ESC: Youth work (adventure & outdoor education) in the most rural area

Name: ESC: Youth work (adventure & outdoor education) in the most rural area
Start: 2024-04-01
End: 2024-09-30
Location: Finland

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

About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

We offer volunteering for two volunteers from the beginning of April 2023 until the end of September 2023 (or just slightly shorter – to be confirmed in Spring). We expect the volunteers to commit for the whole duration. We are located in the middle of a national park. We expect applications from those who are ready to live in the most rural area of Europe. We ask no previous experience, the most important thing is to be motivated, ready for independent life, speak English. Our youth center is not an open youth house, we receive youth groups who stay overnight and do activities in nature. Our staff is extremely experienced pedagogical youth workers. We have many different types of areas of knowledge when it comes to outdoor and environment education and international youth work. During the spring, summer and autumn, we have camp schools, summer camps, international activities, social youth work, etc. Volunteers will help with the groups and with daily tasks of the youth center.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Accommodation is organised in the youth center premises. We offer private room, but shared kitchen and shower/toilet. Our youth center is kind of like a hostel. Accommodation/our youth center is located 20 minutes from the village / supermarket. And 1,5 hours drive away from the closest city (Kuopio). During the volunteering the volunteers will have the possibility to go to the supermarket with our staff members or other interns or so. Volunteers can also use bicicles and other outdoor gear to move around the nature. We have excellent outdoor hiking areas nearby, and a lake all around.

🎒 Leisure activities

The volunteer will be prepared for the work tasks. There will always be a supervisor for the volunteer on the work tasks who will give guidance at work, depending the tasks the work supervisor can change during the six months. The volunteer will also take a part to an on-arrival training in the end of May. In that training the volunteers can meet other volunteers who are currently staying in different parts of Finland. This training will be on the other side of Finland. The volunteers will also have as a contact person the coordinator of international activities and a mentor.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: Someone who wants to learn about youth work and outdoor education, someone having/interested in green values. Tell us what you are interested in. We can offer youth work and participate leading groups (which unfortunately is mostly in Finnish, so is not always possible to fully participate), we can offer maintenance and kitchen tasks (big industrial kitchen), we can also offer tasks with development of international youth work. More precise description of tasks shall be agreed. We can host people with special needs sometimes, tell us if you have any (maybe we can adjust/offer extra support) :)
Deadline: No application 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.

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

📅 Available sessions

FI37816

01/04/2024 → 30/09/2024

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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 Standard Time

Local time: 22:04 (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