📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Monsagro is a small village located in Salamanca (Castilla y León). It has a population of around 140 inhabitants, but due to its peaceful beauty and ideal climate, this rises to around 1000 in the summer months. It is located in the national park Las Batuecas-Sierra de Francia, and it belongs to the former ‘Las Batuecas’ National Hunting Reserve, made up of various neighbouring towns.
Monsagro has a town hall, an old elementary school that is being converted into an activity center, a communal library, a botanical, garden, a recreational centre for the elderly and a bar. It has a brand new interactive fossil museum, since the village is an important showcase of over 400 million year-old marine fossils, which are embedded all around on paths and walls. The museum contains a newly-installed interactive virtual reality (VR) simulator. There is as well as an ethnographic and animal museum where you can get to know the flora, fauna and customs of the area.
Monsagro Council, from its Youth and Culture area, has among other objectives to generate opportunities for the Youth of Monsagro and the Batuecas region and to make its environmental and geological wealth known in Europe. The target group on which it focuses is that of young people interested in the environment, the rural world and science, with concerns to know the origin of the planet, of Europe.
💼 What the programme involves
Monsagro is a small village located in Salamanca (Castilla y León). It has a population of around 140 inhabitants, but due to its peaceful beauty and ideal climate, this rises to around 1000 in the summer months.
Monsagro has a town hall, an old elementary school that is being converted into an activity center, a communal library, a botanical, garden, a recreational centre for the elderly and a bar. It has a brand new interactive fossil museum, since the village is an important showcase of over 400 million year-old marine fossils, which are embedded all around on paths and walls. The museum contains a newly-installed interactive virtual reality simulator, as well as an ethnographic and animal museum where you can get to know the flora, fauna and customs of the area.
Monsagro Council, from its Youth and Culture area, has among other objectives to generate opportunities for the Youth of Monsagro and the Batuecas region and to make its environmental and geological wealth known.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in a flat located at the centre of the village. Volunteers will receive 150€ for pocket money. If PCR test in required, 100€ will be the maximum covered amount. Volunteers are also given 100€ a month for food.
🎒 Leisure activities
The participant will participate in two training arranged by the Spanish National Agency. Also, they will participante in any trainings carried out by the hosting organization.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: We are open to volunteers from different backgrounds who are motivated and have an interest in working in community development and in cultural heritage activities. We are looking for 2 volunteers that enjoy participating and organizing different activity at the museum, activity for children and developing Monsagro's social media content. It will be valued positively to have knowledge and/or experience in tourism management, training in archeology and a good level of Spanish.
Deadline: No application deadline
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.