Library Makers: Transforming Spaces for Culture
Noi@Europe ETS
Napoli, Italy
Description
The Grazia Deledda Library, located in Ponticelli, a neighbourhood on the Eastern Periphery of Naples, has for several years been the location for initiatives and projects for the inhabitants of the area, thanks to the intervention of a partnership of associations including Noi@Eruope. The objective of the volunteer camp is to support some of the activities carried out within the library and implement regeneration and decoration actions to make it more welcoming for its users. During the volunteer camp, the following activities will be carried out: cleaning actions of the green areas surrounding the library, attacks of arts, painting the railings of the inner courtyard, and some attack of arts to make the spaces more beautiful and colorful. However, the volunteers will help to clean and rearrange one of the rooms recently opened to the public.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Participants will be hosted in a cultural hub (Art.33) in San Giovanni a Teduccio a neighborhood in the East periphery of Napoli. The place usually hosts volunteering camps. The rooms where the participants will sleep are mixed. The building has a large kitchen and a big living room. The volunteers will live and work for 14 days in the area of the eastern suburbs of Naples, once an industrial area of the city. They don't need public transportation for the activities. Anyway, the accommodation is connected with the city centre through the metro line number 1
Training during the activity
During the group volunteering project, participants will carry out intercultural workshops with the young users from the Public Library "Grazia Deledda" to get to know the community better through some non-formal activities, and learn more about what can be done to promote a place of culture and a public service in a suburb of a big city. In addition, they will be guided in activities to enhance the library spaces where we will work to make them available to the community.
Participant profile
This call is open to all young people aged between 18 and 30 years old. We generally look for volunteers who are dynamic, creative, sociable, patient, able to work in a team, sociable, flexible, and creative who can be interested to be involved in an urban regeneration action and in participating in a hip-hop festival. However, we also look for volunteers who like work with social media o video-making. Nevertheless, strong motivation, willingness to see and to do something new, curiosity about the world and other cultures are welcome :)
Activity dates
From 23/04/2025 to 06/05/2025
Activity location
Vico Santillo, 1, Napoli, Italy
Activity type
Volunteering teams
Looking for participants from
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo * UN resolution, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
Activity topics
Citizenship and democratic participation
Environment and natural protection
Creativity and culture
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 05/04/2025 16:00