The European Solidarity Corps brings together young people to build a more inclusive society, supporting vulnerable people and responding to societal and humanitarian challenges. It offers an inspiring and empowering experience for young people who want to help, learn and develop and provides a single entry point for such solidarity activities throughout the Union and beyond.

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.

Volunteer support: €26 per day per volunteer

Organisational Support: €43 per day per volunteer

Inclusion support: €26 per day per volunteer with fewer opportunities

• Social Affairs & Human Rights
• Youth

• Associations
• Central Government
• International Organisations
• Local Authorities
• NGOs
• Non Profit Organisations
• Other Beneficiaries
• Private Bodies
• Semi-governmental organisations
• State-owned Enterprises
• Trade Unions
• Youth

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 must hold a valid volunteering Quality Label at the latest at the start of the activities and during the entire period of implementation of the activities.

Eligible participants: Young people between 18 and 30 years – 27 who are legally residing in an EU Member State, a third country associated to the Programme or in a third country not associated to the Programme and have registered in the European Solidarity Corps Portal.

Number of participants – Volunteering Teams:
At least 5 participants per volunteering team activity, coming from at least 2 different countries out of which one is an EU Member State or a third country associated to the Programme.
At least a quarter of the volunteers should be legally residing in a country other than the one where the activity takes place.

• 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.
• 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 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.

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

For help related to this call, please contact: EACEA-SOLIDARITY-CORPS@ec.europa.eu

• Funding&Tenders
• European Solidarity Corps Guide 2024