📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Danish folk colleges (Folkehøjskole) are a unique concept and part of the non-formal educational system in Denmark. The students are primarily young adults who stay at the college during the course. Classes are based on dialogue and mutual learning between teachers and students. A stay at a folk college is very much about intercultural awareness and personal growth.
The Vestjylland Folk College (Vestjyllands Højskole) is a place for young people with open minds and who are curious about life, with room for all kind of personalitys, ideas and visions. and with plenty of opportunity to develop personal as well as professional. It is a cultural power plant, situated in the mid-west of Jutland close to Ringkøbing (a city of approx. 10.000 inhabitants).
The main subjects are dancing, music, singing, art with ceramics, graphical design and painting, theatre, sustainable lifestyle/permaculture, cooking and writing. Students can choose to dig into one of our main subjects or create their own scedule with a broader cultural contents.
The school considers itself the green folk folk college of Denmark! All meals are 90-100% organics, its wind turbine supplies the school with C02 neutral energy together with our solar- and geothermal system. Our "Garden of Wonder" provides ecological vegetable and fruit to the kitchen and generally inspires both the college and the local environment with new thoughts on sustainability.
The teachers are all active professionels within their subject and they have a passionate for their subject and teaching in generel. Most of the teachers live nearby the school and together with their families they are using the school as their second home, which gives a very homely atmosphere.
The school has room for 85 students and the number of employees is 30, including 15 teachers.
💼 What the programme involves
Vestjyllands Højskole is a Folk High Schools that offers non-formal adult education. Most students are between 18 and 26 years old.There is dance, ecology, theatre, singing, music, ceramics, painting, writing, and cooking on the schedule.
The school have an organic profile and are able to produce all the energy needed themselves. They have a large organic garden, which is maintained by local/international voluntaries.
As a volunteer, you will be mainly working with maintenance, craftsman work and in the garden, but in your spare time you will have the opportunity to take part in the above mentioned activities as well.
Tasks of the volunteer
• Maintenance of the garden and the school, depending on the time of the year
• Gardening
• Craftsman work, especially carpentry under supervision by skilled workers.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteer will have a room at the school and will get all his meals at the school.
🎒 Leisure activities
The volunteer will participate in an on-arrival and mid-term training provided by the national agency and will also have the opportunity to participate in camps organized by Dansk ICYE where there will be the possibility to socialize and meet other volunteers from all over the world.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: We prefer a MALE volunteer.
The volunteer must have a great INTEREST craftmans work and in ecology and organic farming , like to use his hands and garding = main task.
He must be able to communicate in English.
Deadline: Application deadline: 15/12/2022
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.