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ESC: Old Rabka's Charm 2025

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About the project

ESC: Old Rabka's Charm 2025

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Europe4Youth Association has been established in order to create the platform for young people for participation in civil society on the local, national and European level, to broaden their horizons and to help in their self-development by enabling them to participate in national and international youth projects, and also encouraging them to organising such projects by themselves.
This is why we organise and participate in youth exchanges, especially in international environment of participants from European Union countries, as well as from partner countries, we organise training courses, meetings, seminars and workshops for youth, as well as social, cultural and information campaigns; we prepare cultural events including exhibitions, concerts and workshops. We cooperate with domestic and foreign non-governmental organisations in addition to local authorities. We take part in Structural Dialog and European Youth Policy. In 2012 our association has expanded the area of activity, and together with German organisation Fahrten-Ferne-Abenteuer we have created our unit in Berlin: Europe4Youth Deutschland.

Main fields of our activities:
1. Youth policy
2. Non-formal education and recognition of youthwork
3. International cooperation
4. Development of civil society

Vision
The vision of the Europe4Youth Association is European civil society based on conscious participation of young people in political, social and cultural life on local, national and international level. We want our society to consist of active, self-aware, and self-organising citizens. This is why we take part in Structural Dialog on national and European level, we organise meeting aiming for shaping in youth proper attitudes, activating them, and making them aware of social and political problems of uniting Europe.
Mission
Our mission is creating for young people the possibilities for action and self-realisation, supporting the process of lifelong learning, non formal and formal learning on local, national and European level. We can achieve it by enabling young people to have an influence on the Youth Policy on all levels, to be active, objectified, and to develop in young people key competences, as well as to increase the recognition of those competences.
Statutory Objectives
• Organising and promoting events about intercultural and historical education of European youth.
• Promoting European values – especially respect for human dignity, freedom and education.
• Undertaking initiatives for peace, tolerance and agreement intended to consolidating an active attitude of European citizen.
• Promoting and organisation of volunteering, especially international one.
• Popularisation of the rules of self-development and learning using Non Formal Education methods.
• Building the bridges of understanding among youth from EU member states and partner countries by joint international activities.
• Cooperation with national and local authorities, as well as other NGOs in order to achieve statutory objectives

💼 What the programme involves

Old Rabka's Charm Festival is a local cultural event organized in a little town of Rabka-Zdrój in the Polish mountains. Europe4Youth Association is organizing, together with 25 international volunteers, a larp (Live Action Role Playing) game reminiscing golden era of the town, namely 20. and 30. of XX century within that Festival. The volunteers will: - develop the game together with us, build characters, design plots, - learn more about educational larp design and its different implementation, - take part in the larp game as Non Playable and Playable Characters - help to prepare local players to play the game and take as much educational outcomes as possible. The Festival aims at: - raising awareness of local cultural heritage and history of the town, - building sense of community and belonging of the local youth to their heritage, - promoting Rabka-Zdrój as leisure and cultural opportunities. Check out the infopack here: https://shorturl.at/YYdnE

🏠 Accommodation on site

We will provide you with accommodation in Training and Education Center of Europe4Youth. You will be accommodated in 2-5 person rooms (each room has its own bathroom), and we will provide you with bedding and towels. The house is surrounded by beautiful nature (mountains, forest, river) has an outdoor pool and is close to a big park. We also have a closet full of board-games!

🍲 Food

You will also be provided with 3 meals per day (breakfast, lunch, dinner).

🎒 Leisure activities


⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We are looking for people passionate about history, historical reenactment, ethnology and culture, Live Action Role Playing games, costumes design, acting, playing (at least one of it:-). With a sense of a storyteller. Volunteers should be 18-30, open for new challenges, willing to learn, open to work in teams, taking initiatives for themselves. Creativity is very welcomed, as well as strong care for other people. The project and our staff are ready for people with various backgrounds and situations. For EU residents only! Only eligible applicants will be taken into account.
Deadline: 16/05/2025 23:59

ℹ️ Additional information

During the volunteering period we plan to train you in: - edu-larp design, - game character building, - body&voice empowerment, - self-development through larp, - NPCs - acting and supporting others, - cultural youth work, - costumes design, - history of Rabka region in XX century, - ethnographic journey in southern Poland :-)

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

PL45849

05/06/2025 at 00:00 → 24/06/2025 at 00:00

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 2
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Deadline: 16/05/2025

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

Cicha 12, 34-700 Rabka-Zdrój, Poland

Poland

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Poland Zloty (PLN / zł)

Exchange rate

1 PLN = 0.228363 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Central European Summer Time

Local time: 21:10 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Polish