📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The artefact centre which is located in Gluecksburg/Baltic Sea (close to the German-Danish border) is a centre for sustainable development. This non-profit organisation runs a guesthouse built in an organic style of architecture with a renewable energy supply. The ‘Powerpark’, an energy infotainment site for tourists, conducts project activities for young people as well as specialist seminars for adults on renewable energy, building and water management. In order to keep up its attractiveness as a destination for training and tourism, installations on the site need to be improved.
For further information please see: http://www.artefact.de/
💼 What the programme involves
Planting on a roof, Repairing the wooden info-pavillon, maintenance work in the energy and climate infotainment “Powerpark”, working at a water reservoir, weed the garden
🏠 Accommodation on site
Simple in big tents (please bring along isolating mat and warm sleeping bag),toilet (compost toilets) and shower (solar shower) facilities nearby
Cooking together with the group in the kitchen inside or in the solarkitchen outside
📍 About the location
Glücksburg
⚠️ Requirements
Interest in the topic ‘renewable energies’ and basic living conditions will be expected,
manual skills preferable
ℹ️ Additional information
Partly reimbursement of travel costs for volunteers from Germany, France and
Spain (Franco-German Youth Office, FGYO).
Please bring along a warm sleeping bag, a camping mat and waterproof
working clothes
As Denmark is not far away and has its very own culture and traditions, a visit to Germanys neighbour country would be very interesting (inform yourself about the conditions of entry!). Trips to Gluecksburg’s famous castle, the city and port of Flensburg, Baltic and North Sea coast possible;