European Solidarity Corps in Mundus. Mundus Association is looking for 3 ESC volunteers, between 18 and 30 years old, for a long term volunteering projects which will take place from November 2020 to November 2021 (12 months). The volunteers will help Mundus team in different departments and will support other projects when needed and according to the interest and competences of the volunteers. 

Congratulations! Our project has been awarded in the Magisterio 2020 awards. The project SAAM, led by Spanish organisations San Viator Sopuerta And Asociación Mundus, has been awarded with one of the prizes that the Spanish editorial group Siena, publisher of the newspaper Magisterio, gives every year to the best actions in the field of education all over Spain.

FP Internship - EVSW National Contact Point. We at Mundus Association are delighted to have been chosen as the National Contact Point for the European Vocational Skills Week 2020. We believe that the commitment to quality vocational training is key. Our role in it is fundamental since we will support the organizers of local events/activities and the diffusion of the EVSW

MUNDUS statement. This last months have been a true challenge for all of us, but we believe on and are committed to a brighter future working together. This is the reason why we want to let you know that Mundus has continued to work during the lockdown period, having the chance to reflect and prepare for the mid and long term future of our mobility projects and collaborations with you.

On 12 and 13 March the training course of the project European Youth at the Frontlines of Active Citizenship: A Roadmap towards a collective "South-North-East-West" Momentum was held in Zaragoza.

Asociación Mundus statement. From Asociación Mundus we believe it is necessary to share with partner organisations, participants, families, organisations and collaborating companies our position and action regarding the epidemiological incidence of COVID-19.

Illustration contest. Asociación Mundus announces the winning proposal of the I Illustration Contest "Illustrate your Mundus", an initiative that aimed to promote the participation of people who collaborate or want to collaborate with Mundus through design and illustration. The winning image, by Carmen Robles Fernández (Granada, 1994), will be printed in the new edition of the association's tote bags.

CONTEST. Asociación Mundus is looking for travel artists who would like to tell their own stories as through the art of drawing by telling their adventures while in a mobility project . We are launching the first edition of the contest “Illustrate your Mundus” with the objective to find a drawing piece to print in our tote bags and recycled notebooks, which will travel around the world. The main topic of the contest is: “Everything I have learnt before, during or after a mobility project”.

EAfA. Last Friday, March 22, Mundus Association was crowned as a new member of the European Alliance for Apprenticeships (EAfA),a network of European agents involved in improving the quality of practical training in Europe. Mundus has joined EAfA as an organization that works every day to improve professional training through internships in European companies.

Quique Miana, director of Mundus in Zaragoza, visits AXXEL, a Finnish VET center, with which we collaborate by sending and hosting vocational training students. This center is a benchmark in the training of VET students in the Nordic country.

Mundus has been in Madrid as a guest at the European Solidarity Corps event: volunteering and solidarity employment, organized by the Office of the Representation of the European Commission in Spain together with the Minister of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare, María Luisa Carcedo. Our partner Ruth Palacios, Mundus volunteer coordinator, has participated in the My Experience in the European Solidarity Corps round table, together with young former participants in volunteer projects.

The students of the EMT Granollers Institute who had previously submitted their application to participate in the Erasmus + VET program to carry out their internships abroad have attended the interview round at the center to decide who will finally live a professional internship experience abroad.

We continue to introduce the great people who work at Mundus. Now it's the turn of Pilar, our Zaragoza-based VET project coordinator (FP internship abroad) in Zaragoza. Pilar is responsible, among many other things, for taking care of every detail in the reception of students arriving from European institutes to carry out their internships in Aragon companies. Do you want to know more about her? Ahead!

We introduce you to Ruth Palacios, our volunteer program coordinator at Mundus. This Catalan is an inveterate traveler. At eighteen she left her small town on the coast of Barcelona to live in the city. Since then, she has not stopped moving through different places, and today she continues to dance for the world. She has been a Mundus collaborator since 2016, but now we have her full time in the office. You still don't know her? Keep reading!

We present Marta Albújar, a new addition to the Mundus team. Marta deals with communication tasks in the association and coordinates projects in the youth field. The new member of the team arrives thanks to the "Joves en Pràctiques" Youth Guarantee program and has much to tell us ... Enter and find out!