ESC volunteering Ásgarður

Name: ESC volunteering Ásgarður
Start: 2024-09-02
End: 2025-08-01
Location: Mosfellsbær, Iceland

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About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

Volunteering at the Ásgarður workshop for people with disabilities. Founded in 1993, Ásgarður is a non profit working place for around 30 disabled clients who work alongside around 7 supervisors. The aim is to give the clients the chance to work in a creative and educational environment. Both the clients and staff producetoys and household equipment, mainly from wood, but also from leather, wool, stones, etc. Most of the things being made have a correlation to I celandic traditions of farming and fishing, or to Icelandic folklore or fairy tales. Based on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, the staff makes sure that the work and what is produced is adapted to the workers themselves, to their ideas and inspiration.The volunteer should provide input, show initiative and be supportive to the workers. Please send CV and motivation letter and will the form below. No generic applications please. ONLY candidates who fill in this form will be considered: https://forms.gle/jbiTvDhMC6i4F5rX8

🏠 Accommodation on site

The volunteer will live in a flat close to the project, in Mosfellsbær near Reykjavík, maybe sharing with 1 person, most likely alone. It is recommended that this volunteer is ok to live alone and not in the centre of Reykjavik which take 25 mins by bus. Perfect for someone who is independent and who likes nature and calmness. The volunteer will have breakfast and lunch in the project, and get in addition to that food money for the meals she/he does not get in the project as well as pocket money. A yearly bus card for the whole of Reykjavík will be given to the volunteer.

🎒 Leisure activities

Training to use the tools in the workshop area will be at the start of the placement. The volunteer has to attend and on arrival training organised by AUS as well as another on arrival training and later mid term training both organised by the local National Agency. AUS will provide Icelandic lessons in a group. Please send CV and motivation letter and will the form below. No generic applications please. ONLY candidates who fill in this form will be considered: https://forms.gle/jbiTvDhMC6i4F5rX8

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: The volunteer‘s role is to provide assistance in the wood workshop where the daily work of Ásgarður is done; The volunteer is encouraged to be creative and to involve clients into stimulating activities; To promote the clients’ creativity; participate in theatre work and preparations of the theater workshops and other creations; the volunteer will also participate in the hiking club, which does hiking tours at a slow pace, whilst enjoying the scenery and surroundings. Profile: creative, open minded, self oriented, flexible, motivated to learn Icelandic. https://forms.gle/jbiTvDhMC6i4F5rX8
Deadline: Application deadline: 22/03/2024

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.

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📅 Available sessions

IS38997

02/09/2024 → 01/08/2025

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Deadline: 22/03/2024

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

Mosfellsbær, Iceland

Iceland

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Iceland Krona (ISK / kr)

Exchange rate

1 ISK = 0.007321 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Greenwich Mean Time

Local time: 20:58 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

Danish English German Icelandic Norwegian Swedish