🌍 About the Project
This ESC Team Volunteering opportunity takes place in Napoli, Italy 🇮🇹 and focuses on urban regeneration, culture, and community engagement.
The project is based in the Grazia Deledda Public Library located in Ponticelli, an eastern neighbourhood of Naples. The aim is to transform and regenerate the library space, making it more welcoming and accessible for the local community.
Volunteers will support cultural initiatives and implement practical renovation and decoration activities to improve the environment for children, youth, and local residents.
📅 Activity Dates
🗓 14 April 2026 – 27 April 2026
📅 Application Deadline
🗓 10 April 2026
📍 Location
📍 Napoli, Italy 🇮🇹
🤝 Activity Type
ESC Team Volunteering
🌎 Eligible Countries
🇦🇱 Albania, 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina, 🇧🇬 Bulgaria, 🇭🇷 Croatia, 🇨🇾 Cyprus, 🇨🇿 Czechia, 🇩🇰 Denmark, 🇪🇪 Estonia, 🇫🇮 Finland, 🇫🇷 France, 🇬🇪 Georgia, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇬🇷 Greece, 🇭🇺 Hungary, 🇮🇸 Iceland, 🇮🇪 Ireland, 🇽🇰 Kosovo* (UN Resolution), 🇱🇻 Latvia, 🇱🇹 Lithuania, 🇱🇺 Luxembourg, 🇲🇹 Malta, 🇲🇪 Montenegro, 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 🇲🇰 North Macedonia, 🇵🇱 Poland, 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇷🇴 Romania, 🇷🇸 Serbia, 🇸🇰 Slovakia, 🇸🇮 Slovenia, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇸🇪 Sweden, 🇺🇦 Ukraine
💼 Main Activities
✨ Cleaning green areas surrounding the library
✨ Creating artistic signage
✨ Repainting children’s rooms
✨ Restoring and protecting outdoor wooden furniture
✨ Reorganising indoor spaces for the final event
✨ Participating in intercultural workshops with young library users
✨ Supporting non-formal activities promoting culture in suburban areas
🏠 Accommodation, Food & Practical Arrangements
🏠 Shared accommodation in a cultural hub (Art.33) in San Giovanni a Teduccio
🛏 Mixed shared rooms
🍳 Large kitchen and common living space available
🚇 Metro line 2 connection to Napoli city centre
🚶 No public transport needed for daily project activities
🎓 Training & Learning
🎓 Intercultural workshops with local young people
🎨 Guided regeneration and enhancement activities
🤝 Learning about promoting public cultural spaces in urban suburbs
📚 Hands-on experience in community-based cultural development
👤 Participant Profile
👤 Aged 18–30
👤 Dynamic, creative, sociable, and flexible
👤 Comfortable working in a team
👤 Interested in urban regeneration and cultural activities
👤 Open to participating in a hip-hop festival
👤 Interested in social media or video-making (an asset)
👤 Motivated, curious, and open to intercultural learning
🔗 Application Link
https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/50280_en
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