Eyes Wide Open - Volunteering Teams in High Priority Areas l 2025
New Wellness Education - APS
Bergolo, Italy
Description
Eyes Wide Open volunteering team in high priority areas focuses on raising awareness, promoting and supporting the preservation of cultural landscapes in rural areas. Main goals of volunteering are protection and promotion of cultural landscapes, learning about visual media, and reconnecting with nature. To learn more about the project visit https://bit.ly/3TvUVk5.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Accommodation, food and transportation is covered by EU funds. More info: https://bit.ly/3TvUVk5 Our accommodation will be the cozy Alveare Hostel, named "The Hive," Participants will cook and have meals in the hostel kitchen. The food budget will be provided for the group. Volunteers will be in charge of preparing meals together as a team.
Training during the activity
We will organise trainings to provide volunteers with skills about video making and visual media products called “guerrilla filmmaking” which is a method to produce visual media using materials and non-professional equipment. We are going to use our phones and any other film making equipment already available. Volunteers will learn the whole process of digitalization from physically identifying the sites, rediscovering their history, creating a detailed description, categorization, inputting in database and updating the website.
Participant profile
We are offering this opportunity to 10 participants from different countries, to ensure the intercultural dimension of the project. Participants should meet the requirements: 18-30 years old (not older than 30 on the 25th of August 2025) Resident in countries covered by the programme, without need to apply for VISA to enter Italy Facing challenging situations in your life Ready to live in a rural environment for 4 weeks With interest to visual arts or digital tools or culture and art Enthusiastic with hands-on activities and practical tasks like gardening, painting, cooking, cleaning, etc Special Skills We are also looking for a couple of volunteers with media skills such as photography and filmmaking to document this whole experience for everyone but also support our activities, digital marketing, and promotions.
Activity dates
From 25/08/2025 to 23/09/2025
Activity location
Località Valdea, 3, Bergolo, 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, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova (Republic of), Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine
Activity topics
Health and wellbeing
Education and training
Creativity and culture
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 25/08/2025 17:00