🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in Spain 🌿 Environmental Education & Rural Development at Green Hands Burgos — 7th Edition 🌱

ASOCIACION BRUJULA INTERCULTURAL

Ábrego: Environment and Rural Development

Burgos, Spain

DESCRIPTION

The «Green Hands Burgos» project arrives to its 7th edition, hosting two volunteers in Ábrego Association and two volunteers in Huerteco Association. The main objective of «Green Hands Burgos» is to promote environmental education as well as to encourage rural development, through the activities that will be developed in the different organisations and through the activities focused on sustainable development and environmental protection issues. The main mission of the Ábrego Association is to make Burgos citizens aware of the need to get involved in order to generate changes that improve and enrich people’s lives. The association’s main objective is rural development as a response to the global, and for this reason, it creates courses, spaces and meeting points in the rural world.

ACCOMMODATION, FOOD AND TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS

The volunteers will live in a shared flat in Burgos. In the flat will live the volunteers from Ábrego Association and another volunteer from another project always coordinated by Brújula Intercultural. The flat consists of a kitchen, toilet, living room and 3 bedrooms. Volunteers will have single rooms. The coordinator will also provide an amount (established from the ESC program) for the maintenance and pocket money that will be provided monthly. The travel expenses will be refunded on the basis defined by the European Commission.

TRAINING DURING THE ACTIVITY

The volunteers will participate in the on-arrival and mid-term training organised by the Spanish National Agency. The support organisation and the host organisation will provide them also a training when they will arrive and a mid-term and a final evaluation.

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

Available for the whole duration of the project; 18-30 years old; Resident in EU member countries or Ukraine; With at least a basic knowledge of Spanish; Motivation to participate in the project and specific activities; Interest in the activities planned within the host organization; Flexibility, creativity, patience, open-mindedness, team-work; Interest and willingness to face the intercultural experience proposed by the project and its challenges; Interested in environmental and rural topics; A driving license is welcome but not necessary; Background knowledge in sociology, natural science, pedagogy is welcome but not necessary; Proactive and positive attitude.

ACTIVITY DATES

A total of 47 week(s) during the period 06/07/2026 to 05/06/2027

ACTIVITY LOCATION

C. Rey Don Pedro, 60, Burgos, Spain

ACTIVITY TYPE

Individual volunteering

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