Verein zur Förderung der Jugend-, Integrations- und Gemeinwesenarbeit
Verein Jugend und Gesellschaft
Schwaz, Austria
⭐️ Activity Title
Volunteering in the Youth centre YUNIT, Youth Work & Leisure
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🔷 Activity Details
Description
The target group of “YUNIT” are youngsters between 9 and 18 years, coming from different social, economic or cultural backgrounds. The young visitors come from the town of Schwaz and from surrounding villages and spend their leisure time in and around the youth center. They are supported by youth workers and can talk to them about their interests or problems. The youth center “YUNIT” offers a variety of indoor and outdoor activities and games - for example the Youth Café, a party room, a small garden, girls’ room, lunch opening, pool billiard, table tennis, PS5, Xbox, TV, Airhockey, DJ workstation, internet access, cooking possibility, concert and music facilities, workshops and different punctual activities etc. Also, young people who have problems or difficulties can seek support or advice from the youth workers or can just spend their time at the youth center.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
The volunteer will live and volunteer in Schwaz in the Austrian region Tyrol. The volunteer is provided with an equipped flat close to our organisation. She or he will have a two room apartment. The volunteer has to accept the house rules of the hosting organisation. In addition, the volunteer will receive a daily allowance of 7 EUR pocket money and 12 EUR food allowance. To support mobility throughout the project, a Tyrol public transport ticket (Tirolticket) for trains and buses will be provided for the entire duration of the volunteering period.
Training during the activity
The volunteer will have access to a German language course to support language learning and integration into daily life in Austria. In addition, the volunteer will participate in an On-Arrival Training and a Mid-Term Training, organised within the framework of the European Solidarity Corps. These trainings provide opportunities for networking, reflection, and exchange with other volunteers. The volunteer will travel independently to these training activities.
Participant profile
Tasks & Activities of the volunteer: Being part of the “YUNIT” team in the daily work planning and organising youth leisure activities and events together with youngsters and staff members doing simple bar work being creative and bringing in own ideas into the project via workshops and so on taking part in regular team meetings preparations and bar work at our live concerts (every second month, mostly Rock Music) The service is around 30 hours per week Taking part in activities/workshops The volunteer will work five days a week, around 30 hours a week including the German course. The free “weekend” will be on Saturday and Sunday. The volunteer will have two weeks Christmas holidays and 5 weeks summer holidays. The volunteer will be able to learn a lot during this service, he or she will have an interesting role and gain valuable experience and skills in working with youngsters. The volunteer will learn a lot about the youngsters’ situation, their topics, language, personal situations and problems. Furthermore, the volunteer will get to know the work of youth workers and the challenges. The volunteer's work will be guided by our professional employees. We welcome new and creative ideas, which we believe add new perspectives to our organisation. Examples for such creative ideas are: creating a country-specific week with special meals or events, baking Christmas cookies, doing an artistic project with the youngsters, healthy cooking day, playing a big game in nature to make the youngsters spend more time outside We expect that the volunteer brings in motivation for the project and is interested in the target group. Moreover, the volunteer should have a stable personality, in order to be able to work with youngsters. We would be happy to host a volunteer who Is older than 23, to have an age distance to the youths we work with wants to get to know youth centre work and participate actively wants to be part of a motivated and creative team wants to meet other volunteers here in Tyrol is interested in youth leisure activities, youth culture and youth-related issues is open-minded, friendly, enthusiastic, creative and communicative shows active interests in sports (climbing, swimming, football, etc.) or creative activities (dancing, gardening, painting, music, photographing, handcrafts) and/or indoor games (billiard, table tennis, card games…) is motivated to learn German (and some Tyrolean German dialect) brings her or his own culture and interests into the project wants to be independent and can live on his/her own is ready to volunteer for 12 months starting in October
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🔑 Key Information
Activity dates
From 01/10/2026 to 30/09/2027
Activity location
Wopfnerstraße 16a , Schwaz, Austria
Activity type
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
Activity topics
Citizenship and democratic participation
Creativity and culture
Working against discrimination (including gender discrimination)
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 31/07/2026 23:59
Project code
2026-1-AT01-ESC51-VTJ-000401327
🔗 Official Project Page
https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/52572_en
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