ESC: Volunteering at Jugendakademie Walberberg

Name: ESC: Volunteering at Jugendakademie Walberberg
Start: 2024-10-01
End: 2025-12-31
Location: Bornheim, Germany

Code: 40298664dedf36b2dd Copied

Germany Culture Education Environment European Voluntary Service Social work Culture Education +3 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Jugendakademie Walberberg (JAW) is a centre for non-formal education youth which has long-standing experience in the organization of seminars and training courses on various topics and methods regarding non-formal education. The house organizes around 100 educational seminars per year, as well as hosting groups as a conference Centre. There are seminars carried out in the following areas: -personality development, political and religious education, gender-specific educational work and diversity conscoius education with pupils of all ages and from different types of schools, especially with "disadvantaged" young people - bilateral and multilateral youth exchanges with "disadvantaged" young people with European partners from Ireland, Scotland, France, Poland, Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria, Greece and Bosnia and Herzegovina focusing on political education and intercultural learning - On-Arrival Trainings and mid-term-meetings within the framework of the European Solidarity Corps - Pre-departure seminars for young people with access barriers who take part in international voluntary services and/or apprenticeships - (International) trainings and conferences for multipliers of schools and youth work - Seminars for Young People with a Migrational Background on political participation/diversity in Europe - Day events in the rope garden / on the climbing wall for local and regional Groups focused on teambuilding and social learning 1.) Die Jugendakademie Walberberg e.V. ist eine außerschulische Bildungseinrichtung, welche langjährige Erfahrungen im Bereich der Organisation und Durchführung von nonformalen Seminar- und Trainingsangeboten mit einem breiten Themenspektrum hat. Die Jugendakademie führt in etwa 100 Eigentagungen im Jahr im Haus durch und dient Gastgruppen als Tagungshaus. Es werden Seminare mit folgenden Zielgruppen und Themenschwerpunkten durchgeführt: • Seminare für Schulklassen aller Schulformen im Bereich der Persönlichkeitsbildung, der politischen und religiösen Bildung, der geschlechtsspezifischen sowie der diversitätsbewussten Bildungsarbeit. • Bilaterale und multilaterale Jugendbegegnungen mit sog. „benachteiligten“ Jugendlichen mit Europäischen Partnern aus Irland, Schottland, Frankreich, Polen, Ungarn, Italien, Bulgarien, Griechenland und Bosnien-Herzegowina. Die Begegnungen werden zumeist im Bereich der politischen Bildung sowie des interkulturellen Lernens durchgeführt. • Einführungstrainings und Zwischenseminare im ESK • Ausreiseseminare für Jugendliche mit sog. „Benachteiligungen“ in verschiedenen internationalen bzw. europäischen Mobilitätsprogrammen im Bereich der Freiwilligendienste und Praktika • (Internationale) Konferenzen und Multiplikator*innenveranstaltungen für Multiplikator*innen aus Schule und Jugendarbeit • Seminare für Jugendliche mit Flucht-/Migrationsgeschichte zu politischer Partizipation/Empowerment in Europa • Tagesveranstaltungen im Niedrig- und Hochseilgarten bzw. an der Kletterwand für lokale und regionale Gruppen mit dem Schwerpunkt Teambuilding/soziales Lernen

💼 What the programme involves

Jugendakademie Walberberg is an independent youth training center for nonformal education that welcomes especially youth groups for multi-day trainings. The house has a total of 100 beds and is well accessible via public transport from Cologne and Bonn, yet, in the middle of nature. In addition, it has a high rope course and a climbing wall on its exterior grounds. Our educational work pursues the goal of contributing to the personal development of young people. Our focus topics are social and political education, diversity-based education or education for sustainable development. We offer for example seminars for school classes and other youth groups, international youth exchanges or trainings for European volunteers. The seminars are conducted using interactive methods, such as role plays, discussions, theatre, artistic offers etc. In all our offers we try to breakdown barriers for youngsters with fewer opportunities.

There will be close supervision and mentoring during the voluntary service. In addition the volunteer will take part in the accompanying trainings (On-Arrival Training and Mid-Term Meetining).

🏠 Accommodation on site

The volunteer will live in a shared flat in Bonn.

🍲 Food

Lunch is provided at the Jugendakademie for the stuff. For breakfast, dinner and weekends the volunteer will receive money for self-catering.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We are looking for a young person, who is able to communicate in German on a basic level or should be ready to learn German. If there are only rudimentary German skills at the beginning, at least basic language skills in English are necessary. The person should be interested in nonformal education, youth work in general and in international youth work. He*She should be ready to come by tram every day from Bonn (approx. 30 minutes). We want to give access to people from diverse backgrounds and cordially invite everybody to apply.

For local transportation the volunteer will be offered the “€49,- Ticket”, which allows the volunteer to travel in local and regional public transport in all of Germany.

Deadline: Application deadline: 09/06/2024

ℹ️ Additional information

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.

There will be close supervision and mentoring during the voluntary service. In addition the volunteer will take part in the accompanying trainings (On-Arrival Training and Mid-Term Meetining).

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