📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
100 days project - help sustain the traditions of a Croatian maritime village!
Volunteers will engage “hands-on” in a variety of both traditional and contemporary manual crafts and projects. Participants will be introduced to various skills and techniques that they will be required to practice in their day-to-day service to Maritima Educare and the community of Sumartin. Sharing maritime knowledge of each volunteer‘s home country will also be a component of this project. This “Learning by Doing” program aims to improve the current and future life of the local community through the sharing and promotion of valued maritime traditions and daily heritage practices. Some of the tasks will be: the repair, restoration and seasonal maintenance of wooden boats by learning how to use traditional and contemporary tools, design and develop educational presentations that they will deliver to students at schools on Brac island.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Board and accommodation in apartment (sharing bedrooms),
Pocket and food money: 270€/month,
All meals, laundry, maintaining the apartment is done by volunteers themselves.
Travel costs will be reimbursed for the cheapest and most direct way of transport, according to Erasmus+ distance calculator:
100 - 499 km: 180€ per participant
500 - 1999 km: 275€ per participant
2000 - 2999 km: 360€ per participant
🎒 Leisure activities
Individuals will be expected to learn and practice various skills using both traditional and modern tools. Guidance in learning and preforming the work of the Croatian Kalafat (boat carpenter) will be directed by an experienced MEA builder of wooden boats.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: Hard working, interested in woodwork, boats, maritime culture, team player, not afraid to share working and living space with other volunteers, used to live in very small isolated community.
Deadline: Application deadline: 14/02/2023
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.