📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
This project is organizedand hosted by De Amicitia. De Amicitia is an environmental non governmental organisation that is funded in 1998 and actively working in the youth field and volunteering for 12 years. The main activity of the organisations is organising workcamps and local/ international youth projects in collaboration with the town halls and local associations.
💼 What the programme involves
In this Youth Exchange, the volunteers will learn how to built GEODESIC DOME HOUSES. They will be exchanging ideas about the ECO FRIENDLY CONSTRUCTIONS and after that they will be building a Dome from zero.The activities will be based on the non-formal and informal educational working methods: workshops, courses, excursions, team activities, energizers, discussions, presentations and interviews of participants in the project. After learning theorically the history, benefits and usages of the Dome Houses, the participants will learn technically how to build and create one by themselves.We will start our project with theorical workshops about the Geodesic Dome Houses. After that we will work on our own dome house. We will learn to develop a dome house and finally we will cover a 5m dome with different materials.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation will be done in a youth hostal in Lozoyuela. There will be several bunkbeds and kitchen, showers and bathrooms. The food will be prepared by the volunteers in teams.
📍 About the location
Lozoyuela is a small town in the Sierra Norte, northern mountains of Madrid. The town lays in the beautiful hillside, perfect for hiking and connecting with nature. As the town has very good connections with the other towns, different excursions are possible in the free days. There are rivers close to Buitrago del Lozoya (about five minutes by car from Lozoyuela) which are great for kayaking and other activities of the sorts. And in Buitrago del Lozoya, there is a historic castle that can be visited.There will be also possibility to visit the Madrid city.
ℹ️ Additional information
This project is a Youth Exchange. There is no participation fee and there is a travel reimbursement after the project. We are looking for participants from Italy, France, Estonia and Spain.