Tasks description 

Association MULTILATERAL is a non-profit organisation founded in 1998 and created to study and promote local and regional cultural projects, as well as for cultural cooperation. Its concern is to go deeply into the relation between culture and other issues such as development, employment, international cooperation, use of new technologies and cultural tourism. In the frame of these aims, Multilateral works on the following issues: a. Study and assessment of cultural regional projects. b. Training for cultural project and cooperation managers. c. Awareness, information and distribution of cultural and artistic projects. d. Guidance for projects, public organisms and cultural companies. e. Promotion of international cooperation by means of inter-government devices and inter-dependent networks. f. Design and support for setting in motion innovative cultural and artistic programmes. Association Multilateral has a variable team of professionals for developing these issues. In the frame of some of their projects, Multilateral includes volunteers to complement their task. That is the case of the project "Santiago Pilgrimage in Aragon", aimed at pilgrims who decide to start their way in Aragon's land and those who cross the limits of Aragon too, together with all those local agents that make part of the network in the Santiago Pilgrimage. *********************************************************** ACTIVITIES FOR THE VOLUNTEER The volunteer performs support tasks inside a project whose content is diverse and whose activity can be defined like this, in general terms: A task of informing and hosting pilgrims who cross the Saint James' Way through the Aragonese path (Aragon Valley, Jaca, Berdun Channel and Tena Valley) and of divulgation of this route , within a team made up by professionals and volunteers. However, most of the volunteer's tasks depend on him, mainly. Below we explain the activities that may involve more effort for the volunteer as well as require more creativity and ideas' contribution from him/her. On the other hand, in order to perform tasks, the volunteer needs to have basic technical (on the Saint James' Way and tasks to perform) and language knowledge; the whole first month will be dedicated to language and technical training, following the plan below: 1. Language training: during the first month, the volunteer will have an intensive Spanish course, 3 or 4 hours a day for 3 weeks in a language academy in Jaca, where the volunteer is going to live. 2. Technical training: during the first month, the volunteer will have technical training according to a programme enabling him/her knowledge of tasks and the Saint James' Way at the end, as well as its spirit and the volunteer's role in the route. The programme will include the following sessions, distributed in the afternoons, in the weeks 2 and 3: a. European Voluntary Service. Volunteering. b. Saint James' Way . Itinerary, symbols, pilgrimage. c. Saint James' Way in Aragón. Itinerary and main landmarks. d. The project. Details of volunteer's tasks. Visit to espaces where tasks are going to be performed. e. The project. Information and host tasks. Contact with people. The altruistic spirit of the pilgrims' guest. f. Solving conflicts. 3. Walking on the Saint Jame's Way. Technical training would finish with a walk by the Aragonese path to experience pilgrimage and know necessary aspects to perform the information task.