📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Akademia Przygody (The Academy of Adventure, www.akademiaprzygody.org) is a non-profit organization specialized in educational activities for children, adolescents and adults based on contact with nature, survival training, and craft learning. It is located in the town of Kłodzko in Lower Silesia, Poland. It was created in 1988 and originated from the Scout movement. Akademia Przygody is based in the unique fortification complex of Kłodzko Fortress. It acts within the framework of the Centre for Education and Historical Preservation, engaged in the protection of monuments of eighteenth-century military architecture inter alia.
Akademia Przygody has the following targets:
- educational work with children through trips in the nature;
- conservation and restoration of the fortification remains;
- job training in manual work spheres like: tree cutting, climbing, work in building areas, conservation of monuments;
- youth trainer education;
The projects of Akademia Przygody are mainly realized in the fortification of Kłodzko, which serves as a meeting and planning base. The youth trainers organize camps and trips, enabling the young participants to spend their free time in an active way: through rafting, climbing and camping. The youngsters can also visit the Kłodzko Fortress any time to help with the reconstruction and learn the related techniques.
The activities of Akademia Przygody also have a strong ethical dimension. The trainers oppose drug and alcohol consume, and are determined to serve as good examples for the younger colleagues. The participants of the camps learn how to cooperate within the group, as they have to stick to a couple of simple rules: nobody eats before everyone has a meal in front of him; everybody helps in the base with the meals, wood collecting, washing or carrying. If the group is to solve a problem, everyone is obliged to participate. Conflicts are to be confronted and solved at the very moment.
💼 What the programme involves
The organization Akademia Przygody (Academy of Adventure) have years of experience in and focuses their work on:
revitalization work conducted in the fortress of Kłodzko both as a part of daily work in the fortress and to continuously improve the part leased by our organization where our activities are hold; learning, teaching and introducing historical construction techniques and
the protection of eighteenth-century monuments of military architecture, the area of the Crane Fortification Complex; working with at-risk youth in our region in the educational systems of Scouting and Woodcraft; running holiday camps for children and youth.
Volunteers, as part of their daily duties, will be focused on: participate in revitalization work; clearing the site of invasive greenery; moving soil and debris, masonry, painting; working with wood; working in stone; moving materials; supporting other day-to-day activities of the organization.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will be staying in the town of Kłodzko, participants will be housed in tents, equipped with field beds, military shelves and platforms. They will have access to sanitary facilities located within the camp, as well as a field canteen and recreational space with a campfire area. The group will be sharing the cleaning chores and preparing meals together. Travel costs will be reimbursed based on the original documents after arrival, the tickets should be bought for both ways before arrival. The volunteers will receive pocket money and will work a maximum of 30 hours per week.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: 18-30 years old
from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Ukraine and other EU countries
highly motivated and independent
interested in building, renovation, history, survival skills, scouting, youth work
knowledge of Slavic language or willingness to learn Polish
non-smoker and non-drinker
Deadline: Application deadline: 31/07/2022
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.