📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The target group of our association are the international students in Luxembourg, including participants who are in Luxembourg for internship, volunteers from other associations...
We organize weekly Friday encounter; every week one of the students (or a group of students coming from the same country) make the presentation of his /their country and cook; presentation made by power-point, interactive discussion, games...
-We offer language support; the volunteer will be involved to support the students and eventually organize language tandems for students who want to learn their language.
The association makes one monthly trip to cities around Luxembourg; the volunteer will help in organizing the trips, city- guided-tours...
We have also monthly trips in Luxembourg, in order to discover the country, meet local people, learn about traditions in Luxembourg, feel the international atmosphere of Luxembourg
A bigger event is the trip to one of the cities of Europe, during the semester holiday; the volunteer will be involved in the preparations of this trip (journey, visits, cultural background ...)
We have weekly meetings with common games and participating in activities in the house of intergenerational living (with Caritas) with focus on social inclusion methodology
We try to have a very huge variety of activities, so that all the students can attend to the activities according to talents, needs and interests.
We like to combine out-door activities with hiking, cycling, discovering the country and give enough possibilities to the students to talk to each other- without any concrete subject- in small groups, while going by train, hiking...
We take care that students of the same country don't stay together the whole time, enjoy our very open- minded atmosphere and join students of other origins.
💼 What the programme involves
In a young dynamic atmosphere international students can feel at home by taking part at weekly meetings, discovering the country of Luxembourg and the cities around and making friends for life. The international context makes it easy to discover unknown realities, improve the inter-cultural learning and share experience.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers are hosted in the inter-generational house that Lisel asbl rents for students.
The allowance includes money for the food, the volunteers will take care of their own food.
Public transport is free in Luxembourg.
🎒 Leisure activities
The volunteers are in close contact with the responsible of the association and work as full team members. The weekly team meetings and daily common tasks give opportunities to exchange the learning experience and manage any problem that might appear. The mentors as well as the former volunteers stay in a good relation and touch with the association and can provide useful advice.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: The volunteers should be minimum 22 years.
They need to be able to communicate in English- the common working language.
They should have some university experience. They should be tolerant, open-minded and interested in international and inter-cultural fields and feel well in flexible working tasks and schedules.
Deadline: Application deadline: 22/05/2022
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.