🇱🇹 Volunteer in Lithuania on an ESC Team Project for Social Impact & Innovation 🌱💡 Innovators' Action in a Historic Monastery! 🇱🇹

Are you ready to explore slow travel, build real-world social initiatives, and become a changemaker of tomorrow? Join the Innovators’ Folk High School in Lithuania – a 14-week immersive ESC journey filled with community, creativity, and powerful tools for action. From cross-border learning to hands-on local innovation, this is not just volunteering – it’s a transformational adventure!

💼 Activity Type
European Solidarity Corps – Volunteering Teams

🏢 Host Organization
Viešoji įstaiga "Inovatorių slėnis" (The Valley of Innovators)

📍 Location
Antalieptė, Zarasų r., Lithuania

📆 Period
31 August 2025 – 7 December 2025

⏳ Duration
14 weeks

📚 Fields
Social innovation, Environmental awareness, Civic engagement, Community development, Creative learning

💬 Language(s)
English (main communication language)

🎯 Eligibility criteria (Who can apply?)
Young people eager to become social leaders, explore global and local challenges, and innovate for the community. Ideal candidates are curious, committed, and ready to stretch their comfort zone to explore new ways of thinking and acting.

🧪 Responsibilities / tasks
The project is divided into six core phases:

• 🌟 Dreams & Expectations: Team building, trust, and goal setting
• 🌍 Slow Travel: Journey to Denmark to meet social innovators
• 🛠️ Tool Collection: Workshops on empathy, future scenarios, systems thinking
• 🧪 Designing for Action: Project prototyping with mentors
• 💬 Reflection & Value: Defining project impact in Lithuania
• 🚀 Independent Action: Implement your initiative with online mentoring

🌟 Why to join?

• Live in a 17th-century monastery with like-minded changemakers
• Travel across Europe to meet social innovation pioneers
• Receive powerful trainings on storytelling, project design, and Smart Villages
• Build a real-life community project and bring your vision to life
• Gain tools, confidence, and a network to lead change anywhere!

📩 Application info
Apply now via the official ESC portal:
🔗 https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/47277_en

💰 Compensation
✅ Accommodation in a renovated monastery
✅ Daily meals provided by an in-house kitchen team
✅ Travel costs covered under ESC rules
✅ All trainings, materials, and mentorship included
✅ Pocket money and insurance as per ESC standards

🌐 Official link
https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/47277_en

🌍 Eligible Countries
🇦🇱 Albania, 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇧🇬 Bulgaria, 🇭🇷 Croatia, 🇨🇾 Cyprus, 🇨🇿 Czech Republic, 🇩🇰 Denmark, 🇪🇪 Estonia, 🇫🇮 Finland, 🇫🇷 France, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇬🇷 Greece, 🇬🇱 Greenland, 🇭🇺 Hungary, 🇮🇪 Ireland, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇱🇻 Latvia, 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein, 🇱🇹 Lithuania, 🇱🇺 Luxembourg, 🇲🇩 Moldova, 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 🇲🇰 North Macedonia, 🇳🇴 Norway, 🇵🇱 Poland, 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇷🇴 Romania, 🇷🇸 Serbia, 🇸🇰 Slovakia, 🇸🇮 Slovenia, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇸🇪 Sweden, 🇺🇦 Ukraine