📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
If you enjoy being outside amongst nature, spending the evening around a camp-fire, discovering the forest first-hand with people from all around the world and working hands-on in the forest with real foresters, then this project at the Forestry Education Centre in Hahnhorst is exactly the one for you In the studying part of this project, you ll learn how to orientate yourself in the forest, how to recognise edible plants, how to start a fire without equipment and how to build a place to sleep for the night using only natural materials. Besides this, you ll be working in co-operation with foresters and forest workers on conservation projects in the forest and will help to improve the quality of habitats for rare species of plants and animals. In the mornings (you ll be working up early), you ll be focusing on the work tasks. The survival workshops will take place in the afternoons.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You ll be staying in rooms with multiple beds in the Forestry Education Centre. You ll also be involved in the house chores. Food will be provided, but you will also take it in turns to help out in the kitchen.
📍 About the location
There are some free afternoons for enjoying the range of free time activities available (for example a bike tour, an international buffet one evening, sitting around the camp-fire, a trip to the swimming pool. At the weekend, you could also go on a day-trip to Bremen for sightseeing and shopping.
⚠️ Requirements
Desire to work hands-on in the forest and to get involved with outdoor activities is preferred. You should be able to ride a bike.