Euroactive

We are looking for 2 ESC volunteers from European countries to join our team in Curtea de Argeș from October 5 to November 30, 2026.
If you’re curious, kind and ready to get involved, you might be a great match for us.
What will you do (on short)?
- Plan and run workshops for local youth
- Support community events in town and nearby villages
- Implement environmental and culture-focused activities
- Actively participate in the local Code Kids Club
- Document activities with short posts, photos, or videos
If you want this experience:
📄 Read the info pack: https://shorturl.at/orr1H
📝 Apply here: https://shorturl.at/W2LGC
Explore our pages to discover who we are, follow the initiatives we bring to life, feel the energy behind everything we do and join our team if you’d like to become part of our story ✨.
We evaluate the applications as we receive them.
We look forward to hearing from you!

This week, we had the chance to do several workshops with the high school students. We talked about bullying through an acting activity, creating a space to raise awareness and reflect on how our actions can affect others.

We also explored artificial intelligence in two different sessions. We played a “Real or AI?” challenge, learned more about how LLMs work, created a simple AI using programming, and discussed some of the moral questions surrounding AI.

Another workshop focused on creativity and video editing, where the students had to make a commercial for a flip-flop. Using their phones and editing tools, they turned a simple and ridiculous idea into their own advertisements.

At 4 schools, we worked with the children on an activity called “The Feelings Camera”. They had different frames where they could draw moments connected to different emotions, such as their happiest, saddest or angriest moments.

It was a busy week with many different activities, but it was great to see everyone learning, creating and sharing ideas together. We are looking forward to continuing these activities and seeing what the next weeks bring.

Mountain Games Cyprus 2026 has officially started! For four days, villages across the Troodos Mountains will be a little less quiet. Schools, trails and village squares are bringing people together through movement, music, food and conversations about healthier lives and the future of mountain communities.

Yesterday was full of interesting discussions at the International Symposium. Today we went to Agros, where around 300 children from three schools in Agros, Limassol and Nicosia came together for a day of activities that got everyone moving. It was wonderful! Children from the school’s music club sang "Ode to Joy" for us, and, well, we definetely felt the joy!

At 5:30 this afternoon, Euroactive will join the panel on youth, healthy lifestyles and participation in mountain areas. We’ll share what we’ve learned from creating opportunities for young people in rural communities, and why those opportunities matter close to home.

Two more days of great events ahead!

We are in Cyprus for Mountain Games!

And we are definitely not a small group. Mountain Games brings together 11 partner organisations from 10 European countries, all here to explore how the Troodos Mountains can become a space for movement, healthy living, local culture and stronger mountain communities.

Today was our planning day, but we also got out of the meeting room and visited a local w**ery. It was a great chance to see what local entrepreneurship looks like in a small mountain village. On short, ambitious people building businesses around what their communities have been doing for generations, keeping old traditions alive while finding ways to make them work today.

And this is actually an important part of Mountain Games. The project is mainly about sport, but not only. It connects physical activity with the identity of the Troodos Mountains, local food and products, traditions, tourism and the people who keep these villages alive.

For the next five days, our European delegation will be moving around the Troodos mountain villages, meeting local communities, exploring the area and preparing what comes next.

A lot of mountains ahead. And, apparently, some very good w**e too.

This week, we spent fun days with the children during our Colourful Fish Catch activity.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, we brought the activity to Albești Library, Valea Iașului School, and Mircea cel Bătrân School. The children enjoyed catching the colourful fish, playing together and having some friendly competition.

Each group was a little different, but everywhere we went, the kids were curious, involved and happy to take part. We had lots of laughs along the way and it was great to see everyone enjoying the activity.

We are happy we could spend these days together and bring a simple, fun activity to the local community.

In the last two days we also worked on the following activities that we will carry out at the high school in the coming period. We are excited to discuss topics on different themes with the teenagers and to use our imagination in working with the children.

Another week has come to an end, and we have been busy getting things ready for the activities ahead.

This week, we spent some time at the school in Dobrotu, where we cleaned and prepared the space. It was practical work, but an important part of getting the school ready for the children and for the activities we will be doing there.

We also visited the exhibition at the museum, which gave us the chance to take a step back from our usual routine and spend some time exploring something new together.

In Albești, we have also started our activities again after a short break. It was good to return and get back into the rhythm of things. There is still plenty to organize and prepare, but it feels good to have the activities running again.

We are really looking forward to starting the activities with the schools again and seeing the children. We have missed the conversations, the questions, the energy in the classrooms, and simply spending time together.

For now, we are taking things one step at a time and getting ready for the weeks ahead. There is a lot of work to do, but we are happy to be back.

Yes, we know. We disappeared somewhere between Brussels, Paris and the way back home. 😄

The truth is that our DiscoverEU journey ended more than a week ago, the luggages are finally unpacked and everyone is already back home. But we still owe you the last part of the story.

After Amsterdam, Brussels brought us a different side of Europe.

We heard different languages around almost every corner, explored Mont des Arts, Cinquantenaire, Grand Place and the European Quarter, and spent time at Parlamentarium trying to understand a little better how the European Union actually works. Not only what the institutions are called, but what they do, how decisions made there reach our everyday lives and where young people fit into all of this.

And then came the last train of the route: Paris. 🇫🇷

There was the Louvre, where everyone found something different worth stopping for. There was the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, Champs-Élysées and plenty of walking through a city we had seen hundreds of times in photos, but never quite like this.

By then, we had also started looking back.

Budapest. Vienna. Prague. Berlin. Amsterdam. Brussels. Paris.

18 days, different languages, different histories, different ways of moving through a city and a very large number of train stations.

What can we say for sure? We learned so much, explored places we had only dreamed of visiting and experienced things we never expected to be part of our journey. The whole experience was far beyond our expectations.

So yes, this update is late. But perhaps it also needed a few days.

Because only after everyone got home did it become clear just how much this whole DiscoverEU journey meant to us. 🚆🇪🇺

And this time, there is no “next train”.

Just a lot of stories left to tell.

We are looking for 7 participants from Romania to join the Erasmus+ Youth Exchange "Mind the m{AI}nd"!

The project aims to help participants understand the fundamentals of modern AI, explore its latest developments and future directions, and assess how AI may influence their learning, work and everyday lives.

🌳 Kemer, Türkiye
📅 26.10.2026 – 03.11.2026 (including travel days)
👥 7 participants aged 16–25
🚌 Only green travel is eligible for the Romanian group.
🗣 More details: https://euroactive.org/mind-the-maind/
⏳ 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 17.09.2026

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At the end of August, our Romanian team spent several days in Szaporca, a small village in southern Hungary, taking part in the Erasmus+ youth exchange “Trees for Tomorrow - Growing a Greener Future Together”. The project brought together young people from Romania, Hungary, Lithuania, Spain and Italy and focused on climate change, the role of trees, sustainable living and practical green skills.

Much of the learning happened outdoors and through practice. Participants worked with wood to create useful objects, built wooden fences, explored Land Art and sustainable forest management, discovered the surrounding area by bike and learned more about local grassroots initiatives working for a greener future.

And this is how our participants described the experience:

“We had an amazing time in Szaporta Hungary, we met amazing people and formed a community that placed at the epicenter the well being of trees and the ways of preserving nature. We learned how to appreciate our surroundings, how to work with wood without damaging the trees and how to transform them into untensils, also to build facilities to better support the local community. Such opportunity allowed us to experince and learn more about different cultres, history, and ways of protecting our Planet. To add to that we are very greateful for the opportunity that has been given to us, and we fully recommend for more people to join.”

Thank you Vidéken Jó Alapítvány for creating such a meaningful experience and for welcoming our participants into the local community with so much care.

Our last week at Dobrotu School was once again filled with fun and creative activities. As the final stage of our city-building adventure, we installed and completed our sensor system. We got creative with strings and beads to make decorations. One of our volunteers introduced the children to their home country of Portugal and taught them some new Portuguese words. We decorated the classrooms for the new academic term and tried to leave the children with beautiful memories. We wish all the kids a wonderful school term!