Biodiversity Monitoring and Community Engagement in Ecuador

Opis

Volunteers participate in daily biodiversity walks, documenting local flora and fauna through observations as well as photo, video, and audio recordings while also exploring new trails together with community members. They help process this data by organizing, classifying, and uploading records to a shared Google Drive folder, using digital identification tools to make preliminary species identifications. Together with local youth, volunteers also create social media content that highlights community activities, biodiversity, and cultural traditions. During dialogue circles, community members, the Despierta team, and volunteers exchange experiences and discuss environmental practices. Volunteers support the preparation and delivery of workshops aimed at strengthening community organization and skills. Additionally, they assist with environmental education for children and young people in local schools.

Smještaj, hrana i prijevoz

The volunteers will be housed in a house exclusively for them, with all the facilities, individual rooms (3) shared (3), full bathroom, dining room, kitchen, rest area. Volunteers will have access in the community to buy the products they need for them to cook every day. Regarding transportation, the volunteers can walk or take buses or community cars to go to work.

Osposobljavanje tijekom aktivnosti

Volunteers will receive pre-departure training online and on-arrival training in the host country. A knowledgeable mentor will support them daily, ensuring smooth integration into community activities. Mid-term evaluation training will occur after 3 months, followed by a final evaluation before departure. A follow-up meeting will take place 1-2 months after returning home.

Profil sudionika

You should be interested in engaging internationally and gaining insight into humanitarian work, want to experience intercultural exchange and create meaningful, lasting experiences while contributing to our local project in Ecuador. We are happy to receive people who are passionate about nature, proactive and creative regarding environmental conservation initiatives. A positive attitude, with interest in getting involved in community processes, cultural exchange, open to facing challenges, who likes to work as a team with community members. Good physical condition, knowledge or willingness to learn in photography and/or video and editing, in social networks, creative, communicative. We highly value knowledge in ecology, biology, botany, agroecology or similar. Eligibility: Candidates must be 18 to 35 years old, reside in one of the eligible countries (EU Member State, North Macedonia, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Turkey), have completed the compulsory Humanitarian Aid Volunteering training and not have participated before in individual Humanitarian Aid Volunteering. When adding together this new volunteering opportunity and any previous participation in EU volunteering programmes, the total duration cannot exceed 12 months.

Datumi aktivnosti

A total of 26 week(s) during the period 01/09/2026 to 28/03/2027

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Lokacija aktivnosti

Avenida de los Shzris N371-27 y Naciones Unidas (Edificio Silva Núñez tercer piso), Toacaso (Cotopaxi), Ekvador

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Vrsta aktivnosti

Individualno volontiranje

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Zemlje iz kojih tražimo sudionike

Austrija, Belgija, Bugarska, Cipar, Danska, Estonija, Finska, Francuska, Grčka, Hrvatska, Irska, Island, Italija, Latvija, Lihtenštajn, Litva, Luksemburg, Malta, Mađarska, Nizozemska, Njemačka, Poljska, Portugal, Rumunjska, Sjeverna Makedonija, Slovačka, Slovenija, Turska, Češka, Španjolska, Švedska

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Teme aktivnosti

Social challenges

Reception and integration of refugees and migrants

Citizenship and democratic participation

Environment and natural protection

Health and wellbeing

Education and training

Employment and entrepreneurship

Creativity and culture

Support to local Small and Medium Enterprise

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Rok za prijavu

Prijava nije vremenski ograničena

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Oznaka projekta

2025-1-EACEA-VOLUN-101251374