ESC: AUXILIUM - a special project of volunteering

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About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The cultural association Link, founded in 2003, offers through its activities opportunities for non-formal education, mobility, and intercultural exchange for young people, providing concrete responses to their needs for training, personal growth, and the exercise of active citizenship.
Link encourages language learning and the acquisition of new skills that facilitate access to the labor market. The projects promoted by the Link association foster civic engagement, increase the sense of belonging to Europe, and combat discrimination.
Democracy, active participation, inclusion, the appreciation of voluntary commitment, and the value of diversity are the core principles that guide the life of the association.
In cooperation with European and local partners, and with the support of European mobility programs, Link carries out volunteering and solidarity projects, youth exchanges, seminars, and training courses.
Link also hosts and implements hosting and sending projects, paying particular attention to the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities and NEETs (Not in Education, Employment, or Training), and coordinates various entities active in the communities of Altamura and Gravina in Puglia.
The association is a member of RIVE (Italian Network for European Volunteering), which brings together various organizations active across Italy, with the aim of promoting international youth mobility.

💼 What the programme involves

Auxilium is a social enterprise created in 1984 in Altamura; a Type A cooperative which manages social healthcare services. Auxilium operates in the sector of psychiatric, disability, the elderly, schooling, training and volunteering. The volunteer will take part in the implementation of various rehabilitation activities carried out in 2 different structure, to support educators and users. The volunteer will be initially trained about a correct approach with people with disabilities, working methods, spaces, roles and rules within it. Finally, the volunteer, assisted by an educator, will be involved in the daily life of the Centres, in its relations with users and the realization of activities. The volunteer has to take part in all the activities and to learn from every sector of the structure that is provided for the users. After the first months the volunteer will choose the activities he/she wants to develop more or/and develop a personal project inside the structure.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The volunteers will be hosted in a shared flats in center of Altamura. The flat have a kitchen, living room, shared sleeping rooms, shared bathroom. The apartment is shared with other ESC volunteers, everyone is responsible for taking care for the flat - cleaning, shopping and cooking. There is no need for transport because the working and living place are at walking distance. Read all details here: https://www.linkyouth.org/hosting/1065-coordinating-esc-project-in-altamura

🍲 Food

Each month every volunteer has the right to receive money and money for food.

🎒 Leisure activities

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: The youth from 20 to 30 years is expected to be open minded, flexible, interested in the work with people who live fiscal or mental limits, open to learn techniques of management of a disabled person and will to support the qualified staff. Interest in Italian culture and language is important and readiness to learn in every moment of the project, experience in the field of disability is a plus point, but not obligatory.
Deadline: No application deadline

ℹ️ Additional information

Long-term volunteers will be followed during all the activities by a tutor who will favor their job placement and integration within the working group, thus favoring one full and active participation in all the activities of the NGO. The tutor will organize meetings programming periodicals in which the other members of the NGO will participate, and will be made available to contribute to the resolution of any voluntary need. In order to facilitate the integration of the volunteer not only in the organization, but also in the community local, a mentor will be identified.

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

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01/07/2025 at 00:00 → 30/09/2025 at 00:00

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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

Via Arcangelo Ciccarella, 3A, 70022 Altamura BA, Italy

Italy

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Standard Time

Local time: 21:44 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Italian