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From the last week, our VCS family is enriched with 2 new members. Adrian and Ivan are students coming from Tarazona, Spain. They study Administrative Management, and in the frame of the Erasmus+ VET programme (Vocational Education and Training), they will do their practical engagement in our VCS office and several other related companies, to…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for participants (+18 years old) from Macedonia who want to participate in the training course “R.I.S.E. – Intercultural Competence Training” in Germany. Place: Osterholz Scharmbeck, Germany Date: 23.05 - 30.05.2023 About the project: R.I.S.E. (Reflection (R), Intercultural teams (I), Self-Awareness (S), Expression (E)) is a training course exploring intercultural competence…
I am very glad to be a part of a team in Can Gual Residence and to work with such amazing people. Our schedule is a very flexible one. Since I arrived at the centre 2 weeks ago, we have made a list of certain activities that we need to accomplish by the end of…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for a volunteer (18-30 years old) from Macedonia to participate in a long-term ESC project “Local Community Connections Volunteer” in Germany. Place: Bremen, Germany Date: 05.09.2023 – 31.08.2024 (12 months) About the project: Our partner NaturKultur is looking for a volunteer who is an outgoing person, that is interested in establishing…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for 6 participants (18-30 years old) and 1 group leader (18+) from Macedonia who want to participate in the youth exchange “EU To Green or Not To Green” in Germany. Place: Garlstedt, Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Germany + Brussels, Belgium Date: 5.05 – 15.05.2023 About the project: The aim of the project is…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for a volunteer (18-30 years old) from Macedonia to participate in a long-term ESC project “ESC Luzanky” in the Czech Republic. Place: Brno, Czech Republic Date: 15.09.2023 - 13.09.2024 (12 months) About the project: Centre of leisure time Luzanky (SVC Luzanky) is looking forward to hosting volunteers in one of the below…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for 2 participants (+18 years old) from Macedonia who want to participate in the training course “The Art of Youth Exchange” in Spain. Place: Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain Date: 11.04. - 18.04.2023 About the project: Improving the competences and knowledge of youth workers and youth leaders to create…
Hi, I’m Chloé, I’m 22 and I come from Le Mans in France. I’ve studied sociology, history, and archaeology. I didn’t know what to study for my master, so I decided to do a Civic Service, and I came across VCS. So I’m here for 10 months and I’m very excited to start this new…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for a volunteer (18-30 years old) from Macedonia to participate in a long-term ESC project “Through your eyes 2023” in Spain. Place: Sabadell, Spain Date: April 2023 – April 2024 (12 months) About the project: Depending on the volunteers' profiles, they will help in different centers, with different tasks: -…
March - the month for celebrating women and daylight! While you are changing your clocks and are welcoming springtime warmly, remember to still enjoy the last minutes of wintertime, because it’s almost over! Guess what is an appreciated part of Balkan culture and even healthy if drunken responsibly in small doses? If you are…
“Youth workers guide for digital social inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities” was produced within the project F.O.R.Z.A. acronym for Fewer Opportunities Rethinking Z to A and developed to introduce youth workers and other practitioners like trainers and peer educators to digital practices of collecting data and thus creating individual learning curricula targeted to…
Hi Skopje! I am Hakan, from Izmir, Türkiye. My whole journey started when I participated in the project of AIESEC Izmir, “Myself My World” in 2012 as a fresh high school student. I was fascinated to see that many young people are taking a step forward for volunteering and coming to my city from all…
Hello, my name is Hamit, I'm 22 years old and I come from Turkey. I am a university student. I took a break from my life in Turkey to focus more on volunteerism. I'm here to participate in volunteering project in VCS. I believe that being in this place it will be a very nice…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for participants (+18 years old) from Macedonia who want to participate in the training course “Digital Community Radio for Youth Inclusion and Diversity” in Denmark. Place: Aarhus, Denmark Date: 11 - 16.03.2023 About the project: The training aims to provide participants (youth workers) with the competencies to work with young…
Hi, my name is Reşit and I am 19 years old, I'm coming from Turkey. I graduated from high school last summer. Last September, I started university and spending more time on new hobbies. One of these new hobbies was to explore volunteering projects. I can say that I almost found myself in volunteering projects…
On September 2021 we started an interesting KA2 project with international partners: Musicling - Social entrepreneurship with recycled instruments. The project was developed between partners from Spain, Italy, Greece, and Macedonia. It aimed to get youth to develop skills for their future through creativity and arts, specifically music and crafting. Another key element was to…
Hello, my name is Aleksandra, I’m from Macedonia and I volunteer at Sunce which is a non-governmental, non-party and non-profit organization in Split – Croatia. Sunce was founded in 1998 and today is one of the leading organizations for nature and environment protection in Croatia. The need for change and the fast-paced life of Skopje…
In today's world, we are constantly bombarded with information from various sources, making it increasingly challenging to discern fact from fiction. The rise of fake news and the prevalence of logical fallacies have only compounded this issue, underscoring the need for critical thinking skills that enable us to navigate this complex landscape effectively. As a…
In the period from 01.02.2023 to 10.02.2023, as a representative of Volunteers Centre Skopje, I participated in the "Let’s break the breaking news" training course in Sarata-Monteoru in Romania, where through a combination of different methods from the domains of non-formal education, the theater of the oppressed and critical theory, a total of 34 youth…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for a volunteer (18–30 years old) from Macedonia to participate in a long-term ESC volunteering project “ESC in Casa Santa Chiara” in Italy. Place: Bologna, Italy Duration: 12 months (starting as soon as possible) About the project: The volunteer will be responsible for preparing integration activities for the users of “Casa…