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VJF 1.1 Island Ruegen 31.03.-13.04.08 ENVI Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: Your work will include different activities in the National Park like clearance of forests, removing bushes in the area surrounding Sassnitz, removing an old bridge and other environmental tasks. This is a special task for nature lovers. You will meet children from the city and talk with them about environmental issues. It is a possibility that you will build a fence or do other small constructions work on the area of the accommodation and for kindergartens or youth clubs.
Accommodation: In a house
Language: English
Location: The National Park Jasmund is on the isle of Ruegen at the Baltic Sea.
Terminal: Berlin or Hamburg
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: None
VJF 1.2 Wooster Teerofen 18.08.-02.09.08 ENVI Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
Work: Your work will include different activities: cultivation of a biotope, planting work, clearance of a forest, mowing meadows and removing bushes in the area surrounding Karow. This is a special task for nature lovers.
Accommodation: You will live in big tents. In a separate building are a kitchen and two rooms for meetings.
Language: English
Location: The project is situated in the Nature Reserve „Nossentiner Schwinzer Heide“, between the two towns Goldberg and Guestrow in the Federal district of Mecklenburg, in the north east of Germany.
Terminal: Berlin or Hamburg
Special Requirements: You have to be able to ride a bicycle.
Special Remarks: None
VJF 1.3 Schloss Dreiluetzow 18.08.-31.08.08 ENVI/ART Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: The task in this workcamp will be to care for the park behind the castle. We have been trying for several years to change the park back into an old English park as it was in the last centuries until it was destroyed.
The highlight of the workcamp will be the light feast on the last weekend. Here we need your help in preparing and hosting the feast. We would really appreciate, if you play an instrument, if you could it bring with you.
It is possible that your help will be needed to prepare and run another festival close to the castle.
Accommodation: The volunteers will be accommodated in a little building next to the castle.
Language: English
Location: The nearest town Wittenburg is about 4 km away and the closest big town is Schwerin about 25 km away
Terminal: Berlin or Hamburg
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: Remote area
VJF 1.4 Ploewen 11.08.-29.08.08 ENVI Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
Work: During our project you will have the opportunity to learn about the history and culture of small villages in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Your main task will be working in the nature around the forests in this area. You will help to build nesting boxes for the sea swallows, an observation post for the rangers in the Nature Park and other environmental tasks are possible. The sea swallow is an endangered species, another reason why this project is really important for the area.
Accommodation: Language: English
Location: close to Pasewalk
Terminal: Berlin or Hamburg
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: This is a remote area
VJF 1.5 Broellin 11.08.-31.08.08 CONS Age limit: 18-26 8 vols
Work: Every year at Schloss Broellin artists meet to run international art workshops, festivals and other events. The aim is to provide a meeting place for artists and the public. Artists present their work and exchange ideas with colleagues.
This year the Schloss hosts an international youth project with youngsters from different eastern European countries. They are of the same age as you. Your help will also be needed for a theatre project. Your help will be needed building up the stage, preparing the rooms and helping in the kitchen.
Accommodation: The volunteers will be accommodated in a big room inside the castle. Showers and toilets are available.
Language: English
Location: The little village Broellin is situated in the federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern close to the Polish border. The nearest town Pasewalk is about 6 km away and the closest big town is Neubrandenburg, about 50km away.
Terminal: Berlin or Hamburg
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: This is a remote area
VJF 1.6 Zarnekla (Vegetarian Camp) 29.06.-14.07.08 ENVI Age limit: 18-26 17 vols
Work: The main work will take place in a forest close to the village of Zarnekla, in Drosedow. This forest has not been touched in about 60 years.
The work will include building a pavilion using clay, glass, wood..., mowing a meadow, establishing information signs for visitors, removing rubbish and collecting wood. You will learn more about the nature and protection of nature.
Accommodation: The accommodation is modest and rural. There are compost toilets; warm water is available only in the evening. You can use a solar shower. The kitchen-stove is old (but romantic). You will sleep in one or two big rooms in the barn.
Language: English
Terminal: Berlin or Hamburg
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: All food in the camp is vegetarian. Vegan people are welcome. You will prepare your meals together. The food will be mostly organically grown, some of the vegetables you will harvest fresh from the garden. This is a remote area
VJF 2.1 KiEZ Hoelzerner See 16.08.-30.08.08 RENO/ENVI Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: The KiEZ Hoelzener See is set within the wildlife park of Dahme-Heidessen, on the shores of the lake Hoelzener See. Your will be involved in small renovation and environmental works on the site.
Accommodation: You will live in the centre in small bungalows, showers and bathrooms, and all linen is provided.
Language: English
Location: The Erholungszentrum Hoelzerner See is just 15 minutes drive by bus from S-Bahn Koenigs Wusterhausen. You will need about an hour by S-Bahn from the city of Berlin to Koenigs Wusterhausen.
Terminal: Berlin
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: None
VJF 2.2 Wulkow 18.07-08.08.08 RENO Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: The work to be done within the camp is as well construction work and landscaping as creating and producing a film and preparing a folk music event as the highlight of the camp (you don’t have to be experienced with all this kind of work - you’ll be assisted by skilled people).
Within the workcamp you’re going to contribute in creating a small visitor centre including a café, a media room, an exhibition area and some landscape elements (playground for children) close to the building.
Supported by an experienced TV-journalist some of you can produce a short documentary film. To prepare the folk music event you’re invited to take along typical and nice music and/or instruments from your own country. In a workshop, lead by a musician, you may create a show together. Furthermore there are possibilities to help in the kindergarten, in the herb garden or in the ecological agriculture.
Accommodation: You’ll be accommodated in the Eco-Speicher. There is a loft with several sleeping and living rooms, 2 bathrooms, a common kitchen and a room with table tennis and table soccer. Beds and blankets are provided.
Language: English
Location: Wulkow, a small eco-village with 230 inhabitants, is situated in the east of Germany, about 3 km to the German-Polish border and 80 kilometres from Berlin.
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: This is a remote area
VJF 2.3 Sachsenhausen 1 30.06.-19.07.08 HIST/RENO Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
VJF 2.4 Sachsenhausen 2 04.08.-21.08.08 HIST/RENO Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: This is a unique opportunity to take part in an extended study program on the site of the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum- one of the earliest established and longest running concentration camps in Germany.
The aims of this special project are:
- To bring together young people from different countries and deepen their understanding of history, enabling them to gain access to the period of National Socialism;
- To show how two different camps as the result of two dictatorships could exist at the same place;
- To go deeper into how the administration and extermination machine worked;
- To consider oneself as part of history and of today’s society, and taking responsibility for the future.
You will have the opportunity to talk with former inmates of the camp and employees with historical expertise, take guided tours and excursions to nearby memorial sites, and work in the archives and onsite library. Although the main task will be studies of history, manual work like gardening, maintenance work and cleaning-up of specific areas of the memorial are also planned.
Accommodation: Accommodation will be in a youth hostel, 2km from the memorial site.
Language: English
Location: In a small town 8km north of Berlin.
Terminal: Berlin
Special Requirements: Good or very good English skills are necessary. In this camp you have to be able to ride a bike!
Special Remarks: None
VJF 2.5 KiEZ Frauensee 01.09.-15.09.08 ENVI/ARTS Age limit: 18-26 18 vols
Work: You will renovate the rooms of the buildings and clean the areas surrounding the houses. Another task will be to support the staff organizing the “Autumn Spectacle”, a party for children and their parents.
Volunteers are also asked to create a circus program for the children who are in the centre. It will be shown at the “Autumn Spectacle”.
Accommodation: You will live in bungalows of 2-6 persons
Language: English
Location: The next biggest town is Koenigs Wusterhausen.
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: None
VJF 2.6 Burg/ Spreewald 28.07.-16.08.08 AGRI / ENVI Age limit: 18-26 10 vols
Work: You will work about 6 hours a day in the special agricultural area of a biosphere reserve.
Some gardening work is planned i.e. working and harvesting in the herb garden.
Study: Environmental protection, special information on biosphere reserves
Accommodation: You will live in a big bungalow at the shore of the lake “Byhleguhrer See”, about 7 km from Burg / Spreewald.
Language: English
Location: The project will take place in the famous area of Germany, called „Spreewald“. Burg is a small village with about 3500 German and Sorbish inhabitants.
Terminal: Berlin
Special Requirements: In this camp you have to be able to ride a bike!
Special Remarks: None
VJF 2.7 Ravensbrueck 04.08.-17.08.08 HIST/RENO Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: In this year the project in Ravensbrück will continue to connect practical work and study with youth and eye-witness meetings.
It is planned that the group will work on the area of the women’s concentration camp. There many different tasks to be done: cleaning the area of wild growing vegetation, environmental work and investigation work.
Accommodation: You will live in a youth hostel near the Ravensbrueck memorial. Shower and toilets are available.
Language: English
Location: The Ravensbrueck memorial is close to the small town Fuerstenberg/Havel, situated in the north of the federal state Brandenburg about 80 km north of Berlin.
Special Requirements: For this workcamp (very) good English skills are required.
Special Remarks: None.
VJF 3.2 Berlin-Spring 17.03-05.04.08 RENO Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: You will live and work in the “Projekt- und Begegnungsstaette”, which is the meeting and project centre of the Union of Young Volunteers (VJF). Your help is needed to make the “project and meeting centre” more attractive for all our visitors - children, teenagers, students, artists and different groups of adults. The volunteers are asked to dig and to do gardening work.
Accommodation: You will live in the centre in small bungalows.
Language: English
Location: A quiet place on a lake about an hour from the centre of Berlin.
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: None
VJF 3.3 Sprachcamp 15.04-25.04.08 LANG/RENO Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
Work: The major component of this camp is a German immersion and study program. Formal and informal lessons in German language, history and culture will take place alongside excursions to Berlin and small renovation works. A perfect way to improve your German, meet young people from all over the world, and help maintain a beautiful natural site.
Accommodation: You will live in the centre in small bungalows.
Language: German
Location: You will live in the “Projekt- und Begegnungsstaette”, which is the meeting and project centre of the Union of Young Volunteers (VJF) in quiet place on a lake about an hour from the centre of Berlin.
Terminal: Berlin
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: A 100€ additional fee applies.
VJF 3.4 Berlin Maxim 07.07.-26.07.08 RENO Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: During the first week you will help to prepare and run the drumming festival “RAKATAK". Afterwards you will help to clean the site. In the last years 7000 visitors were present at the festival.
The main task of this project will be designing, creating and renovating the outer walls of the building of the youth club MAXIM. You will repair broken pieces of wood, strip surfaces of paint or paint surfaces..
You will also do various tasks in the garden.
Accommodation: You will live onsite at the youth club, in modest but clean quarters. There is a kitchen and of course bathrooms.
Language: English
Location: The MAXIM youth club is in Weissensee, a city district in the north-eastern part of Berlin.
Terminal: Berlin
Special Requirements: Volunteers should be able to ride a bike as we have planned short and long bike tours.
Special Remarks: None
VJF 3.6 Berlin Marzahn 03.09.-16.09.08 AGRI/CULT Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: The topic of this project will be the environment and traditional farming. You will work at a special farm, „Tierhof Alt-Marzahn“, a working agricultural museum. Volunteers will be asked to help in the daily running of the farm, including feeding the animals (donkeys, rabbits, chickens, sheep and horses) and cleaning their enclosures. During the second part of the project your main job will be helping to prepare the annual traditional market in Marzahn. The group will help with gardening work (such as cutting roses and pulling weeds) to make the town look perfect for the festival. Take part in building town spirit and pride, while learning practical agriculture skills and meeting like minded people!
Accommodation: You will be living in 4-bed dormitory style accommodation in a big house in the new housing estate in the eastern part of Berlin. Showers, toilets, a meeting room and a kitchen are on the same floor.
Language: English
Location: The project will take place in a new housing estate in the east of Berlin
Terminal: Berlin
Special Requirements: Volunteers should be able to ride a bike as we have planned short and long bike tours.
Special Remarks: None
VJF 4.1. Elben 15.07.-31.07.08 RENO Age limit: 18-26 10 vols
Work: The group will be in charge of the preservation of a historical house.
Accommodation: In a house on mattresses or in tents, depending on the weather.
Language: German
Location: In a village 25 km from Halle/Saale.
Terminal: Leipzig/Halle
Special Requirements: Participants should be able to ride a bike, because it takes a 13 km ride to work each day.
Special Remarks: This is a remote area
VJF 4.2 Schloss Altenhausen 11.08-30.08.08 ENVI Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: Your help is needed to clean up the surroundings of the Schloss Altenhausen (Altenhausen Castle). Your tasks will include the maintenance of an open space on the grounds of the castle, the building of new paths and the maintenance of the park. If the weather is rainy you can do renovation work in a house on the property. Help restore the grounds of this grand castle while meeting new people and exploring a rarely seen area of Germany.
Accommodation: You will live onsite, in rooms for up to 8 people.
Language: English
Location: Schloss Altenhausen is located in an extremely remote area in the centre of Germany.
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: Be prepared to live in an isolated area.
VJF 4.3 Rackith 08.08-30.08.08 CONS/ ENVI Age limit: 18-26 10 vols
Work: An everyday task for some of the group will be helping with rabbits and sheep farming. Please note that they do not have horses! You have to be prepared to start your work at 7 a.m.!
You will be helping to harvest oats and maybe help to bring in hay.
Works on the farm will be re-establishing a biological purification system of sewage including removing and planting bushes and flowers.
A summer party will take place on the last weekend and your help will be needed to prepare and run it.
In case of bad weather you will work inside of the former mill.
Important! This workcamp is not suitable for persons suffering from an allergy!
Accommodation: You will live onsite in rooms for several people.
Language: English
Location: The village of Rackith is located some kilometres from Lutherstadt Wittenberg, famous for both the Reformator Martin Luther and the Cranach Brothers
Terminal: Halle/Leipzig
Special Requirements: Volunteers should be able to ride a bike.
Special Remarks: This workcamp is not suitable for people suffering from allergies. The site is in an isolated area.
VJF 4.4 KiEZ Guentersberge 01.07.-21.07.08 RENO Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Project / Work: Your help is needed to make the KiEZ more attractive for all our visitors - children, teenagers, students, artists and different groups of adults. The volunteers are asked to do repairing, renovating, cleaning and gardening work. Your help will also be needed as we build a bread oven.
Accommodation: You will live in bungalows with 4 or 5 beds; the toilets and showers are about 200 m from your bungalows. Close to the sleeping place you will have your own relaxing place, a big room to meet in the evening.
Language: English
Location: close to the city Quedlinburg
Special Requirements: Volunteers should be able to ride a bike.
Special Remarks: None.
VJF 4.5 Deetz 1 14.07.-01.08.08 ENVI/RENO Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
VJF 4.6 Deetz 2 04.08.-22.08.08 ENVI/RENO Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
VJF 4.7 Deetz 3 25.08.-05.09.08 ENVI/RENO Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
Work: You will work on the Europa-Jugend Bauernhof, a farm that caters for school classes who want to experience farmlife. You will work in the garden, undertaking tasks like weeding, harvesting and planting. Changes are planned to make the place more attractive for the visitors and your ideas will be central to the improvement of the farm. It is possible that your help will also be needed renovating a horse stable.
Accommodation: You will live in a house, the former vicarage, with rooms for up to 8 persons, a kitchen and a big yard behind the house.
Language: English
Location: close to the city Dessau
Special Requirements: Volunteers should be able to ride a bike.
Special Remarks: This is a remote area
VJF 4.8 KiEZ Arendsee 04.08.-23.08.08 RENO Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
Workc: Your help is needed to make the KiEZ more attractive for all our visitors - children, teenagers, students, artists and various groups of adults. The volunteers are asked to help with repairing, renovating the buildings onsite, as well as cleaning and gardening work.
Accommodation: You will live in bungalows with 4 or 5 beds; with toilets and showers about 100 m from your bungalows. Close to the sleeping place you will have your own common room, a place to meet and relax in the evening.
Language: English
Location: about 25 km from Salzwedel or Wittenberge or 30 km from Stendal
Special requirements: None.
Special remarks: This is a remote area.
VJF 5.1 Gut Gamig 14.07.-01.08.08 AGRI/MENT Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
Work: Gamig Castle is used for the rehabilitation and treatment of mentally ill (manic depressive and schizophrenic) people. The patients work on a large organic farm, as well as in art and craft shops. Volunteers are asked to do different gardening work and help in the agricultural activities such as apple harvesting and cleaning and harvesting of vegetables and fruits. You will work approximately 6 hours a day, sometimes alongside the patients. If you are interested we can have talks with the doctor about methods and aims of the medical treatment of the centre. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a unique setting.
Accommodation: You will be living onsite in simple conditions; a property with kitchen and bathrooms is provided, and camping is a possibility
Language: English
Location: Close to Dresden
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: Remote Area
VJF 5.2 Sun Flower Festival 1 - Theatre Project 15.07.-05.08.08 FEST/ARTS Age limit: 18-26 20 vols
Work: The Sun Flower Festival is a weekend of ‘laughter, dance and mutual understanding’. German and international bands play Hippie, Rock, Reggae, Goa and World music alongside workshops, performances and bazaars. Your work on the festival is two-fold: firstly your help is required setting up, supporting and clearing away after the Sun Flower Festival. You will help to decorate the festival area, the interior of the event tents and build different constructions for the festival. Help will be needed in co-ordinating the arriving cars and catering for the artists backstage during the festival.
Theatre Project:
Working as group you will organise and perform a show as part of the festival program. Alongside the practical aspects of helping with the festival set up, we are looking to you to handle all aspects of the theatre process- planning, and performing as a group. It is completely up to you and the group to decide if you will remake an existing play or create a new piece, but be ready to shine as you show your work to festival visitors!
As you can see, it is a busy work camp, but a great atmosphere and lots of fun!
During the last week of the project you will travel through Saxony with the group.
Accommodation: Your accommodation will be very basic. You will live on the festival ground in a big tent. Don’t worry - showers and toilets are available
Language: English
Location: Freiberg is a small university town with about 50 000 inhabitants, in the Southeast of Germany, not far Dresden
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: Creativity is a must for this project, and a readiness to perform! Good English skills are important.
Special Remarks: None
VJF 5.3 Sun Flower Festival 2 – Photo/Video Project 15.07.-05.08.08 FEST/ARTS Age limit: 18-26 20 vols
Work: The Sun Flower Festival is a weekend of ‘laughter, dance and mutual understanding’. German and international bands play Hippie, Rock, Reggae, Goa and World music alongside workshops, performances and bazaars. Your work on the festival is two-fold: firstly your help is required setting up, supporting and clearing away after the Sun Flower Festival. You will help to decorate the festival area, the interior of the event tents and build different constructions for the festival. Help will be needed in co-ordinating the arriving cars and catering for the artists backstage during the festival.
Photo and Video project: Alongside this more practical aspect, this year we invite you to work in teams to create a record of the festival and your role in it. With your team decide upon an angle, a theme or a vision of the Sun Flower Festival, and then work with your cameras, videos or phones to best capture it. The team leader will sort and archive these images, and create a CD record for each work camp member. The best images and videos will be included on the Sun Flower Festival homepage!
As you can see, it is a busy work camp, but a great atmosphere and lots of fun!
During the last week of the camp you will travel through Saxony with the group.
Accommodation: Your accommodation will be very basic. You will live on the festival ground in a big tent. Don’t worry - showers and toilets are available
Language: English
Location: Freiberg is a small university town with about 50 000 inhabitants, in the Southeast of Germany, not far Dresden
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: Creativity is a must for this project, and a readiness to perform! Good English skills are important.
Special Remarks: None
VJF 6.1 Jena 18.08.-31.08.08 ENVI Age limit: 18-26 10 vols
Work: The volunteers will help the environmentally engaged organisation “Berggesellschaften” and the local foresters with the renovation and construction of several recreation facilities in the Jena-forest. We have planned to paint small wooden huts, repair trails, cut small trees and renovate signs on the educational path through the forest. Other work is also possible. You have the opportunity to work with and learn from experts in forestry and environmental management.
Accommodation: Volunteers will be accommodated in an isolated hostel on a hill in the Western part of Jena, in 10-bed rooms.
Language: English
Location: Jena
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: No smoking during the project, on any part of the site.
VJF 6.2 Weisbach 01.07.-19.07.08 RENO/ARCH Age limit: 18-26 8 vols
Work: The volunteers are asked to help on the excavation ground with building, painting walls or cleaning. It is possible that you will get the opportunity to help excavating another site from the Stone Age.
Accommodation: You will live in a community house as a group.
Language: English
Location: Weisbach is a small town in the Thueringen Mountains in the centre of Germany, south of Berlin.
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: This is a remote area
VJF 6.3 Brandenstein 04.08.-15.08.08 RENO/ARCH Age limit: 18-26 10 vols
Work: The volunteers are asked to help to establish a settlement of the Stone Age. Working materials will be wood, rods and wicker; you will have the opportunity to collect some of the materials in the forest by yourself. Huts are planned for the centre of the settlement, with fire places and waterholes also needing to be built.
The settlement will have the size of about 100 m² and serve as an exhibition of experimental archaeology.
Accommodation: You will live in the former shepherd’s house. A shower and a toilet are available in the house, but please be prepared to live under very simple conditions!
Language: English
Location: Brandenstein is a small town in the Thueringen Mountains in the centre of Germany, south of Berlin.
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: This is an isolated area
VJF 6.4 Buchenwald 10.08.-23.08.08 HIST/RENO Age limit: 18-26 20 vols
The Area / Work: The volunteers will work in the memorial of the former concentration camp of Buchenwald. It is located 10 km from the city Weimar, where Goethe and Schiller worked and lived. We will do several jobs in the area of the memorial like cleaning, gardening and restoration in cooperation with the curators of the memorial and participate in an archaeological dig to find any artefacts relating to the prisoners. Our work will also include attending to the original remains of the former concentration camp in Buchenwald.
The Study part: We will get to know more about the time of Fascism, covering the areas of racism and neo-fascism. The responsible pedagogical assistant of the memorial will show us the camp, step-by-step, through different excursions. Moreover we will see documentary movies, and those who would like may work with materials of the library or the archive.
Accommodation: We will stay in the Youth Centre building, situated on the area of the former concentration camp.
Language: English
Location: 10 km from the city Weimar
Terminal: Halle/Leipzig
Special Requirements: Good or very good English skills are necessary. In this camp you have to be able to ride a bike!
Special Remarks: None
VJF 6.5 Ilmenau 15.08.-05.09.08 ENVI/KIDS Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: In 2007, the hurricane “Kyrill” destroyed wide parts of the forest around Ilmenau. The participants of the workcamp will help the local forester with the reforestation of several parts of the destructed areas. It is planned to repair trails, to work on several measures of nature protection and landscape conservation and to plant new trees. Besides, there will also be other possibilities to get active.
Social part: There will be a project together with kids of the local primary school. They are curious about getting to know new, different cultures and their traditional food, clothing, dances, music and so on. It is planned to cook together and to taste the prepared food, to sing and to dance together.
Accommodation: The group will be accommodated in a cosy lodge only five minutes from the working area. There will be a group of 4- 5 persons sharing one room.
Language: English
Location: Ilmenau is situated between the towns Erfurt and Suhl
Terminal: Halle/Leipzig
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: None
6.6 Bad Lobenstein 1 02.07.-16.07.08 ENVI Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
6.7 Bad Lobenstein 2 14.08.-28.08.08 ENVI Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
Work: Your working place will be the border between the two former German countries, now the border between Thuringia and Bavaria. This is a project for nature lovers. Your tasks are all environmental works, like removing trees or maintaining paths.
Accommodation: You will live in rooms for up to 8 persons.
Language: English
Location: Bad Lobenstein is a small town in the Thueringen Mountains in the centre of Germany, south of Berlin. The next biggest city is Saalfeld.
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: This is an isolated area.
7.1 Lauenstein 25.08.-06.09.08 ENVI Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: Your working place will be the border between the two former German countries, now the border between Thuringia and Bavaria. This is a project for nature lovers. Your tasks are all environmental works, like removing trees or maintaining paths.
Accommodation: in a Youth hostel
Language: English
Location: Lauenstein is part of the city Ludwigsstadt, very close to Thuringia. The next biggest city is Saalfeld.
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: This is an isolated area.
Work: Your work will include different activities in the National Park like clearance of forests, removing bushes in the area surrounding Sassnitz, removing an old bridge and other environmental tasks. This is a special task for nature lovers. You will meet children from the city and talk with them about environmental issues. It is a possibility that you will build a fence or do other small constructions work on the area of the accommodation and for kindergartens or youth clubs.
Accommodation: In a house
Language: English
Location: The National Park Jasmund is on the isle of Ruegen at the Baltic Sea.
Terminal: Berlin or Hamburg
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: None
VJF 1.2 Wooster Teerofen 18.08.-02.09.08 ENVI Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
Work: Your work will include different activities: cultivation of a biotope, planting work, clearance of a forest, mowing meadows and removing bushes in the area surrounding Karow. This is a special task for nature lovers.
Accommodation: You will live in big tents. In a separate building are a kitchen and two rooms for meetings.
Language: English
Location: The project is situated in the Nature Reserve „Nossentiner Schwinzer Heide“, between the two towns Goldberg and Guestrow in the Federal district of Mecklenburg, in the north east of Germany.
Terminal: Berlin or Hamburg
Special Requirements: You have to be able to ride a bicycle.
Special Remarks: None
VJF 1.3 Schloss Dreiluetzow 18.08.-31.08.08 ENVI/ART Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: The task in this workcamp will be to care for the park behind the castle. We have been trying for several years to change the park back into an old English park as it was in the last centuries until it was destroyed.
The highlight of the workcamp will be the light feast on the last weekend. Here we need your help in preparing and hosting the feast. We would really appreciate, if you play an instrument, if you could it bring with you.
It is possible that your help will be needed to prepare and run another festival close to the castle.
Accommodation: The volunteers will be accommodated in a little building next to the castle.
Language: English
Location: The nearest town Wittenburg is about 4 km away and the closest big town is Schwerin about 25 km away
Terminal: Berlin or Hamburg
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: Remote area
VJF 1.4 Ploewen 11.08.-29.08.08 ENVI Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
Work: During our project you will have the opportunity to learn about the history and culture of small villages in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Your main task will be working in the nature around the forests in this area. You will help to build nesting boxes for the sea swallows, an observation post for the rangers in the Nature Park and other environmental tasks are possible. The sea swallow is an endangered species, another reason why this project is really important for the area.
Accommodation: Language: English
Location: close to Pasewalk
Terminal: Berlin or Hamburg
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: This is a remote area
VJF 1.5 Broellin 11.08.-31.08.08 CONS Age limit: 18-26 8 vols
Work: Every year at Schloss Broellin artists meet to run international art workshops, festivals and other events. The aim is to provide a meeting place for artists and the public. Artists present their work and exchange ideas with colleagues.
This year the Schloss hosts an international youth project with youngsters from different eastern European countries. They are of the same age as you. Your help will also be needed for a theatre project. Your help will be needed building up the stage, preparing the rooms and helping in the kitchen.
Accommodation: The volunteers will be accommodated in a big room inside the castle. Showers and toilets are available.
Language: English
Location: The little village Broellin is situated in the federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern close to the Polish border. The nearest town Pasewalk is about 6 km away and the closest big town is Neubrandenburg, about 50km away.
Terminal: Berlin or Hamburg
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: This is a remote area
VJF 1.6 Zarnekla (Vegetarian Camp) 29.06.-14.07.08 ENVI Age limit: 18-26 17 vols
Work: The main work will take place in a forest close to the village of Zarnekla, in Drosedow. This forest has not been touched in about 60 years.
The work will include building a pavilion using clay, glass, wood..., mowing a meadow, establishing information signs for visitors, removing rubbish and collecting wood. You will learn more about the nature and protection of nature.
Accommodation: The accommodation is modest and rural. There are compost toilets; warm water is available only in the evening. You can use a solar shower. The kitchen-stove is old (but romantic). You will sleep in one or two big rooms in the barn.
Language: English
Terminal: Berlin or Hamburg
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: All food in the camp is vegetarian. Vegan people are welcome. You will prepare your meals together. The food will be mostly organically grown, some of the vegetables you will harvest fresh from the garden. This is a remote area
VJF 2.1 KiEZ Hoelzerner See 16.08.-30.08.08 RENO/ENVI Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: The KiEZ Hoelzener See is set within the wildlife park of Dahme-Heidessen, on the shores of the lake Hoelzener See. Your will be involved in small renovation and environmental works on the site.
Accommodation: You will live in the centre in small bungalows, showers and bathrooms, and all linen is provided.
Language: English
Location: The Erholungszentrum Hoelzerner See is just 15 minutes drive by bus from S-Bahn Koenigs Wusterhausen. You will need about an hour by S-Bahn from the city of Berlin to Koenigs Wusterhausen.
Terminal: Berlin
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: None
VJF 2.2 Wulkow 18.07-08.08.08 RENO Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: The work to be done within the camp is as well construction work and landscaping as creating and producing a film and preparing a folk music event as the highlight of the camp (you don’t have to be experienced with all this kind of work - you’ll be assisted by skilled people).
Within the workcamp you’re going to contribute in creating a small visitor centre including a café, a media room, an exhibition area and some landscape elements (playground for children) close to the building.
Supported by an experienced TV-journalist some of you can produce a short documentary film. To prepare the folk music event you’re invited to take along typical and nice music and/or instruments from your own country. In a workshop, lead by a musician, you may create a show together. Furthermore there are possibilities to help in the kindergarten, in the herb garden or in the ecological agriculture.
Accommodation: You’ll be accommodated in the Eco-Speicher. There is a loft with several sleeping and living rooms, 2 bathrooms, a common kitchen and a room with table tennis and table soccer. Beds and blankets are provided.
Language: English
Location: Wulkow, a small eco-village with 230 inhabitants, is situated in the east of Germany, about 3 km to the German-Polish border and 80 kilometres from Berlin.
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: This is a remote area
VJF 2.3 Sachsenhausen 1 30.06.-19.07.08 HIST/RENO Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
VJF 2.4 Sachsenhausen 2 04.08.-21.08.08 HIST/RENO Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: This is a unique opportunity to take part in an extended study program on the site of the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum- one of the earliest established and longest running concentration camps in Germany.
The aims of this special project are:
- To bring together young people from different countries and deepen their understanding of history, enabling them to gain access to the period of National Socialism;
- To show how two different camps as the result of two dictatorships could exist at the same place;
- To go deeper into how the administration and extermination machine worked;
- To consider oneself as part of history and of today’s society, and taking responsibility for the future.
You will have the opportunity to talk with former inmates of the camp and employees with historical expertise, take guided tours and excursions to nearby memorial sites, and work in the archives and onsite library. Although the main task will be studies of history, manual work like gardening, maintenance work and cleaning-up of specific areas of the memorial are also planned.
Accommodation: Accommodation will be in a youth hostel, 2km from the memorial site.
Language: English
Location: In a small town 8km north of Berlin.
Terminal: Berlin
Special Requirements: Good or very good English skills are necessary. In this camp you have to be able to ride a bike!
Special Remarks: None
VJF 2.5 KiEZ Frauensee 01.09.-15.09.08 ENVI/ARTS Age limit: 18-26 18 vols
Work: You will renovate the rooms of the buildings and clean the areas surrounding the houses. Another task will be to support the staff organizing the “Autumn Spectacle”, a party for children and their parents.
Volunteers are also asked to create a circus program for the children who are in the centre. It will be shown at the “Autumn Spectacle”.
Accommodation: You will live in bungalows of 2-6 persons
Language: English
Location: The next biggest town is Koenigs Wusterhausen.
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: None
VJF 2.6 Burg/ Spreewald 28.07.-16.08.08 AGRI / ENVI Age limit: 18-26 10 vols
Work: You will work about 6 hours a day in the special agricultural area of a biosphere reserve.
Some gardening work is planned i.e. working and harvesting in the herb garden.
Study: Environmental protection, special information on biosphere reserves
Accommodation: You will live in a big bungalow at the shore of the lake “Byhleguhrer See”, about 7 km from Burg / Spreewald.
Language: English
Location: The project will take place in the famous area of Germany, called „Spreewald“. Burg is a small village with about 3500 German and Sorbish inhabitants.
Terminal: Berlin
Special Requirements: In this camp you have to be able to ride a bike!
Special Remarks: None
VJF 2.7 Ravensbrueck 04.08.-17.08.08 HIST/RENO Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: In this year the project in Ravensbrück will continue to connect practical work and study with youth and eye-witness meetings.
It is planned that the group will work on the area of the women’s concentration camp. There many different tasks to be done: cleaning the area of wild growing vegetation, environmental work and investigation work.
Accommodation: You will live in a youth hostel near the Ravensbrueck memorial. Shower and toilets are available.
Language: English
Location: The Ravensbrueck memorial is close to the small town Fuerstenberg/Havel, situated in the north of the federal state Brandenburg about 80 km north of Berlin.
Special Requirements: For this workcamp (very) good English skills are required.
Special Remarks: None.
VJF 3.2 Berlin-Spring 17.03-05.04.08 RENO Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: You will live and work in the “Projekt- und Begegnungsstaette”, which is the meeting and project centre of the Union of Young Volunteers (VJF). Your help is needed to make the “project and meeting centre” more attractive for all our visitors - children, teenagers, students, artists and different groups of adults. The volunteers are asked to dig and to do gardening work.
Accommodation: You will live in the centre in small bungalows.
Language: English
Location: A quiet place on a lake about an hour from the centre of Berlin.
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: None
VJF 3.3 Sprachcamp 15.04-25.04.08 LANG/RENO Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
Work: The major component of this camp is a German immersion and study program. Formal and informal lessons in German language, history and culture will take place alongside excursions to Berlin and small renovation works. A perfect way to improve your German, meet young people from all over the world, and help maintain a beautiful natural site.
Accommodation: You will live in the centre in small bungalows.
Language: German
Location: You will live in the “Projekt- und Begegnungsstaette”, which is the meeting and project centre of the Union of Young Volunteers (VJF) in quiet place on a lake about an hour from the centre of Berlin.
Terminal: Berlin
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: A 100€ additional fee applies.
VJF 3.4 Berlin Maxim 07.07.-26.07.08 RENO Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: During the first week you will help to prepare and run the drumming festival “RAKATAK". Afterwards you will help to clean the site. In the last years 7000 visitors were present at the festival.
The main task of this project will be designing, creating and renovating the outer walls of the building of the youth club MAXIM. You will repair broken pieces of wood, strip surfaces of paint or paint surfaces..
You will also do various tasks in the garden.
Accommodation: You will live onsite at the youth club, in modest but clean quarters. There is a kitchen and of course bathrooms.
Language: English
Location: The MAXIM youth club is in Weissensee, a city district in the north-eastern part of Berlin.
Terminal: Berlin
Special Requirements: Volunteers should be able to ride a bike as we have planned short and long bike tours.
Special Remarks: None
VJF 3.6 Berlin Marzahn 03.09.-16.09.08 AGRI/CULT Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: The topic of this project will be the environment and traditional farming. You will work at a special farm, „Tierhof Alt-Marzahn“, a working agricultural museum. Volunteers will be asked to help in the daily running of the farm, including feeding the animals (donkeys, rabbits, chickens, sheep and horses) and cleaning their enclosures. During the second part of the project your main job will be helping to prepare the annual traditional market in Marzahn. The group will help with gardening work (such as cutting roses and pulling weeds) to make the town look perfect for the festival. Take part in building town spirit and pride, while learning practical agriculture skills and meeting like minded people!
Accommodation: You will be living in 4-bed dormitory style accommodation in a big house in the new housing estate in the eastern part of Berlin. Showers, toilets, a meeting room and a kitchen are on the same floor.
Language: English
Location: The project will take place in a new housing estate in the east of Berlin
Terminal: Berlin
Special Requirements: Volunteers should be able to ride a bike as we have planned short and long bike tours.
Special Remarks: None
VJF 4.1. Elben 15.07.-31.07.08 RENO Age limit: 18-26 10 vols
Work: The group will be in charge of the preservation of a historical house.
Accommodation: In a house on mattresses or in tents, depending on the weather.
Language: German
Location: In a village 25 km from Halle/Saale.
Terminal: Leipzig/Halle
Special Requirements: Participants should be able to ride a bike, because it takes a 13 km ride to work each day.
Special Remarks: This is a remote area
VJF 4.2 Schloss Altenhausen 11.08-30.08.08 ENVI Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: Your help is needed to clean up the surroundings of the Schloss Altenhausen (Altenhausen Castle). Your tasks will include the maintenance of an open space on the grounds of the castle, the building of new paths and the maintenance of the park. If the weather is rainy you can do renovation work in a house on the property. Help restore the grounds of this grand castle while meeting new people and exploring a rarely seen area of Germany.
Accommodation: You will live onsite, in rooms for up to 8 people.
Language: English
Location: Schloss Altenhausen is located in an extremely remote area in the centre of Germany.
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: Be prepared to live in an isolated area.
VJF 4.3 Rackith 08.08-30.08.08 CONS/ ENVI Age limit: 18-26 10 vols
Work: An everyday task for some of the group will be helping with rabbits and sheep farming. Please note that they do not have horses! You have to be prepared to start your work at 7 a.m.!
You will be helping to harvest oats and maybe help to bring in hay.
Works on the farm will be re-establishing a biological purification system of sewage including removing and planting bushes and flowers.
A summer party will take place on the last weekend and your help will be needed to prepare and run it.
In case of bad weather you will work inside of the former mill.
Important! This workcamp is not suitable for persons suffering from an allergy!
Accommodation: You will live onsite in rooms for several people.
Language: English
Location: The village of Rackith is located some kilometres from Lutherstadt Wittenberg, famous for both the Reformator Martin Luther and the Cranach Brothers
Terminal: Halle/Leipzig
Special Requirements: Volunteers should be able to ride a bike.
Special Remarks: This workcamp is not suitable for people suffering from allergies. The site is in an isolated area.
VJF 4.4 KiEZ Guentersberge 01.07.-21.07.08 RENO Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Project / Work: Your help is needed to make the KiEZ more attractive for all our visitors - children, teenagers, students, artists and different groups of adults. The volunteers are asked to do repairing, renovating, cleaning and gardening work. Your help will also be needed as we build a bread oven.
Accommodation: You will live in bungalows with 4 or 5 beds; the toilets and showers are about 200 m from your bungalows. Close to the sleeping place you will have your own relaxing place, a big room to meet in the evening.
Language: English
Location: close to the city Quedlinburg
Special Requirements: Volunteers should be able to ride a bike.
Special Remarks: None.
VJF 4.5 Deetz 1 14.07.-01.08.08 ENVI/RENO Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
VJF 4.6 Deetz 2 04.08.-22.08.08 ENVI/RENO Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
VJF 4.7 Deetz 3 25.08.-05.09.08 ENVI/RENO Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
Work: You will work on the Europa-Jugend Bauernhof, a farm that caters for school classes who want to experience farmlife. You will work in the garden, undertaking tasks like weeding, harvesting and planting. Changes are planned to make the place more attractive for the visitors and your ideas will be central to the improvement of the farm. It is possible that your help will also be needed renovating a horse stable.
Accommodation: You will live in a house, the former vicarage, with rooms for up to 8 persons, a kitchen and a big yard behind the house.
Language: English
Location: close to the city Dessau
Special Requirements: Volunteers should be able to ride a bike.
Special Remarks: This is a remote area
VJF 4.8 KiEZ Arendsee 04.08.-23.08.08 RENO Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
Workc: Your help is needed to make the KiEZ more attractive for all our visitors - children, teenagers, students, artists and various groups of adults. The volunteers are asked to help with repairing, renovating the buildings onsite, as well as cleaning and gardening work.
Accommodation: You will live in bungalows with 4 or 5 beds; with toilets and showers about 100 m from your bungalows. Close to the sleeping place you will have your own common room, a place to meet and relax in the evening.
Language: English
Location: about 25 km from Salzwedel or Wittenberge or 30 km from Stendal
Special requirements: None.
Special remarks: This is a remote area.
VJF 5.1 Gut Gamig 14.07.-01.08.08 AGRI/MENT Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
Work: Gamig Castle is used for the rehabilitation and treatment of mentally ill (manic depressive and schizophrenic) people. The patients work on a large organic farm, as well as in art and craft shops. Volunteers are asked to do different gardening work and help in the agricultural activities such as apple harvesting and cleaning and harvesting of vegetables and fruits. You will work approximately 6 hours a day, sometimes alongside the patients. If you are interested we can have talks with the doctor about methods and aims of the medical treatment of the centre. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a unique setting.
Accommodation: You will be living onsite in simple conditions; a property with kitchen and bathrooms is provided, and camping is a possibility
Language: English
Location: Close to Dresden
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: Remote Area
VJF 5.2 Sun Flower Festival 1 - Theatre Project 15.07.-05.08.08 FEST/ARTS Age limit: 18-26 20 vols
Work: The Sun Flower Festival is a weekend of ‘laughter, dance and mutual understanding’. German and international bands play Hippie, Rock, Reggae, Goa and World music alongside workshops, performances and bazaars. Your work on the festival is two-fold: firstly your help is required setting up, supporting and clearing away after the Sun Flower Festival. You will help to decorate the festival area, the interior of the event tents and build different constructions for the festival. Help will be needed in co-ordinating the arriving cars and catering for the artists backstage during the festival.
Theatre Project:
Working as group you will organise and perform a show as part of the festival program. Alongside the practical aspects of helping with the festival set up, we are looking to you to handle all aspects of the theatre process- planning, and performing as a group. It is completely up to you and the group to decide if you will remake an existing play or create a new piece, but be ready to shine as you show your work to festival visitors!
As you can see, it is a busy work camp, but a great atmosphere and lots of fun!
During the last week of the project you will travel through Saxony with the group.
Accommodation: Your accommodation will be very basic. You will live on the festival ground in a big tent. Don’t worry - showers and toilets are available
Language: English
Location: Freiberg is a small university town with about 50 000 inhabitants, in the Southeast of Germany, not far Dresden
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: Creativity is a must for this project, and a readiness to perform! Good English skills are important.
Special Remarks: None
VJF 5.3 Sun Flower Festival 2 – Photo/Video Project 15.07.-05.08.08 FEST/ARTS Age limit: 18-26 20 vols
Work: The Sun Flower Festival is a weekend of ‘laughter, dance and mutual understanding’. German and international bands play Hippie, Rock, Reggae, Goa and World music alongside workshops, performances and bazaars. Your work on the festival is two-fold: firstly your help is required setting up, supporting and clearing away after the Sun Flower Festival. You will help to decorate the festival area, the interior of the event tents and build different constructions for the festival. Help will be needed in co-ordinating the arriving cars and catering for the artists backstage during the festival.
Photo and Video project: Alongside this more practical aspect, this year we invite you to work in teams to create a record of the festival and your role in it. With your team decide upon an angle, a theme or a vision of the Sun Flower Festival, and then work with your cameras, videos or phones to best capture it. The team leader will sort and archive these images, and create a CD record for each work camp member. The best images and videos will be included on the Sun Flower Festival homepage!
As you can see, it is a busy work camp, but a great atmosphere and lots of fun!
During the last week of the camp you will travel through Saxony with the group.
Accommodation: Your accommodation will be very basic. You will live on the festival ground in a big tent. Don’t worry - showers and toilets are available
Language: English
Location: Freiberg is a small university town with about 50 000 inhabitants, in the Southeast of Germany, not far Dresden
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: Creativity is a must for this project, and a readiness to perform! Good English skills are important.
Special Remarks: None
VJF 6.1 Jena 18.08.-31.08.08 ENVI Age limit: 18-26 10 vols
Work: The volunteers will help the environmentally engaged organisation “Berggesellschaften” and the local foresters with the renovation and construction of several recreation facilities in the Jena-forest. We have planned to paint small wooden huts, repair trails, cut small trees and renovate signs on the educational path through the forest. Other work is also possible. You have the opportunity to work with and learn from experts in forestry and environmental management.
Accommodation: Volunteers will be accommodated in an isolated hostel on a hill in the Western part of Jena, in 10-bed rooms.
Language: English
Location: Jena
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: No smoking during the project, on any part of the site.
VJF 6.2 Weisbach 01.07.-19.07.08 RENO/ARCH Age limit: 18-26 8 vols
Work: The volunteers are asked to help on the excavation ground with building, painting walls or cleaning. It is possible that you will get the opportunity to help excavating another site from the Stone Age.
Accommodation: You will live in a community house as a group.
Language: English
Location: Weisbach is a small town in the Thueringen Mountains in the centre of Germany, south of Berlin.
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: This is a remote area
VJF 6.3 Brandenstein 04.08.-15.08.08 RENO/ARCH Age limit: 18-26 10 vols
Work: The volunteers are asked to help to establish a settlement of the Stone Age. Working materials will be wood, rods and wicker; you will have the opportunity to collect some of the materials in the forest by yourself. Huts are planned for the centre of the settlement, with fire places and waterholes also needing to be built.
The settlement will have the size of about 100 m² and serve as an exhibition of experimental archaeology.
Accommodation: You will live in the former shepherd’s house. A shower and a toilet are available in the house, but please be prepared to live under very simple conditions!
Language: English
Location: Brandenstein is a small town in the Thueringen Mountains in the centre of Germany, south of Berlin.
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: This is an isolated area
VJF 6.4 Buchenwald 10.08.-23.08.08 HIST/RENO Age limit: 18-26 20 vols
The Area / Work: The volunteers will work in the memorial of the former concentration camp of Buchenwald. It is located 10 km from the city Weimar, where Goethe and Schiller worked and lived. We will do several jobs in the area of the memorial like cleaning, gardening and restoration in cooperation with the curators of the memorial and participate in an archaeological dig to find any artefacts relating to the prisoners. Our work will also include attending to the original remains of the former concentration camp in Buchenwald.
The Study part: We will get to know more about the time of Fascism, covering the areas of racism and neo-fascism. The responsible pedagogical assistant of the memorial will show us the camp, step-by-step, through different excursions. Moreover we will see documentary movies, and those who would like may work with materials of the library or the archive.
Accommodation: We will stay in the Youth Centre building, situated on the area of the former concentration camp.
Language: English
Location: 10 km from the city Weimar
Terminal: Halle/Leipzig
Special Requirements: Good or very good English skills are necessary. In this camp you have to be able to ride a bike!
Special Remarks: None
VJF 6.5 Ilmenau 15.08.-05.09.08 ENVI/KIDS Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: In 2007, the hurricane “Kyrill” destroyed wide parts of the forest around Ilmenau. The participants of the workcamp will help the local forester with the reforestation of several parts of the destructed areas. It is planned to repair trails, to work on several measures of nature protection and landscape conservation and to plant new trees. Besides, there will also be other possibilities to get active.
Social part: There will be a project together with kids of the local primary school. They are curious about getting to know new, different cultures and their traditional food, clothing, dances, music and so on. It is planned to cook together and to taste the prepared food, to sing and to dance together.
Accommodation: The group will be accommodated in a cosy lodge only five minutes from the working area. There will be a group of 4- 5 persons sharing one room.
Language: English
Location: Ilmenau is situated between the towns Erfurt and Suhl
Terminal: Halle/Leipzig
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: None
6.6 Bad Lobenstein 1 02.07.-16.07.08 ENVI Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
6.7 Bad Lobenstein 2 14.08.-28.08.08 ENVI Age limit: 18-26 12 vols
Work: Your working place will be the border between the two former German countries, now the border between Thuringia and Bavaria. This is a project for nature lovers. Your tasks are all environmental works, like removing trees or maintaining paths.
Accommodation: You will live in rooms for up to 8 persons.
Language: English
Location: Bad Lobenstein is a small town in the Thueringen Mountains in the centre of Germany, south of Berlin. The next biggest city is Saalfeld.
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: This is an isolated area.
7.1 Lauenstein 25.08.-06.09.08 ENVI Age limit: 18-26 15 vols
Work: Your working place will be the border between the two former German countries, now the border between Thuringia and Bavaria. This is a project for nature lovers. Your tasks are all environmental works, like removing trees or maintaining paths.
Accommodation: in a Youth hostel
Language: English
Location: Lauenstein is part of the city Ludwigsstadt, very close to Thuringia. The next biggest city is Saalfeld.
Terminal: Halle/ Leipzig
Special Requirements: None
Special Remarks: This is an isolated area.
