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ESC IN ERZURUM/TURKIYE

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About the project

ESC IN ERZURUM/TURKIYE

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Our association was founded in February 2006.
It applies activities for youth, woman, children, disabled people, culture and tourism, entrepreneurship and NGOs. We have 70 members all of whom are youth or youth workers.
Members are undergraduate, graduate and doctorate students at Atatürk University and Erzurum Technical University in Erzurum.
Our association makes moves with programmes prepared by volunteers in all social fields. Benefit and awareness works are applied both in local and international fields.
It played its role succesfully in 2011 Erzurum Winter Universiade. Volunteers and workers of association were responsible for training of 2500 Universiade volunteers. All member are professionals having the experience of working national and international projects.
Attending the meetings arranged by Turkish National Agency on EVS in 2007, our association was accreditated as sending and coordinator organization in 2011. Also, accreditated as hosting organization in 2015.
Since 2006, we have applied many national and international projects and worked with informal youth groups and accompanied NGO's.
In Erzurum, there are about 150 thousand students of two universities and the population between 15-29 age is about 211 thousand.
Our association is working to enable the youth to become active in Erzurum, which is a big city at the easternmost and the summit of Anatolia. we work to create opportunities for young people, to activate all local youth, to participate actively in social life, to improve their productivity and to create social benefits.
Our Association prepares and implements activities in cooperation with and with young people, volunteers, professional workers, non-governmental organizations, public and private sector institutions and organizations in all social areas.

💼 What the programme involves

Volunteers will work different areas. 1. SİTODED Office Works: Volunteers will help our works. (preparing new project, finding new partners, translate our webpage, social media activities, teaching their mother tongue to Turkish youngs, plan games about entrepreneurship) 2. Erzurum Technical and Atatürk University: Volunteers will prepare some documents about Youth and Erasmus+, ESC, Eurodesk. They will go to our universities and they will meet youngs. 3. Provincial Directorate of Family and Social Policies Studies: Volunteers will meet with children who hasn't got family. They will prepare activities. 4. Erzurum Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism: Volunteers will participate in information activities in libraries, museums and historical sites. They will organize cultural and artistic activities at the cultural center and participate in existing ones. 5. Erzurum Metropolitan Municipality: Volunteers will plan and implement activities for disabled people and women

🏠 Accommodation on site

The volunteers will live in an apartment of 120 square meters the center of Erzurum with our Turkish volunteer. SİTODED office and volunteer's home are very close. The apartment has 3 bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, living room and a balcony. It is fully equipped with furniture, couches, independent heating system, washing machine as well as Internet connection. The organization will cover all the expenses of the house. Also, volunteers have got pocket money (295 Euro for 59 days).

🍲 Food

Each volunteer will receive food and local transportation money at the beginning of every month.

🎒 Leisure activities


⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: Provincial Directorate of Family and Social Policies Studies and Erzurum Metropolitan Municipality: We are looking for volunteers from the fields of psychologist,sociologist,child development,pre-school teacher,special education teacher,psychologist,counseling and guidance. Erzurum Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism: We are looking for volunteers who are from or have worked in the fields of tourism,recreation,library,history,fine art. - Between 18-30 years; - To communicate in English; - Experience about Sustainable Development Goals or Mental Health or Social Entrepreneurship.
Deadline: No application deadline

ℹ️ Additional information

Pre-departure training will be provided by supporter organizations. On-arrival training will be provided by hosting organization. Hosting Organization: Sivil Toplum Destekleme Derneği - SİTODED / Erzurum - Turkey We are looking for 6 volunteers. Volunteers will work together in Sitoded Office Work and Universities activities. Volunteers will work individual in other activities.

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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📅 Available sessions

TR43883

01/04/2025 at 00:00 → 29/05/2025 at 00:00

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

Ankara Sk. & Mumcu Cd., Lalapaşa, 25100 Yakutiye/Erzurum, Türkiye

Turkey

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Turkey Lira (TRY / ₺)

Exchange rate

1 TRY = 0.017822 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

GMT+03:00

Local time: 21:15 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Turkish