ESC: Metsäkartano Youth Center for 5-6 months
Code: 44835 Copied
Finland
European Voluntary Service
Social work
Education
Culture
European Voluntary Service
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About the project
ESC: Metsäkartano Youth Center for 5-6 months
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Metsäkartano is one of nine Finnish Youth Centres specialised in youth work. Our function is to develop the methods used in the field of youth work, to further the skills of the youth, and to enable young people’s travelling domestically and abroad. We are supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture and we follow the current Youth Act and Youth Policy Programme.
As a Youth Centre the purpose of Metsäkartano is to promote international youth co-operation, non-formal education and environmental education. We offer a safe and secure environment for camps, courses, trainings and activities - 365 days a year. Our facilities are designed for the youth and the premises are in the heart of the beautiful Finnish nature.
We want to empower kids and young people in various ways, mainly by organising over night camps, youth exchanges, voluntary service opportunities and social youth work camps, camp schools and family camps.
Metsäkartano has strong responsible and sustainable values, which are visible in our everyday actions. The basis of our work is at environmental education and experiential learning - and exploring the great outdoors. We want to create opportunities for people to get stronger connection with themselves and the nature. We have made connecting with the nature easy as possible, since our learning environment is the Finnish nature. We are awarded as a social enterprise, as we target our profits for promoting our youth work.
💼 What the programme involves
We are looking for a motivated volunteer to join our youth work team in Metsäkartano.
Do you want to learn about youth work?
Do you want to learn about outdoor education?
Do you want to live near forest and lakes for the whole summer?
Do you want to learn about Finnish culture, people and working life?
Are you available to volunteer as soon as possible until the end of summer?
Are you interested to try at least 10 different saunas? Maybe see auroras? Enjoy winter snow? Or perhaps summer swimming and long clean sand beaches behind your house? If you answered YES to most of the questions, maybe you are our next volunteer.
Write your application yourself. We prefer your own written and not so much the AI made applications. Thank you, hopefully see you here in Finland! :) :)
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation is organised in a shared apartment. Food is provided by Metsäkartano restaurant / kitchen (either ready meals or ingredients for cooking). Ready meals are often available in our restaurant buffet, because we have most of the time youth groups in the house.
There is no public transportation but other staff members will sometimes offer a ride to nearby places when they go themselves (to work, from work, visits in the villages nearby, etc). If the volunteers have driving license, it could be easier to go around.
🎒 Leisure activities
Volunteer will get a personal work mentor. Volunteer will attend an on-arrival training in another city in Finland for one week. Volunteer will need to work on learning goals and reflect the learning in monthly meetings with a mentor.
Volunteer will be introduced to staff members, interns and seasonal staff of Metsäkartano, to get to know people. But there is not a lot of people around though, it's good if volunteer enjoy also solo hobbies (hiking, bicilying, handcrafts, etc.) and is very active themselves getting to know people.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: Someone motivated and who is not at the moment in work or school. Someone whose values fit to the general values of ESC. Someone whose residence is another EU country.
HOW TO APPLY:
- Add a CV and A MOTIVATION LETTER (1 to 2 pages) in the end of your CV
- Write the English by yourself. Not with help of AI or translator. We prefer to read your own English. Application doesnt need to be perfect, we are also not speaking perfect English. :)
- Tell us why you want to live in remote Finland
- Tell us why you want to commit to youth work in Finland
- Tell us why you want to volunteer
- Tell us if you have previous experience living in international setting
- Tell us if you do you have previous experience living away from home
- Tell us what kind of volunteering / educational activities have you done on your free-time before this, have you worked for non-profit organisations ever? What were your tasks?
- Tell us do you have experience updating social media for organisations / being an influencer
- Tell us if you have photography and video making skills and send something you have made if you have
- Tell us what are your hobbies and what do you like to do on your free time?
- Tell us do you have a driving license
- Tell us if you have a local supporting organisation (compulsory in ESC)
- Tell us if you belong to the group "young people with fewer opportunities?" (see explanation here: https://www.salto-youth.net/rc/inclusion/archive/archive-resources/inclusiongroups/inclusionoffenders/InclusionOffendersWho/)
- Tell us if you have some special needs (it's not a problem, we can organise extra support if so)
- Tell us anything else that would be good for us to know about you
We only take applications via this portal. Any applications coming outside of the portal will be ignored. Questions can be asked in [email protected].
We will fill the spot soon.
Deadline: 24/03/2025 00:00
Deadline: 24/03/2025 00:00
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 ?
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.
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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FI44835
24/04/2025 → 31/08/2025
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Deadline: 24/03/2025
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
Metsäkartanontie 700, 73900 Rautavaara, Finland
Finland
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)
Timezone
Eastern European Standard Time
Local time: 21:55 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
Collective
🗣️ Languages spoken
English
Finnish