Centrul European de Tineret (The European Youth Centre - EYC) is a non-profit, nongovernmental, independent and apolitical association.Our association is performing its activities at local, national and European levels.The association has been founded in June 2013 in Bucharest,Romania.The association ran its activities only to promote volunteering.The EYC has in this moment 6 years of experience of working with young volunteers from Romania and Europe. Our association has a team of 6 teachers and 15 young volunteers who work and perform the volunteering activities at local and European levels. The objective of the association is to realise programs specific to and for youth and promoting volunteering in the educational, social, artistic, sportive, touristic, entertainment, economic and ecological domains.The association has as a purpose the development of the ability of communication and of the freedom of speech of the youngsters and volunteers from Romania and Europe. The target group of the association is the youngsters aged 14 to 30 years. To the unfolding of our projects may participate any of the youngsters that are disadvantaged or marginalised from the community. We are focused on the integration of marginalised youngsters and the information and instruction of the youngsters with fewer opportunities, especially the ones from the rural area. The activities of the association consist of: our activities began in the Ilfov County and we focused on the development of some local youth and volunteering centres in the poor and isolated towns of this county. This way we managed in the 5 years of activity to develop 2 centres of volunteering in Brănești and Cirogârla and we have in mind the development of this kind of centres in Dragomireşti Vale and Buftea as well.All of these have been possible to develop due to the financing obtained from the Erasmus + program which helped our team to present the youngsters what are the European opportunities of education. Our team has 3 years of experience at the European level and is permanently bettering its level of preparedness for realising some successful projects within ESC. The members of the team have run a series of projects within the Erasmus + program and wants to develop new volunteering projects in ESC.Our association, during the 6 years of existence, implemented a series of volunteering projects in RO which it directly coordinated. The team of our association worked with disadvantaged youngsters from Ilfov County and tried to help them develop better; we offered them the chance of gaining trust in the chance of integration in the community through their inclusion in the projects of volunteering and education.Our team has a series of partnerships at the local level with education institutions, along with which we implemented a series of projects which addressed the youngsters and which pursued the growth of their participation to volunteering activities which we ran in Bucharest and in the Ilfov County.In the 5 years of activity we managed to open two volunteering centres in the towns: Brănești and Cirogârla.The activities of our projects unfold within the school campuses of Cezar Nicolau High School from Brănești and the Pamfil Seicaru High School from Cirogârla in which the European volunteers are accommodated and run their volunteering activities within the high schools from Ilfov.Our association hosted a series of EVS volunteers in the Ilfov County.Our team has only been a co-beneficiary within the hosted project of the volunteers from Turkey in the projects: 2016-3-TR01-KA105-036886; 2017-1-TR01-KA105-040618; 2017-2-TR01-KA105-047478. Our team also took part in a preparation course for the inclusion of the disadvantaged youngsters: 2017-2-TR01-KA105-047423. After the experience accumulated our team has successfully implemented a Youth Exchange: Multicultural Space, 2017-3-RO01-KA105-047275. The project had a series of successful activities and together with our partners from the project (Portugal and Turkey) we have prepared and developed an ESC project in RO.This way we have applied and had the first approved ESC project in RO:Multicultural Community: 2019-1-RO01-ESC11-061935. In this situation our team wants to ask the number of ESC volunteers our association can host at the same time. We want to increase the number to 24 ESC volunteers.We think that it is opportune to develop new volunteering centres in as many communities from Ilfov as possible.These centres are beneficial to both sides: the local community of youngsters, as well as the ESC volunteers who will be able to communicate and interact with disadvantaged youngsters and to develop new communication, tolerance and education abilities in new spaces and communities from RO. In this moment, our association has an approved ESC project with a partner from Turkey situated in Ankara and a partner from Portugal which will send in the period September 2019–July 2020 a number of 20 volunteers from RO.

Inclusion 2 is an ESC (European Solidarity Corps) project. The volunteering period is of 90 days/3 months, in which the days spent in RO represent the activities. These activities will take place between 01/09/2025 and 31/05/2026. Through this project, we wish to bring together a number of 4 volunteers: Romania - 1 International - 3 They will stay 9 months in Romania, from September 2025 to May 2026. INCLUSION 2 is a project which aims to prepare and implement the work program with disadvantaged young people with different ethnic backgrounds and with the ESC volunteers having, as objective the inclusion and equal opportunities addressed to disadvantaged young people (NEETs). The volunteers are expected to work using non-formal methods with high school students (14-18 years old) with which to share EU values, teach them about respect for human dignity and human rights that the EU promotes and wants all its citizens to live in a fair society with equal opportunities for all.

The participants will be accommodated in Ilfov County and will be provided by a youth student’s dormitory with 2 bed placements in one room. Each participant will have at least 1 roommate. The participants may be placed in the same room with participants from other countries so that they will interact and bond with their fellow roommates. The division will be by gender. The bathrooms will be on the corridor and not in the rooms. Participants are asked to bring personal things such as hairdryer, towels, flip-flops. Volunteers will receive a cost of 300 euros/month for all monthly cost.

1. Morning session between 09.30 - 12.30: from Tuesday to Friday, volunteers work with young people and high school teachers from Ilfov county with whom we collaborate. On Monday morning, the volunteers are in the office, where they review the weekly activity with the project coordinator and set the activities for the next week's goals. 2. Afternoon session between 14:00 and 15:00: a series of courses/activities are held to train volunteers on the following topics: media literacy, group communication and stage presence.

The Participant profile: We accept candidates that are between 18 and 25 years old. The candidates need to study the accommodation section of the Info Pack that will receive from us, in order to find out about what personal usage objects need to be brought which are not provided by us. Please send the CV + Motivation letter to email: [email protected]
Deadline: 01/09/2025 00:00

The project is implemented under the European Solidarity Corps Programme, financed by the European Commission.
The participating organisations have to be mindful of these needs as they are responsible for providing a respectful and trusting hosting environment. At the same time, the organisations participating in the initiative devote a great deal of time, energy and resources to set up a high-quality activity; they should therefore expect that European Solidarity Corps participants show a similar level of respect for the local communities and the people that are directly concerned by the activities (https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/mission_en).
What do we provide ?

• Training before and after the project
• Health insurance during your project
• round-trip travel reimbursement
• accommodation and food
• pocket money
• language course
• Return Week-end
• Youth Pass and SVI international Volunteer passport

Before applying for this volunteering project, you need to enroll yourself at European Solidarity Corps Platform (https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en) and specify your European Solidarity Corps Participant Number (PRN).
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.
Contact the ESC coordinator at +32 2 888 67 13 to get more informations.