NATURE IN THE CITY
France
Environment
Social work
Environment
Social work
Fixed dates
About the project
NATURE IN THE CITY
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
“L'Odyssée” is a municipal structure that offers young people and inhabitants of the Amiens Nord district leisure and artistic activities. This is the second workcamp with this partner, you will be eagerly awaited and will have many occasions to meet the residents. The association “Le relais social”, which also acts in favour of social relations between the inhabitants of the district, will be a partner of the project as well.
💼 What the programme involves
The Amiens Nord district is a working-class neighbourhood that stands out for its particularly dynamic associative life and the regional reputation of its weekly market. Through the implementation of this project, you will contribute to the cultural animation of the district, which is a vector of social link, with and for the inhabitants.
You will create, design and build urban furniture such as gardeners for the district and allow the inhabitants to re-appropriate the urban space. The first week you\'ll conceive and build the gardeners and the second week you\'ll meet the inhabitants to install the furniture created.
During this solidarity project, we might welcome people with disabilities in the workcamp, they will share collective and work times with the group.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be sleeping in individual tents, at the municipal campsite of Amiens (Camping du Parc des cygnes). A large tent will be dedicated to the community living with a kitchen area to cook the meals. In the campsite you will find sanitary facilities with individual cabins (toilets, showers, sinks). You will share the various collective tasks and prepare meals all together. To move around, you will have bicycles at your disposal and will be able to use the bus networks in the city.
📍 About the location
Amiens, which was elected European Youth Capital in 2020, is a city of about 130 000 inhabitants, located in the North of France. The city is 1 hour away from the Picardy coast but also 1 hour away by train from Paris. You will visit the French capital during the national day (14th July) and the “Baie de Somme” (on the coast). Amiens is also an attractive place with lots of historical heritage sites: its cathedral is the largest in France; the beautiful district of Saint-Leu; the “Hortillonnages” and its floating gardens that gave the city its nickname of “small Venice of North”; the house of Jules Verne the famous French writer… and so much more to discover!
The accommodation is located next to the river called “la Somme”, near the towpath that was converted into a 120 km bicycle route linking Saint-Valery-sur-Somme to Péronne via Amiens. The campsite is in front of a large park which offers during the summer various free sports activities (canoeing, climbing, archery...).
⚠️ Requirements
This project is supported by the program European Solidarity Corps for young people between 18 and 30 years. It is open to all volunteers that fit the ESC criteria.
The participation to the ESC volunteering teams is subjects to several principles and conditions, presented on the ESC webpage: https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity/mission_en
● volunteers do not have to pay any fee (not sending, nor participation fee) to attend the project;
● volunteers need to enrol in the PASS, the European Solidarity Corps Portal; Concordia France will organize their matching, on the online system, with the volunteering project;
● volunteers will receive pocket money, calculated on basis of 6€/day, once they arrive on the project in France.
ℹ️ Additional information
Please bring working clothes as well as enclosed shoes. There may be aquatic activities, so don’t forget to bring a swimsuit. For the accommodation in tents, bring your sleeping bag and a camping mat. Tents are provided. You can also bring traditional food from your country/region, photos, games, musical instruments: whatever you like and want to share during the workcamp, either with the local population or with the group of volunteers!
Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, bring their insurance certificate. If health issues happen on the project, volunteers will have to pay for them, and will then be reimbursed once back in their home country.
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📅 Available sessions
CONCF-249-ESC
13/07/2021 → 27/07/2021
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ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–30 years old
Solidarity donation
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French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Amiens, France
France
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)
Timezone
Central European Standard Time
Local time: 21:14 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
Collective
🗣️ Languages spoken
English
French