📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Agape Centro Ecumenico is an international dialogue center which has been founded by the protestant pastor Tullio Vinay and has been build by the sole work of young volunteers from all over the world. It has been opened in 1951 and since then organizes camps and conferences both for minors and adults from Italy, Europe and the rest of the world. It is runned by a group of volunteers from all over the world, living in comunity for a year or longer. Main themes of the center are inter-religious dialogue, antidiscrimination, gender equality, peace education and creating a european and international community.
💼 What the programme involves
The project aims to promote a new culture of equality and social justice starting from youth activism in the field of European volunteering, through digital and real awareness raising actions. A diverse group of 7 young people from Europe and neighboring countries will have the opportunity to carry out long-term volunteering in structures that have been working for years for integration, interculturality, critical and non-violent education of young people in the Italian territory. Alongside the support activities in the 5 placements in which the volunteers will live and act, volunteers will have the chance to take the volunteering experience to an individual and collective path of permanent active citizenship.
🏠 Accommodation on site
1 placement available in north Italy in one small village in Prali, near Turin. The volunteer will live and work in an Ecumenical Centre and be part of the residential group of people who runs the facility. The volunteer will live with a group of 8 volunteers, with whom she/he will manage a communitarian lifestyle. The volunteer will be given a monthly pocket money. Food will be provided by the The house will be right next to the Center where volunteers are involved in activities
🎒 Leisure activities
Volunteers will participate to three diverse seminars organized by the coordinating organisation of the project (on-arrival, mid-term and final seminar). They will also participate in the seminars organized by the National Agency. In the placements they will have many chances to participate in training moments and they will be supported by tutors in order to learn how to contribute to the activities of the placements. The volunteer will have the chance to attend Italian lessons.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: Interested youngsters will be selected according to the interest in the project topic, the will to get involved in the project activities and to bring a personal and active contribution to the placement. They will nee to be ready to challenge themselves, to live and cooperate with other people. They don't need to have any previous experience or specific skills, but to be ready to learn and push themselves in new experiences out of the comfort zone.
Deadline: Application deadline: 05/06/2022
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.