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Data de início: 05-11-2026

Data de fim: 29-05-2027

Vagas: 1

Duração: 7 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 30-10-2026

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 125 €

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Resumo: The projects aim to raise awareness about the actual context we are living and to propose and create solu
tions to be part of a positive change in a social, cultural and environmental aspect. In this project especically,
we will reuse waste to create new life. We collect coee waste from cafés and restaurants and we mix it with
mycellieum to grow oyster mushrooms. And after harvesting, we use that new “waste” in our earth-worm
farm, which is great to create new and rich soil for plants.
By doing this, we also want to raise the awareness about sustainable practices and how we can reduce waste
by reusing it to grow your own food. We need to be resilient and creative!

New friendships, new learning experiences, many skills to develop, lots of sharings, improvement of french
language and culture, and much more!

https://initiativeetdeveloppementcitoyen.org
FB: @initiativedeveloppementcitoyen / IG: @idc.eco.community
The project:
Mushroom activities: Café Vert
Volunteers will collect coee waste from cafes, restaurants and bars around Carcassonne (by walking or
using a cargo bike), and then prepare the mix with mycellium to put in bags and start the incubation
process. Then they will monitor the incubation process and then take the bags to the fruiting room (in
the eco place). In between, there is dierent other activitities to make sure that all the conditions are
appropriate for the project: humidity, desinfectations, how to avoid contaminations...
Other activities of the project are: going to local markets to sell mushrooms, creating photos and
videos to post in social media and the website, propose new ideas to improve the processes, make
workshops about sustainability and mushroom growing (optional).


The Team
Volunteers working in the mushroom project live in the city, but they will come to the eco-place once a week to receive training, check the fruiting room and do some helping tasks. They will also have
tutoring meetings about their personal development and the personal projects. Another important tasks
to work on while staying at IDC, is the dissemination: working in material, events, webinars, toolkits...
something of your own that is worth sharing with other youngsters or the next volunteers. All volunteers share the same values of respect, resilience, awareness of nature
and the environment, teamwork and communication

Sustainability
The organization is an organization that works in the promotion of a more sustainable and resilient lifestyle. This is
why we share these values with our volunteers by applying dierent eco-practices in our daily life.
Recycling, avoiding waste, composting, saving energy, trying to be minimalist are some of the things
we always remind our volunteers

Mushroom activities:
Volunteers will collect coee waste from cafes, restaurants and bars around the town (by walking or using a cargo bike), and then prepare the mix with mycellium to put in bags and start the incubation process. Then they will monitor the incubation process and then take the bags to the fruiting room (in the eco place). In between, there is dierent other activitities to make sure that all the conditions are appropriate for the project: humidity, desinfectations, how to avoid contaminations...

Other activities of the project are: going to local markets to sell mushrooms, creating photos and videos to post in social media and the website, propose new ideas to improve the processes, make
workshops about sustainability and mushroom growing (optional).

Perfil: We are looking for youngsters between the ages of 18 and 30 who want to invest themselves in a new life experience,
with lots of challenges and learnings! Motivation to learn how to grow mushrooms is a must! The activities are a bit of a routine, since the mushroom processes are the same, but it demands lots of observation in the details to make sure that the production will go as planned. There is also the sharing with local people and the motivation to live in a small city. Some other characteristics we are looking for:
- Ready to get the hands dirty! And to bike around the city!
- Will of lsharing the room and the apartment wth respect.
- Organized and responsible.
- Takes initiative and proposes their ideas (and puts them in action!).
- Communication skills and teamwork.
- Open minded, adaptability and exibility.
- Ready to do some physical outdoors activities.
- Basic knowledge of french (or motivation to learn it!).
- Basic knowledge and/or interest in communication, content creation, social media, writing, design...

Tarefas: - Create workshops and animations to promote sustainability
- Be part of a circular economy mushroom growing project. So... learning how to grow your own mushrooms!
- Learn and apply green practices in a daily basis.
- Get closer to the local community, by interacting daily with local commerces and markets.
- rain your creativity by making innovative content to share the project to the others


LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES & ACTIVITIES
- Learning how to grow mushrooms from coffee waste.
- Improve your mathematical and scientic skills, by working with data monitoring, experimentation, observation.
- Improvement of french language by speaking and sharing with french natives (when collecting coee, going to local markets).
- Learning how a mushroom farm works in all the processes.
- Develop communication skills by creating content for social media and the website.
- Chance to experiment with new especies and processes.
- Sharing of your own culture!
- Acknowledge the advantages of working without judgement in an open multicultural team.
- Development of skills to improve employability.
- Learning by doing experience.
- Development of a personal project.
- Sharing of experiences, talents and skills.
- Work in self-condence, initiative and autonomy.

Horário: The work will normally be from Tuesday to Saturday, around 7 hours per day, and all the sundays and
mondays are days o. Plus, volunteers have 2 extra days o per month, that they can take all together
or separate, always coordinating with the tutor and the manager of activities in advance, and not in the
months of more collection and harvesting (summer).
Some holidays are usually taken in december for the festivities, and we the chance to volunteers to
leave for a longer time

Condições: Volunteers will stay in shared rooms with other person of the same sex, in an appartment in the city
center (just some meters from the main square! and close to commerces). At the organization we
live as a team, so we shared the common tasks of cleaning, cooking and arranging the place.
Volunteers will receive 210 euros per month to buy food. We don’t buy industrial food and we try to eat
as local and seasonal as possible. We make the shopping twice per month (normally, to avoid using the
car all the time). And of course, we eat very, very local, eco and fresh mushrooms

Documentação: Envia o teu CV e Carta de Motivação (escritos em inglês) para: sveenvio@proatlantico.com
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