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ESC: Music, events, community building & creativity at Gimle's cafe

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About the project

ESC: Music, events, community building & creativity at Gimle's cafe

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Gimle is Roskilde's regional music venue and youth culture house. Gimle offers Roskilde and the region's residents a wide range of cultural events with quality, content and diversity. At Gimle, the volunteers run the arrangements - both before, during and after the events. More than 300 annual cultural events are held both at Gimle and outside the house. The core is concert operation with annual presentation of more than 300 bands. In addition, Gimle has a café, The Raven, which is open 6 days a week. Gimle is run on the basis of more than 150 volunteers, 12 full time employees (office, kitchen and cleaning), and approx. 30 hourly employees (sound, cleaning and kitchen). Gimle is run by the Gimle Foundation, which takes care of the financial and operational framework, and the Gimle Association, which are responsible of the content of Gimle. The Gimle association consists of the active volunteers and employees at Gimle.

💼 What the programme involves

Gimle is a regional music venue, student house and youth culture café. Gimle offers Roskilde and the region's residents a wide range of cultural events with quality, content and diversity. At Gimle, the volunteers run the arrangements - both before, during and after the events. The focal point of the project is to run Gimle's cultural café, The Raven, together with the other volunteers and staff - this includes bartending, event management and catering for bands, volunteers and customers. The café is open 5 days a week and is a popular gathering place for volunteers and the local community. In the café you can arrange everything from concerts to international evenings or a food event. There are opportunities to fill in with your own creative abilities and ideas, and thereby discover what you are really passionate about. The volunteers are encouraged to create a personal project in order to put a "foot print" at Gimle. This project can include cultural events, concerts, decorations etc

🏠 Accommodation on site

Gimle have rented an apartment in the centre of Roskilde town for accommodation of the ESC, where you will live together with 3 other volunteers. Each ESC have their own room with a shared living rooms, kitchen, toilets and bathroom You will receive money for food alongside your pocket money, and have food when you are working at the Raven. The apartment is in walking distance from Gimle (10-15 min.) and you will also have communal bikes for local transportation.

🎒 Leisure activities

During you stay you will receive different kinds of training: Bartending and cafe training will be side by side learning during your first 2 weeks of the project Training in event production and technical training in sound and light engineering will be in workshops before or during your first events or concerts Danish lessons will be either through the official OLS training or through in person classes (volunteers choice) You will also receive a mandatory online hygiene course that allows you to handle food for sale in Denmark

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: The person we are looking for - Drive and enthusiasm to start your own projects - Sense of responsibility - Can work well with others both as a teacher, a pupil and as an equal - Curiosity towards event production - A decent level of English
Deadline: 12/06/2026 16:00

ℹ️ Additional information

The project is implemented under the European Solidarity Corps Programme, financed by the European Commission.
The participating organisations have to be mindful of these needs as they are responsible for providing a respectful and trusting hosting environment. At the same time, the organisations participating in the initiative devote a great deal of time, energy and resources to set up a high-quality activity; they should therefore expect that European Solidarity Corps participants show a similar level of respect for the local communities and the people that are directly concerned by the activities (https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/mission_en).
What do we provide ?
  • Training before and after the project
  • Health insurance during your project
  • round-trip travel reimbursement
  • accommodation and food
  • pocket money
  • language course
  • Return Week-end
  • Youth Pass and SVI international Volunteer passport

Before applying for this volunteering project, you need to enroll yourself at European Solidarity Corps Platform (https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en) and specify your European Solidarity Corps Participant Number (PRN).
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.
Contact the ESC coordinator at +32 2 888 67 13 to get more informations.

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📅 Available sessions

DK52226

10/08/2026 → 12/09/2027

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 2
♂ 0/1 ♀ 0/1
Deadline: 12/06/2026

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

4000 Roskilde, Denmark

Denmark

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Denmark Krone (DKK / kr)

Exchange rate

1 DKK = 0.134370 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Central European Summer Time

Local time: 21:36 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

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✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Danish