The youth center run by the Oldenburg Youth Recreational League on Wangerooge is ideally located in the dunes and is just a few minutes from the beach. This spring, the building will be renovated and the outdoor facilities will be redone. Your group will be helping to rebuild the outdoor facilities (painting fences, gardening work). Your team will also help beautify the inner courtyard with colorful plaster paintings with jumping and running games as well as build a trail with balancing activities.
Free Time:
Wangerooge is part of the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park, and contains a unique set of flora and fauna. The island has no cars. In your free time, you can explore the island by bike, take long walks along the beach or along the sea, and enjoy the vacation flair of the island. www.wangerooge.de, www.waddensea-worldheritage.org
Ages:
16-26
Location:
Lower Saxony, East Frisian Islands
Nearest Train Station:
Sande (Friesland)
Airport:
Bremen
Note:
You need to be able to ride a bike
Accommodation:
You will be staying in shared rooms in a youth center. www.oje-wangerooge.de
Catering:
Meals will be provided, but you will help in the kitchen.
The Flinthoern is a traditional sailboat built in 1925, out of steel. It needs to be worked on both this spring and this fall to keep it sailing the high seas for years to come. Here you can do your part to keep one of the last ships of this kind afloat! Everything must be ready, including the steel, wood, sails, and the inner rooms. The professionals on board will show you how to work with the tools and how to get the Flinthoern back from hibernation. Of course, a reward awaits at the end of camp-you will be part of the first trip of 2014! If you enjoy being part of a group, love being outside, and always wanted to sail on such a ship, then you’re in the right spot!
Free Time:
The Schlei, the Baltic Sea Fjord, is located near your accommodation, meaning you are surrounded by a beautiful landscape. The rurally located grounds in Sundsacker mean you are in a great place for hiking, bike rides to the city of Kappeln (7 km) or the Baltic Sea (also 7 km). You can also spend evenings around the bonfire, do sports together, or simply enjoy nature. www.ostseefjordschlei.com, www.kappeln.de
Location:
Schleswig Holstein; Kiel and Flensburg at 50 km
Train Station:
Riesby / Airport: Hamburg
NB:
You must be fit for the physically challenging tasks and participation on the sailing trip.
Accommodation:
You will sleep in a wooden hut on bunk beds. Meals will be prepared as a group.
For the second time the small community of Burk invites an international workcamp! Last year´s camp was a big success and so the community is happy to repeat the international experience. During the camp, on the 26th & 27th of April, the international hiking days are taking place in Burk and the Workcamp will help in this event.
WORK:
You will take care of an area on the local cemetery, which needs maintenance. The community has a big forest playground, which was totally renewed by last year´s Workcamp. This year you will enlarge it a bit by constructing some new playground equipment. You will help in the organisation of the international hiking days event, in which about 2000 hikers will participate. And maybe you will also do some tasks around a forest house of the community.
ACCOMMODATION:
A building in the community. You will cook for yourselves. Please bring your own sleeping bag and mat.
LOCATION:
Burk is a small and calm village in Bavaria with 1100 inhabitants. It is surrounded by beautiful nature with forests and hills. It is perfect for walks or hiking.
The local host is the Caritas Children's Village of Irschenberg called “Kinderdorf Irschenberg”. The “Kinderdorf” was founded in 1972 and is nowadays a home for more than a hundred children and youngsters where they can escape from their social distress and follow professional assistant programs. To the “Kinderdorf” belongs a big hut called “Rabenmoos Alm”, which is an accommodation as well as a center for adventure based learning about forest and environment. It is located in the community of Ruhpolding, which is approx. 70 km away from Irschenberg, but is located at a very remote place (90min walk to the village) up the mountain at 1000m above sea level.
WORK:
Mainly your task will be to expand the outdoor area of the “Rabenmoos Alm”. Concrete tasks will be to construct and set up playground equipment, to build a nature trail and to cover the campfire place. All your tasks will follow the idea of forest pedagogy. The work will be in cooperation with the professional forest pedagogue.
ACCOMMODATION:
Participants will live directly at the project site. The accommodation will be the “Rabenmoos Alm” where you will find a good equipped kitchen, five sleeping rooms with beds and all sanitary facilities. Please bring your own sleeping bag!
LOCATION:
Ruhpolding is a small Bavarian village with around 6500 inhabitants located in the Alps in southern Bavaria and very close to the border to Austria. Ruhpolding is surrounded by beautiful nature and mountains, so you will find many mountain bike and hiking trails. The third-biggest lake of Germany called “Chiemsee” is only 20 km away from your accommodation. Besides that you can visit some closest cities like Bavaria´s capital Munich or Salzburg in Austria. Last but not least, Ruhpolding is famous for hosting the Biathlon World Cup and the Nordic Combined World Cup.
Your host is the Umweltstation (”environmental station”) of Waldsassen, a town near the border of the Czech Republic. This institution aims to educate people of all ages, in a non-formal way, about environmental issues. The garden is divided into various areas to creatively teach about topics such as water, herbs, forest and nature protection. This “station” offers guided tours, seminars and workshops.
WORK:
First, you will build a small straw-bale house where an exhibition about bees is going to be set up. Then, you will have the chance to help out in the garden where it is needed – doing gardening work, planting, cutting, weeding, but also doing repair or reconstruction work. There is plenty of interesting work to do!
ACCOMMODATION:
Your accommodation will be the local gym (which is about 15 minutes by foot to the work-side). There are sanitary facilities and a kitchen provided.
LOCATION:
Waldsassen is situated in the northeast of Bavaria; the border to the Czech Republic is close-by. About 7000 people live in this picturesque town, which is known for the beautiful old basilica and its convent. The area around Waldsassen is quite rural and offers the possibility to go hiking and enjoy the landscape. Near-by cities to visit are Nuremberg or Hof.
Kell am See is a touristic village not far from Trier, the oldest German city. The regional youth department runs an educational centre in this village, which offers different environmental educational activities for youth groups and school classes. Also school classes or youth associations can come here for several days and run own seminars or trainings. The centre was just renovated and different new outdoor and training facilities were installed.
WORK:
You will finish the renovation works by improving the surrounding of the centre. Concrete tasks will be constructing and setting up new wooden benches, improving the paths, some gardening work and creating a new barbecue and campfire place. On the occasion of the finalised renovation of the centre there will be an Open Day on June 15th. You will support the preparation and you will also present your work to the public.
ACCOMMODATION:
You will stay in several wooden tepees for five persons each. Mats are provided. In the centre you will have your own kitchen and living room and sanitary facilities. For the free time you will find perfect conditions: an indoor climbing wall, billiard, plenty of outdoor facilities (basketball, a rope course, football, volleyball…). The public swimming pool is just nearby.
LOCATION:
Kell am See is a village 30 km from Trier in a beautiful landscape. The area is well known for cycling, walking and other ways of outdoor activities. The local holiday resort offers more than 200 holiday bungalows next to a lake (close to the educational centre). But also people from the area come here for cycling (there is a 45 km cycling path on a former railway roadbed) or to spend a nice day outside. The region also offers plenty of historic sits (castles, museums….). You will also get the opportunity to come in contact with local associations as e.g. the local voluntary fire brigade. But public transport is poor during the weekend, so the number of excursions will be limited. But for sure Trier with the famous Roman sites, with the cathedral and birth place of Karl-Marx can be visited.
TRAIN STATION:
Trier, please be there before 7 p.m. on June 2nd as the last bus to Kell am See leaves then.
The project will take place in a famous river hill and cultural landscape in the middle of Saxony at the foot of the Erzgebirge mountains, 35 km from Dresden in the county of the ruins of the Cistercians Altzella. The "University of the Farmhouse" is an education and communication centre. The aim of this project is to organize workshops, events and training in nature, environment and culture (theatre, music, film). Therefore we are looking for 12 motivated young people who are interested in handicrafts, advanced training, gardening and developing cultural programs.
Work:
This year your help is needed in continuing to build another conference room. It is set up in a sustainable manner, which means that are only used ecological materials. In the garden area there is the need to look after the plants and animals, there this the possibility to harvest fruits. There is also an opportunity to develop cultural events during your stay.
Study:
There is a daily coming together to talk about different themes and where the participants can give their opinion and get interest in ecological and cultural projects. Information from your country is very welcome.
Leisure time:
The afternoons and evenings, also weekends are free for personal use: sports, fieldtrips in the region and to Freiberg, swimming.
Accommodation:
The participants are accommodated in the big seminar room.
Remarks:
Please bring a sleeping bag with you.
Terminal:
Freiberg, near Dresden. Airports: Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig
We are looking for 12 motivated young people who are keen on craft work, landscaping and interest in dealing with farm animals. You are invited to maintain the (green) open space and paths and renovate the historic buildings and beautify the area. Work for the construction of the planned educational learning center about organic farming, preparatory work for growing vegetables and small livestock will be running.Study: We are living in a time with industrial agriculture which provokes lots of problems in the environment. Participants will learn about regional organic farming and how it can be sustainable and environmentally friendly. You can explore special features of ecological agriculture: in particular, the production of milk and cheese.
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation is in large dormitories. Food will be prepared within the group
Location & leisure:
The monastery Heiningen is located in the northern mountains of Harz at Lower Saxony. The region is primarily characterized by rural character and its agricultural use. It s surrounded by glacial ridges and in the south one can see the shape of the Harz , a famous low mountain range. Other things can be found like highlights in the area adjacent to prehistoric testimonies of human history, medieval monasteries, castles and medieval towns. In Goslar you can find the three sites which are declared as UNESCO World Heritage: Goslar s Old Town, the medieval silver mine Rammelsberg and Upper Harz Water Management. Within a radius of 25 km there are the cities of Braunschweig, Wolfenbuttel and Salzgitter.There will be offered trips to the region, sightseeing, swimming. The monastery complex itself offers creative possibilities for leisure activities.
Requirements:
Please bring solid shoes and work clothes, sleeping bag and sleeping pads.
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