📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Danish folk colleges (Folkehøjskole) are a unique concept and part of the non-formal educational system in Denmark. The students are primarily young adults who stay at the college during the course. Classes are based on dialogue and mutual learning between teachers and students. A stay at a folk college is very much about intercultural awareness and personal growth.
The Vestjylland Folk College (Vestjyllands Højskole) is a place for young people with open minds and who are curious about life, with room for all kind of personalitys, ideas and visions. and with plenty of opportunity to develop personal as well as professional. It is a cultural power plant, situated in the mid-west of Jutland close to Ringkøbing (a city of approx. 10.000 inhabitants).
The main subjects are dancing, music, singing, art with ceramics, graphical design and painting, theatre, sustainable lifestyle/permaculture, cooking and writing. Students can choose to dig into one of our main subjects or create their own scedule with a broader cultural contents.
The school considers itself the green folk folk college of Denmark! All meals are 90-100% organics, its wind turbine supplies the school with C02 neutral energy together with our solar- and geothermal system. Our "Garden of Wonder" provides ecological vegetable and fruit to the kitchen and generally inspires both the college and the local environment with new thoughts on sustainability.
The teachers are all active professionels within their subject and they have a passionate for their subject and teaching in generel. Most of the teachers live nearby the school and together with their families they are using the school as their second home, which gives a very homely atmosphere.
The school has room for 85 students and the number of employees is 30, including 15 teachers.
💼 What the programme involves
Vestjyllands Højskole is a Folk High Schools that offers non-formal adult education. Most students are between 18 and 26 years old. We have dance, ecology, theatre, singing, music, ceramics, painting ,writing, and cooking on the schedule.
We have a large ecological garden, which is maintained by local voluntaries.
The volunteer will spend most of the time working in the garden and in that way he will contribute to the overall mission of the garden, but also the creation of new social and cultural networks between Danes and foreigners through ecological gardening and the use of those products in the kitchen, strengthen the knowledge in the local community about the importance of the food in relation to health and a healthy life. Besides gardening, the volunteer will be faced with tasks of craftsmanship.
!! Please apply via https://www.icja.de/content/freiwilligendienste/programme/esk-dein-europaeischer-freiwilligendienst !!
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteer will live at the school.
🎒 Leisure activities
There is a mentor who is responsible for answering any questions and supervising the work of the volunteer. The volunteer will participate in an on arrival training and mid-term meeting.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: The volunteer should be interested in education and ecology, willing to engage in the practical work in the organic garden, flexible and mature, interested in sustainable gardening and permaculture. We are looking for two young male.
!! Please apply via https://www.icja.de/content/freiwilligendienste/programme/esk-dein-europaeischer-freiwilligendienst !!
Deadline: Application deadline: 02/04/2023
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.