A warm, community-centered ESC adventure awaits you in Recanati, Italy — one of the most poetic towns in Europe! 🇮🇹✨
Hosted by Centro Fonti San Lorenzo APS, this long-term volunteering opportunity invites you into a dynamic cultural and social hub that brings together children, youth, adults, and the elderly through creativity, solidarity, and shared community life. 💛🌍
At this lively cultural center, volunteers help strengthen intergenerational bonds while contributing to education, arts, inclusion, environmental care, communication, and community participation. Whether it’s working with children, supporting cultural events, managing green spaces, or co-creating social initiatives — this ESC project lets you make a remarkable impact while learning every single day. 🌱🎶🤝
📅 Activity Dates:
08 January 2026 – 30 September 2026 (40 weeks)
📍 Location: Recanati, Italy 🇮🇹
✨ What You Can Do as a Volunteer
- 🌟 Work with children in engaging daily activities
- 🎭 Support the Youth Aggregation Center
- 🌱 Take care of common community spaces (garden, square, center)
- 🗣️ Help organise cultural events, workshops & trainings
- 🎨 Contribute to communication & promotion of activities
- 🤝 Support community-building within the neighbourhood
- ⚽ Promote inclusion through sports activities
- 🍽️ Take part in ASK – Art I Social I Kitchen activities
🏡 Accommodation, Food & Transport
- Twin room in a shared apartment, 1 minute from the center
- Monthly food & pocket money provided
- Travel costs reimbursed according to ESC rules
🎓 Training & Learning Experience
- Pre-departure training
- On-arrival + mid-term training (by Italian National Agency)
- Language learning support (Italian classes + OLS)
- Daily learning support based on anti-authoritarian, self-managed methodologies
👤 Participant Profile
You are ideal for this project if you are:
- Open-minded, positive, flexible, and creative
- Motivated to work daily with children, teens, adults & the elderly
- Respectful of diversity, democracy, participation & teamwork
- Communicative, proactive, and eager to learn
🌍 Eligible Countries
Austria 🇦🇹, Belgium 🇧🇪, Bulgaria 🇧🇬, Croatia 🇭🇷, Denmark 🇩🇰, France 🇫🇷, Germany 🇩🇪, Greece 🇬🇷, Hungary 🇭🇺, Ireland 🇮🇪, Poland 🇵🇱, Portugal 🇵🇹, Spain 🇪🇸
⏳ Application Deadline: 21 December 2025
🔗 Application Link: https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/49060_en
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