Travel with ASPEm
ASPEm offers young people (and not) opportunities to carry out service periods (volunteering or internship) at the Cantù headquarters or abroad (ASPEm offices in Peru and Bolivia or at local associations with which ASPEm collaborates), through national mobility programs and international.
EU Aid Volunteers
EU Aid Volunteers is an initiative of the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) that supports humanitarian aid projects and strengths the local capacity and resilience of disaster-affected communities, throught the deployment of volunteers.
How does it work?
EU and non-EU organizations create partnerships to define projects and select, train and distribute full-time volunteers.
The process includes:
- Application (publication and presentation of vacancies – 1 month)
- Preselection (application review, interviews – 1 month)
- General pre-deployment training (online – 1 month – and face-to-face – 2 weeks)
- Final selection
- Specific pre-deployment training (1 week)
- Distribution (1 to 18 months)
- EU Aid Volunteers Receive:
- Travel and accommodation during training
- Travel and accommodation during deployment
- Subsistence allowance during deployment, based on local costs, to cover the main living costs
- Insurance during deployment
- A new accommodation allowance
- Coaching and mentoring
During the preparation period and during deployment, EU Aid Volunteers will be assigned a tutor to define and monitor a learning and development plan.Through an online platform, EU Aid Volunteers must also be active in sharing their experience (for example with stories and pictures).
Who can apply?
- EU citizens or long-term residents of EU member states
Minimum age of 18 - Applicants with less than 5 years of work experience can apply for the JUNIOR position
- Candidates with more than 5 years of work experience can apply for SENIOR positions
How to participate?
- EU citizens or long-term residents of EU member states
Minimum age of 18 - Applicants with less than 5 years of work experience can apply for the JUNIOR position
- Candidates with more than 5 years of work experience can apply for SENIOR positions
Who can apply?
- EU citizens or long-term residents of EU member states
Minimum age of 18 - Applicants with less than 5 years of work experience can apply for the JUNIOR position
- Candidates with more than 5 years of work experience can apply for SENIOR positions
Civil service
The Universal Civil Service is an initiative of the Department for Youth Policies and the Universal Civil Service.
How does it work?
The initiative allows for a period of service in Italy or abroad in projects of:
- Assistance;
- Civil protection;
- Environmental heritage and urban redevelopment of historical, artistic and cultural heritage;
- Education and cultural, landscape, environmental, sport, sustainable and social tourism promotion;
- Mountain agriculture, social agriculture and biodiversity;
- Promotion of peace between peoples, non-violence and unarmed defense;
- Promotion and protection of human rights;
- Development cooperation;
- Promotion of Italian culture abroad and support for communities of Italians abroad.
The program is open to:
- Italian citizens
- Citizens of other EU countries
- Non-EU citizens legally residing in Italy
- Between 18 and 28 years not exceeded at the time of application (28 years and 364 days)
- That have not reported first-degree convictions for criminal offenses
Volunteers can also apply:
- Have interrupted the civil service due to the closure of the project provided that the same has carried out less than 6 months of service.
- Have interrupted the civil service due to exceeding the expected days of illness provided that the same has carried out less than 6 months of service
- Have already carried out the civil service within the European “Youth Guarantee” program, within the European experimental project IVOforALL and within the projects for the Civil Peace Corps.
Young people who cannot:
- Belong to the military and police forces;
- Have already provided or are providing National Civil Service or Universal Civil Service, or have interrupted the service before the scheduled deadline;
- Have ongoing employment or paid employment relationships for any reason with the entity that carries out the project, or have had such relationships lasting more than three months in the 12 months preceding the date of publication of the notice.
The Volunteer Receives:
- Training;
- Formative credits;
- Certificate of participation in the civil service;
- Recognition and enhancement of acquired skills;
- Evaluation of the experience in public competitions with the same methods and the same value as the service provided at the Public Administration and can be used as a title of preference;
- Recognition of the service for the purposes of social security treatment (redeemable);
- Monthly allowance of € 439.50; for foreign service, a daily foreign allowance of between 13 and 15 € is added, depending on the country of service;
- For service abroad: food, accommodation, round trip and a return (round trip) during the service if required by the project;
- Variable permits proportionally to the service period (20 days for 12 months).
To apply
Only one application can be submitted for a single project. To choose your project:
Read the announcement carefully
Read carefully the profiles and the description of the individual projects
Contact us (serviziocivile@aspem.org – 031 711 394) in case of doubts or clarifications
Once you have chosen your project, you will only be able to send the application through the online application platform (DOL) accessible via PC, tablet and smartphone at the address https://domandaonline.serviziocivile.it.
To access the platform
Italian citizens residing in Italy or abroad and citizens of countries outside the European Union regularly residing in Italy can only use SPID, the Public Digital Identity System. All information on what SPID is, what services it offers and how to request it is available on the website of the Agency for Digital Italy www.agid.gov.it/it/piat platforms/spid. Identity Providers provide different registration methods, free or paid. To request and obtain SPID credentials you need a valid identity document (identity card or passport), the health card, an e-mail address and a mobile phone number.
Citizens belonging to a European Union country other than Italy or to Switzerland, Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein, who still cannot have the SPID, and citizens of countries outside the European Union awaiting the issue of a residence permit, can access the DOL platform services upon request of specific credentials from the Department, according to a procedure available on the home page of the platform itself.
Activating SPID credentials can take a few days, remember to start early enough to send the application on time.
To submit the application
Read carefully the guide for completing the application
Keep the code of the chosen project location and all your data and information at hand
Fill in the indicated sections: 1-Project; 2-Data and declarations; 3-Titles and experiences according to the indications of the guide
Submit the question
Send a notification e-mail to serviziocivile@aspem.org to confirm that the application has been sent indicating the chosen location number
ASPEm
Associazione Solidarietà Paesi Emergenti – ASPEm
Via Dalmazia 2
22063 Cantù (CO)
CF81009470139
Orari Apertura: Mo-Fri: 8:30-18:00
Tel: +39 031 711 394