✍️Call for Roots Awakening project

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🗓️ DATE: 26 May - 15 June 2026

📍 PLACE: Bunovo, Bulgaria

🧠TYPE: Erasmus+ Volunteering

🎯 TOPIC: Environment, healthy lifestyle, sustainability

👥 AGE ELIGIBILITY: 18+ years old

✍️ DEADLINE for APPLICATION: 22 December 2025, 23:59

🔎 Learn more and apply >> The selection will be done on a rolling basis. Don't wait until the last minute to apply.

🎯 AIM AND OBJECTIVES

The eco-community of Bunovo Valley is located in Konyavska Mountain in the south west part of Bulgaria. The international community consists of about 10 houses with permanent residents and 7 more houses where community members live seasonally - mainly in spring, summer and early autumn. We have different projects and events. Mainly we organise and run youth trainings, yoga retreats and festivals. We are a healthy, clean living, vegetarian community who choose to live simply in nature. We care for our environment, ourselves and each other with love and respect.

🌍CORE VALUES OF THE PROJECT

We aim to offer the volunteers the opportunity to experience a green lifestyle and an alternative way of doing things that aims to have a positive impact on the individual and the environment. We provide holistic training and support participants to develop

- Personal skills - self-confidence, respect, love and self-care, independence, perseverance, concentration and focus, clear vision, creativity, the ability to be themselves, to know their strengths and weaknesses, to develop a solution-oriented mind;

- Social skills - teamwork, understanding of society and the ability to adapt to the social environment, communication skills such as the ability to communicate clearly, to listen and understand, etc;

- Responsibility - awareness of the consequences of our decisions and actions or inaction and indecision;

- Work skills - the ability to work, create and co-create, build with natural materials, care for plants and gardens, cook, preserve food in a natural way, use different tools and more;

- Healthy lifestyle - good nutrition, physical activity, stress management, mental health, etc.

- Sustainable development skills - how to live and develop organically without harming nature and future generations;

- Multicultural environment - participants learn to be tolerant, understand and interact successfully with people from different cultural backgrounds.

🔍 PARTICIPANTS' PROFILE

18+ years old people who are eager to stay and work in this project. Please READ all carefully.

🏠ACCOMMODATION

Volunteers will be accommodated in the Amorea Garden Eco- Hub, in tents or in a renovated, cosy and comfortable shared dormitory. We are using outdoor compost toilets and solar showers. We also have a well-equipped outdoor kitchen available for volunteers. There is access to public transport - from Sofia to Bunovo village and to several towns and villages in the area. The village of Bunovo is 70 km from Sofia. The nearest town is Kiustendil, 20 km from the village, where there is a hospital, supermarkets, local market, post office, banks, pharmacies, various shops and hot mineral baths. Participants in our ESC projects can enjoy the hot mineral water baths or swimming pool in the town or go for sightseeing at the historical sites around in the area. Volunteers will have a schedule adapted to the needs of the current projects, working between 30 and 35 hours per week on our activities. In addition Volunteers will have two days off per week.

💱 COSTS

The organisers will provide the food and accommodation and cover the costs. Travel costs will be counted based on the distance calculator of the European Commission and reimbursed by bank transfer after the course (in EUR) through the sending organisations. According to the distance calculator for Armenia, the maximum travel cost is around 300 euros. Pocket money An amount of 7 €/day is given to the volunteer as pocket money.

Food and accommodation are fully covered by the ESC programme.

⚰️ DEADLINE

The deadline for applying is 22 December 2025 at 23:59 Armenian time. Hurry up, as we have limited time related to visa issues and will make the selection on a rolling basis, which means when we get applications, we start evaluating them immediately, so first come, first served. Don't wait until the last minute to apply.

✍️ Interested candidates can apply by filling in this form: https://forms.gle/HzyHNywA5VkNMmTD7

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