September carries a bittersweet feeling of summer’s end and the arrival of fall. It evokes images of changing seasons, with leaves turning vibrant colors and temperatures cooling down. The month holds a certain calmness as the pace of life shifts, and it’s a time for reflection and preparation for the months ahead. For the reflection,…
“Elephants swinging on a spider web under a green flag” was a training course that took part in Sarata Monteoru and Buzau, Romania, in May 2023 with 32 participants and 4 experts from 23 organizations from 16 countries. The aim of the project was to provide to youth workers new methods and tools for introducing…
Hi! I'm Büşra and I am 24 years old. I came from Ankara which is capital of Turkiye. I already graduated from university. I am an interior architect. I met VCS at my university's conference. The team told us what they are doing about volunteering. I remember very well how excited I was. I decided…
If I have to identify myself with one thing it would be probably water. An organism that can be everything. I am Ismail Eren Demirtekin, I’m coming from Ankara, Turkiye and I’m 22 years old. I feel that I am in the middle of my long life. I am happy because I am meeting and…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for volunteers (18-30 years old) to participate in a long-term ESC project under the title "Eastern Partnership Volunteering Program" in Romania. Place: Bucharest, Romania Period: January - June 2024 (5 months) About the project: Each month, COSI team will choose a topic according to the UN Calendar, related to: human rights,…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for 5 participants (+18 years old) from Macedonia who want to participate in the training course “greeNEED Youth Work 2” in Turkey. Place: Istanbul, Turkey Date: 4.09. - 15.09.2023 About the project: The main goal of the project "greeNEED Youth Work" is to increase green practices in the field of…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for participants (18-26 years old) from Macedonia who want to participate in the youth exchange “Volunteer For Mother Earth” in Macedonia. Place: Struga, Macedonia Date: 1.09 – 9.09.2023 About the project: Project aims to demonstrate the significant positive impact that volunteering can have on personal and professional development, as well as on…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for 4 participants (18-30 years old) from Macedonia who want to participate in the youth exchange “Digital Community Radio for Youth Inclusion and Diversity” in Macedonia. Place: Ljubojno, Macedonia Date: 22.08 - 28.08.2023 About the project: The project aims to develop competencies of young people to use community radio and smartphones to raise their voices,…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for volunteers (18–30 years old) from Macedonia to participate in a long-term ESC project “Volunteering opportunities” in Lithuania. Place: Vilnius & Trakai, Lithuania Time period: September 2023 - September 2024 (12 months) About the project: The project offers volunteering opportunities in two hosting organizations – different organizations have different responsibilities…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for 5 participants (18-30 years old) and 1 group leader (18+) from Macedonia who want to participate in the youth exchange “Stop motion, not rights!” in Croatia. Group leader will also take part in advanced preparatory visit (APV) before youth exchange. Place of YE: Mountain Lodge Omanovac, Pakrac, Croatia Place of APV:…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for participants (18-30 years old) from Macedonia who want to participate in the youth exchange “HMB Soft and HEMA as a tool for battling youth inactivity” in Macedonia. Place: Ljubojno, Macedonia Date: 26.07 - 3.08.2023 About the project: The project allows young people to develop new skills and learn about their…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for volunteers (18-30 years old) from Macedonia to participate in a team volunteering project “Green Fingers” in Croatia. Place: Zagreb, Croatia Date: 16.09 - 25.10.2023 (6 weeks) About the project: The project will bring together ten volunteers working as a volunteering team and engage them in maintaining urban school gardens in partner…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for 3 MUSICIANS (18-30 years old) from Macedonia who want to participate in the youth exchange “mEUsic” in Spain. Place: Navarredonda de Gredos, Spain Date: 11.09 - 18.09.2023 About the project: Music is a "language" that everybody around the world "speaks". It communicates feelings, messages, cultures and much more, without the…
Hi everyone, I am Marcel from Poland, and I am 19 years old. I'm so excited to be in Skopje! First of all, I want to experience what it's like to be a volunteer, and for me, the best option to start my volunteering adventure is to do it abroad. By regularly writing and speaking,…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for 4 participants (+18 years old) from Macedonia who want to participate in the training course “Facilitation skills for inclusive educational activities” in Romania. Place: Căsoaia/Arad, Romania Date: 14.07 – 22.07.2023 About the project: The training course is based on the “A World of Difference Train-the-Trainer Programme”, training youth leaders to…
This article is a glimpse of my volunteering experience as a short-term volunteer for an ESC project in Zagreb, Croatia. Come and join me on this 1000-word journey, as I reminisce through my fondest memories of the month and a half spent on gardening, working with school children and forging lifelong friendships, all under Zagreb’s…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for a volunteer (18-30 years) from Macedonia to participate in a short-term ESC project “Volunteer in Aruba!” in Aruba. Place: Oranjestad, Aruba Start: October 2023 (2 months) About the project: The volunteers will be supporting the implementation of a youth exchange that will be taking place in Aruba, so we…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for 4 participants (16-19 years old) and 1 group leader (21+) from Macedonia who want to participate in the youth exchange “YOU(th) early start - Y.E.S.” in Lithuania. Group leader will also take part in preparatory visit before youth exchange. Place: Antaliepte, Lithuania Date of preparatory visit: 3-4.07.2023 (+ 2 travel days)…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for participants (+18 years old) from Macedonia who want to participate in the training course “C.U.T.E - Colorful United Training of Empowerment” in Greece. Place: Stratoni, Chalkidiki, Greece Date: 30.08 – 10.09.2023 About the project: “C.U.T.E - Colorful United Training of Empowerment" aims to help youth workers educate themselves on…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for a volunteer (18-30 years) from Macedonia to participate in a long-term ESC project “Gdańsk Ecological Volunteering Center” in Poland. Place: Gdańsk, Poland Date: 5.07. – 31.12.2023 (6 months) About the project: The project was created as a result of the need to activate the local community to act in…