📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
Ikko is a modern, non-political and nonreligious folk high school offering both general and vocational education for Finnish and immigrant adult students and groups throughout the year. We also host special target groups such as students with special needs. The students are mainly adults, but the visiting groups in summer months are usually children and young people.
The ESC volunteer will plan and organize activities such as various workshops related to for example arts, culture, languages, computers, cooking, sports, music, games and other topics depending on the skills and interests of the volunteer and the students. In the summer months the volunteer will be assisting and guiding different groups such as international volunteering groups which take place in Punkaharju between June and September. The length of the volunteer stay is flexible, between 3-12 months.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteer will spend time with the folk high school adult students and other groups, to socialize with them and co-organize leisure time activities during the working hours. Volunteer will stay at the student dormitory in a double room. There are about 150 residents at the
school, most of the residential students in IKKO are adults with immigrant background. The school offers all the meals seven days a week, so the ESC volunteer has all the meals prepared. The school is located in a beautiful and peaceful countryside in Punkaharju in east Finland surrounded by lakes.
🎒 Leisure activities
The volunteer will participate in Finnish language course, on arrival training and mid-term evaluation during the project.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: We look for a person who is motivated to learn, adapt, propose ideas, take initiative and open to discover other cultures and work in a
multicultural environment. The volunteer will do activities with adults as well as with youth so it is helpful to be a sociable and positive person, who loves outdoor and nature. The school is multicultural so volunteer should be interested and able to work with
people from different cultures in countryside. The project is suitable for volunteers who are flexible, independent and able to communicate in English sufficiently to plan and do activities.
Deadline: Application deadline: 22/05/2022
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.