📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
The “ejr - your journey” project is a long-term voluntary service. It is intended to give young people the opportunity to
become positive change makers in their society and to experience how beneficial mutual solidarity, inclusion and
appreciation is. We want to create space in which the volunteers can discover and develop their own skills. In this project,
the volunteers have the opportunity to tackle challenges in an international environment and to work with people of all
walks of life.
Effects: The volunteers involved are more open minded and able to work in a team, have improved their language skills and have learned a lot about the forms of youth work. Through the use of creative methods such as circus education and multimedia in our ZEITREISE-Exhibition and through the experience in implementing these two main projects, the volunteers have gained innovative ways in which participation and community can be inclusive, low-threshold and appreciative.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers live in households with German families, in shared apartments with other young people or in small apartments. Volunteers get one
Flat rate for expenses for daily groceries. All volunteers are insured according to EU regulations and receive pocket money accordingly. For the time in Reutlingen, all volunteers have a bus ticket to Reutlingen (monthly) or they receive tickets for work-related bus trips within Reutlingen (for individual days within a month). Free internet access for volunteers is provided in the ejr office.
🎒 Leisure activities
On arrival
Mid Term
First aid
Internal trainings on youth work and youth office management
Support from a mentor
Online language course and a weekly german lesson course (one semester)
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: We expect fromt volunteers:
- a cultural and religious openness and at the best a christian belief. This means appreciating other people and ways of life in their otherness, learning from them and to adapt to the best ability. It is about the willingness to be enriched and to enrich others, just like we live it in our work.
- at least of legal age and we expect independence and self-organization to handle with tasks in everyday life.
- basic language skills in German and and a high level of motivation to learn or develop it.
- experience in voluntary work
- drivers licence in class B
Deadline: No application deadline
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.