ESC: Solidarity, culture and education at Norwegian folk high school, Sund folkehøgskole

Name: ESC: Solidarity, culture and education at Norwegian folk high school, Sund folkehøgskole
Start: 2025-08-11
End: 2026-05-15
Location: Norway

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About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Sund Folk College aims at being a “school for life - oriented to the world”! Sund is founded on being a political and religious independent non-profit school. Sund Folk College is dedicated to community involvement. Especially three areas are important to us; international solidarity, sustainable development and the value of art and culture. These three areas dominate both the education and the daily life at the school. All the three areas go on long study trips. These trips will together with the rest of the program, give the students a new understanding of the world we live in. The courses provided at Sund Folk College are; • Global Sports • The UN major • Photo USA • Jazz • Amazon Rain Forest • Developing Countries . Sports fishing Academic program includes both one-year and ½-year studies, supplied with numerous short-courses. Students live on campus housing a total of 115 including approx. 10 international students each year. Students hold a minimum age of 18 and an average of 20 years. Staff holds approx. 20 persons, including teachers, technical and administrative staff.

💼 What the programme involves

Young people in Europe today are interested in learning about other cultures and current issues that affects our society, and in developing themselves and discovering their artistic and creative skills. In the formal education system in Europe we see a lack of important competencies connected to democratic culture, citizenship, solidarity and creativity. We see an increased need to learn in a different way, beyond what the formal education system can offer. In Norway we have folk high schools, which are based on non-formal learning, and at the same time is acknowledged as an important part of young people’s education before they enter university or the job market. Sund folkehøgskole (Sund fhs) offers volunteers a unique opportunity to learn and discover more about these topics and acquire competencies in democratic culture, citizenship, solidarity and creativity, and learn about non-formal learning and how to implement this in practice.

🏠 Accommodation on site

As a volunteer your accommodation will take place in the school premises.

🍲 Food

The food is also catered by the school, and you will have 4 meals a day together with the students. When the students are away you will have your own kitchen to make food.

🎒 Leisure activities

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We are searching for young people from Spain preferably between 22- 30 years old, who have an interest in the project topics (non- formal learning, democratic culture, art and creativity) and are motivated to learn and taking it into practice. Preferable volunteers should: - have some experience with non-formal learning - be active, flexible, responsible and social - be able to take initiative and work independently - be creative and interested in some artforms - have a good level of english and be willing to learn Norwegian The courses are done mostly in Norwegian and sometimes in English. We can offer translation, but we expect that you are motivated and willing to learn Norwegian.
Deadline: No application deadline

🤝 Meeting point

Sund folk high school is situated in Trøndelag, and the closest airport is Trondheim airport. From there, you take the train to Røra, approximately 1 hour. The train station is 5 km from the school, and we always organise transport.

ℹ️ Additional information

Discover the concept of folk high schools and learn about its values and role in society. Develop the understanding and practice of international solidarity, environment and sustainable development. Discover and develop their skills within art, creativity and culture, such as music, dance, theatre, handicraft, video making, photography, etc. Learn about Norwegian and other cultures, and practice intercultural understanding, awareness and dialogue. Practice being an active citizen and learn more about youth participation and active citizenship both on a local and international level.

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.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

📅 Available sessions

NO45815

11/08/2025 at 00:00 → 15/05/2026 at 00:00

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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

Flagvegen 95, 7670 Inderøy, Norway

Norway

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Norway Krone (NOK / kr)

Exchange rate

1 NOK = 0.094445 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Central European Summer Time

Local time: 22:21 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Norwegian