🇵🇹 ESC Volunteering in Portugal 🌍 Sustainable Development Goals at a Youth Centre ♻️

Description

With this project we want to give you the opportunity to act actively in Sustainable Development, supporting and facilitating activities of Braga Youth Centre, which aim to contribute to the accomplishment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's). You will have tasks such as: providing logistical support to the initiatives organized by youth organisations in our Centre and provide technical support for these activities. With this project you will be able to acquire and improve your personal, social, and professional skills.

The volunteer will also have the opportunittie to participate in the Compass Training Course - a training for trainers in Human Rights Education based on “Compass – Manual for Human Rights Education with Young People”.

Accommodation, food and transport arrangements

You will be hosted at the Braga Youth Centre, located in the historic centre of Braga, preferably in a double room, safeguarding possible previously agreed exceptions. In the room you have a private bathroom, daily cleaning, replacement of towels, shampoo and shower gel, air conditioning and Wi-Fi. Daily meals will be served in our restaurant/bar and, if you want to cook your own meals eventually, there is also a hostel kitchen that you can use. About transport, you have several options at your disposal, such as a bus (with several bus stops next to the Centre), bicycles or electric scooters.

Training during the activity

Within the scope of the project, you will have a pre-departure training, organised by the support organization, to learn more about the ESC, the project you will be involved in, to share your expectations, and fears, to receive more technical information, for example, regarding Pocket Money, and to talk about the importance of Youthpass as a way of recognizing your learnings. You will have the appropriate language learning support and during the project you will have - whenever it i spossible - other training sessions organized by the NA for Erasmus+: Youth in Action.

Participant profile

If you like to embrace new challenges and are an enthusiastic of Sustainable Development, this opportunity is for you. We are looking for young people between 18 and 30 years old who are willing to get involved in the activities proposed under the SDG's, who are dynamic, have a sense of responsibility and initiative, a good capacity for teamwork, that are organized and empathize with others, with good capacity of communicating in English and willing to learn Portuguese. We want young people that are compatible with the values of our organization and that respect the values of the ESC.

Activity details

Activity type

Individual volunteering

Activity dates

A total of 3 week(s) during the period 07/11/2026 to 12/12/2026

Location

Rua de Santa Margarida, n6, Braga, Portugal

Deadline

No application deadline

Project code

2025-1-PT02-ESC51-VTJ-000347034

Topics

Looking for participants from

29 countries can apply. The activity takes place in 🇵🇹 Portugal.