Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
The European Solidarity Corps is a European Union funding programme that creates opportunities for young people aged 18-30 who wish to volunteer and implement their own solidarity projects that will benefit communities across Europe. The European Solidarity Corps brings together young people to build a more inclusive society, supporting vulnerable people and responding to societal and humanitarian challenges.
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Call
Summary
Volunteering Teams in High Priority Areas are large scale, high impact projects supporting voluntary activities carried out by young people from at least two different countries coming together to express solidarity by implementing short term interventions that address common European challenges in policy areas defined each year at EU level.
Activities by Volunteering Teams in High-Priority Areas will aim to:
- address clearly defined unmet societal challenges in the area of “relief for persons fleeing armed conflicts and other victims of natural or man-made disasters” and/ or “fostering positive learning experiences and outcomes for young people with fewer opportunities”; promote solidarity across the participating countries; enable the young people to gain skills and competences which are useful for their personal, educational, social and professional development;
- provide tangible benefits to the communities within which the activities are carried out;
- ensure a direct contact between the participant and the beneficiaries of the solidarity-related activities, to enable the participant to gain skills that are useful for their educational and social development;
- reach out to young people with fewer opportunities, including refugees, asylum seekers and migrants;
- promote diversity, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue – and the EU values of human dignity, freedom, equality and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities – as well as projects enhancing media literacy, critical thinking and a sense of initiative among young people;
- reinforce the capacities and international scope of the participating organisations;
- raise young volunteers’ awareness and understanding of other cultures and countries, offering them the opportunity to build networks of international contacts, to actively participate in society and to develop a sense of European citizenship and identity.
Detailed Call Description
Priorities of 2025 call:
- Relief for persons fleeing armed conflicts and other victims of natural or man-made disasters
- Fostering positive learning experiences and outcomes for young people with fewer opportunities
- Promoting waste management and recycling solutions
Volunteering Teams are full-time non-remunerated solidarity activities that should bring together groups of minimum 5 participants to volunteer together for a period between 2 weeks and 2 months (up to 59 days, excluding travel days). The composition of the team should be international (including participants from at least two different countries). At least quarter of team members should come from eligible countries that are different from the country where the activity takes place.
Young people can only be involved in one activity at a time. In volunteering teams, European Solidarity Corps’ volunteers carry out tasks for a project over a short period of time (usually, but not exclusively, during holidays, breaks between study periods, transition from education to work, etc.). One project should in principle aim to organise volunteering teams for at least 40 participants or more. Volunteering activities should aim to cover one or more high priority areas.
Examples of the valuable work that can be accomplished by volunteering teams under this Action include: Volunteers are involved in volunteering activities organising recreational and educational activities for children, integration and promotion of cultural exchange with refugees in local communities, engaging refugees in providing services to the community and to most vulnerable populations, e.g. regeneration of green spaces, recovery and redistribution of unused food, recycling of materials.
WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA USED TO ASSESS PROJECTS?
- The projects are selected and managed by the Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).
- Projects will be assessed against the following criteria: admissibility, eligibility, exclusion, selection and award.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The maximum EU grant per project is €400.000
- Volunteer support: €26 per day per volunteer
- Organisational Support: €43 per day per volunteer
- Inclusion support: €25 per day per volunteer with fewer opportunities
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Migration and Citizenship
- Social Affairs & Human Rights
- Youth
Eligibility for Participation
- Educational Institutions
- International Organisations
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- State-owned Enterprises
- Training Centres
- Youth
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Any public or private entity, whether non-profit or profit making, local, regional, national or international, legally established in an EU Member State, a third country associated to the Programme or a third country not associated to the Programme or any international organisation.
Participating organisations (support or host role) must hold a valid volunteering Quality Label at the application deadline and during the entire duration of the project.
Who can apply?
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least three eligible participating organisations with a valid volunteering Quality Label from at least two different EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
Only an eligible participating organisation, holding a lead Quality Label, established in one of the EU Member States or third country associated to the Programme may submit an application for funding on behalf of the consortium.
Eligible participants:
Young people between 18 and 30 years 45 who are legally residing in an EU Member State, a third country associated to the Programme or a third country not associated to the Programme and have registered in the European Solidarity Corps Portal.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Foundation for the Management of European (EU) Lifelong Learning Programmes
Website: Erasmus+ – IDEP
Website with Contact details: Εpikoinonia – Erasmus+ – IDEP
Address: Prodromou & Dimitrakopoulou 2, Nicosia 1090, Cyprus
Τelephone: +357 22448888
Email: info@idep.org.cy
EU Contact Point
For help related to this call, please contact: EACEA-SOLIDARITY-CORPS@ec.europa.eu