ESC: MUSEUMS IN VALENCIA (4 vacancies)

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Spain Culture Education European Voluntary Service Culture Education +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Our organization was established in 2005 and was created with the intention to develop community development programs by sociocultural animation and preferably with population at risk of exclusion. Thus, our organization began developing school support activities with children from families at risk and currently develops volunteer projects focused on education in leisure time using the game as the main educational tool. Since 2019, our organisation started developing a new priority, related with RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF YOUTH IN RURAL AREAS. We have already some stable programmes and the process is on-going. Our main goal is to transform society by combating discrimination and exclusion, through positive sociocultural activities. Our target group are kids and young people aged 3 to 35 years. Mainly 18+ but sometimes develop activities with children (5-15) and general public adult (no age limit). Regular activities of our organization are: - Follow-up meetings, management and coordination (approximately one every month) - Meetings of the board (one every 2 or 3 weeks approximately) - Training activities (one every two months, on various topics) - Cultural activities (one every two months, in collaboration with other cultural entities) - Intercultural activities (one every two months, in collaboration with other entities or just us) - Family activities (one every month, in collaboration with other NGO's) - Children activities (weekly, such as language workshops, storytelling, sports, games workshops ...) - Youth activities (weekly, such as the games-hub and the Erasmus+ Rural Youth Group) - Creative (one every two months, workshops artistic creation, game development, etc.) - Activities of spreading of social and educational activities for youth and adults - ONLINE (daily) - Collaborative activities with other associations (weekly) People who regularly participate in our association has a very different profile from students to employees of different sectors. Always on a voluntary basis and with an average of between 5 and 20 volunteers by activity (depending on the day and theme). The board is made up of 4 people, volunteers all of them and staff team composed of 3 professional youth workers who are responsible for the administration and development of campaigns and projects that are running, and also for the ESC volunteers mentoring tasks.

💼 What the programme involves

This activity consists of supporting the team of staff working in 3 museums of Valencia and also supporting the work done at the central cultural department of the city of Valencia. The tasks will be related with the preparation of exhibitions, the storage and maintenance of the museum and the exhibitions, the support to the staff in the welcoming of guests to the museums and the planning, preparing and running different cultural activities in the city (in and out of the museums). The 3 museums are: the Natural Sciences Museum, the Rice Museum and the Casa Benlliure. The volunteers will be allocated to one of these museums according to the needs and profile, and it could change during the duration of the volunteering. According to the rules of ESC, a total amount of 30-35h per week of activity will take place in your volunteering.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Shared apartment and SHARED ROOM. This means that there will be 2 people in each room of the apartment. This is because hosting in the area of Valencia is very difficult and expensive and this is the only way we can manage it. The apartment is fully renovated in 2024 and it's close to supermarkets and the metro station to move around easily.

🍲 Food

Food will be arranged by the volunteers, they will receive the monthly amount for food and they will have to buy and cook.

🎒 Leisure activities

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: Motivated and proactive volunteers, ready to contribute to the activities with their own ideas and initiatives. Willing to learn and to share their knowledges and skills with us. Interested in culture and museums.
Deadline: No application deadline

ℹ️ Additional information

Local transport card will be provided.

As part of the ESC volunteering, there will be a pre-departure training (in your own country), then an on-arrival training here in Spain and a mid-term evaluation. During the time in Spain, different training opportunities can happen depending on the situation. The city of Valencia is full of opportunities to learn and improve, so we will be happy to support you to find the best suitable for you in your free time.

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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