🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
Study Visit on Safeguarding in ESC Teams — for ESC Coordinators & Mentors Only
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Study Visit
28 September - 2 October 2026 | Casaleggio Boiro (AL), Italy
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❗️What Is This Training About?
For ESC coordinators, mentors & group leaders with hands-on experience managing ESC volunteers. Observe safeguarding in a live ESC Team in Italy, exchange peer practices, network with ESC professionals from 5 countries and co-design the November TC.
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ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
S.A.F.E. Moves (Safeguarding, Awareness, Formation and Empowerment) is a KA153 Erasmus+ multi-activity project coordinated by Associazione PE.CO (Italy), running March 2026 – May 2027 with seven partner organisations across Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ukraine, Slovenia and Finland.
About the Study Visit
The Study Visit takes place at Cascina EUtopia, a rural educational community in Casaleggio Boiro (AL), Northern Italy — PE.CO's base for ESC Teams. During 3 activity days (+ travel days), participants will:
- Observe safeguarding protocols applied in an ongoing ESC Team hosting highly vulnerable young people
- Engage in peer exchange on good practices and recurring challenges
- Co-design the priorities for the Training Course (12–20 November 2026, same venue)
Who is this call for?
We are looking for 2 additional participants from the following countries: Spain, Portugal, Ukraine, Slovenia, Finland (1 participant from Finland).
This call is strictly open to people with direct, operational responsibility for ESC field — specifically sending or hosting coordinators, mentors, group leaders or project managers actively involved in preparing volunteers, accompanying them and managing risks. Applicants without a hands-on ESC role will not be considered.
Training overview
This Study Visit is
for 9 participants
from Finland, Portugal, Spain, Ukraine
and recommended for
Youth workers, ESC mentors and tutors
Working language(s):
English
Organiser:
Associazione P.E.CO. (Youth NGO)
Associazione PE.CO is an Italian non-profit active since 2003 in international youth mobility, non-formal education and European Voluntary Service / ESC. PE.CO is an accredited ESC hosting and coordinating organisation and manages ESC Teams at Cascina EUtopia. The organisation coordinates the KA153 multi-activity project S.A.F.E. Moves (2025–2027).
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📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Tommaso Pescetto Cosentino
E-Mail:
Phone: +393385776160
💶 Costs
Costs
Participation fee
None. Accommodation, meals and programme costs are fully covered by the project.
Accommodation and food
Participants stay at Cascina EUtopia in shared rooms (3+ per room, gender-divided). All meals provided (3 meals + 2 coffee breaks per day, from arrival dinner to departure breakfast).
Travel reimbursement
Travel costs reimbursed at Erasmus+ flat-rate distance bands:
- Slovenia: up to €417 (green travel, 500–1999 km)
- Spain, Portugal, Ukraine: up to €309 (standard travel, 500–1999 km)
- Finland: up to €395 (standard travel, 2000–2999 km)
Travel plans must be approved before purchase. Send your itinerary and ticket prices to tommaso@peco.genova.it. Tickets bought without prior confirmation will not be reimbursed.
📜 Certificate
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:
https://youthworkshub.org/what-is-youthpass
⚠️ Important Dates
Application deadline (24h UTC): 7 September 2026
Date of selection: 13 September 2026
🔗 Official Link
🗂️ Documents
⚠️ Important Notice
Youth Works Hub is not the organiser, partner, or representative of the listed projects. This listing is shared for information only, based on details from the source. Deadlines, eligible countries, dates, and other details may change or be withdrawn at any time, and all funding, reimbursements, and allowances are set by the project coordinator or National Agency. Applications go directly to the coordinator or hosting organisation through the official link. Listings may include third-party links (ESC Portal, infopacks, forms) that Youth Works Hub does not control. Always verify the details on the official project page before applying.
