ESC IN ROMANIA

WHERE: Panciu, Romania.

WHEN:  September 2019

HOSTING ORGANITZATION: The Daily Centre Pinocchio managed by Asociatia Lumea lui Pinocchio, hosts regularly about 40 children, part of whom belongs to the Roma minority of Panciu.

PROJECTS AND TASKS: The volunteers involved in the educational sector, together with the local staff, will prepare and carry out educational activities for children (afterschool, literacy, non-formal education, workshops on recycling, games, crafts, sports…) and they will also participate in coordination meetings of the association and the educational sector.

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC en Rumania”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN ITALY

WHERE: Malnato, Italy

WHEN: from 7^th October 2019 for 10-12 months

HOSTING ORGANITZATION: Insubria

PROJECTS AND TASKS:

Taking part to the daily life of the daily centre for elderly people ( 20 users, 1 educator, 4/5 social workers, volunteers), young people will take part of the work of social workers and educators in developing activities aiming at social inclusion of elderly people and the maintenance of skills and ability in senior people. Task of volunteers are supporting the employees during the activities such as workshops ( creative, art-lab, art-lab such as drawing, theatre, dance, or sports activity as swimming or playing bocce, basket, music both live music or listening), during welcoming and  lunch time ( supporting during lunch in distributing dishes, helping some users, collecting dishes and clearing the room) or training and promotional activity for esc volunteers ( language course,  youhpass or volunteeers club meetings ).

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC en Malnato”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN ITALY

WHERE: Malnate, Italy

WHEN: from 7^th October 2019 for 10-12 months

HOSTING ORGANITZATION: LA FINESTRA

PROJECTS AND TASKS:

Taking part to the daily life of the daily centre, one centre for disable people (40 users,  5/6 social workers, one psychologist, volunteers)  young people will take part of the work of social workers and educators in developing activities aiming at social inclusion and growth of disable people and the maintenance of skills and ability in senior people. Tasks of volunteers are: support the employees during the activities such as workshops (creative, art-lab, art-lab such as drawing, theatre, dance, or sports activity as swimming or playing bocce, basket, music both live music or listening), during welcoming and lunch time (supporting during lunch in distributing dishes, helping some users, collecting dishes and clearing the room) or training and promotional activity for ESC volunteers (language course, youthpass or ESC club meetings).

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC en Malnate”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN ITALY

WHERE: Varese, Italy

WHEN: from 7^th October 2019 for 10-12 months

HOSTING ORGANITZATION: POLHA

PROJECTS AND TASKS:

Polha is affiliated to the major disabled people sport federations such at national and international level, and the association collaborates with other local and european NGOs on projects regarding the topic of sport in general and sport for disable people (technical development of sports for disabled people, healthy and sport life style) but is also involved in projects regarding raising awareness and disability in general.

Taking part to the daily life of POLHA association especially in supporting disable people during the training in different sports (hand bike, sledge hockey, swimming, table tennis). In the office work volunteers will work on promotional activities, social networks communication and organisation of sport and communication events.

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC e Varese”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN ITALY

WHERE: Varese, Italy

WHEN: from 7^th October 2019 for 10-12 months

HOSTING ORGANITZATION: BANCO ALIMENTARE

PROJECTS AND TASKS:

Il Banco di Solidarietà Alimentare Nonsolopane onlus (Nonsolopane) is a Food Bank founded in 1999 as no profit and charity organisation collecting food and redistributing it to people and families in need. Mission of the association is charity as basic value of human being life experience: sharing needs to share humankind sense of life. More than 100 volunteers collect, store and re-distribute food at home to people in need, visiting each person or family and creating a relation based on solidarity and wish to share a new zest for life. ESC volunteer will be involved in  the storehouse activities, the periodic visit to the families we help, the fundraising and foodraising campaigns of the association, the office and administrative activities Nonsolopane promotes sharing fairly and without any discrimination, helping people in need for various reasons.

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC e Varese”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN ITALY

WHERE: Florence, Italy

WHEN: 1.4.2020 – 30.11.2020

HOSTING ORGANITZATION: Legambiente Toscana

PROJECTS AND TASKS:

The idea of this project is to educate volunteers to be able to share and trasmit
eco-friendly lifestyle, discovered during the ESC project.

The project will involve a total of four volunteers for eight months and will
take place in different places of Florence and in Tuscan countryside.
All activities of the project will be related to environmental issues and education at school,
maintenance of green and protected areas, and active participation in the community at local,
national and European level.

In particular, volunteers will take part in two different contexts: one is the office of
Legambiente in Florence and the correlated activities in the city (campaigns, events, ESC
promotion, environmental education at school); another one is the natural context of Tuscany
countryside (parks and protected areas managed by Legambiente).

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC e Florence”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN POLAND

WHERE: Rzeszów, Poland

WHEN: 01/11/2019 to 30/06/2020

HOSTING ORGANITZATION: Stowarzyszenie Projektów Międzynarodowych “INPRO”

PROJECTS AND TASKS:

We are looking for many volunteers to work with us for 2 months periods between November 2019 – June 2020. The volunteer can get involved in following activities (according to your interests): – organizing workshops for local youth – hosting open events such as country presentations or language cafe’s, – visiting schools and promoting Erasmus Plus program, or delivering workshops about culture, human rights, youth opportunities, volunteering – hosting a radio show about youth, culture and education – helping us with administrative works in the office – working with media, photography, film (we own semi-professional equipment: camera, tripod, monopod, lenses etc) – writing articles, taking pictures of our events, – leading our social media, creating promo videos, movie recaps from our projects etc – initiating own projects/events/activities.

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC e Rzeszów”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN POLAND

WHERE: Krakow, Poland

WHEN: 01/10/2019 to 30/06/2020

HOSTING ORGANITZATION: Stowarzyszenie Rozwoju i Integracji Młodzieży STRIM

PROJECTS AND TASKS:

Accompanying children in games, educational activities
Helping teachers to prepare and conduct classes
Assisting teachers during walks, trips, excursions etc.
Helping children with art activities such as painting, drawing, cutting and sticking etc.
Helping to organize small events and celebrations
Teaching about your culture and country of origin (through presentations, games, songs and etc)
Organizing workshops or events for students

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC e Krakow”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN POLAND

WHERE: PULTUSK, Poland

WHEN: 01/10/2019 to 28/08/2020 (earlier beginning possible)

HOSTING ORGANITZATION: Stowarzyszenie Promocji Wolontariatu

PROJECTS AND TASKS:

a) work in the kindergarten (main activity)

b) work with local community, mostly youth (additional activity)
Once or twice per month together with other foreign volunteers from Pultusk the volunteer will be
visiting local schools and institutions to run cultural presentations and language meetings.

c) group life
In the period 2019/20 there will be 4 more volunteers staying in Pultusk and at least 5 more
volunteers in other locations. The volunteers will have integration meetings and workshops together,
we also encourage them to help each other in the projects and realise own, group initiatives.

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC e PULTUSK”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN CZECH REPUBLIC

WHERE: Prague, Czech Republic

WHEN: 01/02/2020 to 31/01/2021

HOSTING ORGANITZATION: INEX SDA

PROJECTS AND TASKS:

• communication with the international participants and the administration associated with their arrival to the Czech Republic
• supporting the youth during their travel around the Czech Republic in co-organizing public events, football tournaments, youth workshops, and assisting the project coordinator with financial management, documenting the campaign, etc.;
• Support of educational programmes and trainings organised by INEX-SDA
• Possibility to get involved in the program supporting social entrepreneurship
• Raising awareness about volunteering, voluntary projects and intercultural exchanges among the Czech
  youth (organizing promo events or presentations);
• Opportunity to develop own project according to his/her interest.

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC e Prague”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN SLOVAKIA

WHERE: Bratislava, Slovakia

WHEN: 01/02/2020 to 31/12/2020

HOSTING ORGANITZATION: INEX SDA

PROJECTS AND TASKS:

The project will be realized in our office in Bratislava. The volunteer will visit another parts of Slovakia during the project too depends on our activities as trainings, workcamps, and others events.

We would like to involve volunteers in various activities which we organize. In the beginning, we will introduce our activities to the volunteers and it will be up to them in which ones they will get involved. It will be chosen according to his/her abilities and skills. But we would encourage them to try to participate in activities in which they could develop and gain some new experiences and skills. The volunteers will be involved in the whole process of preparing and realizing the activity. Of course, we will help them; we will work as a team. We will always explain how we plan the activities and we welcome their initiative and contribution with creative ideas and inputs.

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC e Bratislava”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN FRANCE

WHERE: Castres, France

WHEN: May 2019 – May 2020

HOSTING ORGANITZATION: The center “Les Ateliers ” is located in a renovated factory of 4000m² . It combines ofces, co-working space, shops, restaurant, a upcycling/ recycling
workshop and organise events. This gathering of structures within this same site reinforces
the possible synergies and their visibility. On a daily basis around a 100 of people evolve in Les Ateliers, in between the people working in the co working or the ofces spaces, their targets ( for the trainings, activities, etc..), the restaurant and shop costumers. We also host various workshops: yoga, tap dancing, meditation, etc… We propose a cultural ofer every thursdays and fridays: concerts, debates, shows, slam sessions, citizen café, sign language evening, etc…. The cluster promotes new ways of organizing work and encourages cooperation strategies for sustainable economic projects in the South Tarn region. The cooperative ” Les Ateliers” has 2 main activities:

1- federate and promote the economic development of structures with a social, environmental or territorial purpose: animation of membership, professional animation and organization of working groups by sector, commercial intelligence, development of common ofers of services and training, gathering of skills, hosting creative public activities, communication and representation.

2- generate new activities and new
sustainable jobs: development of a restaurant of local products (45 covers per
service and 7 services per week), support for the creation and development of a store run by 40 producers, shared sales in the cluster, development of recycling of furniture ofer, and weekly cultural programming.

PROJECTS AND TASKS: 

We planned for you 2 main types of missions:
-support in the Recyclerie
-support for the welcoming of people and the cultural events
-*Support in the Recyclerie
– In the recyclerie we create wooden and metal furniture and objects, giving a second life to furniture and objects. We are open to publicfrom wednesday to friday and every second saturday.
Together with Marcin you will have the opportunity to get involved in the Recyclerie life, for
exemple:
-sending, cutting, fixing, re-creating wooden objects
-welcoming people and guiding the throught our big place
-on some saturdays support people that are coming to work on their own creations
– design your own projects
-Present the recyclerie and its values to the groups that visit the place
*Support for the welcoming of people and the cultural events
We organise and host a variety of events : concerts, debates, slam sessions, workshops, burger evening.
Together with The restaurant team you will have the opportunity to get involved , for exemple:
-welcome the artists and support their installation
-welcome the public and help with the service
-guide people through the venue
We plan for you to work 5 days a week with 2 days off ( sometime you might work on saturday but in any case you will always get 2 days off in a row). We will define you exact timetable and the task division with you, upon your arrival, based on your interests and our current needs.

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC en France”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN BELGIUM

WHERE: Rochefort, Belgium

WHEN: February 2020– January 2021

HOSTING ORGANITZATION: Malagne Archéoparc is a non profit organisation managing a Gallo-roman archaeological site since 1993.
Its aims are:
– To enhance and protect the heritages
– To pass on and share knowledges about Gallo roman history through know-hows and
techniques
– To make the past alive through scientific researches based on experimental archaeology,
through animals living on site, through crafts(wo)men gatherings; through workshops such
as bread baking, forging…

PROJECTS AND TASKS: 

The two volunteers will have the opportunity to participate in all our activities. According to their wishes and competences, they will be working together and/or separately.
First weeks will primarily consist in discovering the different activities in which the volunteers can get involved.

As a lot of tasks are outdoor, the rhythm is very different according to the period of the year because of the place constitution. Indeed, it has to follow 2 cycles: the natural one (for gardening, maintenance of the green area, buildings…) and the touristic one.

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC en Belgium”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN BELGIUM

WHERE: Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium

WHEN: February 2020 until January 2021

HOSTING ORGANITZATION:

The Association of Compagnons Bâtisseurs, aka CBB, is a non-profit, non-political youth
organisation recognised by the French Community of Belgium. The organisation proposes
different kinds of activities, mainly based on volunteering and non-formal education: local
and international work camps, medium and long term voluntary service, week-end
workcamps, leisure time activities for and with disabled people, youth exchanges and local
and international trainings.

PROJECTS AND TASKS: 

The volunteer will be mainly involved in the promotion, preparation, implementation and
follow-up of our voluntary projects (work camps, youth exchanges….). S/he will also work
sometimes in partnership with other local youth and social organisations. As part of CBB
team, we will expect from him/her to attend collective activities such as staff meeting,
General Assembly, team building day…

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC en Belgium”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN BELGIUM

WHERE: Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium

WHEN: March 2020 until January 2021

HOSTING ORGANITZATION:

La Maison des Jeunes (MJ) / the Youth Club is an association financed by the French Community of Belgium. We work in Marche-en-Famenne, a 17.000 inhabitants’ town which is located in the south of the country. Our mission is to promote youth active citizenship, participation and empowerment.

PROJECTS AND TASKS: 

The volunteer will have the possibility to participate in all our activities: artistic workshops, sport activities, organization of cultural events and free time activities in the youth club. The youth club is  open  almost  every  day  of  the  week  after school ends, organizes more than 10 musical concerts every year as well as different trainings corresponding to holidays period at school.

The volunteer will be involved in all these activities and will be able to propose his/her own after school activities.

S/he will also work sometimes in partnership with other local youth and social organizations (with disabled people, local school, educators…).

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC en Belgium – Maison”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN BELGIUM

WHERE: Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium

WHEN: February 2020 until January 2021

HOSTING ORGANITZATION:

Micados is an AMO-“aide en milieu ouvert”: a prevention service with an open scope of intervention, which means we can be active on the streets or anywhere else.
Our public is made up by children and youngsters (0-22) and our mission is helping them to keep a balanced relation with their social, family and education backgrounds.

PROJECTS AND TASKS: 

Our ESC volunteer will have as main mission to be involved in the project “«Sac Ados»”.
The aim of this project is to allow youngsters between 15 and 22 years old in school dropout situation, to have a reflection period about their future by taking part in manual works, creative activities and social actions which are useful to all our community (environment activities, building and painting activities, open space maintenance activities, activities for elder people, children or refugees, building music instruments for developing countries…).

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC en Belgium – AMO”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN BELGIUM

WHERE: Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium

WHEN: February 2020 until January 2021

HOSTING ORGANITZATION:

The service RENFORTS is a part of the non-profit association ANDAGE, created in order to
improve the quality of life of people with mental disabilities and their families.

PROJECTS AND TASKS: 

We expect the ESC volunteer to take an active part into the staff work. S/he will support and accompany the young adults with disabilities during their daily activities. S/he will facilitate their investments in the tasks realization.

With the support of other workers, the volunteer will play a big role in the maintenance of a good relationship with the different partners, the beneficiaries and the staff of Service Renforts. The volunteer is a point of contact, someone who has more time to give in order to open a space of discussion for the beneficiaries with the aim of creating a social link.

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC en Belgium – RENFORTS”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN BELGIUM

WHERE: Liège, Belgium

WHEN: February 2020 until January 2021

HOSTING ORGANITZATION:

Le Terrain d’Aventure du Péri (The Adventure Playground of Péri) has been created in 1977, thanks to the involvement of passionate people, parents and neighbours, for whom it was important to offer children a new space of freedom as an alternative to the technical progress and modernity they judged socially unfair.

PROJECTS AND TASKS: 

In our project, the volunteer will be all the time in contact with children and young people. S/he will launch, lead and follow several activities. These ones can be various and will depend of his/her ideas, wishes and skills. They will always suppose a democratic participation of the children who have the right to choose and make proposals. Usual activities in the Adventure Playground are: Artistic workshops, creative/participative workshops, games, outdoor activities.
The volunteer will also help us in the daily maintenance of the Playground (small reparations, painting, grass cutting, cleaning, tidying, gardening…). S/he will also help us when we’ll participate in special events and/or organise punctual projects with other partner organisations: carnival, city fest, shed symposium, residential camps,… S/he will also accompany the children for the visits outside: trip to the sea; bicycle trips and many other things.

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC en Belgium – Liège”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN AUSTRIA

WHERE: Wien, Austria

WHEN: September 2019 – September 2020

HOSTING ORGANITZATION: Melange

PROJECTS AND TASKS: 

You will be integrated into whatever is going on at any particular time. Often it will be preparing rooms for seminars, joining the catering team in preparing food, meeting the seminar guests, and cleaning up afterwards. There are a lot of householdy things to be done, as we care you our rooms ourselves — and we have a lot of rooms! several kitchens, too. Four mornings a week we cook with the children for the children and the team members, and you can join that team. Or go outside with some of the kids and be with them when they play in the courtyard. Depending on your language and computer skills, you can also join us in some of our office work and get a glimpse of all the organisational matters that need to be taken of in order to have a seminar centre up and running.

VOLUNTEER PROFILE AND RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Generally, you should be open and flexible, ready for the adventure of being in a place full of people and activity, and enjoy that adventure for its own sake. 

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC en Austria”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.

ESC IN ESTONIA

WHERE: Estonia

WHEN: September 2019 – September 2020

HOSTING ORGANITZATION: Kindergarten “Punamütsike” is a municipaltity kindergarten in Võru. There are 11 groups in the kindergarten: three groups for small kids: 1,6 to 3 years and eight for children aged 3 to 7. There are 54 teachers and employees. In one group there are children with various special needs. We have over 20 years experience working with such group. The kindergarten working all year round. Kindergarten “Punamütsike” has 34 year history and besides regular state program we have nice traditions like: days with family, sport activity days, visiting theatres and concerts, hikes and excursions during the year. We are the only kindergarten in Võru to teach swimming as we have our own on-site pool. Our staff members are good friends and at times enjoy activities together such as treks, parties and organising interesting and exciting events. In our rooms there are classes for adults to play the zither, an Estonian folk musical instrument. Many of our staff participates in organising Võru City Council events.

PROJECTS AND TASKS: 

QUIERES PARTICIPAR? Envía un correo electrónico con CV y una carta de motivación en inglés, lo antes posible a voluntariat.ltv@cocat.org

Asunto: “ESC en France”

Más info sobre el proyecto aquí.