🏢 About the local organisation
Antigóna is a non-profit organization, created in Rastignano (Bologna) on 7.2.2008, on the initiative of five founder members. Its registered office is located in Bologna, Via dello Scalo 10, and its recently opened, operational headquarters is in the same road, Via dello Scalo 6/a.
Antigóna aims to achieve the following goals:
• to conceive and implement projects of social solidarity, development cooperation and humanitarian aid, in order to permanently improve the living, health and work conditions of the final beneficiaries, strengthening their skills to guarantee sustainability over time for the projects;
• to inform, raise awareness, and involve the civil society, especially the youth, about actions aimed at solidarity, enhancing the initiative, the energies and the expressions of volunteering;
• to favour the self-directed progress, in social, cultural, technical and economic spheres, of sectors of unprivileged population, also through collaborative relationships with their organizational expressions, and with other subjects involved in development cooperation, at national and international level;
• to promote the human growth, the non-formal and intercultural learning, the acquisition of skills and practical experiences, and the professional training of young people motivated to develop social solidarity activities and international development cooperation.
To achieve these goals, since its inception Antigóna has privileged a peculiar and very collaborative operating mode, that is: to put the skills that Antigóna and its members have, at the disposal of other organizations that have embarked in a project and find themselves in some kind of difficulty. In other words, Antigóna was born to collaborate with other organizations and support them, helping their projects to overcome temporary difficulties, or to reach a better daily functioning, depending on the case. It is a highly original mission, rarely adopted by other non-profit entities. As a consequence of this mission, Antigóna has always been active in projects of various types, without specializing in any particular theme. We evaluate and choose the collaborations in which to be engaged on the basis of our assessments about: the quality of the project, the adequacy of our competences with respect to it, the empathy with the possible partners with whom we come into contact, and our operative possibilities in that specific moment.
Besides the collaborations with other organizations, we also realize projects conceived and managed by ourselves, yet remaining always open to networks with other partners sharing our operating mode.
Currently Antigóna is involved in three activities:
• a collaboration with an Italian informal group, to support its project in India called "Crumbs of solidarity";
• our own activity related to the "European Solidarity Corps'';
• a long-standing social informatics project, called ''The informatic harbour'', to help people in trouble to carry out online administrative procedures.
We also have a bunch of other collaborations and projects in evaluation, to be possibly started.
💼 What the programme involves
Are you passionate about nature, the environment and birds? The host organisation is an environmental organisation in Malta, committed to the protection of wild birds and their habitats. The host organisation is looking for a volunteer to join its international team responsible for protecting birds and their habitats, inspiring and educating people about birds and nature in the Maltese islands. Your work will mainly take place in the organisation's offices and in their nature reserves in Malta. Your tasks will be varied and will include organising and coordinating a calendar of events, managing booking procedures, managing event emails and keeping an accurate record of all events, preparing communication material to promote these events, promoting events on the BirdLife Malta website and social media, newsletter and magazine and supporting the events by recruiting and training volunteers to help with events and conservation work.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be hosted in an accommodation in Ta’ Xbiex, in the northern part of Malta island, close to the nature reserves or with host families. All living costs such electricity, water, gas and internet will be covered. You will receive 380€ as a monthly allowance, partly to cover the cost of food, and partly as pocket money. The travel costs from Italy to Malta and back will be fully reimbursed. You'll have an insurance coverage, agreed with E.U., protecting you from any risk.
🎒 Leisure activities
You will receive a pre-departure training in Italy with your sending organization and will as well attend in Malta the on-arrival and mid-term trainings organized by the Maltese National Agency. Also, you will be provided with language support. You will be learning to have an adaptable approach, in line with the need of a charitable organization’s structure, including working flexible and occasionally long hours, which could be also on weekends and public holidays (the weekly working time will not exceed 38 hours, and any additional commitment, or on weekends, will be made up for).
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: Are you outgoing, friendly and keen to meet new people, socialize and experience a different culture? Apply if you are interested in improving bird, flora and other species identification skills. Join the hosting organization’s team if you are interested in inspiring and educating people about birds and the natural world! You will also develop administration, time management, digital and interpersonal skills.
Deadline: 16/03/2025 23:59
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.