ESC: Village Vibes

Name: ESC: Village Vibes
Start: 2026-02-01
End: 2026-11-30
Location: Izvoarele, Romania

Code: 49039692053728f468 Copied

Romania Culture European Voluntary Service Social work Culture European Voluntary Service +1 Fixed dates

About the project

ESC: Village Vibes

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

CDC is a youth NGO in a rural community focused on providing young people opportunities for personal and professional development through nonformal learning.
Curba de Cultură is all about reaching out to rural youth. We are an NGO committed to non-formal learning, to culture and to participation opportunities. Our focus is to improve education levels and community engagement for the young people living in rural environment in Romania. We take our work very seriously, yet we do it in a relaxed, witty and humorous spirit. A youthful spirit.
Our main goal is to revitalise rural environment. In our view, change finds its most fertile ground in the ones most aptly equipped for change: YOUTH. Their energy and their desire to set a new way of doing things inspired us to provide for them an organisational framework capable of allowing them to implement this change for themselves and for the community they live in. We believe that our projects function as a pilot initiative addressing the issues of rural development, educational access and better opportunities for the ones who need change and a better life within the rural area.
Our organisation's headquarters are based in Izvoarele, a small rural community near the town of Vălenii-de-Munte, in Prahova county, Romania. The other affiliate organisations we run are located in Roșia Montana, in Alba county, Transylvania and in Slon village, Prahova county. The youth centres are offering information services, coaching, public libraries, leisure time activities and youth advocacy.
Curba de Cultură focuses on teenagers and youth development. Our mission is to use non-formal education as a complementary method to the formal educational system for young people. We want to create the premises for a better development of the young people and their more suited integration within their respective communities. We want to make young people aware that they actively belong to their local and national culture.
For the period of 2014-2018, we, at Curba de Cultură, have prepared a multi-layered strategy targeting our core objectives.
Operationally, we aim at:
• Increasing international exposure for young people in rural communities through Youth Exchanges developed by young people;
• Hosting EVS volunteers in youth centres in Izvoarele and Rosia Montana in non-formal learning, rural development and personal development related projects;
• Capacity building for rural youth organisations in Europe through participation in trainings, seminars and job shadowing mobilities ;
• Providing residence opportunities for young artists with an interest in studying rural communities;
• organizing contact making events for establishing relevant partnerships in youth projects in Europe;
• developing a programme for art residencies in order to create a strong link between performative art and the rural environment, and also to provide the place for reflection and work dedicated to young artists.

💼 What the programme involves

The aim is raising awareness and interest of the local community on sustainable tourism with the help of international volunteers. The work that the volunteers will do will consist of the following but not limited to: - sociological research in the community - the volunteers will use the knowledge and skills gained before in the internal trainings to collect stories, legends, recipes, information etc - gathering audio/video/photo/written material from around the area - creating and mapping hike and bike trails that would include local produces, places to see, community kitchen etc - organizing intercultural events in which they will present their own cultures to the locals. - putting together the material, edit the videos, photo and text materials and adding them on the webpages - design and launch promotional campaigns and materials using the results created already - events on launching different materials- presenting their work. - give a hand to tasks around.

🏠 Accommodation on site

- reimbursement of travel costs up to 211/309/395 euro (according to distance) in the end of the stay - green travel costs available as well - accommodation in a traditional house in our community together with the rest of the volunteers - food allowance and pocket money - local transport bus permits and car when needed for activities, sim cards with mobile data, medical insurance etc

🎒 Leisure activities

As a volunteer in our projects you will receive a variety of trainings and support such as: - mentor support - language training - coordination, materials for activities and equipment - task-related trainings such as teambuilding, health and security, event management, basic youthwork and group dynamics, communication, basics of research etc

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: - is between 18 and 30 years old - is available for the full months of the mobility - is motivated to do international volunteering - is strongly motivated to live and work in rural area - is interested in learning a different European language - is motivated to promote rural heritage and sustainable values and behaviours - is motivated to develop new competences and to learn about community development - has at least basic English communication skills, spoken and written
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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