Open call for 12 volunteers for 3-week volunteering project in the Suderbyn Permaculture Ecovillage in Sweden. The project aims to create sustainable living spaces through activities organised by the infrastructure/building domain of Suderbyn. This project is organised by "RELEARN Suderbyn" organisation and funded by the European Solidarity Corps programme of the European Union.
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About the volunteering
ReGreen aims to bring together 12 young people for a 21-day educational, practical, and social adventure at Suderbyn Permaculture Eco-village. Suderbyn hosts a diverse international community of people who committed to environmental stewardship, practicing permaculture principles and embracing voluntary simplicity in daily life. The working days during the project will include both theory and practice, enabling the volunteers to directly apply everything that has been learnt at a conceptual level. The main goal is to goal is to equip volunteers with practical skills and knowledge that they can continue to utilise beyond their time during the project.
The project bring together 3 themes over the course of 3 weeks:
(1) Infrastructure specific project: this year Suderbyn wants to install a new greenhouse to improve and extend the vegetables production. This means identifying the best place according to permaculture principles, setting up the new poly-tunnel and working the soil to create new beds.
(2) Permaculture: Volunteers will explore permaculture design principles and how they are being applied in our organic community garden. The tasks (foraging, processing, forest-garden care, weeding, harvesting...) will allow volunteers to come into closer connection with the land and its more-than-human inhabitants, as well as to develop a deeper understanding for the soil and the ecosystem, and the food the land provides.
(3) Personal and group development with the social domain and the community’s NGO RELEARN.
Eligibility | Who can apply
- Participants must be between 18-30 years old
- Participants must live in an European union country or having a visa for staying in Europe, so you can enter Sweden without applying for a visa for the project.
- Having a motivation to engage in sustainable lifestyle and community living.
- It’s important to demonstrate a basic understanding of actual living conditions in Suderbyn, it's a vegan community and you must be ready to try out this diet and not eat any meat.
- Have a good command in English is preferable but not mandatory.
- Ready to participate actively in the whole duration of the project.
Expenses and Benefits
- Participants will accommodated in a mixed shared room (big enough for a dozen people) or in tents at Suderbyn eco-village.
- The food will be vegan only and participants are expected to participate in preparing the food and cooking
- Volunteers are entitled to get a pocket money provided by the programme around 5-6 euros per day.
- Your travel expenses will be reimbursed according to the distance between your home and Visby, Sweden according to the following limits:
- for travel distance between 100 and 499 km: 180 EUR / person, +30 EUR extra for Green travel.
- for travel distance between 500 and 1999 km: 275 EUR / person, +45 EUR extra for Green travel.
- for travel distance between 2000 and 2999 km: 360 EUR / person, +50 EUR extra for Green travel.
- Calculate your budget from HERE
- IMPORTANT: keep all your travel documents! Online boarding passes and tickets for reimbursements. No documents = No reimbursement!
- IMPORTANT: Please send your travel proposition per e-mail to the organisers and wait for their confirmation before purchasing your tickets!
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