Call for participants: FLOW 2026

Call for participants: FLOW 2026

FLOW: Facilitating, Learning, Organising, and Welcoming SCI Austria is excited to open applications for an in-person, 7-day training (including arrival and departure days). This activity is supported by the International Secretariat of Service Civil International (SCI) in Belgium. 📝 Deadline to apply: 25th January 2026 This training is funded by Erasmus+ (EU) and is open…

Call for Volunteers: European Solidarity Corps at SCI Austria

Call for Volunteers: European Solidarity Corps at SCI Austria

Make an Impact with Youth and Inclusion in Vienna! From May to October 2026 you can participate as a long-term volunteer with SCI Austria in Vienna. This international volunteering project combines office work, community activities, and non-formal education methods to help young people engage in solidarity, inclusion, and active citizenship. As a volunteer, you will…

Gaia Kosovo: Learning permaculture. Living resilience

Gaia Kosovo: Learning permaculture. Living resilience

 “In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.” — Baba Dioum Dealing with the climate crisis today can be frustrating if approached without tangible examples and perspectives capable of inspiring the belief that new paths and horizons…

Exchange Platform Meeting 2025

Exchange Platform Meeting 2025

In the heart of Bonn, Germany, among giant trees, two welcoming houses became home to 49 participants from across different countries, backgrounds, and continents. Over five days, they came together for a global gathering dedicated to strengthening volunteering projects and building peace through cooperation. The event, hosted by SCI Germany and funded by the CERV…

Re:habitus Rising: How the Volunteer Centre of Vojvodina Is Taking Root Beyond the City

Re:habitus Rising: How the Volunteer Centre of Vojvodina Is Taking Root Beyond the City

After twenty years of grassroots organizing, the Volunteer Centre of Vojvodina (VCV) finds itself at a moment of quiet transformation. Founded in 2005, VCV has spent two decades building bridges between cultures, communities, and generations. Through volunteer camps, peace education, and youth empowerment, the organization became a steady presence in Novi Sad’s activist landscape. But…

people visiting the “Freedom Liberation” exhibition in Dokumentationszentrum Schöneweide Berlin

Midterm update on SCI’s regranting scheme

As the first half of 2025 has passed, we checked-in with our branches regarding the progress they have made for the projects they planned for this year through SCI’s Regranting Scheme. Funded through the EU’s Citizens, Equality, Rights, and Values Programme (CERV), the Regranting Scheme supports initiatives that manifest the core values of SCI and…

Stop the Occupation, Not the Flotilla!

Stop the Occupation, Not the Flotilla!

Statement by the participants of SCI’s Exchange Platform Meeting 2025 As members of Service Civil International – currently at the EPM 2025, the annual evaluationmeeting among partners and branches – believing in dialogue and peaceful resolution ofconflicts, we take a clear stand against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and theoccupation-apartheid suffered by the Palestinian people….

New episode with Justine and Cecilia

Peace Conversations Podcast: Explore Peace in Action

To mark this year’s International Day of Peace (21 September 2025), whose theme was “Act Now for a Peaceful World,” Service Civil International (SCI) has launched a new podcast series: Peace Conversations. Produced in collaboration with the podcast Talks&Cakes, this series explores what peace looks like in practice—through personal stories, activism, and dialogue. Each episode…