📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers will actively contribute to the CISS initiatives, by supporting the staff in carrying out their current tasks, from co-designing project interventions to organizing events and taking part in the training activities addressed to youngsters and other target groups. This way, the two volunteers will be engaged in a wide set of actions getting a civic and social impact, letting them to improve their knowledge on social and cultural issues relevant for young people of the Euro-Mediterranean region. The activities will mainly take place within the program of the "Casa della Cooperazione", a multifunctional space managed by CISS in a challenging neighborhood of the city of Palermo. The volunteers will act in an extremely intercultural context, where they will come into contact and create relationships with youths and volunteers, locals but also international or with migratory background.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The hosting organization is responsible for the project management and oversees the learning cycle of the volunteering projects. As a hosting organization, it oversees logistical arrangements by offering adequate and totally furnished accommodation. The volunteer has the responsibility to respect and take care of his/her accommodation, according to common sense. The hosting organization commits itself to pay the financial support/pocket money on a monthly basis. The financial support amounting to 5€ per day will be paid out on a monthly basis within the first week of the month.
🎒 Leisure activities
Varied learning and training opportunities will be provided to the volunteers during their ESC experience, in order to enhance and put in value their specific skills, knowledge and attitudes. These diversified opportunities will be ensured not only by CISS inner resources, but also by external experts, youth workers and educators from further CSO's, regularly cooperating with CISS thanks to a wide network partnership activated at local and European level.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: As foreseen by the ESC Program, the two young people will be selected among those ones registered on the Portal of the European Solidarity Corps and no requirement will be specifically requested for applying. The selection of the two volunteers will be carried out taking in consideration the social and economic disadvantage status of the applicants, as well as their own motivation and flexibility.
Deadline: Application deadline: 20/01/2023
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.