European youth volunteering for climate change adaptation

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The experience

Focused on European youth volunteering for climate change adaptation, having the values of European citizenship as promoters of development and innovation, in the areas of nature conservation, restoration of natural areas and community empowerment. The project aims to engage youngsters and the community in concrete nature conservation works, including a wide range of hands-on tasks, with the goal of restoring degraded ecological areas.

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What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

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What you get

2 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

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Requirements

Intermediate English

Between 18 and 30 years old

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

European Union Passport

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What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

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Program Details

The project aims to engage youngsters and the community in concrete nature conservation works, including a wide range of hands-on tasks, with the goal of restoring degraded ecological areas, through the restitution of native forests, allowing youngsters to get involved in actions that aim to raise social-environmental awareness, improve inclusive citizen participation and capacitating communities, potentiating restoration and conservation of natural patrimony and with that allowing communities to benefit from ecosystem services, address climate changes and embrace the full right to a healthy environment, the basis of all human rights.

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Activities & Shift

– Identification, removal and monitoring of exotic invasive species, associated with risk of fire and ecological degradation;



– Identification of existing native flora for conservation and collection of seeds to be produced in nursery;



– Ecological rehabilitation of native forests with the plantation of native species, diversification of existing flora and reintroduction of locally extinct species;



– Monitoring of plantations and spontaneous autochthonous regeneration;



– Restauration of temporary and torrential riparian galleries with focus on soil retention and restauration of riparian vegetation;



– Maintenance and ecological valorization of existing pedestrian trails;



– Coordination of activities with groups from local comunities, such us general public, social and environmental organizations, scouts, schools and universities, social institutions and the corpora

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Rules

We look for volunteers that have the availability to stay with us for 3-4 months.