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ESC: Looking for a slower pace? Come join our off-grid community!

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Hungary European Voluntary Service Environment Social work Education European Voluntary Service Environment +2 Fixed dates

About the project

ESC: Looking for a slower pace? Come join our off-grid community!

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The Everything-goes-together Association (Mindenegyüttmegy Egyesület) works to strengthen the so called mover’s: people moving to the countryside and organize them into a community. The mover’s aim to create a new ecological paradigm with their life-giving actions. The aim of the Association is to promote the creation of rural and urban small communities that forces a complete lifestyle change, thus promoting the sustainability of the whole society. Another goal of the Association is to spread a lifestyle based on the aspects of environmental ethics, to support the need for lifestyle change. We also collect and disseminate knowledge, promote possible alternatives, make alternative life models available and thereby promote people's well-being. We want healthy, clean food to be available to as many people as possible. We also help to create rural communities that produce for the local market and strengthen the local economy. Our basic goal is to organize the members of our association into a community and disseminate the principle of volunteering. Further goals of the Association: - developing a coherent, alternative positive social vision at the social, economic ecological and cultural levels - promoting environmental ethics in ecopsychology, deep ecology, permaculture, by disseminating nature-identical lifestyles, alternative trends and their methods - increasing the retaining power of the countryside - encouraging and facilitating the creation of rural communities - harmonizing and making urban-rural relations sustainable - the effective introduction of a co-operative economy that creates a win-win situation for all actors; - to contribute to the improvement of the mental, physical health of the individual and thus of society - preservation, documentation, transmission and promotion of the values of traditional peasant culture Our activities: - organization of professional meetings, events, courses, festivals - organization and implementation of knowledge-sharing and craft classes, workshops, dissemination of the principles and methods of ecological architecture, promotion and presentation of energy-conscious approaches, alternative tools and the use of renewable energy sources, - promotion and presentation of the principles and methods of organic farming

💼 What the programme involves

Please read our infopack here and apply through the Google Form: https://bit.ly/3Osusod. Do you want to escape the daily grind and experience the gentle pace of rural life? Are you curious about how sowing a seed turns into food or how you can build a home using natural materials? Now is your chance to come to the picturesque Cold-Hill Shelter and apply to our long-term individual volunteering opportunity! Picture a small, dedicated group of people working, learning, and living together, building a shared dream rooted firmly in the earth. This project represents more than just volunteering; it's an invitation to join a living experiment, a journey towards a more sustainable, connected and meaningful way of life. It’s your chance to become part of our story that is still unfolding, contributing your energy and ideas to our growing eco-community. Embracing the challenges of off-grid living, offering a chance to reconnect with the land, each other and with a different way of being.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Accommodation: A heated yurt, glamping tents or cool rooms in an old stone house equipped with its eco-friendly and minimalistic solutions. Outdoor solar-heated showers, outdoor compost toilets and a local washing machine are available. Food: You can cook in the yurt and in the communal outdoor summer kitchen using local, seasonal, organic ingredients. We provide all the necessary ingredients from the pantry of our community kitchen. Transportation: Public transport is accessible from the nearby Barnag village, where Veszprém, the nearest town, can be reached in 30 minutes.

🎒 Leisure activities

You will experience a full season from seed to harvest. You will learn about permaculture and bio-intensive methods and take part in the practice of organic food production and garden maintenance. You can try out techniques for food preservation, fermentation and experience to foraging edible wild plants. Landscape Management: Caring for orchards, pastures and animals. You participate in eco-architecture, building with natural materials (stone, wood, adobe), and developing off-grid systems. Knowledge Sharing & Media: Help document our "know-how" and storytelling.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We want everyone to have a fulfilling and enjoyable experience, so it is important that you are open to everyday tasks such as gardening, building, cooking and maintenance, which are the building blocks of our lives and which also permeate yours. To participate, you must be between 18 and 30 years old and have legal citizenship/visa in one of the countries mentioned in the program. We are looking for young people who are eager for practical knowledge and who have a growing desire to get closer to themselves and nature and to experience a healthy, sustainable, self-sufficient and rural lifestyle. We are committed to imparting all the knowledge and practices that form the basis of a sustainable lifestyle and to showcase our rural knowledge-sharing innovation center. Our developed program has a very positive impact on the young people who come here, because they can experience that a humane lifestyle exists and that truly sustainable solutions exist. More details: https://bit.ly/3Osusod Application: https://bit.ly/3ZW4ufq
Deadline: 31/03/2026 23:59

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

Before applying for this volunteering project, you need to enroll yourself at European Solidarity Corps Platform (https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en) and specify your European Solidarity Corps Participant Number (PRN).
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.
Contact the ESC coordinator at +32 2 888 67 13 to get more informations.

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📅 Available sessions

HU50177

01/03/2026 → 31/10/2026

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 2
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Deadline: 31/03/2026

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

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

Pécsely, 8245 Hungary

Hungary

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Hungary Forint (HUF / Ft)

Exchange rate

1 HUF = 0.002768 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Central European Standard Time

Local time: 21:14 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Hungarian