📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Centre for Ecological Learning Luxembourg or simply CELL, is a non-profit organisation that provides an experimental space for thinking, researching, disseminating and practising lifestyles with a low impact on the environment, and learning the skills for creating resilient post-carbon communities.
CELL Vision: The challenges presented to us today by climate change and peak oil are perhaps the greatest that humanity has faced. This time brings a great opportunity for rethinking the way we live and making conscious choices about what kind of community and world we would like to live in. Change is coming whether we like it or not – and a planned response to the change will leave us in a much stronger position than if we wait until change is upon us.
CELL is inspired by the work of the Transition Towns and Permaculture movements, and aims to relocalise culture and economy and, in that creative process, improve resilience to the consequences of peak oil and climate change. Further to setting up Transition groups, CELL does education and research in the area of sustainable living. The baseline of CELL could be summarised as aiming to 1. live sustainably and endorsing holistic thinking and action 2. foster a culture of solidarity and collaboration 3. skill up for living well in a post-carbon economy.
💼 What the programme involves
CELL is a non-profit provides an experimental space for thinking, researching, disseminating and practicing alternative lifestyles and regenerative culture. The organisation raises awareness of resilience practices and designs appropriate systems for initiatives and projects interested in regional resilience. Äerdschëff is an earthship-inspired off-grid building. It is designed with circular economy and permaculture in mind and built with reclaimed and natural building materials, with the help of many volunteers (completion late 2022). It is also a centre for sustainability systems education and research, where we collaborate with young people, schools, organisations and the public to develop low tech.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be integrated in the daily running of our Äerdschëff. Some of our volunteers can stay at the Äerdschëff, others will stay at
a youth centre 20km away (with carsharing provided). Food is not provided by the hosting organization. Public transport in Luxembourg is free, but not always fast or well connected.
🎒 Leisure activities
The volunteer will participate in the varied activities of the Äerdschëff (giving tours, trainings and workshops for youth and adults), and will
also have the possibility to develop their own heart project around low tech and sustainability, guided by our team. You can participate in the permaculture trainings we organize as well as practical workshops around sustainability in the CELL network.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: We are looking for volunteers with an interest in sustainability, low tech and/or permaculture design and with an open mind to fully experience the ESC.
Deadline: Application deadline: 31/08/2022
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.