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Dove
Settore
Codice
Contributo
Titolo
Oskorušobraní - Oskoruse Festival
Periodo
24/09/2021 -
26/09/2021
Dove
Repubblica Ceca
Settore
Festival
Codice
SDA W02
Contributo
120 € + 25 €
Lavoro
The work will be mainly manual and outdoor in all kinds of weather. You will prepare the site ready for the event (Friday and Saturday) and clean up afterwards. You will cut and rake grass, pick up branches, install wooden poles. You will also help with transportation of material and installing and exhibition. Please bring good shoes and working clothes.
Study part: You will organize and take part in the traditional event called “Oskorušobraní” which celebrates the unique local tree. You will be able to get to know different kinds of local food
and products (including traditional oskoruse spirits), and learn more about local products, organic farming, herding sheep, the history and natural potential of the region.
Luogo
Tvarozna Lhota (bus stop in the village, next train stop Straznice). The nearby towns are Straznice (5 km distance) and Uherske Hradiste (30 km). The region is famous for its folk traditions and beautiful countryside.
Leisure time: On Sunday, you can go on a trip to various sites of interest in the region, such the regional cities of Straznice or Skalice, visiting wine cellars, the Bata canal, or you can go hiking in the local countryside.
Alloggio
In a big tent in the open-air centre. Please bring your own sleeping bags and camping mats. You will prepare your own meals together as a group.
Requisiti e materiali
Due to current travel restrictions we only accept volunteers from Europe, who do not need visa to enter Czech Republic. Participation fee: Due to limited outgoing resources of INEX-SDA, we kindly ask participants to contribute 25 EUR towards the costs of general incoming administration of our workcamps. The fee will be collected upon arrival. The participation fee includes: food and third-party liability insurance for the whole weekend. Since the Oskoruse Festival takes place on Saturday, we need to start getting the place ready already on Friday. Therefore, please note that you need to arrive to Tvarozna Lhota by 13h on Friday.
Info appuntamento
Organizzatore
This weekend workcamp will take place in a small Moravian village of Tvarozna Lhota, situated in the White Carpathian Mountains in cooperation with the local NGO “INEX-SDA Bile Karpaty”. This branch of INEX is active in sustainable rural development, environmental education and permaculture projects. In Tvarozna Lhota, they run a museum of “oskoruse” (a local unique fruit) and an open-air leisure and educational centre Cottage Travicna. The aim of this workcamp is to get the site ready for a traditional
event celebrating the oskoruse trees and fruits called “Oskorušobraní”.
Titolo
Sheep, bees, moor and forest - Pure nature conservation!
Periodo
25/09/2021 -
09/10/2021
Dove
Germania
Settore
Ambiente, Agricoltura
Codice
ijgd 01229
Contributo
120 € + 50 €
Lavoro
You want to create habitats for bees and sheep and save a moor? This is the right workcamp for you! This project will give you an insight into practical nature conservation work, especially the various maintenance measures that are required in different habitats. Together with your group, you will care for and protect a small moor and the typical moor plants that grow there, such as sundew and European cranberry, and thus make an important contribution to their preservation. After decades of work, the moor has been cleared of large birch trees. Now, among other things, young birch trees that are growing back have to be removed and poplars etc. have to be cleared at the edges. Furthermore you will clear shrubs and other unwanted plants in a former sand mining area to preserve this habitat for its typical inhabitants. NABU Syke und Umland e.V. also uses sheeps to maintain its areas. For their welfare, you will build a new sheep shelter and repair fences. Here you will also uncover soil for wild bees.
Your group will also support the Syke district forester's office in building fences and tending young growth in already established plantations. In addition, you will improve the living conditions for heat-loving animal and plant species through biotope maintenance on dry sites and by clearing and exposing sandy areas. You will also actively help with other forestry work, such as clearing and keeping open hiking and driving trails or maintaining and caring for recreational facilities. In addition to the practical work, you will learn a lot about nature conservation, environmental protection and animal welfare from the NABU staff and the district forester. You will learn a lot about the local flora and fauna and about the protection of endangered habitats.
(Where: Syke, 20 km south of Bremen, 120 km west of Hamburg)
Luogo
The varied landscape invites you to go on excursions and hikes.
In addition, your accommodation is 20 km and a 20-minute train ride from the centre of Bremen. The 1,200-year-old Hanseatic city of Bremen (www.bremen.de) offers many sights and cultural attractions.
At the weekend you can go on excursions to the North Sea coast (e.g. Bremerhaven), to Hamburg or other cities.
Alloggio
Meals: The group will prepare and cook meals together. Money is made available for this purpose.
Accommodation: You will stay in 3 and 4-bed rooms in a shared accommodation in Syke.
Requisiti e materiali
Fitness for physically demanding work; weatherproof work clothes; sturdy footwear (waterproof shoes, rubber boots if available)
Info appuntamento
Organizzatore
The ijgd has been organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. We are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, we assist around 5,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. We give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths. Our principles: Ecological learning, voluntary contribution, self-organisation, social development, intercultural learning, gender equality, anti-racism/anti-discrimination and political education.
Titolo
Lohra Castle
Periodo
26/09/2021 -
09/10/2021
Dove
Germania
Settore
Ambiente, Ripristino
Codice
OH-W10
Contributo
120 € + 0 €
Lavoro
The projects of Open Houses are based on sustainable principles. Therefore, the activities at Lohra Castle combine aspects of cultural heritage preservation and aspects of natural heritage preservation. The participants of the Workcamps carry out works in the green areas and the forests around the castle, restoration work and collaboration in renovation works.
Luogo
Lohra Castle is situated in the heart of Germany in Northern Thuringia. The castle, which is surrounded by a scenic hilly landscape, is located on the edge of a nature reserve area. Being one of the largest castles in Thuringia, the history of the castle Lohra begins in the Middle Age. The castle is more than 1,000 years old. Today, it includes twenty buildings from different times: medieval fortifications, remnants of a tower from the 11th century, a Romanesque chapel, a manor house from the Renaissance period as well as stables and granaries from the 19th and the early 20th centuries. The ensemble is situated in the centre of a beautiful forest. For years Lohra Castle was vacant. In the 1990s Open Houses started to restore the castle and to revive it by cultural activities. Since that time, a large number of Workcamps, Building Weeks, exhibitions, concerts and other activities with international participants took place in the castle.
Alloggio
All costs linked to the project are covered, including food, accommodation, insurance and transportation during the stay at the project. Travel costs to and from the camp place are not covered. Participants should organise their journey to and from the project place by themselves and on their own expenses. Furthermore, participants should bring their own pocket money.
ACCOMMODATION
In most of Open Houses' camps the volunteers will live at the same places they also work on, what means that they live more or less on a building site. In most of the Heritage Volunteers Projects the accommodation is located in a certain distance to the working site. The accommodation is usually very simple; there are shared rooms with simple beds or mattresses at most of the places. Shower, toilet and kitchen are at the place, but sometimes not in the same building. The equipment is simple but fair. After work, when everybody wants to take a shower, there can be a limit of hot water.
FOOD
The meals will be prepared together as they are part of the community life, what means that every participant will be responsible for the meal at least once during its stay. So it would be very nice if the participants could bring typical recipes from home in order to introduce each other to the preparation of food from all over the world.
Info appuntamento
Organizzatore
Open Houses – rooms open for those who come along.
Open Houses – not empty buildings, but places with visible and invisible traces of history, places which have grown and decayed over the centuries, places which were shaped by those people who lived there long ago as well those who left only yesterday – places which will be shaped by those who live there or who come as a guest.
Open Houses – rooms which want to be filled with dreams and ideas, with meetings and exchange, by people of different backgrounds, different cultures, different generations and different ideas and visions.
The history of Open Houses Network dates back to the mid-1980s, when a group of young people started to restore village churches in East Germany in voluntary work to protect them from decay. The engagement for these buildings united people who enjoyed the freedom these activities provided and who filled these rooms with life again in ways which by far exceed the craftsmen's work done – through exhibitions, concerts, making music together or just sitting by the camp fire.
Meanwhile, rooms free of political and ideological pressure are no longer urgently required; however, places have become rare where people can meet without commercial pressure, free of bureaucracy and institutionalism, free of nepotism and the exclusion which it produces. What should be easy – to go somewhere in order to meet people and to work together – has become difficult. The tightrope walk between, on the one hand, public activities in a monetary and functional sense, and the retreat into private life on the other, is very difficult, and it requires a lot of power and permanent efforts to tackle red tape and financial restrictions.
Free spaces are less and less understood as common property, and are permanently being cut back. The idea of public property seems to have gone out of fashion, and places of common responsible work have become rare.
Open Houses Network tries to create and protect such spaces. In this process, we do not want to be the doers, but be people who have a vision, who want to initiate something, but who also are aware of depending on the co-operation of others. We understand our projects and events as offers – as offers to create space for commitment, for changes, for meetings.
Titolo
ATLANTIC COAST HISTORY 2
Periodo
27/09/2021 -
18/10/2021
Dove
Francia
Settore
Ripristino, Progetti culturali
Codice
SJ02
Contributo
120 € + 0 €
Lavoro
This year, you'll work on the large west stone shooting site restoration, right across Liédot Fort. You'll de-vegetate the site in order to start traditional masonry work on rubble stone walls. You'll also replace the stones, to jut in and join with hydraulic lime.
Luogo
What a panel of activities you'll have this year in Aix Island! You'll be able to experience some water activities, like fishing or sailing. During your free time, you'll have the opportunity to interact with locals, already excited about meeting you. Finally, you'll have time to discover the beach, go on bike rides along the ocean, play beach-volleyball, and participate in many other activities. You'll also be able to visit cities like La Rochelle and Rochefort.
Alloggio
Dorms (4 beds), at the Armand Fallières accommodation center, near Liedot Fort. Food provided, meals prepared by you.
Info appuntamento
Organizzatore
Aix is a small pedestrian island located in the Atlantic ocean. Marked by a strong maritime past, it contains lots of historical places, especially Liedot Fort, built by Vauban and classified as historical monument. Close partner of Solidarités Jeunesses, Aix Island has hosted international workcamps for several years.
Titolo
Black Forest Village Grafenhausen
Periodo
02/10/2021 -
16/10/2021
Dove
Germania
Settore
Ambiente, Lavori manuali
Codice
IBG 17
Contributo
120 € + 0 €
Lavoro
On this workcamp, you will be helping with the renovation of the Black Forest House of the Senses and the local secondary school. Much of this work is on the outside of these two buildings. It includes updating of earthworks, erection of small walls and benches. Depending on the weather you might also help out with other various tasks in the community. There’s always a lot to do, so just prepare yourself to work outside manually, fulfilling constructional/renovation/ environmental tasks.
Luogo
Grafenhausen is a very nice village within a beautiful landscape. The surrounding area is perfect for hiking trips: There are lakes close-by and it is not even half an hour by car to the Feldberg (the highest German mountain outside of the Alps). Also, the famous beer "Tannenzaepfle" is brewed in Grafenhausen and you might be able to visit the brewery. The village is in a very rural area, so be prepared for two calming weeks in the Black Forest and far away from big city life. To go shopping and for excursions, the community will lend you a bus, if it’s more convenient. There are regular train connections to Freiburg (a university city) and Lake Constance. Grafenhausen is located at about 1.000 meters altitude; therefore the weather in autumn is a bit unpredictable: Be prepared for warm and sunny temperatures, as well as coldness and rain.
Alloggio
You will be accommodated in a beautiful group house where showers and a kitchen are provided. Please bring your own sleeping bag. The group house is in the middle of the village, so you can easily walk to a bakery/café and the local supermarket.
Requisiti e materiali
-
Info appuntamento
Organizzatore
The community of Grafenhausen, located in the Black Forest, invites an international workcamp for the 5th time. It is a village with about 2.100 inhabitants in the South of Germany that has a lot to offer: e.g. the very interactive "Black Forest Museum", a public pool, and a sculpture park (where the international group of 2015 worked). In previous years, international volunteers have taken many actions to help with the sustainable development within the community (UN SDG 11): they have worked on a sculpture park, built a water playground, an adventure trail and last year another playground in front of the school building.
This year, by helping with the restoration of a forest in the community that was destroyed by bark beetles during the hot summers of 2018 and 2019, you are actively supporting climate action (UN SDG 13) and life on land (UN SDG 15).
Titolo
TIME TRAVEL
Periodo
03/10/2021 -
22/10/2021
Dove
Francia
Settore
Ripristino, Ambiente
Codice
SJ77
Contributo
120 € + 0 €
Lavoro
You will work on the development of hiking trails around the village of Malbec-en-Lomagne, in order to make them accessible and enhance the local heritage, by :
- The restoration of a portion of the Gallo-Roman way, the reconstruction of a dry stone wall, the rediscovery of the paving and various other fittings.
- Clearing and development of hiking trails.
Luogo
Accompanied by 2 educational facilitators and local volunteers, you will have the opportunity to discover the abundance of local heritage through sports activities such as hiking, cycling, etc. In the evening, give free rein to your desires and organize, with the help of daily life animators, intercultural meals to meet the local population, barbecues, etc.
Alloggio
The volunteers will be accommodated on the site of the Jardin d'en Naoua, an old farmhouse perfectly suited for groups.
The food will be prepared by the volunteers themselves. In this mission of daily life, you will be accompanied by the animators. Choices will be made to promote a healthy food balance between your preferences and local and seasonal products.
Info appuntamento
Organizzatore
We conduct an action program with the Association Mémoire de Maubec in Laumagne, whose aim is to research, find and preserve memory through objects, writings and create an entertainment for an audience related to remembrance and heritage. The volunteers will work in collaboration with local volunteers and the AMML association for the creation of a trail showing the life in the countryside life and restoration of a portion of the Gallo-Roman way.
Titolo
ENVIRONMENT and PHOTOGRAPHY - OCTOBER
Periodo
05/10/2021 -
14/10/2021
Dove
Islanda
Settore
Ambiente
Codice
SEEDS 069
Contributo
120 € + 0 €
Lavoro
While developing artistic and technical photography skills, you will be focusing on environmental and sustainability issues through non-formal activities such as workshops, discussions, presentations and visits facilitated by SEEDS. One of our aims is to help create more environmentally aware consumers and travellersYou will visit local projects on environment and conservation. These may include hands-on activities or guided visits. Some examples include outdoor cleanup tasks, a community dinner or a visit to a recycling centre, a geothermal power plant, a museum or exhibition. Some of these activities are dependent on conditions such as weather, pandemic-related restrictions, as well as availability of our partner organisations.You will also have time to put the theory about photography into practice, walking around and exploring the city. At the end of the camp, the best photographs from each participant are selected for an online exhibition on SEEDS social media. Participants should bring their own digital cameras, lenses, tripods and laptops if possible.SEEDS programme combines learning, sharing, hands-on activities, getting to know Iceland, its culture, having fun, exploring the city and stunning natural attractions in the Golden Circle or other excursions. Participants should prepare to share environmental issues from their countries and should be ready to spend time outdoors walking medium distances during activities and sightseeing. Note this project is a learning/sharing camp and not a standard workcamp. This project has a smaller work part and puts a bigger emphasis on the personal learning process than on the community impact.In this project SEEDS will organise a night photography and aurora hunting (Northern Lights) workshop in the countryside near Reykjavik. This will take place during late evening and possibly into the night. Northern lights are a natural phenomenon depending on solar activity and meteorological conditions; we cannot guarantee you will see northern lights, but the night photography workshop will be organised anyway.
Luogo
Reykjavik is a dynamic, modern city which lives in harmony with nature, using renewable energy sources. The world s northernmost capital bridges the Atlantic, between Europe and North America. Reykjavik is spread across a peninsula with a panoramic view of the mountains and the Atlantic. It is an international city with a lively cosmopolitan cultural scene surrounded by beautiful nature.
Alloggio
SEEDS participants will stay in a house in Reykjavik. The facilities are basic with a kitchen, showers, and a washing machine. Everyone is expected to show consideration for their companions. Participants will sleep in shared rooms or dormitories. Please bring your own sleeping bag.Volunteers will receive food supplies and will be in charge of cooking and cleaning. Please note the food SEEDS provides will be vegetarian. Do not forget to bring some traditional/typical food, drinks, recipes, music, games or movies from your country for the international evening. Please be aware some items or ingredients may be expensive in Iceland and you will need to buy them yourselves or bring them from your country.
Requisiti e materiali
Participation fee EUR 300 (Euros). The fee can either be transferred in advance via bank transfer, or paid in cash on arrival. It includes transportation from the meeting point to the camp (on the first day), the visits available, the Golden Circle excursion and the night photography and aurora hunting workshop. It may be very cold and/or rainy, so we recommend bringing warm and waterproof clothes (underlayers, overcoats, scarves, gloves and hats), good walking shoes, as some of the activities take place outdoors.
Info appuntamento
Organizzatore
During this camp, participants can share their love for (and learn more about) global and local environmental issues, as well as photography. If you are interested in topics such as climate change, waste management, animal protection and sustainability, and you also love taking photographs or want to develop your photography skills, then this project is for you
Titolo
Lohra Castle
Periodo
10/10/2021 -
22/10/2021
Dove
Germania
Settore
Ambiente, Ripristino
Codice
OH-W11
Contributo
120 € + 0 €
Lavoro
The projects of Open Houses are based on sustainable principles. Therefore, the activities at Lohra Castle combine aspects of cultural heritage preservation and aspects of natural heritage preservation. The participants of the Workcamps carry out works in the green areas and the forests around the castle, restoration work and collaboration in renovation works.
Luogo
Lohra Castle is situated in the heart of Germany in Northern Thuringia. The castle, which is surrounded by a scenic hilly landscape, is located on the edge of a nature reserve area. Being one of the largest castles in Thuringia, the history of the castle Lohra begins in the Middle Age. The castle is more than 1,000 years old. Today, it includes twenty buildings from different times: medieval fortifications, remnants of a tower from the 11th century, a Romanesque chapel, a manor house from the Renaissance period as well as stables and granaries from the 19th and the early 20th centuries. The ensemble is situated in the centre of a beautiful forest. For years Lohra Castle was vacant. In the 1990s Open Houses started to restore the castle and to revive it by cultural activities. Since that time, a large number of Workcamps, Building Weeks, exhibitions, concerts and other activities with international participants took place in the castle.
Alloggio
All costs linked to the project are covered, including food, accommodation, insurance and transportation during the stay at the project. Travel costs to and from the camp place are not covered. Participants should organise their journey to and from the project place by themselves and on their own expenses. Furthermore, participants should bring their own pocket money.
ACCOMMODATION
In most of Open Houses' camps the volunteers will live at the same places they also work on, what means that they live more or less on a building site. In most of the Heritage Volunteers Projects the accommodation is located in a certain distance to the working site. The accommodation is usually very simple; there are shared rooms with simple beds or mattresses at most of the places. Shower, toilet and kitchen are at the place, but sometimes not in the same building. The equipment is simple but fair. After work, when everybody wants to take a shower, there can be a limit of hot water.
FOOD
The meals will be prepared together as they are part of the community life, what means that every participant will be responsible for the meal at least once during its stay. So it would be very nice if the participants could bring typical recipes from home in order to introduce each other to the preparation of food from all over the world.
Info appuntamento
Organizzatore
Open Houses – rooms open for those who come along.
Open Houses – not empty buildings, but places with visible and invisible traces of history, places which have grown and decayed over the centuries, places which were shaped by those people who lived there long ago as well those who left only yesterday – places which will be shaped by those who live there or who come as a guest.
Open Houses – rooms which want to be filled with dreams and ideas, with meetings and exchange, by people of different backgrounds, different cultures, different generations and different ideas and visions.
The history of Open Houses Network dates back to the mid-1980s, when a group of young people started to restore village churches in East Germany in voluntary work to protect them from decay. The engagement for these buildings united people who enjoyed the freedom these activities provided and who filled these rooms with life again in ways which by far exceed the craftsmen's work done – through exhibitions, concerts, making music together or just sitting by the camp fire.
Meanwhile, rooms free of political and ideological pressure are no longer urgently required; however, places have become rare where people can meet without commercial pressure, free of bureaucracy and institutionalism, free of nepotism and the exclusion which it produces. What should be easy – to go somewhere in order to meet people and to work together – has become difficult. The tightrope walk between, on the one hand, public activities in a monetary and functional sense, and the retreat into private life on the other, is very difficult, and it requires a lot of power and permanent efforts to tackle red tape and financial restrictions.
Free spaces are less and less understood as common property, and are permanently being cut back. The idea of public property seems to have gone out of fashion, and places of common responsible work have become rare.
Open Houses Network tries to create and protect such spaces. In this process, we do not want to be the doers, but be people who have a vision, who want to initiate something, but who also are aware of depending on the co-operation of others. We understand our projects and events as offers – as offers to create space for commitment, for changes, for meetings.
Titolo
Spolecne koreny / Gemeinsame Wurzeln
Periodo
11/10/2021 -
24/10/2021
Dove
Repubblica Ceca
Settore
Ripristino, Ambiente
Codice
SDA 208
Contributo
120 € + 25 €
Lavoro
The workcamp aims to find common Central European roots between Czech and German culture. Workcamp will not only work manually, in addition to a number of work activities (assistance in monastic forests in planting species-diverse forests, minor work in the monastery, production of bio coal in monastic orchards) we will also engage in slightly professional pomological work- mapping old and regional varieties of fruit trees. We will also work on unravelling the story of Hevika Kroker, a Sudeten German woman from Krnov, who was moved to Predklasteri with
her family after the war, where she also died in 2019. Together with the participants, we will examine her estate and try to reconstruct her life story. The work will be varied and adjusted to physical abilities of the volunteers. Please bring clothes that can get dirty and solid shoes. Study part: At the end of the workcamp, we will organize an event for the public, which will acquaint them with the fate of the pre-monastery neighbor
Hedvika Kroker and how the "big" 20th century could have been reflected in people's daily lives. In addition, we will focus on common Czech-German
elements in local culture and history - we will measure the excursion to Brno especially on its mixed character, we will visit the Gregor Mendel Museum and Villa Tugendhat. We also plan a trip to Lomnice, where there is
a former Jewish quarter.
Luogo
Predklasteri. A small village (1,400 inhabitants) about 30 km from Brno. It is situated in a picturesque landscape and it is considered to be the gateway of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands. Leisure time: Sightseeing in the region (the Pernstejn Castle and religious sights in the valley of the Svratka River between the towns of Tisnov and Pernstejn). Hiking in the countryside can be arranged. You can also visit local caves, a horse riding hall or 3D archery range. Fun games and activities will be prepared for you by the organizers.
Alloggio
In the former monastery school. You will sleep in three rooms with bunk beds. Every room has its own bathroom with a shower and a toilet. There is electricity and hot water available in the building. Please bring your own sleeping bag. You will prepare your meals together as a group in an equipped kitchen. A team of two volunteers will prepare each meal so that you can present your home cuisine. Please bring your favourite recipes. If you have a special diet, please let us know in advance. The food will be predominantly vegetarian because of environmental and ethical reasons. There is
a washing machine and wi-fi in the building.
Requisiti e materiali
Due to current travel restrictions we only accept volunteers from Europe, who do not need visa to travel to Czech Republic. Participation fee: Due to limited outgoing resources of INEX-SDA,
we kindly ask participants to contribute 25 EUR towards the costs of general incoming administration of our workcamps. The fee will be collected upon arrival. Please note that this fee does not directly contribute to the workcamp budgets.
Info appuntamento
Organizzatore
This workcamp is organized by NGO Anitkomplex in cooperation with NGO Hojnost. Antikomplex strives for a society made up of truly free people and at the same time responsible citizens. It achieves this through critical reflection on the past and through programs for schools and the public. It seeks to prevent resurfacing historical traumas, which can be a source of populist manipulation that abuses historical traumas and baptisms to achieve political goals. In their activities, they
focus mainly on the coexistence of Czech and German culture in the Czech lands and on critical knowledge and reflection on this coexistence. Hojnost is an association for more accessible local and healthy food, it has been cooperating with the Porta coeli monastery since January 2019, when it started cleaning old monastery orchards and gardens as part of volunteer projects in order to turn them into production orchards and a community
garden. Hojnost also aims to support farmers and small producers in the Tisnov region.
In this workcamp, you are actively working for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of Sustainable Cities and Communities (UN SDG11).
Titolo
ENVIRONMENT and PHOTOGRAPHY - AUTUMN
Periodo
19/10/2021 -
28/10/2021
Dove
Islanda
Settore
Ambiente
Codice
SEEDS 071
Contributo
120 € + 0 €
Lavoro
While developing artistic and technical photography skills, you will be focusing on environmental and sustainability issues through non-formal activities such as workshops, discussions, presentations and visits facilitated by SEEDS. One of our aims is to help create more environmentally aware consumers and travellersYou will visit local projects on environment and conservation. These may include hands-on activities or guided visits. Some examples include outdoor cleanup tasks, a community dinner or a visit to a recycling centre, a geothermal power plant, a museum or exhibition. Some of these activities are dependent on conditions such as weather, pandemic-related restrictions, as well as availability of our partner organisations.You will also have time to put the theory about photography into practice, walking around and exploring the city. At the end of the camp, the best photographs from each participant are selected for an online exhibition on SEEDS social media. Participants should bring their own digital cameras, lenses, tripods and laptops if possible.SEEDS programme combines learning, sharing, hands-on activities, getting to know Iceland, its culture, having fun, exploring the city and stunning natural attractions in the Golden Circle or other excursions. Participants should prepare to share environmental issues from their countries and should be ready to spend time outdoors walking medium distances during activities and sightseeing. Note this project is a learning/sharing camp and not a standard workcamp. This project has a smaller work part and puts a bigger emphasis on the personal learning process than on the community impact.In this project SEEDS will organise a night photography and aurora hunting (Northern Lights) workshop in the countryside near Reykjavik. This will take place during late evening and possibly into the night. Northern lights are a natural phenomenon depending on solar activity and meteorological conditions; we cannot guarantee you will see northern lights, but the night photography workshop will be organised anyway.
Luogo
Reykjavik is a dynamic, modern city which lives in harmony with nature, using renewable energy sources. The world s northernmost capital bridges the Atlantic, between Europe and North America. Reykjavik is spread across a peninsula with a panoramic view of the mountains and the Atlantic. It is an international city with a lively cosmopolitan cultural scene surrounded by beautiful nature.
Alloggio
SEEDS participants will stay in a house in Reykjavik. The facilities are basic with a kitchen, showers, and a washing machine. Everyone is expected to show consideration for their companions. Participants will sleep in shared rooms or dormitories. Please bring your own sleeping bag.Volunteers will receive food supplies and will be in charge of cooking and cleaning. Please note the food SEEDS provides will be vegetarian. Do not forget to bring some traditional/typical food, drinks, recipes, music, games or movies from your country for the international evening. Please be aware some items or ingredients may be expensive in Iceland and you will need to buy them yourselves or bring them from your country.
Requisiti e materiali
Participation fee EUR 300 (Euros). The fee can either be transferred in advance via bank transfer, or paid in cash on arrival. It includes transportation from the meeting point to the camp (on the first day), the visits available, the Golden Circle excursion and the night photography and aurora hunting workshop. Other excursions (e.g. to the South Shore, Vesturland, Geldingadal volcano, Reykjanes and/or Snaefellsnes Peninsula) can be arranged at discount fares if there is free time after the camp workshops/sessions. It may be very cold and/or rainy, so we recommend bringing warm and waterproof clothes (underlayers, overcoats, scarves, gloves and hats), good walking shoes, as some of the activities take place outdoors.
Info appuntamento
Organizzatore
During this camp, participants can share their love for (and learn more about) global and local environmental issues, as well as photography. If you are interested in topics such as climate change, waste management, animal protection and sustainability, and you also love taking photographs or want to develop your photography skills, then this project is for you
Titolo
MARBURG-STADTWALD
Periodo
24/10/2021 -
06/11/2021
Dove
Germania
Settore
Lavori manuali, Lingue
Codice
PRO-L1
Contributo
120 € + 160 €
Lavoro
Participants will be doing various manual works to prepare the area (youth-holiday-camp for (or after) youth leisure activities of the municipality. It means for example clearing the place, gardening, painting, building up/taking down tents. Time of work will be 4-5 hours on four days per week, excluding Saturday and Sunday.
Luogo
Marburg is a historical and picturesque old university town, 100 km north of Frankfurt/Main. It has 82.000 inhabitants, including 25.000 students. The camp is located on a wooded hill named Stadtwald , in a youth-holiday-camp 5 km far from the city centre. A good bus-connection allows to go to downtown.
Alloggio
Participants will live in a house with shared rooms, kitchen, bathroom, shower. Cooking, cleaning, shopping etc. will be done by the group itself. Like in each workcamp, accommodation, food and travel-costs for excursions are free as well as materials/copies needed for the lectures.
Requisiti e materiali
As the language course is not for absolute beginners, participants must be able already to communicate in German, at least on a level which ensures daily communication (A2). Participants also must be willing to communicate with each other during the whole project in German language only. This is one important part of the concept in order to allow a big step in knowledge of language.Because of the concept there is an extra-fee of 160,00 EUR to be paid upon arrival (or to be transferred in advance). A certificate for participating in the language-course will be given at the end of the camp.
Info appuntamento
Organizzatore
Host organization is the municipality of Marburg. It is a workcamp including German language training. In general i also during excursion i there will be focus on language and culture/history of Germany/Europe. Lectures will be two hours per day / 18 hours in total (excluding Saturday and Sunday). The lectures content: Conversation training, Intercultural Diversities, History of Germany/Europe and Indo-European languages ( word-nests ), Grammar.
Titolo
Lohra Castle
Periodo
01/11/2021 -
13/11/2021
Dove
Germania
Settore
Ripristino, Ambiente
Codice
OH-W12
Contributo
120 € + 0 €
Lavoro
The projects of Open Houses are based on sustainable principles. Therefore, the activities at Lohra Castle combine aspects of cultural heritage preservation and aspects of natural heritage preservation. The participants of the Workcamps carry out works in the green areas and the forests around the castle, restoration work and collaboration in renovation works. This workcamp will focus on preparing the castle for the winter, collecting wood and clearing the meadows.
Luogo
Lohra Castle is situated in the heart of Germany in Northern Thuringia. The castle, which is surrounded by a scenic hilly landscape, is located on the edge of a nature reserve area. Being one of the largest castles in Thuringia, the history of the castle Lohra begins in the Middle Age. The castle is more than 1,000 years old. Today, it includes twenty buildings from different times: medieval fortifications, remnants of a tower from the 11th century, a Romanesque chapel, a manor house from the Renaissance period as well as stables and granaries from the 19th and the early 20th centuries. The ensemble is situated in the centre of a beautiful forest. For years Lohra Castle was vacant. In the 1990s Open Houses started to restore the castle and to revive it by cultural activities. Since that time, a large number of Workcamps, Building Weeks, exhibitions, concerts and other activities with international participants took place in the castle.
Alloggio
All costs linked to the project are covered, including food, accommodation, insurance and transportation during the stay at the project. Travel costs to and from the camp place are not covered. Participants should organise their journey to and from the project place by themselves and on their own expenses. Furthermore, participants should bring their own pocket money.
ACCOMMODATION
In most of Open Houses' camps the volunteers will live at the same places they also work on, what means that they live more or less on a building site. In most of the Heritage Volunteers Projects the accommodation is located in a certain distance to the working site. The accommodation is usually very simple; there are shared rooms with simple beds or mattresses at most of the places. Shower, toilet and kitchen are at the place, but sometimes not in the same building. The equipment is simple but fair. After work, when everybody wants to take a shower, there can be a limit of hot water.
FOOD
The meals will be prepared together as they are part of the community life, what means that every participant will be responsible for the meal at least once during its stay. So it would be very nice if the participants could bring typical recipes from home in order to introduce each other to the preparation of food from all over the world.
Info appuntamento
Organizzatore
Open Houses – rooms open for those who come along.
Open Houses – not empty buildings, but places with visible and invisible traces of history, places which have grown and decayed over the centuries, places which were shaped by those people who lived there long ago as well those who left only yesterday – places which will be shaped by those who live there or who come as a guest.
Open Houses – rooms which want to be filled with dreams and ideas, with meetings and exchange, by people of different backgrounds, different cultures, different generations and different ideas and visions.
The history of Open Houses Network dates back to the mid-1980s, when a group of young people started to restore village churches in East Germany in voluntary work to protect them from decay. The engagement for these buildings united people who enjoyed the freedom these activities provided and who filled these rooms with life again in ways which by far exceed the craftsmen's work done – through exhibitions, concerts, making music together or just sitting by the camp fire.
Meanwhile, rooms free of political and ideological pressure are no longer urgently required; however, places have become rare where people can meet without commercial pressure, free of bureaucracy and institutionalism, free of nepotism and the exclusion which it produces. What should be easy – to go somewhere in order to meet people and to work together – has become difficult. The tightrope walk between, on the one hand, public activities in a monetary and functional sense, and the retreat into private life on the other, is very difficult, and it requires a lot of power and permanent efforts to tackle red tape and financial restrictions.
Free spaces are less and less understood as common property, and are permanently being cut back. The idea of public property seems to have gone out of fashion, and places of common responsible work have become rare.
Open Houses Network tries to create and protect such spaces. In this process, we do not want to be the doers, but be people who have a vision, who want to initiate something, but who also are aware of depending on the co-operation of others. We understand our projects and events as offers – as offers to create space for commitment, for changes, for meetings.
Titolo
MARBURG-STADTWALD
Periodo
07/11/2021 -
21/11/2021
Dove
Germania
Settore
Lavori manuali, Lingue
Codice
PRO-L2
Contributo
120 € + 160 €
Lavoro
Participants will be doing various manual works to prepare the area (youth-holiday-camp for (or after) youth leisure activities of the municipality. It means for example clearing the place, gardening, painting, building up/taking down tents. Time of work will be 4-5 hours on four days per week, excluding Saturday and Sunday.
Luogo
Marburg is a historical and picturesque old university town, 100 km north of Frankfurt/Main. It has 82.000 inhabitants, including 25.000 students. The camp is located on a wooded hill named Stadtwald , in a youth-holiday-camp 5 km far from the city centre. A good bus-connection allows to go to downtown.
Alloggio
Participants will live in a house with shared rooms, kitchen, bathroom, shower. Cooking, cleaning, shopping etc. will be done by the group itself. Like in each workcamp, accommodation, food and travel-costs for excursions are free as well as materials/copies needed for the lectures.
Requisiti e materiali
As the language course is not for absolute beginners, participants must be able already to communicate in German, at least on a level which ensures daily communication (A2). Participants also must be willing to communicate with each other during the whole project in German language only. This is one important part of the concept in order to allow a big step in knowledge of language.Because of the concept there is an extra-fee of 160,00 EUR to be paid upon arrival (or to be transferred in advance). A certificate for participating in the language-course will be given at the end of the camp.
Info appuntamento
Organizzatore
Host organization is the municipality of Marburg. It is a workcamp including German language training. In general i also during excursion i there will be focus on language and culture/history of Germany/Europe. Lectures will be two hours per day / 18 hours in total (excluding Saturday and Sunday). The lectures content: Conversation training, Intercultural Diversities, History of Germany/Europe and Indo-European languages ( word-nests ), Grammar.
Titolo
MARBURG-MARBACH
Periodo
19/12/2021 -
02/01/2022
Dove
Germania
Settore
Ambiente, Lingue
Codice
PRO-L-XMAS
Contributo
120 € + 160 €
Lavoro
Participants will be doing various types of manual work in the area around the house of NaturFreunde and some environmental activities as well as some small renovation inside. The work will take 3-4 hours daily, excluding Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. The particular activities will also depend on the weather.
Luogo
Marburg is a historical and picturesque old university town, 100 km north of Frankfurt/Main. It has 82.000 inhabitants, including 25.000 students. The camp is located approx. 2 km away from the city centre.
Alloggio
Participants will live in a house with shared rooms, kitchen, bathroom, showers. Cooking, cleaning, shopping etc. will be done by the group itself. Like in each work camp, accommodation, food and transportation during excursions are free as well as materials/copies needed for the lectures.
Requisiti e materiali
As the language training is not for absolute beginners, participants are supposed to have some knowledge of German, at least on a level that ensures daily communication (A2). Participants should also be willing to communicate with each other during the whole project in German language only. This part of the concept is important in order to allow a big step in acquiring the language.There is an extra-fee of 160,00 EUR to be paid upon arrival (or to be transferred in advance). A certificate for participating in the language-course will be given at the end of the camp.
Info appuntamento
Organizzatore
The host organization is an environmental one: NaturFreunde of Marburg. It is a work camp including German language training. In general i also during excursions i there will be focus on language and culture/history of Germany/Europe. Lectures will take two hours each day / 18 hours in total (excluding Saturday and Sunday). Therefore, participants will be split into two groups i in accordance with their knowledge of German language. The training contents: Conversation training, Intercultural Diversities, History of Germany/Europe and Indo-European languages ( word-nests ), Grammar. More details: www.hinz-kunz-sprache.de
