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ESC: Poke the Globe 2024

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Finland European Voluntary Service Culture European Voluntary Service Culture Fixed dates

About the project

ESC: Poke the Globe 2024

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

During the project the volunteers organize together a school visit day and an international activity day gathering 200 young people to our youth center all over the region. Volunteers will organise workshops for the young people. The idea is to bring different cultures to rural Finland, and to promote international activities to our local youth community. Volunteers work generally from Monday to Friday from 9am to 16pm. Evenings and weekends are free time for the volunteers. OUR YOUTH CENTER IS IN THE MIDDLE OF NATURE, next to a national park. There is no village nearby. But our youth center has many activities that can be done on the free time.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Accommodation is organised in a common log house in the surroundings of Metsäkartano Youth Center. The log house is a traditional house by a lake, with kitchen, common area and sauna, etc. Volunteers live together in the house, in different rooms where 2-4 people share a room. Volunteers will be all together 12-16. Food is provided by Metsäkartano youth center, either in our own restaurant (usually breakfast/lunch/sometimes also dinner) or by giving supplies to the volunteers to cook in their own cabin.

🎒 Leisure activities

Volunteers will get guidance to their work tasks. There will always be a work leader who is a staff member of Metsäkartano.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We are looking for MOTIVATED volunteers who can be FULLY committed to take part of the activity. All applicants are asked to have a supporting organisation in their home country (mention in application!). For this project we choose youth with fewer opportunities only, unemployed, etc. We can host volunteers who need personal support as well, but we have to know about it beforehand. We value equality and diversity in our work community. We welcome applicants from different backgrounds, such as people of different genders, and members of different language, cultural or minority groups.
Deadline: No application deadline

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.

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📅 Available sessions

FI40637

12/10/2024 → 02/11/2024

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 2
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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

Metsäkartanontie 700, 73900 Rautavaara, Finland

Finland

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Eastern European Summer Time

Local time: 21:15 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Finnish