🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in Spain 💻 Digital Skills and Fablab Innovation for Rural Youth 🌄

Description

Our project seeks to improve the digital skills of young people in rural areas to create ideas and projects through Design Thinking, technology and prototyping solutions analyzing entrepreneurship for the challenges faced by rural youth. Our volunteers will work on a project to develop the digital skills of young people in rural areas as well as the non-formal education of these young people.

Volunteer tasks:

- Contact young people who seek to develop ideas and prototypes.

- Help prototyping in our technological fablab.

- Support entrepreneurs in our coworking space.

- Develop the Association's communication by creating a network with young people interested in our project.

- Create digital development projects in rural areas.

- Create european proposals for projects with the local young people

Accommodation, food and transport arrangements

Accommodation: paid for by the association in a shared apartment with other young people.

Food: paid by the association.

Transport: it is paid by the association in public transport.

Training during the activity

During the volunteer period you will receive the following training:

- Creation and Management of European projects.

- Development of technological capacities in rural areas.

- Use and practice of technological tools in the fablab: virtual reality, laser cutting, 3D printing, fabric printing, ...

- Development of thinking design dynamics for entrepreneurship.

- Communication management at different levels.

Participant profile

Volunteer between 18 and 30 years old. With experience:

- Communication

- Video Editing

- Social Networks

- Technology: 3D, Cutting Laser,...

- Management of Europea projects for Young People.

Ability to manage youth groups and non-formal youth education activities.

We are seeking individuals who are not only lovers of nature but also proficient in using hiking route applications and capable of navigating forest and/or mountain trails independently.

English: C1 and Spanish: B2-C1 (Important because normally you will work with young people without english skills)

Activity details

Activity type

Individual volunteering

Activity dates

A total of 21 week(s) during the period 01/11/2026 to 31/03/2027

Location

Rúa Pintor Corredoira, 4, Lugo, Spain

Deadline

10/10/2026

Project code

2026-1-ES02-ESC51-VTJ-000400563

Topics

Looking for participants from

22 countries can apply. The activity takes place in 🇪🇸 Spain.