EVS offers young people the opportunity to be a volunteer in another country, for a period of maximum twelve months. A wide variety of placements can be found in the social, cultural, environmental, and sports sector. Shorter placements of three weeks to six months are available to young people with fewer opportunities or special needs.
GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Voluntary activities should take place in another country, be non-profit, unpaid and not involve job-substitution.
Last for a specified period of time (maximum 12 month)
Each project should be planned, implemented and followed up as a partnership between a volunteer, their sending and hosting organisation.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
Volunteering trough EVS provides young people with a real-life international learning experience, encouraging social integration, increasing employability and offering opportunities to show solidarity with other people. Organisations and local communities are strengthened by the experience of European partnerships – exchanging cultural knowledge and good practice, increasing awareness and understanding of international youth work.
GETTING INVOLVED – YOUNG PEOPLE
If you are interested in taking part in EVS, you should be between 18 and 30, live in an eligible programme country and be willing to commit your time, energy and enthusiasm to volunteering for a specific period of time.
LOCAL SITUATION
The volunteer will stay in the Richter Eurohouse. They will stay there with other evs-volunteers. Each volunteer has their private bedroom, all the other spaces, living room, toilet, shower, kitchen & terrace are communal spaces. The Eurohouse contains a working atelier, a youth information point and the Richter office.
It’s our believe that –living together and sharing all kinds of different (cultural) emotions- the eurohouse is a comfort and safe environment before reaching maturity. All the volunteers have a mentor that coaches them, beside this person we have a supervisor who is responsible for the process. The volunteers are working for different non government organisations in the region of Den Helder.

Explanation on the concept “Eurohouse”

The aim to start the project “Eurohouse” is to create a range of so-called Eurohouses in several European and in third countries. The idea of establishing these Eurohouses came to us after several years of being active as a sending and hosting organization in the Netherlands. Youngsters all over the Netherlands approached us and asked if we knew of any reliable partners for taking part in EVS and specifically in the so-called third countries and rural areas throughout Europe. Richter has been working in this region for years with several partners. Till now none of the organizations were capable enough to host volunteers despite their interest in the EVS. The ones that we knew were to short staffed in numbers and usually fully booked throughout the year.

In our previous projects and training courses we met a lot of European organizations that experienced the same difficulties in finding good, solid and trustworthy EVS partners. With this knowledge we realized that we could do two things. Either to sit back and participate in the existing network and try to send and host EVS-volunteers or to establish our own European network and create a range of Eurohouses where partners from the European network could send their EVS to.

Realizing that Richter is not the organization to take a backseat we developed the project “Eurohouse” . The goal of our initiative is to establish a few Eurohouses in one of the participating EU and third countries.

Objectives

• Promoting the program youth in action in the aforementioned regions;
• Make the program youth in action known and accessible for disadvantaged young people;
• Establish a network of reliable organizations to host the volunteers;
• Creating a save environment for European young people to get acquainted with other cultures in the broadest European sense;
• Research how volunteer work is organized in these new regions;
• Work closely with local organizations to open up local volunteering opportunities for international volunteers;
• Creating more possibilities for sending and hosting Volunteers throughout Europe;
• Mobilizing young people throughout Europe;

A closer look at a Eurohouse

A Eurohouse already exists in Den Helder since 2001 and has achieved considerable results, both on the level of individual volunteers and from the perspective of the town as a whole. The biggest measure of success for the Dutch Eurohouse is the steady stream of applications from international volunteers for volunteer work in Den Helder. The volunteers clearly indicate that their motivation for Den Helder not only is the project offered, but mainly the opportunity to live in an international house for a limited period of time.

A Eurohouse is an actual house that is permanently inhabited by international volunteers and run by a supervisor, who is responsible for the general management of the house, this includes timely payment of rent, cleaning etc. The Eurohouse is also the office from where we coordinate international exchanges and projects. Finally the Eurohouse offers space for other international project in the region. In short: the Eurohouse offers bedrooms, relax and meeting rooms, rooms for personal hygiene such as toilets, showers etc, a kitchen and room for general activities and coaching.

Therefore the Eurohouse offers a safe place away from home for young international volunteers during their stay in the host country. As such it offers a comfortable and safe environment for youngsters in their transition to maturity.

Richter strongly believes in the Eurohouse as an idea and in it’s goals. And it encourages the partners of the network to invite new EVS volunteers, hosting and sending organizations throughout Europe to take part in our network.

Check the different Eurohouse locations throughout Europe and fill in the special request form.

Serious stuffy Links :

Youth in Action: http://www.youthinaction.nl/
Have fun .. crossing the border! The program Youth for Europe is an initiative from the European Union to stimulate activities in the field of youth exchanges, Volunteering work (EVS) and to develop skills for youth workers.

Gallery Windkracht 13: http://www.windkracht13.nl/
This gallery is combining different forms of art. Lovers of ceramic, paintings, jewellery and a variety of music are welcomed her every day for a cup of coffee and some nice conversation

H2O Associação de Jovens de Arrouquelas: http://www.h2o.pt/
Friendly environment organisation that is establish in the hear of Portugal. They like football and with a kayak going downstream. Organizer of many youth activities

Small Cities: http://www.smallcities.nl/
An independent, non-profit art collective that serves as a source for discovering new, mostly unreleased material by emerging artists working in a variety of mediums. Small cities fills the need for fresh, young and unconventional perspectives in art and filmmaking.

West Lothian Youth Theatre: http://www.wlyt.org/
WLYT aims to enhance and enrich the lives of young people through a range of drama and theatre related workshops and high quality performance projects of a professional standard. WLYT provides a varied programme of drama and theatre related activities for young people in West Lothian. They
also organise a range of European projects.

World ticket center: http://www.worldticketcenter.nl/index_e.asp
Best prices for a good and safety flight …. Type in your destination and they do the rest for you.

Europe Youth Mobility: http://ec.europa.eu/youth/yia/index_en.html
The Youth in Action Programme makes an important contribution to the acquisition of competences and is therefore a key instrument in providing young people with opportunities for non-formal and informal learning with a European dimension. The Youth in Action Programme is a programme for all. It encourages the involvement of young people with fewer opportunities and addresses young people aged between 13 and 30

Important things to know in life:

Thin Lizzy: http://www.thin-lizzy.info/
Thin Lizzy – A Rock Legend is an organisation run by the fans for the fans – a organisation whose ownership lies with the fans that use it and not with the people that created it, contributed to it, or who happen to be running it at any particular time.

Derrick: http://www.derrick-fanclub.de/
If you don’t know it: Derrick is the most successful GermanTV-crime-series. It was first broadcast in October 1974. Today, Derrick is sold in 94 countries around the world: eg. in France, Italy, Japan, Holland, India, South Africa and China.

Andre Manuel: http://www.maneman.nl/
Andre Manuel used to be active in de legendary Fratsen. The shows of the Fratsen were mostly caberetesk, now with his new group, Krang, Manuel is playing more ala avangardische pop music (captain Beefheart / Tom Waits).

Petvo Denev: http://www.petyod.com/
Check out these pictures from the Bulgarian artist “Petyo Denev” His new project is called “Moon of roots” and it’s a story about his sensations. Colours, simple forms, is it enough to explain my emotion.

The Rutles: http://www.rutles.org/
The Rutles are a legend. A living legend. A legend that will live long after other living legends have died. Check the link and you find the semi-legendary story of the Prefab Four who made the sixties what they are today.

Retro Cocktail Hour: http://www.kpr.ku.edu/retro/
Kansas Public Radio’s Retro Cocktail Hour (Saturdays at 7:00 pm) is our weekly nod to the Space Age Pop revival. Here you’ll find vintage recordings from the dawn of the Hi-Fi Era – imaginative, light-hearted (and sometimes light-headed) pop stylings designed to underscore everything from the backyard barbecue to the high-tech bachelor pad.

What!

Dreams and visions in werkatelier Richter

Richter werkatelier present the work of the New York artist Lynn Hassan. The opening of this exposition will be hold on 24 may at 16.00hours.

Adjusting Course Fifty Degrees: To arrive by way you know not you must travel by way you know not…

Lynn Hassan, an artist from New York, will be in residence at Richter Werkatelier starting on May 14 till the opening of her new exhibition in order to work and two and three-dimensional works with site-specific materials to create an interactive installation. Her work reflects how we are complicated creatures in a complicated universe. That dreams and visions hide and overlap …. public and private as we wander through the labyrinths of our own psyches.

Crossing time and space, we yearn for contact with ourselves, each other, the sacred. Artists are collectors …dew collectors …bringing together disparate fragments that jostle and vibrate …rainmakers, spirit dancers, and memory bundlers. Hassan’s work is a vessel navigating the boundaries seeking the mystery song through poetic forms of visual expression with connecting threads that interweave present moments to the ancient past. Ephemeral, yet constant, we walk, marking the traces entwining life and art.

The opening of the exposition starts on Saturday 24 May at 16.00 pm in presence of the artist. The werkatelier is opened at Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 12.00 pm till 17.30 pm. You can find the workshop at the ‘t Juttersplein 2 in Den Helder. For more information about this exposition, you can call 0223 619109 or mail richterholland@hotmail.com.

Welcome to “werkatelier” SK.

On the 21st of April 2007 Richter opened a new gallery in Den Helder, the Netherlands. The gallery is located on the juttersplein 2 in former café “t Kurkje. After several month of hard labour the regular crew of Richter (and with a handful of motivated volunteers) transformed this pub space into amongst others the werkatelier in action.

With this werkatelier in action Richter has reached one of its goals. Regularly we offer young artists from Holland and Europe the chance to exhibit their work. Other goals of the werkatelier SK are: to perform a variety of art forms in the broadest sense of the word , to give new up and coming talent a chance and to be a platform for these artists. Most of the ateliers activities are on a project basis and the objective is to work on a non profit base.

Beside the gallery we alsorun a special section in the same building where the exhibition taking place. This section is called See-Buy-Bye and is created to encourage visitors to buy art. But also to let them experience that it can be fun to buy art and to show young artists how easy it can be to sell their art.

This does See-Buy-Bye works;

• You as the artist can exhibit 2 pieces of art for a modest financial donation for the duration of one month.
• To avoid high barriers and to give young visitors also the opportunity to buy art for a reasonable price we have a maximum price of not more than 250 euros for each work.
• If your exhibited piece of art sells within the month you can replace it by another piece at no extra charge.

Opening hours:

We are only open on;
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 12 till 17.30 hours.

Finally :

There is temporary atelier space available for artist who want to exhibit their work, so if you are interested please contact us and we will send you the details or download it form the links bellow:

Downloads:
Werkatelier Map – file type – PDF, file size: 154 kb
Werkatelier Technical Part – file type – PDF, file size: 24 kb

If you like to contact us, just use the form bellow or use the official e-mail address at info@richtereu.com