📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
SCI Italy's project “La Città dell'Utopia” started in 2003 and it is located in the neighborhood of San Paolo (Rome), a popular suburban area inhabited mainly by elderly people, university students, and migrant families coming from Latin America, northeastern Europe, Asia, and Africa. The building is used to host several groups and associations working on active citizenships, especially in relation to migration, environmental sustainability, antifascism, gender, and self-determination of food and consumption.
The main activities carried out in “La Città dell’Utopia” are:
- Organizing and hosting of international workcamps, north/south trainings, and international youth meetings (trainings, seminars, youth exchanges, and capacity building activities).
- Organizing and running awareness-raising events.
- Organizing conferences, meetings, festivals, photo exhibitions, thematic meals, farmers’ markets, and courses on music, group dancing, language courses, gardening.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In a separate flat in “La Città dell’Utopia”, with 3 shared double rooms (up to six international volunteers) kitchen, living room, and bathroom. The accommodation has all the basic facilities (Wi-Fi and washing machine included). The building is historic, so the accommodation is basic. The building is surrounded by a very beautiful garden (which means mosquitos in the summer). It is located in a student area close to the metro.
🎒 Leisure activities
“La Città dell'Utopia” is a self-managed project and the volunteers’ activities consist of:
Office work (communication and supporting administrative tasks).
Logistics work for the events and the projects (cleaning, maintenance, preparing the space for the activities, shopping, cooking).
Work on social relations (with participants of the activities, activists, the members of the organizations who run the activities, colleagues, tutors and other long-term volunteers).
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: This project is suitable for someone who is interested in both grassroots political activism and the world of project management, specifically related to local and international volunteering, active citizenship, social inclusion, and non-formal education for youngsters and adults. It is for someone who would like to improve their professional skills in social project and group management, and someone who is flexible and can easily adapt to different contexts.
Deadline: Application deadline: 15/07/2022
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.