ESC - Comune di Lavis
Would you like to volunteer in a youth center promoting cultural and recreational initiatives for young people?
Join the European Solidarity Corps and support the Municipality of Lavis in implementing its Youth Policies.
Coordinating organization
Associazione InCo - Interculturalità & Comunicazione
Duration
From September 2024 for 12 months
Host organization
The Municipality of Lavis is located in the north-east of Italy, in the autonomous province of Trento. It is situated 10 kilometers north of Trento and in the south of the Rotaliana plain, along the Adige Valley.
Currently it has about 9,000 inhabitants.
The main bodies of the City are: the Mayor, the City Council, composed of eighteen councilors including the Mayor, and the Municipal Committee, composed of the mayor and four councilors.
The Mayor is the head of the municipal administration, representing the Municipality and the community, promotes the implementation of its program voted by the Municipal Council, it shall implement the initiatives and measures deemed appropriated to achieve the institutional purposes. The City Council is the policy-making organ of the Municipality and administrative political control. The Municipal Committee works with the Mayor for the implementation of Council voted by the planning documents. By means of its offices or reliance on external parties, the City delivers a range of services that are briefly described in the attached PDF.
Proposed activities for the volunteer/s
The main role of the volunteers is to collaborate with the staff of the Municipality of Lavis, in particular with the Office of Youth Policies and the Youth Centre Lavis, supporting regular activities offered to young people, and suggesting new cultural and recreational initiatives.
In particular the Office of youth policy:
- promotes and supports projects in favor of Youth and manages the Youth Centre (open to young people aged between 18 years and 25 years old - it receives about 10-15 young people per day) on Monday from 17:30 to 22:30, and from Tuesday to Friday from 14:00 to 19:00;
- collaborates in the development of project proposals within the "Piano giovani" of Lavis and Zambana, whose town of Lavis is the leader (https://pianogiovanilaviszambana.wordpress.com/ );
- promotes summer initiatives for children and young people;
- collaborates in the activation, tutoring and supervision of Civil Service projects at national and provincial level;
- collaborates with other offices and within the "Piani giovani" ('Lavis and Zambana' and 'Rotaliana') in identifying environmental affordances to improve the promotion of the heritage of the territory.
Number of volunteers needed
2 volunteers
Requirements to participate
You need to be aged between 18 and 30 years old and you should preferably be an EU citizen.
You don't need any previous experience or training in order to become a volunteer and carry on your activities in Lavis. Just be curious, open-minded and highly motivated!
Food and accommodation
You will get free accommodation for the whole duration of your voluntary service. You will live in a single room or in double room in a shared flat. You will get food allowance and will share some lunch and dinners in the different communities.
Pocket money, according to the ESC guide standards in Italy are 180 euro per months (6 euro per day).
What you need to do to apply
For any information write an email to: evs@incoweb.org.
If you want to apply, you can choose between two options:
a) fill out this online Application form (via Google Forms)
b) if you prefer not to use Google Forms to send your application, please download this form , fill out every section, sign it and then send it together with your CV and motivation letter to evs@incoweb.org.
