Level Up Your Summer
ASSOCIAZIONE LINK APS
Altamura, Italy
Description
Associazione Link APS is an association that wishes to promote non formal education, intercultural learning activities and human rights education. Link is a sending and hosting organisation for ESC volunteering and youth exchanges. ESC volunteers will assist the association in their different summer activities such as manual workshop, artistic Lab, concert and sports activities. This will be an opportunity for them to learn more about non formal education, intercultural learning, european project management and of course the italian language an culture. Link manages a Community Library called Agorateca where most of the activities happen. The volunteers' program includes working at the front office welcoming and helping users, planning and implementing activities for children adolescents and adults. Other info will be found here: https://www.agorateca.it/
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
The volunteers will be hosted in a shared flats 20 minutes walking away from Agorateca. The flat have a kitchen, living room, shared sleeping rooms, shared bathroom. The apartment is shared with other volunteers, everyone is responsible for taking care for the flat: cleaning, shopping and cooking. The duration of the project will be one month : from 6 July to 7 August 2026. In this month every volunteer has the right to receive a pocket money 6€ per day and 200€ as money for food. There is no need for transport because the working and living place is about 20 min walking away.
Training during the activity
Short-term volunteers will be followed during all the activities by a tutor who will favor their job placement and integration within the working group, thus favoring one full and active participation in all the activities of the NGO. In order to facilitate the integration of the volunteer not only in the organization, but also in the community local, a mentor will be identified.
Participant profile
The youth from 18 to 30 years is expected to be open-minded, flexible, interested in the work with people of all age and background. Interest in Italian culture and language is important and open to learning in every moment of their project. Candidates having the following skills/interests are very welcome: digital competences, creative and sport skills, youth / international work in general and youth exchanges and trainings, books, children and youth, web radio. We need sociable, flexible, curious, open minded and friendly people.
Activity dates
From 06/07/2026 to 07/07/2026
Activity location
Via Stefano Lorusso , Altamura, Italy
Activity type
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
Activity topics
Environment and natural protection
Creativity and culture
Physical education and sport
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 11/05/2026 23:59
Project code
2024-2-IT03-ESC51-VTJ-000290643