Bona Fides Association and Associazione InCo – Interculturalità & Comunicazione are looking for a volunteers (citizen or resident of Poland) for 2 ESC projects: 12-months with VKE and 11 months with The Azienda Servizi Sociali di Bolzano (ASSB) in Bolzano, Italy.
Place: Bolzano, Italy
Start: September / October 2025
Duration: 11-12 months
Application deadline: 21.05.2025
Project 1: starting in September for 12 months with hosting organisation VKE:
https://www.incoweb.org/Open-Call/In-Italia/Nord-Italia/ESC-VKE
Would you like to volunteer in the field of organization, implementation of games, workshops and cultural activities for young people & children? Join the European Solidarity Corps and become part of the VKE‘s team for 12 months starting from September 2025!
Host organization
VKE is an association of volunteers, founded in Bolzano in 1974 by a group of parents, who wanted to dedicate themselves to emphasizing children’s and young people’s right to play and creating playing areas for them, but also to the improvement of children’s life quality, as well as that of the youth and their families in general. The main activities of VKE are:
- “Spielbus/Ludobus” a small bus with several games to visit the different communities of the Province of Bolzano offering children the opportunity to play and learn together.
- “SpielHaus/CasaGioco” is a small house for the promotion of the free time where children can find different games.
- “Estate Ragazzi VKE” are summer camps for children aged between 3 and 14 years.
Proposed activities for the volunteer/s
The volunteers’ tasks could be summarized as following:
- • participation in the organization and implementation of games in the frame of the “Spielbus/Ludobus” and of the game centers (“Spielhaus/Centri Giochi”);
- • support in the organization and development of summer centers;
- • organization and realization of workshops about their own country or about Europe;
- • organization of intercultural activities together with the other volunteers;
- • raising awareness about the youths’ right to play;
- • participation in the team-meetings and in the monthly supervision with the other volunteers;
- • promotion of new activities and projects connected with the voluntary service, for example presentation of the EVS to young people of the territory.
Requirements to participate
You need to be aged between 18 and 30 years old.
You don’t need any previous experience or training in order to become a volunteer and carry on your activities in VKE. 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 in a shared flat, with laundry facilities and a fully equipped kitchen with cooking facilities. You will share the apartment with other volunteers.
You will get a food allowance to cover your food expenditures.
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, a.siembab@bonafides.pl & anna@bonafides.pl
Information about the program: ESC – Corpo Europeo di Solidarietà
Attached files: Scarica il file Infopack VKE.pdf (File application/pdf 5,10 MB)
Project 2: starting in October 2025 for 11-12 months with hosting organisation ASSB : https://www.incoweb.org/Open-Call/In-Italia/Nord-Italia/ESC-Azienda-Servizi-Sociali-di-Bolzano
Would you like to volunteer in the field of assistance and recreation for elderly and disabled people in a nursing home? Join the European Solidarity Corps and become part of the ASSB‘s team for 11-12 months starting from October 2025!
Azienda Servizi Sociali di Bolzano (ASSB) – The Azienda Servizi Sociali di Bolzano (ASSB) is a public institution, which coordinates and manages the social services offered in Bolzano’s territory. Volunteers may be involved in one of the following structures for elderlies:
- • Villa Armonia;
- • Villa Europa and “Casa di riposo Don Bosco”;
- • Villa Serena;
- • Clinica Santa Maria;
- • Premstallerhof;
- • day center for elderlies in Villa Europa.
Proposed activities for the volunteers
Volunteers will collaborate with the staff of nursing homes mainly with recreational and entertainment activities planned for the elderly.
In particular volunteers will be involved in the following activities:
- • organizing recreational activities for the elderly/disabledpeople,
- • talking to them,
- • reading something,
- • participating in some excursions of one or more days,
- • making different kind of purchases (e.g. food, medicine for the guests),
- • support of the educators in the activities of assistance,
- • care and rehabilitation,
- • accompanying the elderly with walking difficulties,
- • participating in the evaluation meetings
- • and planning certain matters with the educators and social workers etc.
Please bear in mind that you will work with elderly people and that they may not be as autonomous as you could imagine. Some of them have Alzheimer or other illnesses.
Volunteers will have the opportunity to be involved in parallel activities together with other volunteers hosted in other receiving organizations coordinated by InCo. The topic of the parallel activities will change according to the project. (Making games, organizing events, exhibitions, etc.)
Requirements to participate
You need to be aged between 18 and 30 years old.
You don’t need any previous experience or training in order to become a volunteer and carry on your activities in ASSB. Just be curious, open-minded and highly motivated!Condizioni
Food and accommodation
You will get free accommodation for the whole duration of your voluntary service. You will live in a single or double room with shared bathroom, laundry facilities and a fully equipped kitchen with cooking facilities. You will share the apartment with other volunteers, never with the elderly. Indeed, if the room is inside the nursing home “Villa Serena” (close to the city center and the Talvera river), it is at the last floor totally separated from the floors where elderlies are hosted and doing activities.
During working days, you will eat your lunch in the canteen of the elderly home / disabled people centre where you work together with the staff. The other meals and during the weekends (or free days if you decide to stay in Bolzano), you have the possibility to eat in the canteen of the nursing home where you live. In any case you will receive a food allowance to cover the expenses linked to meal for dinner, holidays and weekend.
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, a.siembab@bonafides.pl & anna@bonafides.pl
Information about the program: ESC – Corpo Europeo di Solidarietà
Attached files: Scarica il file Infopack Azienda Servizi Sociali Bolzano.pdf (File application/pdf 11,10 MB)