ESC: Individual volunteering

Name: ESC: Individual volunteering
Start: 2025-06-12
End: 2025-08-12
Location: Portugal

Code: 43535 Copied

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

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Inovterra is a non-profit youth association, based in Vila Pouca de Salzedas/Tarouca, born from the need to reverse the trend of rural areas abandonment, attracting the young population, and valuing the Earth's resources. Main activities: -Promote repopulation and settlement of peasant populations. -Foster sustainable development and socio-economic dynamism through job creation. -Revitalize and promote local heritage/activities. -Provide useful services for the community, including technical and consultancy assistance. On four fronts: i. Youth - activities that bring added value to young people as citizens, such as training, workshops, leisure activities and international mobilities. ii. Agriculture - consulting service to aid the creation and elaboration of projects to get subsidies and other applications for support, scientific research, specific training for young people and adults (like Bioconstruction and Sustainability, Renewable Energy and Permaculture), workshops to attract people to more rural areas, and dynamization of the Land Bank. iii. Tourism - promotion of Green Tourism or Ecotourism, via the dissemination and implementation of activities such as bird watching, hiking trails and mountain biking tours. iv. Commerce/Internationalisation - acting as a business incubator, creating SMEs, valuing regional products through boosting the sale of local products and encouraging networking.

💼 What the programme involves

We start from the social problem of the lack of opportunities for young people in rural areas as a factor inhibiting personal, social, economic and cultural development. This entails a set of consequences and challenges that need, urgently need to be overcome, such as, for example, the depopulation of regions interiors population aging ; the low active population rate; the precariousness or even non-existence of digital infrastructures and access to primary services. In addition to the brake imposed on young people and the development of their potential and talent, All these factors make the economic development of these territories impossible, weakening the business community, the supply of jobs and increasing gradually the risk of seeing the rural way of life and its potential, including from the point of view of the urgent ecological transition.

🏠 Accommodation on site

All expenses are covered

🎒 Leisure activities

Development of learning and skills: d) Communication in the mother tongue; e) Communication in foreign languages; f) Mathematical competence and basic science and technology skills; g) Digital competence; h) Learning to learn; i)Social and civic skills; j)Entrepreneurship skills; k) Cultural sensitivity and creativity.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: Profile: a) Ages between 18 and 30 years old; b) Demonstrates genuine motivation for volunteering; c) Commitment to European values; d) Team spirit; e) Communication skills; f) Dynamic, proactive and responsible personality; g) No previous experience in volunteering promoted by CES; h) Preferably with Fewer Opportunities (geographic, cultural, economic, etc.).
Deadline: 12/05/2025 12:00

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

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

N2, Portugal

Portugal

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Western European Standard Time

Local time: 21:06 (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 Portuguese