ESC: Feel the Forest 2024

Name: ESC: Feel the Forest 2024
Start: 2024-07-22
End: 2024-08-09
Location: Finland

Code: 40638 Copied

Finland European Voluntary Service Environment Social work European Voluntary Service Environment +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

Volunteers take care of our outdoor facilities in the forest and possibly also create new facilities to our surroundings. These facilities in the forest are used for different types of educational workshops with the groups that visit Metsäkartano Youth Center. During the project the volunteers get good understanding on environmental education and how nature can be used to strenghten the mental and physical health. There will be all together 10 volunteers. Half from Finland and half from abroad. The idea is also to bring people from different cultures to rural Finland, and to promote international activities to our local youth community. Volunteers work generally from Monday to Friday from 9am to 16pm. Evenings and weekends are free time for the volunteers. OUR YOUTH CENTER IS IN THE MIDDLE OF NATURE, next to a national park. There is no village nearby. But our youth center has many activities that can be done on the free time.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Accommodation is organised in a common log house in the surroundings of Metsäkartano Youth Center. The log house is a traditional house by a lake, with kitchen, common area and sauna, etc. Volunteers live together in the house, in different rooms where 2-3 people share a room. Food is provided by Metsäkartano youth center, either in our own restaurant (usually breakfast/lunch/sometimes also dinner) or by giving supplies to the volunteers to cook in their own cabin.

🎒 Leisure activities

Volunteers will get guidance to their work tasks. There will always be a work leader who is a staff member of Metsäkartano. There is also a leader that is helping the volunteers to find fun activities to their free time and helping with communication and team-building with the group.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We are looking for MOTIVATED volunteers who can be FULLY committed to take part of the activity. For this project we choose youth with fewer opportunities only, for example long-term unemployed or those who find it challenging to find other opportunities, etc. We can host volunteers who need personal support as well, but we have to know about the special needs beforehand. We value equality and diversity in our work community. We welcome applicants from different backgrounds, such as people of different genders, and members of different language, cultural or minority groups.
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

FI40638

22/07/2024 → 09/08/2024

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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

Metsäkartanontie 700, 73900 Rautavaara, Finland

Finland

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Eastern European Summer Time

Local time: 21:15 (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 Finnish