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ESC: Work at the library of the University of Economics -Varna

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Bulgaria European Voluntary Service Education Culture European Voluntary Service Education +1 Fixed dates

About the project

ESC: Work at the library of the University of Economics -Varna

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Our organization empowers young minds and encourages development, leadership, and community involvement in the hope of a better future.
The Association for Youth Cooperation is a non-governmental, non-profit organization that has been newly founded and actively operating in the entire county since 2023.
The goals of our organisation are to support, educate, and improve the general quality of life for young people.
AYC is a group of committed people who collaborate to build a supportive environment for young people
Providing a broad range of support services suited to the particular requirements of young people is our main goals. Through counseling services, work groups, educational programs, and informational materials, we hope to provide people the tools they need to face the challenges.
Being a community-based organization, we recognize the value of community involvement. We actively work to include the community in our events by promoting involvement, volunteerism, and teamwork. We hope that by working together, we can create a community that is more resilient and united.
AYC prepares trainings for kids, youngsters, adults, parents, training institutions, professionals, and schools, and for trainers to improve them and raise their self-confidence, help them to become happy and successful individuals. The activities related to this proposal:
•Empowerment of children, youth, disabled people, immigrants, women and elderly people,
•Organizing events in the fields of education, art, culture, introduction of culture, human rights, children rights, disabled rights, health, tourism, informatics, technology, agriculture, environment (nature) and sports through accelerating the integration to communal living. Increasing and developing the individualistic effort for a healthy, conscious, peaceful, and successful society.
•Teenagers in particular; physically, mentally, spiritually and socially disabled, visually impaired and hearing impaired; disadvantaged, problematical and deficient individuals; elderly people, women, immigrants, chronic disease groups and requirement groups of all descriptions.
•Exchanging information and experience, doing research, producing and practicing projects collectively with corporations that seek solutions for social problems.
•Sharing the information either as an operator or as a participant of the projects, events and activities that increase the attendance of communal living.
•Participating in these activities to increase togetherness, sharing, and interaction in communal living is one of the most important purposes of our organization.
•Working on human rights, disability rights, children rights, women’s rights.
•Producing and practicing sociological, innovative and alternative projects for: immigrants, children and people with disabilities.

💼 What the programme involves

Tasks of the volunteer: - To be part of the team of the Library at the Varna University of Economics - To support the work related to the digitization of the library archive - To support the work related to the guidance of library users - To support the work related to organizing and arranging the library - Publishes information on the library's social networks - Other various tasks or projects related to the activities of the library

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers are provided with: - accommodation in a single room in a flat in Varna, - pocket money according to the programme rules - money for food and transport in the city, - international health insurance - international certificate for participation in the European Solidarity Corps programme

🎒 Leisure activities

- Bulgarian language class - on-arrival and mid-term trainig

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: Applicant Criteria: We are looking for communicative, creative, loyal and proactive individuals interested in acquiring new skills and knowledge. He/she should be willing to work in the library. There are no specialised education or experience requirements. The candidates must be up to 30 years old, inclusive, according to the requirements of the European program Solidarity Corps. The team will select a participant with a strong interest and motivation to be part of the development of the alternative youth culture in the city of Varna. Work time: 30 hours/week Monday-Friday Rest during the Bulgarian national holidays As a result of the project, participants will improve the following skills and knowledge: - Communication skills in Bulgarian - Library work - Presentation skills - Organizational skills - Digital skills - Social skills - Cultural awareness
Deadline: 14/07/2024 23:59

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

BG41067

01/08/2024 → 31/12/2024

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 2
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Deadline: 14/07/2024

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

Varna, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Bulgaria Lev (BGN / лв)

Exchange rate

1 BGN = 0.515905 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Eastern European Standard Time

Local time: 22:12 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Bulgarian