📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
House Blivande is a creative community and cultural center located in Stockholm, Sweden. It serves as a hub for artists, entrepreneurs, civic actors, and innovators, fostering collaboration and professional and personal growth amongst community members. Blivande runs co-working spaces, studios, event spaces and a public container village where individuals can work, create, and connect. The community is highly participatory, encouraging members, locals and associated cultural actors to actively engage in shaping the space according to their dreams. We are a hybrid community that exists online and offline, where we use contemporary platforms to organize asynchronously. Through workshops, dialogue, and artistic endeavors, Blivande promotes interdisciplinary collaboration, experimentation, and the exploration of new ideas.
We have received several grants from the Swedish innovation agency, specifically to build our digital infrastructure through collaborative money management tools and to develop the container village Frihmanstorget, the first of its kind in Sweden. Our main aim is to create a “plus-sum-center”, where creatives, initiatives, businesses and organisations develop in synergy. We are focused on hyperlocal action and democratic citizen involvement in Stockholm, but connect to a global context through several international networks (TEH, ECHN, MiSo). Our space is an independent contributor to the culture, policy innovation and urban development of our city.
💼 What the programme involves
As a volunteer in this role, you’ll boost the online presence of both Blivande and Frihamnstorget, helping us share our story, connect with, and grow our community! With guidance from the social media team, you’ll help plan content calendars, post regularly on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, create public events on Facebook, Meet-Up and similar platforms, and support content creation that reflects our community life. You will feature events, artists and community members, helping us broadcast an image of what it means to be part of a creative urban collective.
You’ll also manage stories, respond to messages, and help build engagement online. You’ll work closely with our interns from the Netherlands, who focus on graphic design and videography. Together, you’ll co-create content, and during July and August, the months when they won't be present, you will be able to continue some of their work, learning the tools to produce wicked designs! This is dependent on your interest.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will have a private room, either in a shared flat or collective living. In addition to your pocket money, you’ll receive food allowance to buy and cook your own meals, giving you flexibility. For local transport, you can choose between a bicycle or a public transport card for the duration of your stay.
🎒 Leisure activities
Receive training in how to run social media for a cultural organisation, including copywriting in English and creating engaging content. Learn the basics of graphic design, photo and video editing, and how to work with different graphic identities. Gain hands-on experience in the creative and cultural sector while collaborating with a wide range of artists and community members.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: As a volunteer you will thrive at Blivande if you are hands-on, proactive, and community-minded, and enjoy working in a creative and dynamic environment.
You will have it easy in this role if you already feel comfortable with English and you will be able to further develop your written and spoken skills through copywriting. You can of course use AI tools to help you correct your texts, however the creativity should come from within you, so the text feels genuine. You will use either Canva or Adobe Illustrator (ideally both), so it is beneficial if you have experience with basic graphic design.
For this role it is important that you actively enjoy working with Social Media on your computer and on your phone. Creating content on socials is not for everyone. If you are a more practical person, please check out the other volunteer positions. Your creativity and visions will be your biggest asset, so we are excited to support your creative development.
Please be aware that a lot of cultural productions happen during the weekend and evenings. This means that we have flexible working hours. Sometimes you will be working on weekends or evenings, but you can then take days during the week off, to compensate and rest.
As you will work with a large variety of people, it is important that you enjoy helping others, have an inclusive mindset (we have many neurodivergent community members) and thrive in community settings, where many people need to be taken into account for decision making.
We are looking only for volunteers that want to spend an entire year with us from mid January 2026 to mid January 2027. We currently can’t accommodate different timelines, therefore we would ask you to only apply if you can commit to this timeframe.
Finally, part of your role includes supporting the taking care of the premises. Every team member (both staff and volunteers) has certain responsibilities to help keep the space clean and tidy for everyone.
Deadline: 15/08/2025 14:00
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.