wanted to meet some great people.

Mon choix de partir n’est pas lié à une envie de prendre la fuite.

Après avoir loupé l’occasion de partir en Erasmus pendant mes études (par manque de courage, grosse peur de l’inconnu et autres raisons personnelles), ce n’est qu’arrivée en fin d’études que j’ai réalisé que je devais faire quelque chose pour profiter de la vie, la vraie vie, celle avec les grandes découvertes, les grandes révélations et les belles rencontres.