France: ESC: CREATE, EXPRESS, SHARE : News perspectives in Normandy

About the local hosting organization

Our association, the House of Youth and Culture "Le Rond-Point" is an association of popular education of the type law 1901. I ) Our objectives : 1) To promote access to culture, digital, leisure, sports for all and, in particular, for the public most distant from these practices. About thirty different activities: plastic and scenic arts, well-being, dances, sports, digital ... Development of the sport and social inclusion component: with audiences who are far from these practices (RSA beneficiaries, emergency shelters, refugees and migrants, etc.). Same thing for sport and health-being : senior citizens, independent residences, hospitals, special education (disability ...). Labeling by the Normandy region as a Resource Center and Digital Territorial Animation (CRANT). 2) Accompanying young people in their different paths, especially in the implementation of initiatives and individual or collective projects integrating both local and international dimensions. Reception and sending of European volunteers. Integration of volunteers with our professional teams: civic service at the national and international level (partnership with Guinea, Morocco). Promotion of a local grant for young people to multiply their projects on the territory. Relay of the regional device "Atouts Normandie": promotion of the leisure section. Presence on social networks and digital monitoring for young people with the departmental "Promeneurs du Net". 3) Giving a voice to as many people as possible, promoting local scene and regional artists through the use of our media : KOLECTIV' radio. Training young people from the neighborhoods to interview their elders. Intergenerational broadcasts with our young volunteers and seniors. Setting up of thematic weeks: - the fight against discrimination, - anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hate / gender equality ... Portrait of women from the territory. Local social information programs ... 4) Contribute to the attractiveness of our territory and to the dynamism of the life basin. Organization of events: break dance battle, neighborhood party, show, youth forum, citizenship ... Development of the associative life: implementation of an educational coherence with the various youth actors of the territory, exchanges of practices... II ) Our organizational structure and socio-economic context : Taking into account the elements mentioned above, we propose you a zoom on our team : - Our elected administrators. - Our volunteers who allow us to propose activities at affordable costs or even symbolic for some practices: storytelling, scrabble, skateboarding, bobbin lace, youth drawing, boxing, video game creation ... - Our salaried instructors: artistic nude, theater, stretching and sports awakening, painting ... - Our speakers with independent statutes: auto-entreprise, company ... (break dance, classical dance, yoga ...). - Our permanent staff with a team that has been growing for 8 years: a director, an accountant-administrative manager, a receptionist, a youth coordinator, an animator and a radio technician, a sports educator. - Our volunteers : whether they are young people in CES, our national civic services or at the international level. Their presence is also an added value to spread a transmission by the peers and to allow the young people of the territory to become aware that they too can commit themselves and do. In addition to these different elements, it is important to mention our partnership approach in terms of educational coherence on the territory (media library, community, schools, sports, cultural and solidarity associations ...). Beyond these "operational" partnerships, we have the support of institutions : Europe, the State, the region, the department, the community of communes, the national sports agency and the regional health agency, the conference of funders, the regional direction of cultural affairs, the national music center... Our association has had an auditor for a year who validates our accounts at the end of each year. We have premises put at our disposal by the municipality. To conclude this chapter, we indicate that the locality is located in a rural department with a classification in Zone of Rural Revitalization (ZRR), also several districts of which one in QPV (rough area urban affairs)

Presentation of the programme

We have been welcoming EU volunteers for 12 years with all kind of projects. As a cultural association, we promote access to culture for all. This year we want to focus on the radio field, thus we offer 2 different missions to create a team of 2 long term volunteers with some common missions (participate to the daily life association and regular events, promote EU citizenship values, ...) and some separate : 1st mission : Radio animation You will host regular broadcast, create yours and generally raise the voice of those who want to express, you might also invite people in our studio to create content by interviewing them. 2nd mission : Promoting Normandy's Music Scene Through Radio You will move on the territory to interview local artists (music concerts, cultural centers, ...) to create content and support our technician with our 3000+ playlist with Normand artists and also with the sound console.

About the accomodation

You will be housed in an apartment where up to 3 people can settle in 3 separated bedrooms and share a kitchen and a living space. The association provides a financial package so you can manage your food (7€ per day) and pocket money (8€ per day). Because we do encourage green transport, a bicycle is made available for use in l’Aigle. If you have the driving license, you can use the MJC car for ESC related missions.

About the leisure activities

You will participate to a ESC welcoming seminar in France with other european volunteers and to another ESC mid-term evaluation seminar. You will attend to 1 hour of French classes per week with one of our volunteers (possibility to do more). Then you will have the opportunity to get into everything you need, like radio techniques, communication (posts, videos, ...), languages workshops (French, English, Spanish and more) and youth entertainment (blind tests, all kind of cultural and sporting activity). We also encourage civic trainings and commitment.

Requirements

The Participant profile: Most of all, we are looking for someone motivated and not afraid of getting out of its comfort zone. Living abroad is an amazing and wonderful experience but it may not be that easy everyday of your journey. You shall want to learn new things, create, try it and share new perspectives. You eventually will be able to take initiatives once you get used to life here. Communication and organization skills will be promoted. Even though it is not mandatory, French B1 is advised because l'Aigle is a rural city, very few people speak English and you will have to speak a lot at the radio. You shall have a certain degree of sensibility to promote cultural awareness, even more for people who has limited access to it. Having a team spirit is something we promote daily, just like being open minded and empathic. You have every piece of more detailed information in the INFO PACK 2026-2027 : https://www.canva.com/design/DAHMoOmEfo4/d6cIMOZu8HRYBMSSyPpOSA/view?utm_content=DAHMoOmEfo4&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=ha393d0ddd8 /!\ IMPORTANT /!\ To make applications easier, we ask every applicant to fill this form out : https://forms.gle/XQ9xM51rkFHuHfe36Deadline: 07/07/2026 19:00