Município de Portimão
Portimão, Portugal
⭐️ Activity Title
10th Edition of Generation XXI: ESC connecting Europe
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🔷 Activity Details
Description
Generation XXI responds to the need to empower young people to embrace change, explore new opportunities, and better understand local challenges while connecting them with the European and global context. We believe that active participation, volunteering, non-formal learning, training, and mobility foster personal and professional development, strengthen key competences, improve employability, and promote active citizenship. The project also contributes to the sustainable development of the local community. Activities are linked to our main areas of intervention: the Youth Information Centre, the Pedagogical Farm, the Museum, the Tourism Unit, Lugar do Rio – Portimão Youth Space, and the Veterinary Medical Services Division. The project will host three ESC volunteers: one at the Museum, one alternating between Tourism and Lugar do Rio, and one between the Pedagogical Farm and Veterinary Services.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
The Municipality of Portimão will provide volunteers with fully equipped accommodation that complies with health, safety, and quality standards. Internet access will be available to facilitate communication with their families, friends, and sending organisations. At the beginning of each month, we will transfer the amount of 310 euros for food allowance and pocket money.
Training during the activity
Together with the sending partner organization, we agreed that all selected volunteers will need to have a pre-departure training. We will have an online meetings with the volunteer. In addition to this preparation process, we will have internally at least two interim training related to the volunteer project and several evaluation moments, as well as a final evaluation of the project. We also guarantee the participation of the volunteers in the training provided by the Portuguese National Agency, included in the training cycle.
Participant profile
We will give priority to volunteers with few opportunities or in situations of long-term unemployment, we will select the volunteers that are included in the list of volunteers registered in the European Solidarity Corps. The volunteer must be dynamic, motivated and enjoy working in an international and multicultural, responsible and friendly group. The project also aims to have and promote gender equality. Respecting the policy of gender equality. Our goal in this project is for volunteers to be motivated to participate in many other projects in their cities.
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🔑 Key Information
Activity dates
A total of 39 week(s) during the period 01/10/2026 to 30/06/2027
Activity location
Square 1 May, Portimão, Portugal
Activity type
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine
Activity topics
Social challenges
Citizenship and democratic participation
Creativity and culture
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 31/08/2026 23:00
Project code
2026-1-PT02-ESC51-VTJ-000400791
🔗 Official Project Page
https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/53058_en
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