ESC: Elf Around vol. 2

Name: ESC: Elf Around vol. 2
Start: 2025-11-26
End: 2025-12-13
Location: Slovenia

Code: 47659 Copied

Slovenia European Voluntary Service Culture European Voluntary Service Culture Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

Together with young people from across Europe, you’ll explore fun and meaningful ways to make a positive impact in your community. This year, we’re teaming up with Idrija’s local community to revive its festive spirit. Inspired by Perkmandelc, the town’s playful mine elf, we’ll co-create decorations, stories, and experiences that mix tradition, creativity, and connection. Imagine turning quiet winter streets into a living storybook – with your ideas, hands, and heart at the center of it all. Through hands-on workshops, artistic expression, teamwork, and even shared cooking sessions, we’ll build a fair and festive village rooted in values like cooperation, sustainability, and justice. This is your chance to explore how creative action can shape community life in a joyful and meaningful way.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The accommodation will be provided at Hostel Idrija, a youth hostel managed by Idrija Youth Centre. Hostel is located 5 min walk from the historical town centre and features an amazing view with spacious summer terrace. Rooms will be shared by 2 or 3 volunteers, while the kitchen, living room area and bathrooms will be shared by the whole group. You as a group will be responsible for preparation of breakfast, lunch and dinner. Slovenia is easily accessible. Each volunteer is entitled to a reimbursement of travel costs if using the public transport.

🎒 Leisure activities

The volunteering activities will be carried out from 6 to 8 hours a day, totaling between 30 and 38 hours per week. Mentors and trainers will ensure a smooth working process and will be available for volunteers for everything during the activity. You will be guided through the entire process of EXPLORING, PLANNING. CREATING the decorations we planned and BRINGING YOUR IDEAS TO LIFE.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We are looking for volunteers who are creative, proactive, innovative, open-minded, playfull, responsible, and sociable. If you enjoy working with your hands, have motivation and interesting, fun ideas on how to decorate a city for the local people from scrapped material and give Idrija a pleasant place to hang out, you are exactly what we are looking for! A good understanding of English and some experience in physical work, designing, event organization or video editing are desirable. The participants must be between 20 and 29 years old. There are no other conditions, so we gladly welcome people with all social, geographical, economic, cultural, educational, and other backgrounds.
Deadline: 15/09/2025 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 ?

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

SI47659

26/11/2025 → 13/12/2025

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Deadline: 15/09/2025

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

Ulica IX. korpusa 17, 5280 Idrija, Slovenia

Slovenia

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Summer Time

Local time: 21:00 (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 Slovenian Serbo-Croatian