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ESC: Time for young people

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Germany Education Environment European Voluntary Service Education Environment +1 Fixed dates

About the project

ESC: Time for young people

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Das Aktionszentrum in Benediktbeuern ist eine Jugendbildungsstätte in Trägerschaft der Deutschen Provinz der Salesianer Don Boscos. "Zeit für junge Menschen": Dieser Grundsatz der Salesianer Don Boscos ist uns Auftrag und täglicher Ansporn zugleich. Gemeinsam mit Jugendlichen die Schöpfung zu entdecken, Neues kennen zu lernen und ihnen Raum zur freien Entfaltung zu geben - "heute für morgen" gemeinsam auf dem Weg zu sein, das ist unser Ziel. Sowohl für unsere eigenen Gruppen als auch für unsere Belegungsgäste schaffen wir eine Atmosphäre, in der sich junge Menschen in ihren Sorgen und Nöten, mit ihren Fragen und Antworten, in ihrem So-Sein, wie sie sind, auf- und ernst genommen fühlen. Die Jugendbildungsstätte Aktionszentrum sieht ihren zentralen Auftrag in der Mithilfe zum Gelingen des Lebens junger Menschen. Zielgruppen dieser Arbeit sind Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene. Die Schwerpunkte liegen dabei in den Bereichen der außerschulischen Jugendbildung sowie der internationalen Jugendarbeit. Durch diese Angebote werden personale, interpersonale, interkulturelle, ökologische und politische Kompetenzen vermittelt. 80% der Jugendlichen, die unsere Einrichtung besuchen, sind Schüler einer Mittelschule. Diese möchte das Aktionszentrum besonders erreichen und kooperiert daher eng mit den Schulen in Bayern. Durch unser Trainingsprogramm (Bildungseinheiten und Diskussionen, Freizeitangebote, Sport, Kreatives) möchten wir diese Jugendlichen bestärken und ihnen die Chance geben, diese lebenswichtigen Fähig- und Fertigkeiten zu entwickeln. Aktionszentrum Benediktbeuern is a youth educational centre of the German Province of the Salesians of Don Bosco. “Time for young people”: this principle of the Salesians of Don Bosco is our mission and, at the same time, our daily incentive. Our goal is: Discovering the creation together with young people, getting to know new things and giving them opportunities for further development – “today for tomorrow”, being together on the way. For our groups and guests we try to create an atmosphere in which young people feel that their sorrows and needs, their questions and answers are taken seriously. The youth educational centre Aktionszentrum understands its main mission in supporting young people’s life development. Target groups are young people and young adults. The focus of our work is on the field of non-formal youth education and the international youth work. Through this offers we convey personal, interpersonal, intercultural, ecological and political competences. 80% of the young people, who join our activities, are students of a “Mittelschule”. Aktionszentrum aims to reach this target group and cooperates with schools in Bavaria. Through our training programme (educational sessions, discussions, leisure time activities, sport, creative workshops) we want to strengthen these young people and give them a chance to develop their skills and competences.

💼 What the programme involves

The youth centre Aktionszentrum (Christian organisation run by the religious congregation of the Salesians of Don Bosco) has sent and hosted many volunteers from different countries of the world. Through the project "Time for young people" we want to enable volunteering commitment at two different levels: working with children aged 3-6 and working with young people aged 14-18. We are looking for 6 volunteers, who will work in two different settings, but will be linked by a common red line, which is the commitment as European volunteers in the frame of the European solidarity corps. All the volunteers will join the activities at the end of August 2022 till the end of August 2023. Two volunteers will work in the public Kindergarden of Benediktbeuern from Monday till Friday. Two volunteers will be active in the Don Bosco Youth Centre, working with young people between 14-18. 2 Volunteers will work in the Centre for environmental education of Benediktbeuern, with a focus on ecology.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The volunteers will get rooms in our campus. In this centre we already have a community of around 16 volunteers from Germany working in different fields. The volunteers can join this community and share the community rooms (kitchen and living room) with them. The volunteers will get meals in the cantine of the youth centre Aktionszentrum, according to the different time schedules. Travel costs will be reimbursed according to the ESC-programme rules. Pocket money and insurance will be provided.

🎒 Leisure activities

The volunteers will join the ESC-trainings (on-arrival training and mid-term meeting). Next to this there will several opportunities for further training in different fields.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profil: Young people between 18 and 25, with knowledge of German, interested in working with children or young people.
Deadline: Application deadline: 01/07/2022

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.

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📅 Available sessions

DE11639

22/08/2022 → 22/08/2023

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 2
♂ 0/1 ♀ 0/1
Deadline: 01/07/2022

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

Don-Bosco-Straße 1, 83671 Benediktbeuern, Germany

Germany

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Summer Time

Local time: 21:06 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English German