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Template:Infobox organization The European Solidarity Corps (ESC) is a program launched in December 2016 by the European Commission. Its aims are to offer solidarity-based jobs, traineeships or apprenticeship to young people from the European Union. These missions can be voluntary or paid work and are all around the world[1].

History of the project

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On September 4th 2016 Jean-Claude Junker announced the idea of a European solidarity corps in his speech about the States of Union. He presented the two principal goals of it. It will create opportunities for young people and give them possibility to have experiences, but mainly it will contribute to reinforce the european solidarity: «"There are many young, socially minded people in Europe willing to make a meaningful contribution to society and help show solidarity. We can create opportunities for them to do so […] Solidarity is the glue that keeps our Union together […] Young people across the European Union will be able to volunteer their help where it is needed most, to respond to crisis situations […] These young people will be able to develop their skills and get not only work but also invaluable human experience".»[2].

The European solidarity Corps project was officially announced in September 2016, and then launched in December 2016[3]. Public organisations for employment are the ones that control offers for the European Solidarity Corps. The ones that are in charge are: EURES, international placement service of the Brussels Public Employment Service or Actriris[4], the public employment service of Luxembourg or ADEM, the German Employment service or the Bundesagentur für Arbeit[5][6], the Bulgarian Employment service[7], the Portuguese employment service[8] , the Italian Employment service or IFOA[9], the French Employment service or Pôle emploi[10], the Spanish Ministry of Employment[11], the Belgian Employment service TRENDHUIS[12] and the Flemish Office for Employment and Vocational Training[13][14][15].

ESC replaced the European Voluntary Service, which was under the Erasmus Programme and had a similar structure. It is an organization connecting young people, between 18 and 30, with employers around the world[16].

Goals and objectives

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One of the major goal that European Commission wants to reach with this new corps, is to increase promote solidarity and strengthen "cohesion, solidarity, democracy and citizenship in Europe while also responding to societal challenges and strengthening communities, with particular effort to promote social inclusion". The promotion of European Cooperation is also an important way to reach these objectives.

In a certain way, it could help to reinforce Europe identity by using solidarity through the Union.

The activities

  • to provide young people opportunities for engagement in solidarity activities, give them a chance to improve their skills, competences and experiences. This could also help the professional market by facilitating employability with the support of participating organisations, with easily accessible opportunities for engagement in solidarity activities effecting positive societal change, while improving their skills and competences for personal, educational, social, civic, cultural and professional development, as well as facilitating their active citizenship, employability and transition into the labour market, including by supporting the mobility of young volunteers, trainees and workers.
  • To guarantee solidarity activities of high quality, properly validated and in total respect with the values of the corps.
  • To promote social inclusion and equal opportunities by each particular effort.
  • "To contribute to European cooperation and raising awareness of its positive impact. This objective catch up with the principal goal of reinforce solidarity[17].

By 2020, the ESC envisions to meet its goal in placing 100,000 participants[18]. For the 2021-2027 period, the new goal will be of 350.000 participants[19].

Joining the European Solidarity Corps

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Potential recruits for the European Solidarity Corps may fall into three categories:

  1. Volunteering activities - eligibility is open to all people between 18 and 30 years old who also reside in a EU member state or in one of the following countries: North Macedonia, Turkey, Liechtenstein, Iceland, Norway, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, etc.
  2. Jobs and traineeships - eligibility is open to EU member states residents. Both of them are full-time work practises, paid by the employing organization, lasting between 3 and 12 months (for jobs) or 2 and 6 months (for traineeships). Traineeships are renewable only once.
  3. Solidarity projects - eligibility is open to people residing in the EU member states, Iceland, North Macedonia, and Turkey. They "are initiated, developed and implemented over a period of 2 to 12 months by at least five young people who want to make a positive change in their local community"[20][21]

Inside of the volunteering activities we found a subdivision of two types, in which we can distinguish between individual volunteering and volunteering teams. The first one is an unpaid full time volunteering with a duration from two to twelve months, the volunteering can be inside of their own country or abroad. The second one, volunteering teams, consists on projects in which groups of 10 to 40 solidarity corps volunteers from at least two differents countries. The volunteering team projects have a duration of 2 weeks to 2 months[22].

The programs

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There are several types of programs that the European Solidarity Corps offer to the participants for working in many issues: disabilities, minority groups and intercultural, refugees and migrants, natural disaster prevention, healthy lifestyles and active aging, employment and entrepreneurship, assistance[23].

Erasmus+ program inside of the programs of the ESC.

Funds

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Budget or 2018-2020 is €376.5 million. For the next budget period, 2021-2027, the Commission proposed a budget of €1.6 billion. The Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources, Günther H. Oettinger, justified this budget by the increasing demand of young european to be part of solidarity activities. As outlined in the proposal, this budget would be formed by a contribution of six programmes[24].

The financial allocation available for in-country activities is indicatively set at 20% of the budget available[25].

Criticism

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European Youth Forum and the The German Association for Public and Private Welfare[26] both point the same issues: first the European Solidarity Corps should help the integration of young people with difficult background or disabilities; also they both ask for a better distinction between voluntary and occupation strand. The European Youth Forum has made some proposal to improve ESC in their Updated position on the European Solidarity Corps[27].

Florian Sanden, head of European Union Office for Catholic work and adult education, criticizes the fact that the European Commission promotes European Solidarity Corps as a mean for young people to improve their chances to be employed, rather than focusing on personal development of the participants and on solidarity itself.[28]

References

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  1. ^ Mobility in Europe, su Portail de l'emploi. URL consultato il 22 May 2019.
  2. ^ Communication from the commission to the european parliament, the council, the european economic md social committee and the committee of the regions: a european solidarity corps., Brussels, European Commission, 7 December 2016, p. 2. URL consultato il 19 April 2019.
  3. ^ Questions and Answers on the European Solidarity Corps, su European Commission. URL consultato il 15 July 2019.
  4. ^ actiris.brussels, su actiris.be. URL consultato il 22 May 2019.
  5. ^ Bundesagunter fur Arbeit, su arbeitsagentur.de.
  6. ^ Bundesagentur für Arbeit, su arbeitsagentur.de. URL consultato il 22 May 2019.
  7. ^ Employment Agency, su az.government.bg.
  8. ^ Institue of employment and professional formation, su iefp.pt.
  9. ^ IFOA sapere utile, su ifoa.it. URL consultato il 22 May 2019.
  10. ^ Accueil Pôle emploi | Pôle emploi, su pole-emploi.fr.
  11. ^ Gobierno de España, su mitramiss.gob.es. URL consultato il 22 May 2019.
  12. ^ TRENDHUIS, su trendhuis.be. URL consultato il 22 May 2019.
  13. ^ VDAB, su vdab.be.
  14. ^ Flemish Office for Employment and Vocational Training, su vdab.be. URL consultato il 22 May 2019.
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  16. ^ [2]
  17. ^ European Commission, European solidarity corps guide (PDF), Bruxelles, European Commission, 2019, p. 9. (PDF), European Commission, 2019, p. 9. URL consultato il 15 July 2019.
  18. ^ Simon Broek, Research for CULT Committee -European Solidarity Corps and volunteering (PDF), Brussels, European Union, 2017, p. 5, DOI:10.2861/45093, ISBN 978-92-846-1627-5.
  19. ^ European Commission - PRESS RELEASES - Press release - EU budget: Commission proposes €1.26 billion to reinforce the European Solidarity Corps, su European Commssion. URL consultato il 22 May 2019.
  20. ^ European youth portal, su europa.eu.
  21. ^ (EN) Pavlina CANOVA, How to apply, su ec.europa.eu, 29 agosto 2018.
  22. ^ (EN) Pavlina CANOVA, Volunteering activities, su ec.europa.eu, 29 agosto 2018.
  23. ^ European Solidarity Corps - Types of Activities, su European solidarity corps. URL consultato il 22 May 2019.
  24. ^ European Commission - PRESS RELEASES - Press release - EU budget: Commission proposes €1.26 billion to reinforce the European Solidarity Corps, su europa.eu.
  25. ^ European solidarity corps guide (PDF), Bruxelles, European Commission, 2019, p. 9.
  26. ^ Opinion of the German Association on the European Solidarity Corps (PDF), su deutscher-verein.de, 27 April 2017.
  27. ^ European Youth Forum, Updated position on the European Solidarity Corps, su youthforum.org, 10 October 2018.
  28. ^ Florian Sanden, European Solidarity Corps caught in contradictions, su euractiv.com, 11 December 2017.

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