ESC: Have less, live more! Short term volunteers for living in resilience!

Name: ESC: Have less, live more! Short term volunteers for living in resilience!
Start: 2023-05-02
End: 2023-12-20
Location: Gardie, France

Code: 34298 Copied

France European Voluntary Service Environment Education European Voluntary Service Environment +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

We are searching for volunteers for spring, from April to june 2023, to actively support our organization in 3 different positions: 1. growing mushrooms, 2. animations and workshops for youngsters (month of ecology!) and 3. camping tasks (animal and garden care, help in maintainance and help in the moving to the new land). Plus the basic community and green practices (cooking, cleaning...). Overall, the project aims to promote sustainable development and resilience, and the new values that we can adopt to respect the environment and work together in harmony. With this project, we want to share concrete solutions to think over and change the way of living, and understand the utility of adaptability, creativity and resilience to respond to the current climate challenge. It may be a challenging experience, but the more we let go our old patterns, the more we are open to learn and live! This mission is for active persons, that are ready to work in a team and get the hands dirty!! :)

🏠 Accommodation on site

IDC is located in a small town,18km from Carcassonne where the nearest airport and train station are (the volunteers will be picked from there and will be taken to the camping). This region is rural, living mainly from wine farming and tourism. The cathar Castles of Lastours are just in front us!. Accomodation: volunteers will stay in mobile homes, in shared-rooms, usually with another volunteer of the same sex. Food will be bought twice per month, following the org's guidelines, and volunteers will take turns to cook healthy and low-impact food! We store properly the food and we avoid waste!

🎒 Leisure activities

The volunteers will be supported by our staff, who will guide them in order to achieve a succesfull accomplishment of the tasks. Depending on the chosen profile, they will receive instructions and non-formal trainings, for example: on the garden, compost and waste management, mushroom growing, organization of animations and workshops, animal care... Volunteers will work in autonomy during the week, after having a planning meeting on tuesdays, in which all tasks are planned and questions should be answered. Whenever the volunteer needs help to accomplish a task, he/she should communicate it.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We will host 4 volunteers (from different nationalities) who will join the team of long terms. A level of environmental awareness is asked, in order to go deeper into the topic. Some of the values we look for: ACTIVE and PROACTIVE :D, open-mindness, creativity, responsability, ADAPTABILITY and FLEXIBILITY, environmental awareness, low-impact lifestyle, teamwork, will of new experiences, personal development. For mushrooms: ready for routine, observation and curiosity. For animations: basic french, research spirit, public speaking skills. For camping: physical and outdoor/nature spirit!
Deadline: Application deadline: 25/04/2023

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

FR34298

02/05/2023 → 20/12/2023

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Deadline: 25/04/2023

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

11250 Gardie, France

France

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Standard Time

Local time: 22:08 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

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✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English French