ESC: Development of youth activities
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About the project
ESC: Development of youth activities
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Youth centre Kotlovnica (MCK) has been a space whose programme orientation is dictated by young people since 2007. Right now these are culture, digitality, sustainability, entertainment, non-formal education and volunteering.
Throughout the year we accept initiatives and wishes of youngsters and include them in the process of creating and implementing activities in order to make sure they become proactive participants and as active citizens as possible. The same applies to the international volunteers we`ve continuously hosted throughout many years.
The regular activities of the youth center include cultural events such as improvisational theater, varieté, cabaret, poetry evenings, stand up ... – the program of all these events is co-organized and mostly performed by young people themselves – and concerts where we give priority to young music groups. In recent years, we have also focused on digital content: video and audio production, photography, podcasts and radio… and on sustainable content: clothing exchange and seed exchange. We organize social evenings, exhibitions, workshops (creative, theater, music and video, workshops for training technicians – especially sound and light) ...
MCK has a number of its own "special" spaces for activities – production spaces. These include a photo studio, an art room with a stove for making clay sculptures, a multimedia room with audio and video recording equipment, and a rehearsal space for young local musicians. The main hall with stage, bar and technical space can accommodate up to 135 visitors. Our premises are available to autonomous groups of young users and are as well at the disposal of our international volunteers.
Our organization is the producer of the youth festival Pozdrav iz Kotla (festival at the end of the programme season, which is intended for socializing of all young people who actively use the youth centre), events Ognjena Veronika (winter festival of fire and light) and the Festival of Free Video Production. We are co-producing the summer festival Kamfest (festival of music and open culture) and the youth festival City of Youth.
💼 What the programme involves
🏠 Accommodation on site
🍲 Food
You will receive 5 EUR of individual support per day and 196 EUR of food money each month.
🎒 Leisure activities
Well, when it comes to leasure activities it depends on volunteers. Some like to travel to the capital Ljubljana and do things there. Here in Kamnik they can go hiking or they can join some other organisation/group, there is photo club, climbers ... they can spend time with disabled youngsters. I know of one volunteer who joined the local football club. They can prepare their own cultural projects (that's what we are mostly into and there are many young artists who are willing to collaborate) ...
⚠️ Requirements
Deadline: No application deadline
🤝 Meeting point
Either they travel by public transportation to our youth centre in Kamnik (there are good connections from the capital Ljubljana), or we pick them up from the neares airport (LJU) that is only 20 minutes away.
ℹ️ Additional information
You will attend on-arrival and mid-term trainings that are organised by Slovenian National agency. Youth centre Kotlovnica offers a variety of opportunities: - Theoretical and practical training as a lighting or sound technician at events. You would help as a technician at our events. - Theoretical and practical training of video and audio production: We have a studio with a computer and recording room and recording equipment (camera, sound, lights). The concert hall is fully equipped and equipment can also be used for outdoor performances.
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.
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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
SI45671
28/07/2025 at 00:00 → 31/05/2026 at 00:00
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
Fužine 10, 1241 Kamnik, Slovenia
Slovenia
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)
Timezone
Central European Summer Time
Local time: 21:18 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
🗣️ Languages spoken