ESC: 3months of rural experience in Sicily:environmental awareness & nature

Name: ESC: 3months of rural experience in Sicily:environmental awareness & nature
Start: 2024-01-08
End: 2024-04-06
Location: Italy

Code: 37210 Copied

Italy European Voluntary Service Social work Environment Education European Voluntary Service Social work +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

A volunteering activity in Sicily, in the Centre for Environmental Education Serra Guarneri. Three months of volunteering in rural Sicily to learn about sustainable tourism, environmental education and regenerative agriculture. You'll become part of the community of Serra Guarneri and join the activities hosted. The project is aimed at boosting the rural life, by nurturing the imagination and acquiring skills to implement sustainable life-styles in rural communities. The project is aimed at the semi-professionalization of young people, through a solidarity activities to be implemented in a Centre for Environmental Education in rural Sicily. The long-term aim of the project is to build a generation that work towards the regeneration, and not the degradation of the self and the planet. To do that, the young generation needs to invent and to acquire the social and practical skills to access the labour market with innovative answers.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Shared rooms in the CEA. Serra Guarneri is a small rural hamlet immersed in the forest of the Madonie. It is composed of small houses clustered around the main structure. Today, it hosts a Centre for Environmental Education, run by the cooperative Palma Nana and credited by the WWF, the Italian Ministry for Education and the Administration of the Madonie Mountain Park. Food will be shared with the other inhabitants of the CEA. The nearest urban center is Sant'Ambrogio, a small village that's graa fraction of Cefalù. We offer lifts to participants in their free days or according to their needs.

🎒 Leisure activities

Every volunteer will attend an Italian Language course. Moreover the educational program planned for the volunteering activity will alternate different phases. These phases will embed an experience-based learning process, to conjugate the contribution that the youngsters will leave to the local community with the acquisition of social and practical skills. They will learn about resilience, education, regenerative agriculture cooking with Sicilian wild herbs and the botanic of the Mediterranean.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: Young, motivated and flexible to unpredictable daily schedules. Not a high level of English will be required. No strong previous experience will be necessary to access the project, but a strong motivation to be open to transformation, not only at a personal level but also as a search toward social and environmental justice in the local and wider community.
Deadline: Application deadline: 31/10/2023

ℹ️ Additional information

The project is implemented under the European Solidarity Corps Programme, financed by the European Commission.
The participating organisations have to be mindful of these needs as they are responsible for providing a respectful and trusting hosting environment. At the same time, the organisations participating in the initiative devote a great deal of time, energy and resources to set up a high-quality activity; they should therefore expect that European Solidarity Corps participants show a similar level of respect for the local communities and the people that are directly concerned by the activities (https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/mission_en).
What do we provide ?

Training before and after the project
Health insurance during your project
round-trip travel reimbursement
accommodation and food
pocket money
language course
Return Week-end
Youth Pass and SVI international Volunteer passport

Before applying for this volunteering project, you need to enroll yourself at European Solidarity Corps Platform (https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en) and specify your European Solidarity Corps Participant Number (PRN).
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.
Contact the ESC coordinator at +32 2 888 67 13 to get more informations.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

📅 Available sessions

IT37210

08/01/2024 → 06/04/2024

Closed

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Deadline: 31/10/2023

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Contrada Guarneri, 90015 Cefalù PA, Italy

Italy

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Standard Time

Local time: 22:00 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

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✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Italian