1. EUROPEAN COMMISSION
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EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE
Pau Garcia Gonzalez
BORN ON 30/08/1989 IN Valencia, Spain
PARTICIPATED AS A VOLUNTEER IN THE PROJECT
ALL WITHOUT BORDERS
IN THE RECEIVING ORGANISATION United Societies of Balkans.
THE PROJECT TOOK PLACE FROM 05/03/2015
TO 21/12/2015 IN Thessaloniki, Greece.
EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE
The aim of European Voluntary Service in Erasmus+ is to develop solidarity and promote active citizenship of young people.
During their stay of up to 12 months in the receiving country, young people contribute to social cohesion and considerably
enhance their personal, professional and intercultural competences.
European Voluntary Service is normally carried out in partnerships between young volunteers, organisations in their country
of residence and organisations in a receiving country.
Erasmus+ is the European Union’s programme for boosting skills and employability through activities organised in the field
of education, training, youth, and sport. Youth activities under Erasmus+ aim to improve the key competences, skills and
employability of young people, promote young people's active participation in the society, their social inclusion and well-being,
and foster improvements in youth work and youth policy at local, national and international level.
Aristodimos Paraschou
Representative of the organisation
The ID of this certificate is 4N3S-2WX4-A1H5-M5JB.
If you want to verify the ID, please go to the web site of Youthpass:
http://www.youthpass.eu/qualitycontrol/
Youthpass is a Europe-wide validation system for non-formal learning
within the Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme. For further
information, please have a look at http://www.youthpass.eu.

2. PROJECT INFORMATION
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This document certifies that Pau Garcia Gonzalez spent his European Voluntary Service in the project ALL WITHOUT
BORDERS in Thessaloniki, Greece with the organisation United Societies of Balkans.
The role and tasks of Pau Garcia Gonzalez were:
-Writing, editing and publishing articles on the blog of the United Societes of Balkans (USB) about different topics, as
well as for the e-magazine Balkan Beats: http://www.usbngo.gr/en/blog
-Filming, producing and editing (Premium program) videos and documentaries for USB regarding social and cultural
topics.
-Create and conduct a live radio program in live with the local radio “Praxis”.
http://praxisgreece.com/
-Participating in several campaigns, such as “No Racism”, “GoVote”, “Day of Europe”
Pau Garcia Gonzalez took part in the following training activities:
-Pre-departure training by sending organization http://www.cazalla-intercultural.org/
-Journalism training course of 72 hours:
“video filming and editing” by Panagiotis Petrou (film director and graphic designer).
“E-Radio” by Georgia Mavromatidou (radio conducter)
“Creative & Writing” by Korina Branioti
-Balkanizater – a weekly series of educational seasons about Balkan countries by Jelena Vujanovic.
-Greek language course by Despina Kakatsaki.
-Cover events in the city.
-Writting articles
The receiving organisation United Societies of Balkans offers the following:
United Societies of Balkans is an NGO created in Thessaloniki 2008 by a group of motivated young people with rich
experience about volunteer programs, social awareness and vision to mobilize young people, their involvement in
volunteering. The main goal of the organization includes the motivation of youth in order to become socially active,
and give free access to knowledge and opportunities. It organizes youth mobility projects, in local, European and
international level on various subjects.
The sending organisation of Pau Garcia Gonzalez was Cazalla Intercultural from Lorca (Spain).
We certify the participation of Pau Garcia Gonzalez in this European Voluntary Service project ALL WITHOUT
BORDERS.
Aristodimos Paraschou
Person in charge of the projectThessaloniki, 20/12/2015

3. INDIVIDUAL LEARNING OUTCOMES
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Pau Garcia Gonzalez participated in the European Voluntary Service project ALL WITHOUT BORDERS in
Thessaloniki, Greece between 05/03/2015 and 21/12/2015.
The following summary of Pau Garcia Gonzalez's learning outcome is the result of an ongoing dialogue process between
Pau Garcia Gonzalez and his mentor Olympia Datsi during the whole activity.
The following description of learning outcomes is a reflection related to the Key Competences for Lifelong Learning
recommended by the European Parliament and the Council in December 2006.
COMMUNICATION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Pau was able to learn the basic communication to talk with Greek locals, shop traders or local authorities. He was very interested
in this language, being one of the reasons was the similarities in accent with the Spanish. After some months living in Greece,
he could understand a lot of conversations between locals and sometimes participate in such conversations.
The language used in office, home and whole life was English. Pau had experience working using this language, which made
the adaptations much easier. Furthermore, writing articles and reports in English made him improve his writing skills, as well
as his presentations skills in this language, since he had to run some of them in his radio show.
Pau and his flatmates had a weekly tandem, where they were teaching and learning different languages.
As consequence of living with people from different countries, he can say basic words in different languages, especially in
Turkish, whom language is starting to speak.
DIGITAL COMPETENCE
Pau created two new personal blogs, which still update often in Spanish and English: http://paugarciagonzalez.blogspot.gr/
http://elviajeroatemporal.blogspot.gr/
He is now able to prepare all the technical stuff for a web radio show (live or recorded) with programs like Centova Cast,
Cool Edit Pro, Winamp, FTP Comander and others. Before the project, he had no idea about radio preparations. Also he can
command and conduct these shows by himself, using his voice and creating the topics:
https://www.facebook.com/usbngoradio/
Additionally now he can edit videos with the edition program Premier in advanced level. He edited, directed or wrote the script
in several videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/ngoUSB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWLeFXhU344
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY2t4wdKSFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQKQFXDNTgg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GM3b-BWeUY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDi9qPb4N5k
Finally, Pau made a lot of reportage when he had to use the photo-camera, and he learn how to use it in a professional way.

4. INDIVIDUAL LEARNING OUTCOMES
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LEARNING TO LEARN
Pau learned how to share his life with several people living in the same flat. Thanks to that, now it is able to be more flexible
and humble in his decisions. It was very important to him this experience, and now he is plenty able to work with others in
teams, as a leader or simple participant.
He had the opportunity to try new non-formal educational methods, using practicing as the main path to learn digital
competences, social competences or HR competences.
SOCIAL AND CIVIC COMPETENCES
He was volunteer in several organizations in help for the abandoned dogs in the city of Thessaloniki, volunteer in help for the
Syrian refugees in Thessaloniki, volunteer in a huge amount of events in the city: Thessaloniki Colour Festival, Thessaloniki
Greenwave Festival (working as a vegan cook in a vegan festival), Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki
International Documentary Festival,Taratsa Film Festival, Balkan Festival of Thessaloniki and some others.
He made a lot of contacts to raise social projects.
Became vegetarian and develop an interest for spreading vegetarianism in the city.
In Greece, he applied the tolerance he had for new cultures.
SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
During his EVS, Pau had the chance to head different projects, especially video ones. Regarding to that, now he is able to
organize his work and others´.
Moreover he started by himself a series of fabuls (story tales) about political and historical facts in Balkan countries. He created
and wrote the stories and other volunteers with talent in drawing collaborated in the project.
CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION
He was volunteer in several organizations in help for the abandoned dogs in the city of Thessaloniki, volunteer in help for the
Syrian refugees in Thessaloniki, volunteer in a huge amount of events in the city: Thessaloniki Colour Festival, Thessaloniki
Greenwave Festival (working as a vegan cook in a vegan festival), Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki
International Documentary Festival,Taratsa Film Festival, Balkan Festival of Thessaloniki and some others.
He made a lot of contacts to raise social projects.
Became vegetarian and develop an interest for spreading vegetarianism in the city.
In Greece, he applied the tolerance he had for new cultures.
OTHER SPECIFIC SKILLS
Pau was fully adapted to his new life in Greece: the way of living in Thessaloniki was perfect for his rhythm and people´s
behaviors were similar to the ones in his original city. He felt very integrated and this is why he met a lot of people and made
a lot of friends who work in different NGOs or organizations, played in local music bands (Baidsa, Blues wire, for example)
or participated in social projects.

5. INDIVIDUAL LEARNING OUTCOMES
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In his first week in Thessaloniki, he attended an event concerning to promote the Greek Traditional Dances. Besides, one
demonstration for the spread of Basque-Country language, the Korrika.
He was able to communicate basically with locals in Greek language, even he received job offers to work in Athens. He was
living with people from different countries (Turkey, France, Italy, Lithuania, Vietnam, Portugal, Spain, Ecuador, Mauricio Island,
Kenya...) and backgrounds, which made him be even more open-minded and be part of a big global family.
We confirm the mutual process of reflection during European Voluntary Service.
Pau Garcia Gonzalez
Volunteer
Olympia Datsi
Mentor of the volunteer
Thessaloniki, 20/12/2015
Further information and original documents on the Key Competences for Lifelong Learning:
http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/education_training_youth/lifelong_learning/c11090_en.htm
Further information about the Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme and Youthpass:
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/programme and www.youthpass.eu