ESC: Playing Together

Name: ESC: Playing Together
Start: 2025-09-01
End: 2026-07-31
Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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Romania Education Environment European Voluntary Service Social work Education Environment +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The “Csemete” (Seedling) Foundation is a Romanian legal entity, non-profit, apolitical, and independent, not subordinated to any other legal entity. The purpose of the “Csemete” Foundation is to educate preschool children in a Christian spirit within its own kindergartens established by the Foundation, to train and improve the skills of the specialized staff needed for these activities, to organize various programs during the free time of both healthy children and those with special needs, and to educate parents.

💼 What the programme involves

The planned activities will take place in Csemete Nursery School, among under-aged minority children, with four volunteers coming from EU and other countries. The activities are designed for minority children. The working methods will be mainly playing games, and through this teaching English, swim, sports, art, culture, music, science, healthy living habits, environment-awareness and stories. Next to this there will be many outings, presentations of the volunteer's countries by them, celebrations, races etc. All these activities aims to integrate the Hungarian minority children into the Romanian society, to offer them equal chances in becoming happy grown up persons, to raise the quality of their lives, to understand that they are also European citizens. On the other hand by the planned activities the volunteers will improve their English, will develop their character and personality, will learn to manage their time, money and and abilities, will acquire competences.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The Foundation will provide accommodation for the volunteers, probably two volunteers will share a room to develop more social skills. Cluj-Napoca is the second biggest city in Romania, with 11 universities, full of vibrating young people. We would try our best to find the best and closest accommodation opportunities, and in that way the volunteers will not need public transportation. As for transport from home country to Cluj-Napoca, Romania, we have a tight budget for that and we will try to find the best plane tickets.

🍲 Food

The Foundation will provide lunch and snacks when the kitchen is open.

🎒 Leisure activities

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: As the work in the kindergarten supposes play and teaching with under-aged children, aged between 1 and 6 years old, probably female volunteers would be more motivated to take on a journey for 11 months with children (of course that not exclude at all interested male volunteers). The language of the project is English, so intermediate English proficiency would greatly help the volunteer to communicate with the coordinator, staff, teachers, children and parents. If you just graduated from school, and not yet decided to study further or start to work, it would be the ideal place to know children, yourself, and find out how would you like to continue your lifepath. Other categories are also welcome, if you love children, and you believe being able to play with them for eleven months.
Deadline: 01/07/2025 23:59

ℹ️ Additional information

The volunteer will be offered a twenty hours Hungarian language course, in order to learn some basics. The Romanian National Agency will organise an on-arrival training, and a mid-term evaluation, where the volunteers will meet with their fellow volunteers serving in Romania. As Cluj-Napoca is a huge city, every volunteer can find according to their best choices extra training opportunities in each area of their interests (sports, music, art, teather etc.).

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

RO46472

01/09/2025 at 00:00 → 31/07/2026 at 00:00

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Deadline: 01/07/2025

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

Strada Paris 13, Cluj-Napoca 400394, Romania

Romania

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Romania New Leu (RON / lei)

Exchange rate

1 RON = 0.187953 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Eastern European Summer Time

Local time: 20:57 (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 Romanian