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European Solidarity Corps
AbbreviationESC
PredecessorEuropean Voluntary Service
FormationDecember 7, 2016; 7 years ago (2016-12-07)
Legal statusactive
Budget (2018-2020)
376.5 millions €
Volunteers (2018-2020)
100,000
Websiteeuropa.eu/youth/solidarity_en

The European Solidarity Corps (ESC) is an initiave 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 announces the idea of a European solidarity corps in his speech about the States of Union. He presents the two principal goals of it: creating opportunities for young people and giving them the possibility to have experience reinforcing 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 […] These young people will be able to develop their skills and get not only work but also invaluable human experience»[2].

The program starts in December 2016[3]. National Agencies[4] and SALTO-Youth network[5] are the ones that control offers for the European Solidarity Corps. The program is one option avalaible from Erasmus+.

Goals and objectives

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One of the major goal that European Commission wants to reach with this new corps is to reinforce the European identity by using solidarity[6]. Young people involved in solidarity activities can also improve their skills, competences and experiences as well as facilitating their employability and transition into the labour market[7].

By 2020, the ESC envisions to meet its goal in placing 100,000 participants[8]. For the 2021-2027 period, the new goal will be of 350.000 participants[9].

Issues

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The participants can work in many issues: disabilities, minority groups, refugees and migrants, natural disaster prevention, healthy lifestyles and active aging, employment and entrepreneurship, assistance[10].

Joining the European Solidarity Corps

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

  1. Volunteering activities are 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 are 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 are 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"[11]

Inside of the volunteering activities there is a subdivision of two types distinguished 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[12].

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[13]. The financial allocation available for in-country activities is indicatively set at 20% of the budget available[14].

Criticism

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European Youth Forum and the The German Association for Public and Private Welfare[15] 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[16]. 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[17].

References

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  1. ^ "Mobility in Europe". Portail de l'emploi. Retrieved 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. Retrieved 19 April 2019.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  3. ^ "Questions and Answers on the European Solidarity Corps". European Commission. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  4. ^ "National Agecies". Youth. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  5. ^ "About SALTO Youth". SALTO Youth. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  6. ^ "European Solidarity Corps – Our Mission and Principles". European Youth Portal. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  7. ^ European Commission (2018). European Commission (2019). European solidarity corps guide (PDF), Bruxelles, European Commission, 2019, p. 9 (PDF). European Commission. p. 9. Retrieved 15 July 2019 (PDF). European Commission. pp. 6–8.
  8. ^ Broek, Simon (2017). Research for CULT Committee -European Solidarity Corps and volunteering (PDF). Brussels: European Union. p. 5. doi:10.2861/45093. ISBN 978-92-846-1627-5.
  9. ^ "European Commission - PRESS RELEASES - Press release - EU budget: Commission proposes €1.26 billion to reinforce the European Solidarity Corps". European Commssion. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  10. ^ "European Solidarity Corps - Types of Activities". European solidarity corps. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  11. ^ "What is the difference between the Volunteering and Occupational parts of the European Solidarity Corps?". European Youth Portal. 2018-08-29. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  12. ^ CANOVA, Pavlina (2018-08-29). "Volunteering activities". Youth - European Commission. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  13. ^ "European Commission - PRESS RELEASES - Press release - EU budget: Commission proposes €1.26 billion to reinforce the European Solidarity Corps". europa.eu. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  14. ^ European solidarity corps guide (PDF). Bruxelles: European Commission. 2019. p. 9.
  15. ^ "Opinion of the German Association on the European Solidarity Corps" (PDF). 27 April 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  16. ^ European Youth Forum (10 October 2018). "Updated position on the European Solidarity Corps". Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  17. ^ Sanden, Florian (11 December 2017). "European Solidarity Corps caught in contradictions". Retrieved 20 May 2019.
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