| 01/01/2024 | 30/06/2025 |
Lead of the project : Collectif pour un service civique europeen
Partnering associations:
Center for Youth Co-operation and Mobility
Fundația Națională pentru Tineret
Plantar Uma Arvore
Sciara Progetti
World Builders Society
Coordinadora de tiempo libre de Vallecas
Along the Road of the YouSCE
“Along the Road of the YouSCE” is an ambitious two-year, multi-partner European project aimed at empowering youth—especially those with fewer opportunities—by engaging them in cross-border civic service missions. Through non-formal education, skills development, and European mobility, the project provides participants with the opportunity to grow personally and professionally, while fostering a deeper sense of European identity and solidarity.
By combining Civic Service and the European Solidarity Corps, the project specifically targets young people who are often distanced from employment and do not typically participate in European mobility programs. These young volunteers will gain crucial employability skills, develop digital competencies, and strengthen their sense of belonging to a united Europe.
Main Objectives
- Youth Empowerment and Inclusion : The project seeks to involve 50% of youth with fewer opportunities, providing them with a unique European experience that promotes social inclusion, active citizenship, and employability.
- Innovative Volunteer Experience: For the first time, full-time local volunteering will be introduced in some EU Member States. Participants will engage in volunteering missions across borders while connected digitally, promoting cross-cultural bonds and solidarity.
- Skills Development and Training: Young people will develop digital skills through movie-making activities and civic service missions, while youth workers will be trained to support their professional insertion.
- Fostering European Identity: By working together on general interest missions in different countries, youth will strengthen their European identity, deepen their understanding of cross-border collaboration, and promote solidarity across diverse cultures.
- Community and Partner Collaboration: Through partnerships with local actors, festivals, and associations, the project aims to build a sense of community and support the dissemination of project results. These collaborations will ensure that the project’s impact reaches beyond the direct participants, involving communities in their activities and reinforcing civic engagement.
- Policy Impact: A key goal is to inspire the creation of national youth engagement programs in countries where such initiatives do not yet exist, using France, Italy, and Germany as models. The project's results will be disseminated at various festivals across Europe to engage decision-makers and promote policy change.
Key Project Results
These results are designed to support the professional development of young people, enhance their civic engagement, and provide concrete tools for youth workers to guide volunteers toward professional and personal growth.
Along the road
of the YouSCE
A short film made by young volunteers themselves — documenting their missions of general interest across Europe, their growth, and their shared European identity.
A documentary born from the field, made by the young people themselves
Result 3 (R3) is the central and most visible output of the "Along the road of the YouSCE" project. It is a short documentary film that follows 46 young volunteers aged 18–30 across their civic service missions in Spain, Poland, Romania and Portugal — filmed entirely by the participants themselves as part of their daily volunteering experience.
Unlike a traditional promotional video, this film was conceived as an act of civic participation: the young people were trained in filmmaking techniques through Result R1 (Filmmaking Guide) and the C1 training course in Hannover, then given the tools and creative freedom to document their own journey, in their own words and from their own perspective.
The result is a multi-authored, international documentary that captures the authenticity of volunteer engagement, the power of intercultural encounter, and the transformative potential of the European Civic Service for young people with fewer opportunities.