📝 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 Drome 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, Base Nature Vercors is organizing a cycle of shows about the topic of Nature, so your mission will be to participate in the cultural life of the site. Upstream, you will help in the renovation of the Greenery Theater (Theatre de verdure in French) : refitting of the seats, lights and paintings. You will participate in the making of the different stage settings and will take part in the communication campaign. You will develop your creativity and be introduced to the needs of directing. During the Nature shows, you will have to welcome the public and to carry out some animations. Finally, you will take part in the life of the performers and discover the backstage of the various shows. Come and discover what s behind the curtain.
🏠 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)