ESC: Diffusing culture in a second-hand spirit

Name: ESC: Diffusing culture in a second-hand spirit
Start: 2024-10-07
End: 2025-07-11
Location: Bretteville-sur-Laize, France

Code: 40500 Copied

France European Voluntary Service Social work Environment Culture European Voluntary Service Social work +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

The Bretteville sur Laize twinning commitee is in charge of cultural french-german exchange between local families or young people and people from the partner city of Massbach in Germany. It has developped an ESC hosting project together with 2 social and solidarity organisations in Bretteville (a leisure association and a resource center) to develop missions around youth, sustainable development and culture : the resource center renovates, valorises and sells second-hand products, the leisure association offers sport, handwork and artistic activities for kids using as much as possible second-hand materials, and the twinning organizes intercultural events. Your will get involved in all those activites : valorisation and solidarity sale of second-hand products, organisation of artistics and sports workshops, coordination of families and youth exchanges with the twinning commitee. A common achievement of all partners could be the organisation of a local second-hand book festival.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Bretteville sur laize is a rural norman town, 23km far from Caen (accessible by bus) in a popular region for nature sports enthusiasts (trail, bike, horse riding, kayak, etc.). It has 2000 inhabitants, has about 15 shops, health structures, schools and college, many active sports and cultural associations and a cinema. The various places of activity are distant between them of less than one kilometer. Private apartment provided in a neighbouring town Grainville Langannerie, connected by bus or carpooling opportunities. For volunteers with a driving Licence a car could be made available.

🎒 Leisure activities

The variety of activities will allow the discovery with partners of very varied professions in the municipal administration, national education, the sector of re-employment and integration, cultural animation, event organization, communication... We are considering training modules in ecological transition offered by the resource center (activity traceability tools, woodworking, renovation, transformation and reuse). More infos on the hosting organisations: resource center: https://www.lecingalrespire.fr/galerie-photos/ Leisure association: https://www.facebook.com/essorvalclair/

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: In order to feel comfortable with the context and the tasks of this volunteering opportunity, candidates should rather be: Sociable, at ease in public, adaptable to different contexts (working place, teams, tasks), feel at ease with a various audiences (all ages, precarious people, children and teenagers), creative, interested in manual work and arts, ready to live in the countryside, interested in sustainable development.
Deadline: No application deadline

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.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

📅 Available sessions

FR40500

07/10/2024 → 11/07/2025

Closed

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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

Pl. de la Mairie, 14680 Bretteville-sur-Laize, France

France

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Summer Time

Local time: 20:58 (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 French