Description of the partner organizing/hosting the project:

Kell am See is a touristic village not far from Trier, the oldest German city. The regional youth department runs an educational centre in this village, which offers different environmental educational activities for youth groups and school classes. Also, school classes or youth associations can come here for several days and run own seminars or trainings. The centre was just renovated a couple of years ago and different new outdoor and training facilities were installed. For them it is important to get the support of international volunteer for their centre but at the same time they share the aims of international volunteering and want to offer a nice opportunity to you. By participating in this project, you are supporting education on environmental issues (UN SDG 4 and 13).

Description of work:

Support the educational centre Kell am See, an important place for youth work in the whole area of Trier, by doing environmental and maintenance works! The educational centre is public, non-profit and offers the opportunity for youth groups, associations and schools to spend some days or weeks here, running a seminar or some other projects. One focus of the offer is on environmental education and outdoor activities. You will be working to take care and maintain the green areas around the regional education centre. Your tasks will include:
• cutting the grass and bushes;
• renovating/taking care of the playground and its big swing, the low rope course, the tree houses and the sports grounds;
• tending the herbs garden and the insect hotel;
• building wooden benches;
• cleaning the grounds of the centre.
In addition, you will continue to upgrade the outdoor area pedagogically and create new offers. One of the workcamps set up an outdoor kitchen with pizza oven, which is used for different educational actions with youngsters.

Description of location and leisure:

Kell am See is a village 30 km from Trier, surrounded by beautiful landscapes. The area is well known for cycling, hiking and other ways of outdoor activities. In Kell, there is a holiday resort, which offers more than 200 holiday bungalows next to a lake (close to the educational centre). The area is not just appreciated by tourists: People from the area also come here for cycling (there is a 45 km cycling path on a former railway roadbed) or to spend a nice day outside. In addition, the region offers plenty of historic sites (castles, museums….). You will get the opportunity to come in contact with local associations, e.g. the local voluntary fire brigade. Since public transport is poor, the number of excursions will be limited but you will for sure visit Trier, famous for its Roman sites, its cathedral and for being the birth place of Karl-Marx.

The nearest airport: LUX in Luxembourg,Luxembourg
The nearest terminal (train-, bus-, taxi station): Trier
Meeting Point and Time: Meeting point: You will be picked up from the bus stop in Kell am See. There is the bus No. 230 from Trier to Kell am See every 2 hours. Please inform your campleaders about your arrival time on Sep 07. You can check for connections from anywhere to Kell am See on: www.bahn.com/en.

Description of accommodation and food:

You will stay in five wooden tepees for max. five persons each. It is really great to stay here surrounded by pure nature, with the campfire in the middle of the circle of tepees. In the centre you will have your own kitchen including a dish-washer, a living room and sanitary facilities. For your free time you will find plenty of outdoor facilities (campfire, basketball, football, volleyball…) and a nice indoor room. Please be aware that the tepees have beds and electricity but no heating, so it might be cold at night. Bring a warm sleeping bag! In the different facilities of the centre as the kitchen and the living room, there is heating. Wifi is available.
Your group of volunteers will be responsible for grocery shopping and cooking together. The food will be bought with the camp budget and everybody will take turns for cooking, washing the dishes and cleaning. In order to reduce our carbon footprint on the planet, we encourage volunteers to reduce meat and try more sustainable dishes.

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PROJECT: Betzenstein and Plech are two neighbouring small towns in the region of Franconia, about 35km from the city of Nuremberg. This year, the two municipalities will organize an international workcamp together for the third time. Various tasks await you in this project, since you will be working in Betzenstein and in Plech. The town hall workers and inhabitants are looking forward to meeting you! In the two towns there are different clubs and associations, who you will have a chance to meet and even work with during your stay. This way, you will really get to know the place and the people. Your support will help the communities maintain, renovate and artistically enhance their infrastructure (UN SDG 11 sustainable communities).


WORK: The communities of Betzenstein and Plech are both counting on your help to realise diverse ecological, renovation and artistic projects. A lot of different tasks will await you during these two weeks. In Betzenstein you will:
• Help to make a playground for children beautiful by adding artistic elements to it;
• Realise artistic design and maintenance work at the local outdoor swimming pool;
• Maintaining hiking trails;
• Maintaining a “natural monument” called the Schmidberg tower;
• Constructing nesting boxes for animals.
In Plech, you will:
• Maintain beautiful hiking trails in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way;
• Help repair a historic fence, which is listed as protected monument;
• Bring in your creativity to artistically enhance a nature and discovery trail – you might be working with wood and colours;
• Help with woodwork on a pavilion and some wooden shelters for hikers in the nature;
• Support of associations in the field of sports and local history, helping to shape and experience a cultural event, the “Franconian village church fair” (Fränkische Dorf-Kirchweih)
As you will be staying in Betzenstein, you can reach the work places by foot there. When you will be working in Plech, the local workers will pick you up with a small bus. The work will be led by a professional instructor from the municipal maintenance department, so no previous experience is needed. You will work 30 hours per week, somewhere between 8am to 4pm from Monday to Friday with a lunchbreak on site. Please bring clothing that is suitable for outdoor work (that can get dirty), as well as sturdy shoes!

LOCATION: The Bavarian region in which Betzenstein and Plech are located in the Bavarian region of Franconia, famous for its dialect, wine and beer production and of course, for its beautiful nature and cultural landmarks. Betzenstein and Plech are specifically located in a part of Franconia called “Franconian Switzerland” (Fränkische Schweiz in German), due to its mountainous and hilly landscapes. For this reason, the region is much appreciated by hikers and nature lovers. In addition, in Betzenstein, Plech and neighbouring towns, you can find interesting museums, beautiful churches and fountains. There is also the possibility to go bouldering or climbing if you are interested. On the weekends there are busses to nearby cities like Nuremberg or Pegnitz. Your hosts are happy to show you around and to get to know you throughout the two weeks!


TRAVEL INFORMATION
Next train station: Neuhaus (Pegnitz)
Next international train or bus stations: Nuremberg - 35 min from Neuhaus (Pegnitz) with the train.
Next airport (if you really need to take a flight): Nuremberg (NUE), Munich (MUC), Stuttgart (STR).
MEETING POINT AND TIME: Please, try to arrive at Neuhaus (Pegnitz) train station in the afternoon on August 19. There will be pick-ups organised by your camp leaders at 15:15, 17:15 and 19:15. Find the best connection on the German railway company's website: https://www.bahn.com/en

ACCOMMODATION: You will be accommodated in Betzenstein’s primary school and sports hall. You will sleep on sports mats in one big room in the sports hall, so please bring a sleeping bag (and a pillow if you want). The building has toilets, showers and changing rooms separated by gender. To cook, you will have access to the big and very well equipped kitchen in the primary school.
Your group of volunteers will be responsible for grocery shopping and cooking together. The food will be bought with the camp budget and everybody will take turns for cooking and cleaning. In order to reduce our carbon footprint on the planet, we encourage volunteers to reduce meat and try more sustainable dishes.

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Niefern-Öschelbronn is a small town in the South-West of Germany; it consists of the two districts called Niefern and Öschelbronn. This year, the town is going to host its second international workcamp! After helping to open a nature kindergarden the first time around in 2018, the town now plans to take different communal and environmental actions. The locals are looking forward to meeting you and some of the local associations are already thinking about some activities or tours they could do with you. By supporting the community of Niefern-Öschelbronn you will help to contribute to a sustainable town (UN SDG 11), as well as to protect life on land (UN SDG 15).

: Join this workcamp and contribute to improving a historical hiking trail in an ecological way! In this camp, your main task will be to refurbish and ecologically enhance parts of a hiking path called “Eppinger Linienweg” between the two communities Niefern and Öschelbronn. The “Eppingen lines” is a historical site: it used to be a defensive line built in the 17th century. You will be working in collaboration with the local association LMU (Leben, Mensch, Umwelt) which is the German for “Life, Human, Environment”. Several tasks await you! You will
• build a dry wall (be ready to lift some heavy stones!);
• build a wild bee hotel;
• do many maintenance works along the way;
• plant shrubs;
• lay sand beds for the wild bees to nest (most of the species nest in the ground);
• fill some parts of the way with gravel;
• build some steps where needed.
The work site is about 15 to 20 minutes by foot from your accommodation. There will be the possibility for you to go by car with the people of the LMU association. The work will be led by a professional instructor, so no previous experience is needed. Some days, you might be split up in smaller groups to do different tasks. You will work around 30 hours per week, somewhere between 8am to 4pm from Monday to Friday with a 1-2 hour lunchbreak.

Niefern-Öschelbronn is surrounded by nature and it is close to the bigger city of Pforzheim and the Unesco World Heritage Site “Maulbronn Monastery”, a well preserved monastery built during the Middle Ages. Within a couple hours on the train you can reach the cities of Karlsruhe and Stuttgart but also the Black Forest which is very popular for hiking. In addition, the members of different local associations are ready to organise some activities for you! You will also have the possibility to do a bicycle tour or a hike around Niefern-Öschelbronn, passing through fields, forests and meadows. Last but not least, you will get free entry to the local municipal outdoor swimming pool during the whole duration of your stay!

NEXT TRAIN STATION: Niefern (from the train station to your accommodation you have to walk 20 min)
NEXT INTERNATIONAL TRAIN STATIONS: Stuttgart, Karlsruhe
NEXT AIRPORTS, in case you really need to fly:
• Stuttgart (STR): from Stuttgart Airport it takes 1,5 to 2 hours on the train.
• Karlsruhe (Baden-Baden) (FKB): from Karlsruhe Airport it takes 2 hours on the train.
MEETING POINT AND TIME: Please, try and arrive at Niefern train station between 1pm and 7pm on August 6th. Find the best connection on the German railway company's website: https://www.bahn.com/en

You will be accommodated in an apartment between Niefern and Öschelbronn, which belongs to the city. In the apartment there are 2-3 different rooms for you to sleep in – they can be separated by gender if you wish so. Camp beds are provided but please, bring your own sleeping bag! There is also one equipped kitchen as well as one bathroom with toilets inside. Your group of volunteers will be responsible for grocery shopping and cooking together. The food will be bought with the camp budget and everybody will take turns for cooking and cleaning. In order to reduce our carbon footprint on the planet, we encourage volunteers to reduce meat and try more sustainable dishes.

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PROJECT: After the success of the projects in the past eleven years, the town of Heilsbronn is looking forward to hosting another work camp this year. The town hall is a big fan of work camps and international groups and has already introduced other neighbouring cities to the work camp idea as well. In this year’s project different construction and environmental tasks await you in and around this beautiful town in Bavaria. WORK: You will help with the maintenance of the Vita Parcours fitness trail. Your task will mainly be to clear the trail of over-grown plants. Besides, you will set up gardening spaces in the “Naturlehrgarten”, a park that includes several stations which explain environmental issues to the visitors. In this park you might plant herbs and trees as well as set up new paths. Last but not least, there will be plenty of cleaning work to do for you along the famous St. James' Way.

Heilsbronn with its 9300 inhabitants is located in the idyllic Bavarian region called „Franken“(Franconia). The town lies along a path known as “the Way to St. James” or “Camino de Santiago”. For this reason, the town is frequently visited by tourists as well as pilgrims. Apart from the traditional, half-timbered houses the town offers a few unique sites, such as the Romanesque monastery and the local cathedral. A guided tour might be organised for you. Besides, the town arranges free entrance to the outdoor swimming pool for the group. Nature-lovers can find several hiking trails in the beautiful surrounding landscape. The worth-seeing cities of Nuremberg, Bamberg and Rothenburg ob der Tauber are not too far away either and might be visited on weekends.

NEXT AIRPORT: Stuttgart (STR), Frankfurt (FRA) or Nuremberg (NUE)
NEXT TRAIN STATION: Heilsbronn

You will be accommodated in the local youth club called “JUZ”. The building includes a kitchen and all necessary facilities. Please bring a sleeping bag! The local youth who normally visit the club are looking forward to welcoming you and getting to know the international volunteers.

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