Clarissa in Skopje // 1st Report
“What in God’s name made me leave Germany? Why would I move to one of the poorest countries in Europe?” – I ask my best friend at the airport. It is Saturday, 16th of January and I rarely managed to get two hours of sleep. It’s departure day. Hey there! My name is Clarissa, I …
Maria in Bremen // Monthly Blogs in Spanish
¿Hablas español? If you are curious to read about Maria’s experiences in Bremen, you can check out her monthly blog entries in Spanish: The Beginning January 2021 February 2021 Maria is volunteering at Tobiasschule und Kindergarten e.V. and hosted on our project “From Global to Local”, financed by the European Solidarity Corps and Jugend für …
Rita in Bremen // 1st Report
What’s a Neapolitan used to o’ sole o’ mare o’ core doing in Bremen? There are many reasons. The first is that I am a bit crazy and impulsive. When I make a decision, I rarely use my head and therefore my reason, for the 99% of the time I rely on chance or follow …
Ionut in Bremen // 1st Report
Moin! 🙂 I’m Ionut and at the moment I’m doing my European Solidarity Corps project in ServiceBureau Jugendinformation, a branch of the youth education center LidiceHaus, in Bremen, Germany. Here’s a little insight of my journey so far 🙂 After finishing my degree in Journalism in Barcelona, I wasn’t very sure of what I wanted …
Carla in Italy // Final Report
I’m Carla, and I did a volunteering service in Italy with the Bangherang organization. I went there in August and left in February, so I stayed there for six months. Leaving my home in Germany was a big decision for me as I had never been away from home before for such a long time. …
Olya in Bremen // 1st Report
My adventurous ESC volunteering Middle of June…I am doing my last qualification exam at Charles University in Prague. All doors are open in front of me… But which one should I choose? Continue my study? Find a job? Try to do something completely new that I have never experienced before? My passion for adventure helped …
Katerina in Bremen // 1st Report
Hey everyone! My name is Katerina and I come from Athens, Greece, where I am studying theatre studies [which is related to the history and theory of theatre, and not acting]. Until last year I was working in theatres in Athens and renting a flat in its beautiful centre. Soon, however, Corona took all of …
Dolores in Zagreb, Croatia // 3rd Report
Hello everyone, my name is Dolores and I am currently an ESC volunteer in Zagreb, Croatia. The month of November started off with Eduardo’s and Francesco’s intercultural evening (fellow volunteers) about their countries – Spain and Italy. Over the course of the whole month our language classes and Croatian lessons took place and I was …
Minou and Kaja in Blanes // Video
From Summer 2019 until Spring 2020, Minou and Kaja were spending their ESC Voluntary Service in Blanes, Spain, where they were working at Marimurtra Botanical Garden. But – how was that experience for them, and what’s it like to be a volunteer? Watch the video below and find out! Video: Andrei Matalyha, BlindBear Production
Kathy in Bremen, Germany // 1st Report
Hello my name is Katharina, but everyone calls me Kathy. I’m from France and I’m doing a 10 months volunteering project in Bremen, at Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen. I always have been interested in cultural exchanges. At 8, I had my first school exchange in Italy and though I didn’t speak italian, it was a great …
Tomas in Bremen, Germany // Final Report
In this video, Tomas from Cyprus is sharing his experiences of being an ESC volunteer in Bremen. We were lucky to host him for one year on our project “Think Global, Work Local”, financed by the European Solidarity Corps and Jugend für Europa.
Katharina in Calvene & Bassano del Grappa, Italy // 1st Report
Living „la dolce vita“ After I graduated from High School last summer I knew that I couldn´t stay home any longer. I was full of wanderlust and restlessness. I have already known about the European Soldidarity Corps and thought of it as a very extraordinary and amazing opportunity, but only two months before I …
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Lenya in Bassano del Grappa, Italy // 1. Bericht
Ciao tutti! Ich bin Lenya, bin 18 Jahre alt und komme aus einem kleinen Dorf in Mitteldeutschland, um genauer zu sein aus dem Harz. Ich wollte schon immer viel reisen und andere Kulturen kennenlernen und erkunden. Es macht mir Spaß neue Dinge auszuprobieren und die unterschiedlichsten Menschen kennenzulernen. Deshalb habe ich mich nach meinem …
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Pernille in Bremen, Germany // 1st Report
Hi 🙂 I’m Pernille, I’m 23 years old and I’m from a small village in Norway called Langfjordbotn. In the beginning of September 2020 I moved to Bremen, Germany, to take part in a one-year volunteering project, European Solidarity Corps (ESC) through NaturKultur. Here i’m volunteering at Tobias-Schule. This is a school which is using …
Andrea in Bremen, Germany // 1st Report
Between “Danke” and “Bitte schön” My name is Andrea, I’m Italian and I’m 26. I’m writing this in the middle of my EVS experience, after 6 months. 6 months in the north of Germany, Bremen, away from everything I knew before. First thing I found out since I’m here: people are not used to …
Clarissa in Blanes, Spain // 1st Report
Es gibt Tage, an denen die Zeit zu schleichen scheint…Wenn ich jetzt aber zurückblicke und sehe, was alles in meinen nun schon fast drei ersten Monaten alles passiert ist –inklusive WG-partys, Schwimmen im Meer (man wird ziemlich schief angesehen im November), Champagnerfrühstück und atemberaubenden Wanderungen-, bin ich doch sehr überrascht! Zugegeben, der Anfang …
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Eilidh in Bremen, Germany // 1st Report
Hi! I’m Eilidh, I’m 21 years old and I’m from a small village just south of Edinburgh, Scotland. In September 2020 I moved to Bremen, Germany, to take part in a one-year volunteering project through the European Solidarity Corps (ESC), a programme funded and supported by Erasmus+ and the EU. I am volunteering for NaturKultur …
Lisa in Napoli, Italy // Final Report
Ciao! I returned to my hometown a couple of days ago. I spent the last days alone, isolated at home. Due to Covid 19, I am not allowed to have any personal contact to my loved ones at the moment. This situation is not ideal but it gives me the opportunity to acclimate and reflect …
Stefanie in Blanes, Spain // 1st Report
I start my travel on the 14th September 2020 to Blanes, Spain. With the plane I flew to Barcelona and from there I took a bus to Blanes. Arrived there, Josep the manager of the Botanical garden picked me up from the bus station and drove me to the apartment. There I met the other …
Ludwig & Simon on Chios Island, Greece // 1st Report
I (Ludwig) arrived on Chios Island on the 15th of September. On arrival I got picked up by our Mentor Markus who drove me to the volunteer’s house. There I got a warm welcome from the other volunteers who were already there. In the first days our coordinator Dimitrios explained the project to me. Because …
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Dolores in Zagreb, Croatia // 2nd Report
Reflecting on October and the On-Arrival Training Hello everyone 😀 I have had 2 German Language classes so far and I was so nervous to teach but I had a really positive experience and now look forward to them. My class is very active and excited to learn German 🙂 The big event this month …
Abroad // Training Course “Get Updated” in Struga, North Macedonia
From the 1st to the 10th of September, two youth workers from Germany represented NaturKultur e.V. on a Training Course in Struga, North Macedonia. The TC is the second event of the Erasmus+ project “Get Updated: Project for Professional Development of Youth Workers”, this time focusing on communication skills for youth workers and conflict management. …
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Abroad // Training Course “No Hate Speech” in Braga, Portugal
The focus of the project was on online and offline hate speech. In order to raise awareness about the topic, there were applied different activities and methods, such as: group presentations, debates, living libraries, community guest speakers, etc. During the project, each group had to elaborate one specific topic related to hate speech. The different …
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Abroad // Youth Exchange “Let’s Dance Together” in Fuzine, Croatia
NATARAJA is a Sanskrit word that means the king of dance. It is truly the divine dancing aspect of God who defeat the demons by dancing above them. It represents the eternal flow, the primitive blow that maintain the creation together and guarantees that the sun will rise again every day. The whole creation is …
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Abroad // Training Course “Youth Work for Equality and Unity” in Caserta, Italy
On a farm 80km from Naples, Italy, a group of about 30 youth from all over Europe gathered for a week long training course about migration and human rights. The project was titled “Youth Work For Equality and Unity” #YW4EU. The other countries besides our German team that were represented at the training were Italy, …
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Abroad // Youth Exchange “Say No to Discrimination” in Fuzine, Croatia
Words can not even describe what we have experienced in a small village in Croatia called Fužine. The big and cozy guesthouse was brought to life by 35 young and motivated people. All participants came from seven different countries – Croatia, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Romania, Spain and Turkey. Every individual or even a group of …
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Abroad // Youth Exchange “Understanding our Human Rights for a Better EU” in Ayia Napa, Cyprus
About 60 young people from 12 different countries came together in Ayia Napa, which is located at the south coast of Cyprus, to learn about this exciting topic of active citizenship. Here is the story of 4 members of the German Team who shared their valuable experience. Lea (18) “I’ve never been to an #ErasmusProject …
Lisa in Napoli, Italy // 1st Report
Napoli… so far. I am writing this looking at vesuvius. Since day one, no day has passed, that I haven’t sat on the balcony, listened to the neighbors chat, sing, play music…you can always feel the energy of the volcano in this mystical town. About eight weeks have passed and I fell deeply in …
Dolores in Zagreb, Croatia // 1st Report
The first month in Zagreb, Croatia Hello everyone 😀 This is going to be the blog post about our experience as volunteers in September and the other volunteers will focus on a different topic for their blogs, so watch out for that 😉 Our first official task as Volunteers was the Festivol 3.0 which was …
Catarina in Bremen, Germany // Final Report
My name is Catarina Garcia and I came from Portugal. I decided to go on ESC as an opportunity to live abroad, and also to try and learn a new possible career. In September 2019 I got accepted to volunteer at Deutsches TanzfilmInstitut Bremen for a year. Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen, or TAFI, is a Dance …
Germany // Youth Exchange “Somewhere I Belong” in Bremen
“Somewhere I belong” project has been inspired by the paradox of the mobility – while on one side mobility assumes possibilities to work and travel, some people, on the other side, have been forced to move due to a war, poverty or political repression. Generally, our project aims to make young Europeans be aware of …
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Luca in Amman, Jordan // Final Report
My ESC voluntary service for the organisation I-Dare began in 08.03.2020. But the idea to do so came much earlier. I found a display for this voluntary service online and in the beginning I was very sceptical about going abroad for half a year. But with time going by the idea became more and more …
Hanno in Beirut, Lebanon // 2nd Report
Irgendwie ist alles anders gekommen, als geplant. Mein ESC in Beirut hatte gerade an Fahrt gewonnen, ich hatte meine ersten eigenen Projekte, war in verschiedenen NGOs eingespannt und viele gute Freund*innen gefunden. Ich hatte mein eigenes Schulprojekt, habe einen Projektantrag für ein UNICEF-Projekt mitgeschrieben, habe mich mit vielen anderen Gruppen vernetzt und bin einem Chor …
Lea on Chios Island, Greece // 3rd Report
The beginning of the month of July meant the closure of the schools for the almost 3 months long summer holiday periode here in Greece. With the summer holidays also another aspect of my ESC project began: summer activities. This meant spending the afternoon playing with the kids of the neighbourhood in order to provide …
Lea on Chios Island, Greece // 2nd Report
While the last month was quite filled with new experiences, this month started rather boring with the schools and shops still being closed and the new measurements taken prohibiting also water sports. Being very limited in the options this meant spending the working time either on computer work or on finishing the paintings in the …
Germany // Training Course “Train the trainers: It’s up to me 5” in Garlstedt
The main goal of It’s up to me it’s to give young trainers all the necessary skills they will need in their work: team management, conflict resolution, communicational skills… For this fifth edition, we decided to maintain a regular “diary” of what was happening during the project so those who haven’t been able to assist …
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Kaja and Minou in Blanes, Spain // Final Report
Who are you, where do you come from? I am Minou Heinemann, from Bamberg, Germany (Bavaria). How come you’ve decided to go on ESC? I wanted to go on ESC, because I found it to be a great opportunity to engage in a new culture and to benefit a local community by helping in a …
Sascha in Skopje, Nordmazedonien // Rückblick
Mein Name ist Sascha Schlüter, ich bin 30 Jahre alt und komme aus der Nähe von Magdeburg. Von Mai 2019 bis Februar 2020 absolvierte ich meinen neunmonatigen EFD beim Volunteers Centre Skopje in der mazedonischen Hauptstadt Skopje. Bereits nach einer Studienreise mit den Jungen Europäischen Föderalisten (JEF) im Jahr 2017, hatte ich beschlossen, dass ich …
Lea on Chios Island, Greece // 1st Report
Arriving at the airport of the Greek island Chios, I was lucky enough to directly meet another volunteer of the project “TES”: Technology, Education and Sports for which I was accept as volunteer. We were picked up by our mentor and brought to the house in the small costal town Vrontados which was supposed to …
Hanno in Beirut, Libanon // 1. Bericht
Am Abreisetag noch schnell den Koffer gepackt und dann los. Als ich nachts in Beirut gelandet bin, die lichterfüllten Berge und mein Viertel „Ain El Remmeneh“ zum ersten Mal erblicken durfte, war ich überwältigt von der Schönheit Beiruts. Am ersten Abend wurde ich von vielen anderen Jugendlichen beim Chabibeh Club erwartet und durch die Nachbarschaft …
Juliette in Naples, Italy // Final Report
My name is Juliette, I’m 25 years old and from a small village in Germany. One year before my volunteering program, I decided to go to Italy. It started in the NaturKultur house, where I was participant in a youth exchange which inspired me to join more opportunities given by the european solidary corps. This …
Matthis in Skopje, North Macedonia // Final Report
It is surprising how fast the unknown can become known and a foreign land become home. And how fast time runs sometimes. It seems just now that two strangers picked me up at the airport and now I‘m already saying goodbye to them as good friends. I was in Skopje, North-Macedonia for 9 months #volunteering …
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Jana in Zagreb, Croatia // Final Report
Bok! I am Jana, a 19-year old German-Estonian from Rietberg, Germany. From September 2018 till August 2019 I lived in Zagreb, Croatia, where I took part in the programm known as European Voluntary Service. The decision to go on EVS was an easy one to make for me. After finishing my „Abitur“ in July 2018, …
Kaja und Minou in Blanes, Spanien // 1. Bericht
Unsere Reise beginnt am 04.11.2019. Wir, Kaja und Minou, haben uns am Flughafen beim Gepäckband getroffen und waren beide sehr glücklich nun endlich in die neue Heimat mit dem Bus zu fahren. Die Fahrt nach Blanes dauerte zwar relativ lang (3 Stunden), wir tauschten uns aber erstmal aus und es war perfekt um sich gleich …
Abroad // Youth Exchange “Eco-Education” in Coma Ruga, Spain
If I should describe the Eco-Education project in three words it would be: Outdoors all the time. Well now its 4 but you get the idea. We were given a lot of opportunities to do different kinds of work in nature and at the beach. Teamwork and communication always played a big role und together …
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Esther on Chios Island, Greece // Part 1
My journey to Chios began on 30th August 2019. Chios is the fifth biggest island of Greece. My group, consisting of five other boys and girls, and I live Vrontados, which is a little place located on the coast and inhabited by approximately 6000 people. Our home is one hour away from the city center …
Florian in Italy // Final Report
In February 2018 I have finished my university in the Netherlands and moved back to my hometown in the Thuringian Forest after many years abroad. At that time, I was working a temporary – a rather soulless – job in the industry close to my hometown. End of April, I was contacted by via the …
Malene in Bremen, Germany // Final Report
Packing your stuff and moving to a new city in another country might be scary for some people. At least, it was for me and I can tell you that it was not easy either. However, aside from being scared; I was actually extremely excited. I had expectations and I just wanted to go somewhere …
Abroad // Training Course “Act out of the Box” in Coimbra, Portugal
In the beginning of January 2019, we, Lina Iona and Sarah, had the chance to leave the cold country of Germany and travel to sunny Montemor-o-Velho in Portugal. We were ready for ten days of working and living with a big group of people, as we were part of the Erasmus+ Training Course “Act out …
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Germany // Youth Exchange “Act Non-Formal vol.2!” in Bremen
Act Non-formal vol.2! aimed to provide new innovative methods and skills for youth workers to include marginalized youth into the society and provide opportunities for them to develop their non-formal education skills. This TC wanted to bring young people from different cultures closer together, and help them to express and reflect their opinion, gain self-confidence and take active …
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