ESC: Boosting Community Spirit
Code: 47960 Copied
Finland
European Voluntary Service
Environment
Social work
Culture
European Voluntary Service
Environment
+2
Fixed dates
About the project
ESC: Boosting Community Spirit
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Established in 1982, Piispala is a youth center located in Kannonkoski in the north of Central Finland. Our primary mission is to promote youth activities and support the good life of children and young people. We also serve as a versatile centre of leisure, sports and wellbeing for families, seniors, businesses, and sports groups. Our clientele consists of camp school groups, sports groups, confirmation camps, family groups and international groups. In general, 90% of our customers are children and young people. Piispala is one of the 9 national Finnish Youth Centres that are supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture and guided by the Youth Act and the National Youth Work and Youth Policy Programme. The common goal of Finnish Youth Centres is to promote the participation, influencing opportunities and conditions to work in society for the youth, and support their growth, independence, and community spirit. Piispala operates on local, regional, national, and international level. The values that guide Piispala’s work are: Respect for life and environment, respect for individuals and sense of belonging, equality and participation and caring and appreciation. International youth work has been and will be one of the activities that we will keep on conducting, developing, and promoting. Main target groups for our international activities are mainly 13–30-year-old young people, youth workers, and municipalities. The international activities we carry out are youth mobilities, youth worker mobilities, volunteering activities, strategic partnerships and bringing and internationality to our region. We also promote and help different organisations, individuals, and municipalities to carry out international activities and projects. We also aim to develop international activities.
💼 What the programme involves
In this project we are looking for 10-15 volunteers from different countries to work in a volunteering team for three weeks. The project is hosted by and organised in Youth Centre Piispala that is in the rural Northern Central Finland. Project takes place 10/11/2025-30/11/2025.
Theme of the project is to boost the community spirit in Piispala by decorating, painting and doing small improvements at the centre. The volunteers will organise events for the local community to increase solidarity and togetherness. The volunteers will paint one of the accommodation spaces that is used by customers.
Participating volunteers will learn project skills, develop their interpersonal skills and practical skills. We want the volunteers to learn about different cultures and make new connections with other volunteers.
Volunteers will work 5 days a week, 7 hours per day (9-16). There might be some occasional work on the weekends and evenings.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will stay at the Youth Centre Piispala in a shared accommodation, 2-3 people/room. Four meals per day are prepared by the Piispala’s kitchen and served either in the accommodation or in the cafeteria.
A charter bus will pick up all the participants from the Jyväskylä Travel Centre. All participants must arrive in Jyväskylä on 10 November by 20:00. If the volunteer can’t make it to the bus, they will have to arrange their travel to Piispala on their own. There is no public transportation to and from Piispala.
🎒 Leisure activities
During the first week of the project the volunteers will take part in an on-arrival training that supports the group building and dynamics. They will also learn about the youth centres in Finland and about their principles. Volunteers will get to know the facilities and the staff at the centre. In the beginning the main objectives, the schedule and volunteers’ roles and responsibilities in the project will be presented.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: We are looking for motivated young people who are eager to take part in the project. We welcome applicants from different backgrounds, such as people of different genders, abilities and members of different language, cultural or minority groups. The participant should be aged 18-30 years old. We welcome all participants to apply who are interested. Language of the volunteering project is English and the volunteers should have good enough English skills.
In this project the volunteers can benefit from being open-minded, social and creative person but we welcome applications from different types of people with different backgrounds. No specific skills are required from the volunteers.
Participant should be interested in working outdoors, being surrounded by nature, have a creative mindset and be able to work as a part of a group. We select participants based on their motivation letters and CV’s. We prefer applicants who have little or few previous experience in European Solidarity Corps projects.
Start your application with: “Terve! I want to join in this project in Piispala because…”
Deadline: 05/10/2025 23:59
Deadline: 05/10/2025 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 ?
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.
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.
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10/11/2025 → 30/11/2025
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Deadline: 05/10/2025
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
Kurssitie 40, 43300 Kannonkoski, Finland
Finland
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)
Timezone
Eastern European Summer Time
Local time: 21:08 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
Collective
🗣️ Languages spoken
English
Finnish