ASOCIATIA NATIONALA DE SPRIJINIRE A TINERETULUI ECOLOGIST DIN ROMANIA
Craiova, Romania
โญ๏ธ Activity Title
Go4Green4
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๐ท Activity Details
Description
Go4Green4 is a 59-day European Solidarity Corps short-term team project taking place in Craiova, Romania, from 25 June to 23 August 2026. It brings together 16 volunteers, 8 local and 8 international, to create a sustainable and therapeutic urban garden inside the Womenโs Detention Center in Craiova. The project aims to combine environmental action, inclusion, and wellbeing by using gardening as a practical and therapeutic activity for young people in a detention setting and raise awareness in the local community about sustainability, inclusion, and the positive role of green spaces in rehabilitation and social change. The project will engage volunteers in a range of environmental activities, including gardening, river cleaning, and forest waste collection, with the aim of promoting sustainability, ecological responsibility, and active community involvement.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Volunteers will be accommodated in rented apartments with shared bathroom and kitchen, max 2 in room divided by gender. The location will be equipped for basic needs, kitchen essentials, laundry facilities, wifi, please note that we cannot accommodate volunteers who prioritize high living standards. Volunteers will receive a food allowance of 6 euros/day and 4 euros/day as pocket money in lei Romanian national currency. A local public transport pass will be provided for each volunteer.
Participant profile
*Aged 18โ30 year old *Ability to buy the travel tickets (at arrival reimbursement will be made) *Fluent at a medium level in English *Motivated to take part in the project and showing involvement during the selection process *Able to assume the tasks and rules of the project
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๐ Key Information
Activity dates
From 25/06/2026 to 23/08/2026
Activity location
Eugeniu Carada Nr.10, Craiova, Romania
Activity type
Volunteering teams
Looking for participants from
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo * UN resolution, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine
Activity topics
Social challenges
Environment and natural protection
Working against discrimination (including gender discrimination)
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 24/06/2026 19:34
Project code
2025-1-RO01-ESC51-VTJ-000346109
๐ Official Project Page
https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/52567_en
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