Volunteering programmes
- French Service Civique
- International Service Civique
- The European Solidarity Corps -ex EVS (France > Abroad)
- The European Solidarity Corps -ex EVS (European > France)
- The Internationaler Jugendfreiwilligendienst (IJFD)
Please note, each of these programmes can only be completed once.
Types of mission
Leisure and culture
- Volunteering programme. Maintenance and restoration of historic sites
- Help to create communications for museums and guided tours both nationally and internationally
- Help with cultural projects, including broadcasts promoting cultural diversity on local and community radio stations
- Help with cultural projects and with the promotion of cultural media (books, cinema, music, theatre, etc.)
- Facilitate social and cultural events for students living in halls
Education for all
- Facilitate multi-sensory and/or recreational and social activities for disabled young people
- Support informal schooling for children in disadvantaged areas
- Promote access to cultural activities for struggling young people
- Help set up and run sociocultural activities in children’s social care homes
- Facilitate cultural and civil workshops, as well as educational projects
Environmental
- Environmental missions: Help to maintain green spaces and protected ecological areas
- Run information and outreach activities for the general public on historic and protected sites
- Monitor protected or tagged animals with associations for the protection of endangered species
- Awareness-raising activities in schools on environmental issues
Emergency response
- Help spread public safety knowledge
- Take part in security awareness-raising for various audiences
- Support security operations in the event of natural disasters (flooding etc.)
- Help accommodate and support people leaving damaged areas.
Health
- Awareness raising and risk prevention in schools on issues such as nutrition, addiction, sexuality etc.
- Educational activities with students, events-based awareness raising
- Support vulnerable people in their healthcare journeys
- Build relationships with the elderly in retirement homes and help them to keep their autonomy in their everyday lives (with dressing, eating, tidying etc.)
- Build relationships with the sick people, at home or in care homes, and their families
Solidarity
– With the elderly
- Help to set up and run socio-cultural activities in retirement homes, including communal activities such as pottery, painting, baking, bingo, physiotherapy, memory workshop, parties etc.
- Raise awareness about, promote and help out in meeting and training centres
– With people with disabilities
- Supervise and help run activities for people with disabilities in specialised care homes
- Provide mobility assistance for young people with disabilities
- Accompany individual or group walks, shopping or leisure activities
– Socially disadvantaged people
- Welcoming, listening to and sharing with socially disadvantaged people
- Welcome, accompany and assist refugees with various procedures
- Support and accompany socially disadvantaged people in emergency accommodation centres or in assistance centres
- Participate in solidarity actions such as food and clothing banks in associations and assistance centres
- Introducing and facilitating workshops and events, taking part in awareness-raising sessions on citizenship, children’s rights, nature and the environment in student unions halls of residence
Sports
- Help to organise activity days for schoolchildren, young sportsmen and women on the theme of sports health (injury/disease prevention, healthy lifestyles etc.)
- Develop sports activities in isolated areas
- Support people without access to sport for physical or social reasons: the elderly, vulnerable or disabled children and adults
