ESC: Volunteering in Living Open-air museum

Code: 36966 Copied

Czech Republic European Voluntary Service Social work Environment Education European Voluntary Service Social work +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

Lunaria has created in 25 years traditional sustainable landscape and is preserving it. We have created or renovated 10 lakes and ponds and planted about 2000 trees and bushes and we preserve one small forest. Living Open-air museum is not only a place for Free democratic School Ronja but also part of SOP (Czech Union of Nature Conservation) and an ecological farm with 14 hectares, therefore there is a possibility to help with gardening (partly permacultural) dependent on season time.All activities of our organization are based on values of solidarity, respect for human dignity and human rights as well as responsibility and rights for saving of our natural resources and treasures. For example activities around urgent project „Save allees“ with traveling exhibition about importance and meaning of allees in landscape or realization of „Exhibition about wolves“, who return to our region and need protection and help. We promote also a fair and equal society and tolerance.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Rented flat with basic standards shared together with other volunteers (= one room for one volunteer, shared kitchen and bathroom) in Nové město pod Smrkem nearby, because there are no free flats in our village. Thanks to shared flat by more volunteers, they can help each other in their free time, since our village is too small and it would be easier and funnier to create a group of volunteers. Volunteers get food allowance or could choose to eat also lunch from Wednesday to Friday in Lunaria.

🎒 Leisure activities

Volunteers can learn many new methods and gain new skills and knowledge by us in traditional gardening, permaculture methods. Typical tasks are: harvesting wood from the forest with horses, wood chopping and carrying, ploughing with horses, working with soil, sowing, planting, watering, weeding, mulching, harvesting and fruit and vegetable processing, caring for seeds production, caring for lakes and ponds, trees and bushes, caring for animals (we have 5 horses) - feeding with hey, giving fresh water, repairing of fences, cleaning of horse stable. Also clay plastering or joinery.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We are open to different backgrounds of our national participants and want to keep accessibility for all young people, without prejudice related to the ethnic group, religion, sexual orientation, political opinion. Naturally, we prefer volunteer who is interested in our project and all issues we are concentrated on and open to learn and help. Ideally, he/she would like to learn how to be more communicative, creative, practical, responsible and self-reliant. Very useful would be being a fan of nature and children. He/she needs to prefer living in a remote village to living in a city.
Deadline: No application deadline

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.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

📅 Available sessions

CZ36966

01/09/2023 → 31/08/2024

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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

Jindřichovice pod Smrkem 12, 463 65 Jindřichovice pod Smrkem, Czechia

Czech Republic

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Czech Republic Koruna (CZK / Kč)

Exchange rate

1 CZK = 0.041274 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Central European Standard Time

Local time: 21:37 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Czech Slovak