📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Located in Vercors, the Base Nature Vercors association aims to allow everyone to discover life outdoors. Place of initiation to the biosphere and renewable energies, Base Nature Vercors is a Drôme association located in Vercors. Attached to raising awareness of life outdoors among all, the association created "La Grange aux loups", meant as an educational eco-place, it introduces the biosphere and renewable energies. Since 2011, the association has been hosting camp of young international volunteers who have come to carry out work in the context of transition and renewable energies while living a collective outdoor experience. This camp is French-speaking, everyday life, work and leisure will take place mainly in French, so we expect the participants to have at least a basic level of French. Please note: this site is in no way a language study trip.
💼 What the programme involves
This year, the "Base Nature Vercors" association organizes a cycle of shows on the topic of Nature and your mission will be to participate in the cultural life of the site. You will also participate in the creation of a show presenting the last ten years of youth workcamps and their contribution to sustainable development. You will develop your creativity and be introduced to staging. During the shows about Nature, you will be asked to welcome children and organize some activities. Finally, you will take part in the troupe’s daily life and discover the backstage of the different shows.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be lodged in tents on the La Grange aux Loups site and you will have sanitary facilities and showers on site. An outdoor kitchen and living space will also be available. Installation are rudimentary but comfortable. With the help of your campleaders, you will actively participate in the organization of daily life: meal preparation, dishes, storage, cleaning, garden maintenance. As much as possible, meals will be prepared using local and organic products corresponding to the special attention paid by the Base Nature Vercors association to the management of resources, waste on site and the origin of food. In this perspective, you will certainly reduce during the camp your consumption of meat and thus of your impact on the planet. Lovers of outdoor life, this camp is for you!
📍 About the location
Located in the heart of the Vercors Regional Natural Park, BASE NATURE VERCORS is located a few kilometers from the center of the village of Vassieux-en-Vercors. Mountain village located at over 1,000 m above sea level, it was a major site of the French Resistance during the Second World War. A museum dedicated to the history of the maquis will allow you to discover this part of local history. You can organize many leisure and discovery activities with the association’s animators: hiking, group games, visit to local producers, visit to a Ressourcerie (recycling centre)