Call for ESC volunteering in Spain

Start: Sep. 2026

End: Jul. 2027

The participant will be involved in a variety of tasks, working 30–38 hours per week, Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 15:00. Volunteers are encouraged to take an active role in all school activities, propose initiatives, and develop personal projects, always supported and guided by teachers and the school community. We seek a volunteer who is responsible, creative, autonomous, and eager to contribute to daily school life.

Our school values a respectful and caring approach to childhood, combining support with firmness. Volunteers may also work in the school garden and are expected to avoid using mobile phones in front of children.

Volunteer activities may include:

· Supporting students during lessons under teacher supervision.

· Assisting with arrivals, departures, and playground supervision.

· Participating in workshops, creative projects, and school events (Open Day, excursions, artistic activities).

· Maintaining and organizing school spaces, including cleaning and garden work.

· Helping develop educational materials and preparing learning environments.

· Engaging in sustainable development activities: recycling, environmental care, and promoting local and seasonal food.

· Fostering a positive school climate through respect, empathy, and conflict resolution.

· Supporting local volunteer initiatives and collaborating with community associations.

Additional European solidarity activities:

· Promoting European mobility projects in local schools and the University of Murcia.

· Participating in presentations and workshops about the European Solidarity Corps programme.

· Creating content to share monthly, documenting and promoting project activities.

Volunteers are welcomed to contribute ideas, take initiative, and participate fully in the life of our active and dynamic school community.

Our volunteering project seeks to promote the values promoted by the EU and the CES Program, such as solidarity, equality, justice, respect, the fight against exclusion and xenophobia, etc.

Practical arrangements: The schedule of the volunteer activities will be between 30 and 38 hours per week. The volunteer will work max. 38 hours on 5 days per week.

Holidays: According to the rules of ESC, volunteers must have 2 working days off per month.

Accommodation: The volunteers will live in a room in a shared flat located in the city of Cartagena together with other volunteers. The room and the flat will be fully equipped, and electricity, water, gas and internet will be covered by the lead organization (till the amount of 30€ per volunteer).

Pocket money: The volunteer will receive the monthly rate foreseen by the Spanish NA, 186€ per month.

Food: The volunteer will receive 184€ for food every month.

Local transport: Every volunteer will have a chance to choose a bike or bus card provided by the hosting organization if it is needed.

Language support: The volunteer is entitled to receive language support with an online platform, as stated on the ESC programme guide.

Medical insurance: The volunteer will be covered by a private insurance that will cover all the expenses not covered by the public health system (health, accident and civil liability insurance).

Travel costs: The volunteer will receive financial support for travel from his/her country to Spain and from Spain to his/her country once the project is completed, up to a maximum amount established by the European Commission according to the distance band.

Visa and residence permit fees: The volunteer will receive financial support for visa arrangements (if required).

Deposit: The volunteer will have to make a 370 euro deposit that will be reimbursed once the project is ended and the volunteer leaves tidy, clean, and with no damage in the private room and common areas, and if the volunteer doesn’t leave the project without a justified reason before it ends.

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This project is aimed at young people between 18 and 30 years old who have not participated in any European volunteering project (EVS or ESC) before. We will give priority to the selection of young people with fewer opportunities.

The selection will be made based on the attitude, the willingness to participate, the motivation and the commitment to the values of the project rather than knowledge and skills of the candidates .

We value the responsibility, the spirit of initiative, the patience and the ability to step back from interpersonal conflicts in order to deal with them more effectively, and the enthusiasm and willingness to participate in the different activities offered.

No young person willing to participate in our project will be excluded for any reason (economic difficulties; social or geographical obstacles; cultural or ideological differences; sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, gender and gender identity, etc.).

Our educational center, CEIP Feliciano Sánchez Saura, is a public school located in Barrio Peral, Cartagena. The school teaches infant and primary students whose profile has diversified in recent years. This diversity implies the need to adjust to new circumstances by adapting the curriculum according to the needs, to which is added the added difficulty of the lack of knowledge of the language in some students.

In our center, the teaching staff has decided to work fundamentally through an active, participative, manipulative and competent methodology, giving special importance to the psychological/emotional aspect and to the education in values in a transversal way.

Our mission is to provide and facilitate the integral development of our students in a respectful environment where autonomy, self-determination, responsibility and active learning are the most important aspects.

Our vision as an educational center is to become a creative, inspiring and innovative organization that integrates all the people in our educational community in interaction with the environment around us. Therefore, our action is aimed at students, teachers, families, educational community, social and cultural environment and other agents that collaborate or get involved in a more specific way.

Some of the values of our center are: respect, action, empowerment, involvement, creativity, responsibility, autonomy, self-determination, cooperation and sustainability, in order to acquire a meaningful and experiential learning that includes all dimensions of the human being, giving special relevance to the psycho-emotional dimension.

The volunteer activity consists of an enriching exchange of knowledge, values, experiences and skills between the volunteer and the social and human context where he/she develops his/her volunteer task. In the specific case of CEIP Feliciano Sánchez Saura, the volunteer’s context of action will be determined by the following lines of action, which are framed in our Educational Project:

– Learning by projects, by tasks, learning situations or through play, art and creativity, where he/she will pedagogically accompany the students in the presence of the teacher he/she is accompanying at that moment.

– Workshops that promote different skills: theater in the classroom, creative writing, storytelling.

– Manipulative mathematics with presentations of materials

– Music and artistic activities as a main tool to enhance creativity.

– Education for sustainability, ecological transition, circular economy, respect for the environment and solidarity.

– Space for learning through play and for the development of the innate curiosity of each individual.

– Mixed groups of different ages.

– Small groups in guided and autonomous proposal, inclusive teaching respecting the different needs of the students.

– Educational community, where the family actively participates in collaboration with the environment.

– Intergenerational education. Involvement of the elderly in our environment in the day to day of our educational life.

– Priority in the establishment of a climate of respect, tolerance and empathy, as well as peaceful and restorative conflict resolution (active listening).

– Cross-cutting work in physical and psycho-emotional health education and education in values.

These lines of action allow volunteers to fulfill themselves and grow if their ideals and aspirations are aligned with solidarity and with the other principles of the ETUC (respect for human dignity and human rights, a just and egalitarian society, pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice and equality).