📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Batavialand is located at a fitting place: by the Markermeer lake, in the easily accessible city of Lelystad, the capital of Flevoland. Batavialand has an indoor and outdoor location. Outside you will find the shipyard, with the famous replica East Indiaman the Batavia at the pier. The museum will surprise you with maritime exhibitions, presentations and activities.
The building of historical ships at the yard attracted much attention of visitors from the beginning, so the yard bacame a tourist attraction. In addiction, the Yard became a learning and working experience project for young people and for re-integration of people. At the yard the main goal is reconstrution and preservation of Dutch 15th to 17th century ships. We work as much as possible according to the authentic and traditional contruction methods. Also Batavialand offers a wilde range of programmes for guided tours and acts as a conference centre and educational laboratory.
💼 What the programme involves
Rebuild some parts of the Batavia, mast, yards, forge, traditional ship building of new 16 century replica. 19 meters long.
The Bataviawerf is a dockyard with special ambitions. Ships from the golden century age, which have been important in our maritime history.
Our organisation is depending on the work of volunteers for some years already. A lot of foreign volunteers helped to build the ship “Batavia” and still helping for the construction of “Het water schip”. The Bataviawerf could not exist without the help of numerous volunteers which help in showing everybody the way of building ships in the 17th century.
🏠 Accommodation on site
- you will share a flat with other volunteers in Lelystad (shared room)
- you will have a bike
- you work from Monday to Friday from 9:00 till 17.00
- you will get pocket and food money
-The trips to Holland and back are covered (please keep the recipes)
-All the house bills are paid for. Inclusive wifi
-A discount card for public transport
-At 12 a clock you get a dutch lunch at the yard.
-Dutch lessons.
-Insurance arranged by Cigna
- We will make an activity agreement (AA) and you will have to sign it (when it’s ready we will contact you).
🎒 Leisure activities
The volunteer will have personal freedom. This means that there is enough space to grow in the organisation besides the fixed activities. Of course the foundation will give a structure in which the volunteer can find his challenge. If there are things that you think can be changed to benefit the organisation, you are more than welcome to share your opinion with the team leaders because foundation Batavia prefers to have volunteers for one year, the volunteers will have the opportunity to grow in the organisation and get responsibilities. We aim at the highest level of quality possible.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: The volunteer is working in a very active and flexible foundation, so should be able to cope with this. However we point out that the volunteering work can be hard. - Technical, energetic, open-minded, sociable, creative in finding solutions. - Enthusiastic manual work (indoor and outdoor) - Interested in traditional ships - Good English communication skills - Technical background Will be a plus
Deadline: Application deadline: 01/12/2022
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.