Meet Shana, Tibor, Sára, and David: new long-term volunteers in Rome Written by David GrélaudNovember 2025 Meet Shana, Tibor, Sára and David: four new long-term volunteers who have joined the community of La Città dell’Utopia and SCI Italy in Rome, bringing with them different backgrounds, motivations and skills. Each of them comes from a different country…
From Catalonia to Lille: Volunteering, cooking and learning along the way Written by Africa from Catalonia October 2025 My ESC Experience Hi, I‘m Africa, from Catalonia, and I’m doing a nine month volunteering project with SCI France in Lille. After quitting my job and traveling for a year; I felt I needed to do something more…
From Portugal to Germany: A Week of Art, Resistance, and Empowerment Written by Rita, Mafalda, Maria, Mónica and GonçaloFebruary 2025 From February 1st to 8th, we had the incredible opportunity to participate in the P.E.A.C.E. Youth Exchange (Promoting Empathy, Art & Collective Empowerment) in Würzburg, Germany. We are deeply grateful for the chance to connect with…
Sport, language and art in Shatila: voices beyond borders Written by Clara PunziJanuary 2025 As I left Shatila on my way back to Italy, I could hardly foresee that, in nothing more than a couple of weeks, this fragile yet vibrant community would have soon find itself at the heart of renovated violence. Although there were…
YOUTH ARTIVISM – strengthening cultural activism through theatre in Kalisz Written by NoeliaAugust 2024 This volunteering experience in Kalisz was my first one abroad, and I can’t describe with enough words how much I’ve enjoyed it. It definitely opens the door for me to sign up for more projects in the future. In just two weeks…
Cinema Without Borders – Rome Film Festival Written by Ángela García MeseguerJune 2024 From the 13th to the 20th of May the participants of the Erasmus+ seminar “Cinema without Borders” coordinated by SCI Italia came to Rome where by the end of the seminar we could see their beloved projects in the film festival that took…
What a show! Moers festival Written by Marie-Anaïs BarralJuly 2023 The Moers festival was an enriching experience, especially in human terms. It was an opportunity to meet new people and exchange ideas with them about their culture, traditions and ideas. We were nine volunteers, all of different nationalities. As most of us were in our twenties,…
ESC TEAM ZUPPA Written by Carole CorbeauApril 2023 In view of the 16th edition of the Festival Internazionale della Zuppa of Rome, 18 volunteers have been called in to provide assistance during the two weeks preceding and during the festival at La Città dell’Utopia. My name is Carole, I’m a previous volunteer from SCI Italy, I…
My Service Civique Experience Written by Carole CorbeauAugust 2022 My Service Civique Experience My name is Carole, I am 24 years old and I graduated with a Master’s degree in communication, more precisely in event communication, in 2020. In times of a pandemic, it was not the best time to find work directly after the…
Grassroots Change project: a job shadowing experience Written by PhilipJuly 2022 As part of the Grassroots project, Philip came to Belgium from Nigeria for a job shadowing experience, co-coordinating a workcamp, visiting the International Secretariat of SCI in Antwerp and the local SCI branch in Brussels. Here is his experience during the workcamp: Between June 26th…