The Service Activity is designed in a way to get the students out of their comfort zone and have them walk a mile, as it were, in someone else’s shoes, thus broadening their emotional understanding of the social and personal circumstances to which people are exposed.

While working at the city’s main shelter organisations students will be given the opportunity to raise funds for the functioning of the shelters by selling magazines and hand-made souvenirs.

They will volunteer in the shelters by doing physical work and/or teaching its tenants English as well. Students will be given a chance to see life through another perspective by talking to members of marginalised communities.

Working with the experts, students will be taught to make natural cosmetics using a myriad of natural ingredients. The cosmetics will then be donated to the local shelter for homeless women. It’s good to point up that natural cosmetics are environmental friendly, and that is why we would like to build awareness about this point.

Sometimes we forget about the environmental impact of beauty products, but just one bottle can bring up a lot of uncomfortable eco-questions. Using natural beauty products, you can help to minimize your environmental impact. For example, you won’t have to worry about chemicals going down the drain because there won’t be any in the bottle, since ingredients for natural cosmetics are farmed and manufactured naturally.

Working with visual art professionals, the students learn how to make useful memorabilia that will be sold in order to fundraise for the shelters.

Workshops like this one will encourage students and awaken their creative thinking. Unique ideas and willingness to help will empower their thoughts and then their actions in the future.

Students will be confronted with the problem of unemployment and social inequality, but also with their consequences – homelessness and broken homes.

Students will work with local artists on using rubbish collected from the surrounding beaches and landfills to create varied artistic installations that can later be either sold to raise money for shelters or exhibited in local public spaces as a reminder to take care of nature.

Eight million tons of plastic is dumped into the ocean every year, and It’s equal to five grocery bags per every foot of coastline around the globe, says new study. Through this workshop, we want to make students aware of the harmful effects of plastics on our planet.

Widely recognised as one of the most beautiful coasts in Europe, the Croatian Adriatic is not immune to the epidemic of ocean littering. The goal of this activity is to clean the more remote beaches of Kvarner Bay, ones that are often only accessible by boat. With the help of boats and expert leaders, the students will clean up the beaches and transport the rubbish back to towns where it could be: turned into artistic installations, made into souvenirs, or recycled/properly disposed of.

Working together with the Croatian Forests Association, we will isolate the locations in most need of the forestation and have each student plant trees, in addition to receiving education on the role of forests in the eco – system, forestation do’s and dont’s, wildlife and birds

Environmental education, such as planting trees will encourage students to think about environmental conservation and particularly, how human beings can manage behavior and ecosystems to live sustainably. Main goal of this workshop is to develop a firm ecological mindset of participants.

Working alongside the local Roma, you will learn how to build your own mobile garden beds inside different Romani settlements in the region, helping to strengthen self-sufficiency in the community.

Experience a real ‘wow’ sensation as you see the largest flying bird in Europe soaring above you. Learn first hand how we can contribute to safeguarding the future of these incredible birds as you participate in workshops closely related to the work of the Griffon Rescue Centre on the beautiful island of Cres.

Learn about ancient architectural techniques, the Karst landscape and the life connected to it. This is your chance to get to know the basics of dry stone masonry and contribute to the preservation of a spectacular cultural landscape as you rebuild part of the Takala vineyard terraces!

Develop an understanding of equine therapy and volunteer on projects to help Pegaz in their mission to help children benefit from equine therapy.

Discover the beauty and biodiversity of the Lošinj Archipelago With the Blue World Institute Of Marine Research And Conservation (BWI) at the Lošinj Marine Education Centre (LMEC). By participating in a varied program with the BWI team, you will develop an understanding of marine conservation, gain an insight into the problems involved and learn how to be a positive force in creating a sustainable marine ecology. And you might be lucky enough to see dolphins in their natural environment!

Working with TRY theatre, the local drama school now in its tenth year of work, the students will take part in an immersive full-day exploration of how conflict is triggered, developed and, crucially, what are its aftermaths, which often lead to a new cycle of conflict. The workshop aims to bring the large-scale events (which are all too easy to discard as mere pieces of information) to the personal level where all of action begins. The key aspect, therefore, is to move the knowledge of conflict from the realm of informational to experiential, thus creating emotional footprints of how conflict starts, how personal and national interests are forged and manipulated, what mechanisms we use to justify our inhumane behaviours, and what are the social, economic and personal ripples created by conflict.

Beyond its global commercial popularity, basketball is a fun and inclusive sport that engages both the body and the mind. As such, it gives people that have experienced severe injuries – spine fractures, limb amputation, cerebral palsy etc. – a chance to strengthen themselves both physically and mentally through movement and socialization. Not just with other handicapped people, but also with players without physical disability. They respect and support each other through understanding the nature of their physical disabilities, whilst not allowing these same disabilities to stop them from doing what they like or isolating them from the world. This workshop will show the daily struggles handicapped players endure and also how they manage them. It will challenge you and make you think about all the little daily things that are normally taken for granted. And last, but not least, you will learn about the whole spectre of implications and importance sports have in modern society.