ESC: Youth Community

Name: ESC: Youth Community
Start: 2025-09-01
End: 2026-06-01
Location: Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania

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

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

AIDE Association, an NGO based in Râmnicu Vâlcea, founded in 2016, aims to support the social integration and community engagement of vulnerable groups. The organization aspires to become a pillar within the community, particularly by helping young people and teenagers to become active, engaged, and competent members of society.
Their mission is to provide learning opportunities to all youth in the Vâlcea region, encouraging them to take a proactive, responsible, and active role in their communities. AIDE stands out locally for its support of youth initiatives and for promoting the internationalization of its activities through Erasmus+ projects and the European Solidarity Corps.
The main objectives include promoting educational programs, mentoring, creating opportunities for European mobility, building partnerships to run a local volunteer center, and developing activities in entrepreneurship, ecology, and environmental protection.
The association operates on the principles of equal opportunity, collaboration, flexibility, active participation, and lifelong learning. It primarily targets young people from rural and disadvantaged backgrounds, as well as those aspiring to become volunteers within the Youth Hub.
Finally, AIDE organizes youth exchanges, international volunteer projects, and educational and sports activities, while coordinating activities at the Youth Hub Center and promoting environmental protection through various initiatives.

💼 What the programme involves

The project offers volunteers the opportunity to connect with local young people from our small community and help them develop skills that can improve their future careers.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The volunteers will be accommodated in an apartment with separate bedrooms, a living room, a bathroom, a kitchen, and a balcony in Ramnicu Valcea. 2 volunteers will share a room for sleeping The apartment will have all the necessary utilities (gas cooker, washing machine, refrigerator, TV, bedroom furniture, living room, kitchen, internet). Pocket money 270 EUR per month Reimbursement for International and local transportation

🍲 Food

Romanian food is mainly based on pork meat but we have a lot of vegetables each season, except winter. In the city there are local markets with fresh food from the farmers around.

🎒 Leisure activities

Regarding the leisure activities it can be included hikes in our forests and mountains (we have 2 national parks around), yoga sessions, basketball gatherings, caffee places, short trips to our turistics small cities.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: 18-30 years are NEET (Not in Employment, Education, Training); - have at least a conversational level of English; - are open to develop within a multi-cultural environment, - are motivated to gain competencies in content creation, - social media management, - facilitation of non-formal educational activities, - event organisation
Deadline: 01/07/2025 13:00

ℹ️ Additional information

On-arrival and midterm training organised by the National Agency to integrate the volunteers from all over Romania Mentoring meetings: Group activities to foster the spirit of the team, get to know each other better, and learn how to work together; Individual - support to identify goals and pursue them; Follow-up activity - meetings to build future steps and receive career orientation support,

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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