Volunteers are people who voluntarily invest their time, effort, knowledge and skills by providing services or activities for the benefit of another person and society as a whole, without claiming material and financial gain. – Croatian Law on Volunteering (Official Gazette, No. 58/07 and 22/13)

The volunteer story in the Association Sunce has started developing since the very beginning of the association in 1998. Every year, the Association records an increase in the number of volunteers who, with their selfless contributions, support the achievement of the strategic goals of the Association, gain experience and knowledge in the fields of environmental protection, nature conservation, sustainable development, and active civic engagement.

As the organizer of volunteering, the Association Sunce is obliged to submit an annual report on volunteering to the Ministry for Demography, Family, Youth, and Social Policy, as the body responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Croatian Law on Volunteering and the development of volunteering policy.

The involvement of international volunteers in the work of the Association began in 2015, mostly through the Erasmus+ program of the European Union, the European Voluntary Service, and later, the European Solidarity Corps.

These are the international volunteers who have volunteered at the Sunce Association so far:

Tetiana Pavlova (Ukraine), Ivan Zahorin (Ukraine), Milijana Bogdanoska (North Macedonia), Sergej Sarchevski (North Macedonia)
European Solidarity Corps, project “Solidarity for Green Dalmatia 2023,” 2024.

Yuliia Syrotenko (Ukraine) and Aleksandra Nikoloska (North Macedonia)
European Solidarity Corps, project “Solidarity for Green Dalmatia 2022,” 2023.

Fani Angeleska (North Macedonia)
European Solidarity Corps, project “Solidarity for Green Dalmatia 2021,” 2022.

Angela Trajanova (North Macedonia) and Olena Pidleteichuk (Ukraine)
European Solidarity Corps, project “Solidarity for Green Dalmatia 2021,” 2022.

If you wish to know more about the volunteering possibilities in the Association Sunce, feel free to contact us at 0038521360779 or by e-mail: [email protected]

If you would like to see the annual volunteer reports they are available in Croatian only, but feel free to contact us for more information.

Volunteers

Povezane vijesti

Meet Sanja: A young ESS volunteer from North Macedonia who has begun a life adventure in Split. (2025)

From Paris to Split: first-hand ESS Experience (2025)

ESS first-hand experience: Martina and her journey to Sunce (2025)

Training for European Solidarity Corps volunteers in Orahovica (2025)

Sustainability begins in the local community with swap fairs (2025)

Volunteering in Split: The experience of French students through the Foreign Challenge Project (2025)

From volunteer to employee: this is Mihaela’s story (2025)

Volunteer work: the annual report for 2024 (2025)

Volunteering in Split: an adventure Sergej will never forget (2025)

The ESC volunteer project Keep It Real helps save endangered Adriatic marine species (2025)

A visit from Macedonian high school students as part of the project “Eco awakening: Embrace responsibility, ensure sustainability” (2025)

Shape your future by volunteering—help yourself and others! (2024)

How we celebrated International Volunteer Day and thanked our volunteers in 2024 (2024)

From Macedonia to Croatia: Sergej’s green journey (2024)

Erasmus+ project “Eat, Sleep, Hiking” in Madeira: nature, adventure, and cultural exchange (2024)

How did recycling become Tetiana’s new muse? (2024)

From the Black Sea to the Adriatic Sea – this is volunteer Ivan Zahorin (2024)

Milijana in Split: how the Macedonian volunteer embraced the Dalmatian lifestyle ‘pomalo’ (2024)

Sunce’s ESC volunteer from North Macedonia fell in love with Hajduk and learned the importance of sustainable living (2024)

Magdalena’s volunteer experience: ‘In this corner of Spain, I found not only a new address but also a new family’ (2024)

Volunteer work: the annual report for 2023 (2024)

New volunteers of the European Solidarity Corps (ESC) have arrived in Sunce! (2024)

ESC personal project for children: Play with garbage (2023)

International ESC volunteers promote environmental awareness (2023)

After summer break, the Swap Fair opens its doors – September 5, 2023. (2023)

A short summer break for the Swap Fair in July and August (2023)

The last ecomural was painted as a personal project of foreign volunteers in Sunce (2023)

One more school in Split is richer for a mural on the topic of environmental protection and nature! (2023)

Volunteer work: the annual report for 2022 (2023)

Meet Aleksandra, our volunteer of the European Solidarity Corps (ESC) (2023)

Meet Yuliia, a new volunteer of the European Solidarity Corps (2023)

How to create a wall paint in 6 steps – Skalice School experience (2023)

Teaching through art (2022)

Students give voice to the environment (2022)

Play perspective changing films in your mind (2022)

Interview ESC: Fani Angelska (2022)

Split got its monthly Swap fair (2022)

More than a hundred children visited the Swap Fair in the Skalice Elementary School garden (2022)

We are looking for a Green Phone volunteer (2022)

Six women clean up 100kg of litter from a 200-meters long beach (2022)

How are we funded? (2022)

Volunteer work: the annual report for 2021 (2022)

ESC interview – Angela Trajanova (2022)

Cleaning Sailing Race (2022)

ESC Interview – Olena Pidleteichuk (2022)

Angela i Olena – our new European Solidarity Corps volunteers (2022)

Volunteer action of kiosk renovation (2022)

10th Split Biking Tour (2021)

Every Wednesday is “Movie night with Sunce” (2021)

Movie night with Sunce! (2021)

Čuvaj, pazi, ne bacaj! cleaning action in Kaštel Gomilica (2021)

Volunteer work: the annual report for 2020 (2021)

We developed “Manual for guiding volunteers and volunteer programs of the Public Institution National Park Mljet” (2021)

Volunteering in Germany as part of the European Solidarity Corps (2021)

We celebrated Earth Day! (2021)

Eco calendar for a responsible and healthy lifestyle (2021)

Meet Sofia and Ivana, new volunteers of the European Solidarity Corps (2020)

Volunteer work – we published the annual report for 2019 (2020)

For the fifth year in a row, the Association Sunce has been operating as a host organization for international volunteers in the European Voluntary Service program (2020)

Meet Our New ESC Volunteers at Association Sunce (2020)

Take a look at our volunteer corner – Stefan Markovski (2019)

Take a look at our volunteer corner – Veljan Parizov (2019)

Successful volunteer action on Vrana Lake (2019)

We are ready for 2 more volunteer actions in nature! (2019)

Meet Stefan, our new EVS volunteer! (2019)