Sommerwerft Theatre Festival | ESC Volunteering Teams Project in Germany (Fully Funded)

An open call for 25 young people aged between 18 and 30 from across Europe to join the ESC Volunteering Teams "Sommerwerft Theatre Festival", which takes place for around a month from 17 July to 11 August 2026 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The project is organised by "association PROTAGON e.V.". and funded by the European Solidarity Corps programme of the European Union. 

About the volunteering 

"Sommerwerft Theatre Festival" is a short-term volunteering project that brings together 25 participants from all over Europe to volunteer for around a month with the association "PROTAGON e. V." in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 

The team of 25 people arrives a few days before the build-up of the festival starts. The volunteers will sleep in a living and working community, where about 160 people share a house and a big garden. To go to the festival place that is in the city centre of Frankfurt, volunteers can take one of our bikes or use our shuttle service. The working tasks are not directly related to something artistic. 

Tasks include maintaining the community place, and helping to take care of a specific area of the festival (concert tent or stage, bar, cafe, or food stand, children's program...). The festival lasts 17 days. The activity ends with 3 build-down days of the festival, and some extra days where volunteers are invited to reflect and celebrate together.

Eligibility | Who can apply?

- Young people aged between 18 and 30 from (Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo * UN resolution, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine.)

- Participants should be interested in cultural events, arts, and artistic ways of communication.

- Participants should be ready to live in a community with a lot of other people (over 100 people) and know how to share a space in a good-mannered way.

- Participants are expected to show politeness, respectful behaviours, solidarity, and maturity among the team members. 

Expenses and Benefits

- Everybody sleeps in the cultural space of Protagon e.V., in the garden, where a lot of rooms were built out of containers, buses, caravans, and big tents.

- Volunteers will share their room with others. In the house, they will find the bathrooms, a breakfast hall, and other commodities such as a living room and a laundry.

- Food is provided in the community (with meat, vegetarian and vegan options) for breakfast and brunch, and later in the day at the festival place for lunch and dinner. 

- Bikes and shuttles are available for local transportation. 

- Participants are entitled to receive a pocket money of 6-7 euros per day according to the ESC Programme regulations.

- Each volunteer is entitled to get a travel reimbursement for (one return journey) up to the maximum cost as stated in the ESC programme rules, according to the following limits:

• from 10-99 km: standard travel (28 EUR), green travel (56 EUR)
• from 100 - 499 km: standard travel (211 EUR), green travel (285 EUR)
• from 500 - 1999 km: standard travel (309 EUR), green travel (417 EUR)
• from 2000 - 2999 km: standard travel (395 EUR), green travel (535 EUR)

Timeline

Application deadline: 15 June 2026

Arrival day: 17 July 2026

Departure day: 11 August 2026

How to apply?

Step 1: Sign in to your account on the European Youth Portal. If you don't have an account, create an account  as a YOUNG PERSON from HERE

Step 2: Visit the opportunity page on the European Youth portal and click "Apply." From this page, you must write your motivation letter in English.

More Details

For more details about "Sommerwerft Theatre Festival", check the opportunity details on the ESC Portal from HERE 

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