ESC: Nature paths in the Siarb Valley

Name: ESC: Nature paths in the Siarb Valley
Start: 2024-08-19
End: 2024-09-02
Location: Spain

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Spain Environment European Voluntary Service Social work Environment European Voluntary Service +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Introduction to COCAT

COCAT, the Coordinator of International Workcamps Organizers in Catalonia, is a platform of entities founded in 2005, consisting of Catalan organizations that have been organizing international workcamps for over 2 consecutive years. Its current members include Coordinació Rural de Catalunya (CRUC), the Catalan Leisure Foundation (Fundesplai), among others.

Our Actions

Objectives

Coordinating Catalan youth organizations: COCAT coordinates international workcamps in Catalonia and promotes the individual and collective development of young people.

Promoting volunteering: COCAT mobilizes over 500 young Catalans annually for volunteering projects abroad and hosts more than 300 young people from around the world in international workcamps organized in Catalonia.

Working in local and international networks: COCAT represents Catalonia and its entities internationally and encourages synergies between local and international organizations.

COCAT works for international volunteering and intercultural exchange while promoting community and personal development.

💼 What the programme involves

The objective of the project is to maintain and recover the old roads and path of the “Vall de Siarb”, and publicize the importance of the conservation of this heritage. The participants will know the uses and customs of the path and will understand the original meaning of rural roads and, consequently, rural life. This project aims to give a boost to the idea of transforming the “Vall de Siarb” into a future “road museum” and an open participatory living museum. The museum will show and remember the past of the Pyrenees on a social and cultural level, through recovery, preservation and restoration of the path.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The accommodation is a terrain called "Llavaners", the campsite is at 1000m altitude near a small river and very isolated in the middle of nature. You should definitely be eager to have a (somehow) wild experience! You’ll be spending your days in a campsite and camping and sleeping in a tent. There are 2 dry toilets near the campsite. There’s no showers available at the camp (but quick-baths in the river). The volunteers are in charge to cook and there’s no Wi-Fi at the campsite or electricity (no phone charge available). Llagunes village is by foot, about 2h walking and Sort 5 km away.

🎒 Leisure activities

The activity to be implemented is the construction of a road museum that also has the support and involvement of the Ecomuseum of "Valls d’Àneu" with the participation of international volunteers. The volunteers will be trained and supported by professionals in the field and also will be some other volunteers from the surrounding that will teach and accompany the volunteers in their experience.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: Any volunteer can applies; we also will focus on people with fewer opportunities.
Deadline: Application deadline: 01/07/2024

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.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

📅 Available sessions

ES38912

19/08/2024 → 02/09/2024

Closed

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Deadline: 01/07/2024

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

Sort, Lleida, Spain

Spain

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Summer Time

Local time: 21:17 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Spanish