VolontariaMENTE
Viale Romania, 32
00197 Roma
volontariamente@luiss.it
Federica Chiaro
T: 06 85225917
Summer Volunteer Programs a.y. 2023/2024
Luiss Guido Carli offers all students enrolled for the academic year 2023-2024 in one of the Bachelor's, Master's or Single-Cycle Master's degree programs the opportunity to challenge themselves and get in touch with new realities, taking part in activities with a strong practical, ethical and social impact.
To date, VoluntaryMENTE has been, for our students, an opportunity for experiential learning and growth thanks to the welcome and willingness you have all shown. We want the activities to be implemented to respond to a real need of the different realities and thus of the community in which they operate.
The aim will be to teach our students how to take charge of each other's needs and critical issues by identifying solutions, which take their cue and body from a real, non-simulated context, so that involvement and contribution are as broad as possible. More specifically, our proposal not only promotes greater knowledge of aspects of volunteering, but asks students to perform concrete actions for the benefit and support of associations: students will put skills and competencies to use in real contexts by internalizing important values (justice, legality, equality, respect and care for the environment).
Barring any worsening of the pandemic situation, the Volunteer Summer experiences will return, after two years, to take place in physical presence, according to the modalities agreed with the partners.
The course will take place over 4 weeks of activities that will be agreed with the partner and scheduled in July.
General Rules:
- An "ice breaking" pre-departure meetings will be scheduled for all participants in the second half of June; you will receive specific information about the date.
- For each of the proposed activities, there is recognition of the University Training Credits provided in the curriculum for "Other Activities": when filling out the curriculum, it will therefore be necessary to select code SJ1 or SJ2 to obtain credits for this type of activity. However, it will also be possible to join without applying for credits.
- In order for University Educational Credits to be recognized it will be necessary to have participated in all the activities of the chosen initiative, and for the entire period foreseen, in addition it will be necessary for a contact person of the non-profit organization to certify the real participation in the activity, each student will also have to submit a report and fill in a questionnaire on the activities carried out (which he/she will receive by email to the Luiss mail address).
- It will only be possible to join one of the proposed projects. Once adhered to the project, participation is considered confirmed, except for entirely exceptional reasons
Additional information
- For each activity there is a maximum number of students, the selection of participants will be based on a chronological criterion of enrollment, but it is possible that, in relation to the activities, the associations and Luiss reserve the right to meet with the enrolled students in order to verify their real motivation.
- For some of the activities, it will be necessary, if specified in the project description, to have a cognitive interview with the partner. If the interview shows incompatibilities, volunteers will be directed to other activities still available.
How to apply
Registration for summer volunteer activities will open following the Voluntarily Summer launch event that will take place in May and will be notified by the Skill Development office.
You can find more information on the projects, applications, timelines, and features of the 2023/2024 edition of VolontariaMENTE Estate on the dedicated Luiss Learn page.
Partner List 2024
Binario 95 is a social hub of welcome and support for homeless people. Binario 95, wants to understand itself as a creative Laboratory of the social, constantly evolving and changing, where ideas and solutions can be tested to restore dignity to people who believe they have lost it. It proposes inclusion projects for guests forced to the margins of the social fabric by conditions of hardship of various kinds. Binario95 works to offer protection to those who would otherwise be exposed to the risks posed by the streets, offering, for extremely fragile cases, emergency night shelters.
Casa della Mamma is an association founded in 1969 with the aim of helping single mothers who are often estranged from their families. This facility operates in the reception of single mothers aged 15 to 25 and their children, in order to ensure them the protection and stability that the situations of severe economic and social hardship from which they come cannot guarantee them.
The Rondine Servizi Social Cooperative was established in the year 2010 and aims, in a mutualistic spirit and without speculative purposes, to pursue the general interest of the community in the human promotion and social integration of citizens, through the performance of various activities of general interest. The cooperative also aims to achieve employment opportunities for its cooperative members at better economic, social and professional conditions than those found in the market. Particular attention is paid to the job placement of disadvantaged people who have been integrated for many years now in various work areas.
The purpose of the Italian Red Cross Association, a voluntary organization, is health and social assistance. Guaranteeing and guiding its actions are the seven Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross Movement, which constitute its spirit and ethics: Humanity, Impartiality, Neutrality, Independence, Voluntaryism, Unity and Universality. Adopted at the 20th International Red Cross Conference in Vienna in October 1965, the Fundamental Principles are guarantors of the actions of the Movement, but also of the ICRC and each of its individual volunteers.
Dynamo Camp Onlus offers free Recreational Therapy programs with qualified assistance to sick children and adolescents, healthy siblings and their families. Activities take place at the Dynamo Camp facility and through the Dynamo Programs project: through workshops in hospitals and family homes throughout the country. The mission to promote and spread Recreational Therapy is supported by research projects, training activities, awareness campaigns and fundraising.
The Lene Thun Onlus Foundation offers recreational therapy workshops through clay modeling (ceramics therapy) mainly in pediatric oncohematology wards nationwide and in Europe, bringing smiles to thousands of children and young people undergoing treatment each year. Volunteers who take part in this collaboration will be able to live the experience by participating in ceramics-therapy workshops offered daily to children and their families in hospital wards supported by the Foundation's volunteer staff.
The Foundation Protettorato di San Giuseppe, founded more than 100 years ago as a shelter for the poorest, especially children, is one of the oldest nonprofit institutions in Rome working in the field of childhood and adolescence. The Foundation runs four group homes, where minors from 3 to 18 years of age are taken in, a family home for mothers with children, and a micro-nursery accredited and affiliated with the City of Rome, open to local families. Through its Study Center, the Foundation manages experimental and research projects, proposing and developing training, updating and dissemination initiatives.
IBO Italy is a Christian-inspired Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) engaged in the field of international cooperation and volunteerism in Italy and around the world. IBO Italy's interventions are related to education, education and training as fundamental rights of every person and opportunities for change for the whole community. IBO Italy is committed to engaging young people in volunteer opportunities in Italy and in various parts of the world. Whether it is for a few weeks or an entire year. That is why they focus their activities on solidarity and international cooperation.
Legambiente was founded in 1980. A hallmark of the association from the beginning has been scientific environmentalism, that is, the choice to base every project in defense of the environment on a solid basis of scientific data, a tool with which it is possible to indicate concrete and feasible alternative paths.
Libera is a network of associations, social cooperatives, movements and groups, schools, trade unions, dioceses and parishes, and scout groups, involved in a commitment not only "against" mafias, corruption, criminal phenomena and those who feed them, but deeply "for": for social justice. Activities are classically characterized by land work and maintenance of property confiscated from the mafias; training on the topic of legality and meetings with relatives of victims, politicians, magistrates, entrepreneurs, experts on the topic of the culture of legality.
The main purpose of the Made in Carcere association is to spread the philosophy of "Second Chance" for Women Prisoners and "Double Life" for textiles. The Made in Carcere brand was founded in 2007 active in the production of "diversa(mente) utile" artifacts: bags, accessories, original and all colorful. A message of hope, practicality and solidarity, but also of freedom and respect for the environment. Volunteers will be able to support the commercial function and make contributions to increase communication strategies and also be involved in assisting in the production and cutting of fabrics.
This is the Italian branch of Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC), an international nonprofit organization that, since 1974, has stood by the side of families going through the dramatic experience of a child's hospitalization, supporting them so that they can access the hospital care needed for their children even when they are far from home. The organization's goal is to enable people to cope with a difficult time such as illness by fostering Family Centered Care, a family-centered model of care and assistance.
San Patrignano is a community of life that welcomes those afflicted by addiction and marginalization so that they can find their way back through a path of recovery that is above all a path of love. Free, because love is a gift. A path that also means dedicating oneself to others, helping younger people not to make the same mistakes.
It is new life for the families of those who suffer, who find comfort and support in the expert and reliable guidance of the Community and volunteers. It is commitment to a better society through the many prevention projects. San Patrignano is open to the outside world in the pursuit of the common good through specific activities in schools, in-depth international events, specific and wide-ranging programs, in the relentless fight against addiction.
Save the Children is the world's largest organization that for more than 100 years, has been fighting to save children at risk and secure their futures. The organization's mission is to promote significant improvements in the way the world reaches out to children and achieve immediate and lasting changes in their lives.
Susan G. Komen Italy is a volunteer-based organization on the front lines of the fight against breast cancer nationwide. It was founded in 2000 in Rome as the first European affiliate of the Dallas-based Susan G. Komen. Volunteers are involved in side-by-side activities to promote prevention, support women facing the disease, improve the quality of care and strengthen clinical facilities.
UNICEF is the United Nations Children's Fund. Their mission is to contribute to the survival, protection and development of the potential of every child, with special care for the most fragile and vulnerable ones. Peculiarity of the organization UNICEF Italy is therefore to be both a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) placed in the Italian Third Sector panorama, and a representative of an inter-governmental program of the United Nations.
Sant'Egidio is a Christian Community born in 1968, in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, on the initiative of Andrea Riccardi, in a high school in the center of Rome. Over the years it has become a network of communities that, in more than 70 countries around the world, with a special focus on the peripheries and the peripheral, gathers men and women of all ages and conditions in voluntary and free commitment to the poor and to peace.