ESC: Volunteers of the Forest

Name: ESC: Volunteers of the Forest
Start: 2025-04-21
End: 2025-05-07
Location: Finland

Code: 4483667d1e4bef2ff6 Copied

Finland Culture Environment European Voluntary Service Culture Environment +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Metsäkartano is one of nine Finnish Youth Centres specialised in youth work. Our function is to develop the methods used in the field of youth work, to further the skills of the youth, and to enable young people’s travelling domestically and abroad. We are supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture and we follow the current Youth Act and Youth Policy Programme. As a Youth Centre the purpose of Metsäkartano is to promote international youth co-operation, non-formal education and environmental education. We offer a safe and secure environment for camps, courses, trainings and activities - 365 days a year. Our facilities are designed for the youth and the premises are in the heart of the beautiful Finnish nature. We want to empower kids and young people in various ways, mainly by organising over night camps, youth exchanges, voluntary service opportunities and social youth work camps, camp schools and family camps. Metsäkartano has strong responsible and sustainable values, which are visible in our everyday actions. The basis of our work is at environmental education and experiential learning - and exploring the great outdoors. We want to create opportunities for people to get stronger connection with themselves and the nature. We have made connecting with the nature easy as possible, since our learning environment is the Finnish nature. We are awarded as a social enterprise, as we target our profits for promoting our youth work.

💼 What the programme involves

Come and get to know our youth center and it's surroundings! We will do simple cleaning / maintenance tasks around our youth center and discover the calmness of Finnish Forests meanwhile. There will be a group of 10 volunteers who will work together in this two week long project. You will get to know our youth work and also our outdoor education youth work. We are looking for young people currently unemployed and in a need of an adventure. Write us your CV and application and we will see. This project is for residence of EU countries. You have to be motivated, no previous experience needed.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Accommodation is organized in shared rooms in our Forest Hotel. The forest hotel has a common kitchen and common couch area to hang out. There is also possibility to have sauna by the beach (and swim in frozen lake?).

🍲 Food

The food people eat during the project is completely up to them, and our restaurant. We cater all special diets. Some meals are ready from our professional kitchen as we have other groups eating, some they have to prepare themselves, ingredients coming from the restaurant.

🎒 Leisure activities

We are not in the city, we only have nature, sport gym and art possibilities around as those are the facilities we have in our youth center, sport gym for volleyball/basketball/football/gym/art class rooms for painting/etc, outdoor fire places/hiking trails/lake/sup boards in summer/skiing in winter...

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We are looking for MOTIVATED volunteers who can be FULLY committed to take part of the activity. We can host volunteers who need personal support as well, but we have to know about the special needs 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: 31/03/2025 23:00

🤝 Meeting point

Transportation to the youth center will be organized together, arrivals must be to KUOPIO at the same time. For some people it might be necessary to stay overnight in Helsinki on the way because Metsäkartano is far away.

ℹ️ Additional information

Volunteers will get guidance to their work tasks. There will always be a work leader who is a staff member of Metsäkartano. There is also a leader that is helping the volunteers to find fun activities to their free time and helping with communication and team-building with the group. Volunteers will be helped by the project coordinator to search the travel options and tickets to Finland and to Metsäkartano.

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.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

📅 Available sessions

FI44836

21/04/2025 at 00:00 → 07/05/2025 at 00:00

Closed

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Deadline: 31/03/2025

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

Metsäkartanontie 700, 73900 Rautavaara, Finland

Finland

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Eastern European Summer Time

Local time: 21:18 (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 Finnish