Bona Fides and Initative Developpement Citoyen (IDC) are looking for motivated candidates (aged 18-30, citizens or residents of Poland) for a long-term ESC volunteering project “MUSHROOMS GROWERS 3” in France!
Place: Carcassonne, France
Dates: from ASAP to 31 December 2026
Duration: 5-6 months
We are looking for our new team of mushroom lovers, who will work in this circular economy project called Café Vert! This project started years ago, with formation and lots of experimentation, and since 2020, our ESC volunteers are part of this experience.
IDC projects aim to raise awareness about the actual context we are living and to propose and create solutions to be part of a positive change in a social, cultural and environmental aspect. In this project especially, we will reuse waste to create new life. We collect coffee waste from cafés and restaurants and we mix it with mycelieum to grow oyster mushrooms. And after harvesting, we use that new “waste” in our earth-worm farm, which is great to create new and rich soil for plants.
By doing this, we also want to raise the awareness about sustainable practices and how we can reduce waste by reusing it to grow your own food. We need to be resilient and creative!
New friendships, new learning experiences, many skills to develop, lots of sharings, improvement of french language and culture, and much more!
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES & ACTIVITIES
• Learning how to grow mushrooms from coffee waste.
• Improve your mathematical and scientific skills, by working with data monitoring, experimentation, observation.
• Improvement of french language by speaking and sharing with french natives (when collecting coffee, going to local markets).
• Learning how a mushroom farm works in all the processes.
• Develop communication skills by creating content for social media and the website.
• Chance to experiment with new especies and processes.
• Sharing of your own culture!
• Acknowledge the advantages of working without judgement in an open multicultural team.
• Development of skills to improve employability.
• Learning by experience.
• Development of a personal project.
• Sharing of experiences, talents and skills.
• Work in self-confidence, initiative and autonomy.
Benefits and opportunities
By being part of our project, you will have the opportunity of experiencing an intercultural and learning by doing
experience, and you will share with youngsters from different parts of the world. Other benefits of this program are:
• Financial support from Erasmus: insurance (Henner), travel tickets, accommodation and food + 8 euros/per day of pocket money, Online Linguistic Support (OLS).
• Tutoring support: individual and group meetings to express and share with our sta about any issue or personal projects.
• Learning more about sustainable lifestyle and low-impact practices.
• Development of skills to improve your employability.
• Learn how to enjoy a slower life and to respect nature in all its forms.
• Learn how to share the common tasks of convivence with other people.
• Youthpass Certificate: to acknowledge your own learning process and have a certificate to validate the competences that you improve or get during the project.
• Being part of a team of agents of change (let’s create a better world together!).
Read the INFOPACK for more information
Do you want to be part of the MUSHROOMS GROWERS 3 project?
First, please send your CV and a short motivation letter (in English) to your sending organisation in Poland: mariachiara@bonafides.pl and anna@bonafides.pl
Then, you will be asked to fill in this form https://forms.gle/xoFSTWgvsVb8jMnz8 and send a short video presentation of yourself to: contact@lesjardiniersdelamobilite.fr (subject: Farmer Life – Short term. Without the video we won’t count your
application)
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