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Dänemark MS 01 The Lotus House, BRENDERUP 28.05.-17.06.2012 ENVI/CONS/STUDY 12vols
WORK: The camp is hosted by Brenderup Folk High School. Brenderup Folk High School is working as a boarding school with an international approach and accept both Danish and foreign students. You can read more about the school here: http://www.brenderuphojskole.dk/filer/english.htm
Please not that Brenderup Folk High School hosts two work camps this year, and that the volunteers of this work camp will participate in the work of both “MS01 – The Lotus House” and “MS03 – Building sustainable energy”. For the last years, Brenderup have hosted work camps that have supported the building process of Brenderup’s environmental friendly straw bale house and the ellipse-shaped “lotus house”. Last year Brenderup developed the idea of sustainability further into different ways of constructing. The volunteers constructed, in cooperation with constructers of Brenderup, various small buildings and activity equipment in the school garden. Everything was built with environmental friendly materials. This year the work will stay in the ideas and concept of the last couple of years – building sustainable. One of the big projects this year is to make a work place. The Lotus House was build years ago from sustainable material, and has a interesting construction which actually “carries” itself.
It is the participant's job to build a work shop for the Lotus House. During the work participants will take part in workshops facilitated by the staff and students of Brenderup, where the idea of sustainability will be challenged and debated and also other workshops about recycling design, music, art and gym are planned.
The work camp will be an integral part of the daily life at Brenderup Folk High Scholl. The international volunteers will each day eat together with the rest of the schoo’s students, and common social activities will be arranged. The school has many international students and their integration with the camp contributes ot cultural exchange and understanding, which is one of the scholl’s basic values.
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will be accommodated in a tent camp in the middle of Brenderup’s huge garden and will have access to showers and toilets in the school buildings. Food is prepared by the schools kitchen staff and served 3 times a day. Volunteers should expect to assist doing dishes and preparing meals. The school is making ’’green food’’ from sustainable products and also serves vegetarian food - volunteers just need to sign up for this upon arrival. There is wireless internet at the school and bicycles can be rented for the whole stay.
LOCATION: Brenderup is located on the island Funen (Fyn) in Denmark. The village Brenderup (2000 inhabitants) is close to the beach, forests and idyllic countryside.
Terminal: (Train): Odense (36 km.) or Middelfart (16 km.) – from there by bus to Brenderup. Nearest airport: Billund or Copenhagen – from here it possible to go by train or bus to Odense and from there to Brenderup.
REMARKS: The school is a folk high school and will have students and course participants (50 people) during the work camp. They have their own program but there will be a lot of opportunities for volunteers to interact with the students, especially during dinner and through different social activities during the evenings. Volunteers are expected to follow the rules of the school. Pls. read about the school at http://www.brenderuphojskole.dk/filer/english.htm
REQUIREMENTS: People, who are used to work with their hands in combination with artistic skills, will be preferred to the work camp and volunteers are expected to be ready to share their culture with the other participants and students at the school. Special motivation letters and other requirements may be attached to the info-sheet. English at a conversational level is required.
Dänemark MS 02 Vingsted Historical Workplace, VEJLE 06.08.-19.08.2012 STUDY 12vols
WORK: The work camp is hosted by Vingsted Historical Workshop. Since 1976 Vingsted has built up a large Iron Age environment with farms and houses just like those in Denmark 2000 years ago. The purpose of Vingsted Historical Workshop is to create, operate and develop practical work, educational and cultural activities where users can have a direct experience with various natural and historical contexts. During the last 7 years Vingsted has been in the process of (re)constructing a chieftain’s house from the Iron Age in Denmark (the time around year 0). The task of last year’s work camp-volunteers was to help building the fence which now encircles the entire chieftain farm. The work this year will be similar to this, but is still to be agreed upon.
Volunteers are supposed to work and live as in the Iron Age. Accommodation facilities and work will give the volunteers an insight into and understanding of human interaction with nature. During the camp focus will be on food procurement and food preparation, use of raw materials, energy sources and energy consumption, waste and recycling, household and agricultural technologies.
The work will focus on the provision and use the natural resources, different materials and their uses, craft technology and work processes.
LOCATION: Vingsted Historical Workshop is located in Vejle Valley - approx. 10 km west of the city of Vejle in Jutland. The area around Vejle River Valley is known for many archaeological findings from the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Viking age.
Some of the area’s historical sites and attractions can be visited during the camp. ACCOMMODATION: Participants will stay and live in two reconstructed Iron Age houses in the area. Participants will have access to modern bathing facilities. Meals will be prepared by participants – sometimes over an open flame.
TERMINAL: (Train) Vejle. Nearest airport: Billund, from here it is possible to go by bus to Vejle. It is also possible to fly to Copenhagen and then go by train to Vejle.
Remarks: Please notice that the work of this work camp is physical and it is expected of participants to play their part in this working team. Weekends will be off.
REQUIREMENTS: Volunteers should have an interest in history and different ways of living in different cultures at different times. Participants should be prepared to live as people did in Denmark during the Iron Age. Volunteers must be willing to undertake work task that can be physically demanding and require good team working skills. English at a conversational level is required.
Dänemark MS 03 Building sustainable energy, BRENDERUP 06.08.-26.08.2012 ENVI/CONS/STUDY 18vols
WORK: The camp is hosted by Brenderup Folk High School. Brenderup Folk High School is working as a boarding school with an international approach and accept both Danish and foreign students. You can read more about the school here: http://www.brenderuphojskole.dk/filer/english.htm
Please not that Brenderup Folk High School hosts two work camps this year, and that the volunteers of this work camp will participate in the work of both “MS01 – The Lotus House” and “MS03 – Building sustainable energy”.
For the last years, Brenderup have hosted work camps that have supported the building process of Brenderup’s environmental friendly straw bale house and the ellipse-shaped “lotus house”. Last year Brenderup developed the idea of sustainability further into different ways of constructing. The volunteers constructed, in cooperation with constructers of Brenderup, various small buildings and activity equipment in the school garden. Everything was built with environmental friendly materials. This year the work will stay in the ideas and concept of the last couple of years – Building sustainable. Brenderup Folk High School is planning to go from gas energy to energy from wood pellets. In this occasion a house needs to be completely re-build, so it will house a wood pellet burner. This house will partly be used for music creation and education. The work of the participants will be to prepare the house for the installment of alternative energy – this includes demolishing and rebuilding the insides of the house. During the work participants will take part in workshops facilitated by the staff and students of Brenderup, where the idea of sustainability will be challenged and debated and also other workshops about recycling design, music, art and gym are planned. The work camp will be an integral part of the daily life at Brenderup Folk High Scholl. The international volunteers will each day eat together with the rest of the schoo’s students, and common social activities will be arranged. The school has many international students and their integration with the camp contributes ot cultural exchange and understanding, which is one of the scholl’s basic values.
LOCATION: Brenderup is located on the island Funen (Fyn) in Denmark. The village Brenderup (2000 inhabitants) is close to the beach, forests and idyllic countryside
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will be accommodated in a tent camp in the middle of Brenderup’s huge garden and will have access to showers and toilets in the school buildings. Food is prepared by the schools kitchen staff and served 3 times a day. Volunteers should expect to assist doing dishes and preparing meals. The school is making ’’green food’’ from sustainable products and also serves vegetarian food - volunteers just need to sign up for this upon arrival. There is wireless internet at the school and bicycles can be rented for the whole stay.
TERMINAL: (Train): Odense (36 km.) or Middelfart (16 km.) – from there by bus to Brenderup. Nearest airport: Billund or Copenhagen – from here it possible to go by train or bus to Odense and from there to Brenderup.
Remarks: The school is a folk high school and will have students and course participants (50 people) during the work camp. They have their own program but there will be a lot of opportunities for volunteers to interact with the students, especially during dinner and through different social activities during the evenings. Volunteers are expected to follow the rules of the school. Pls. read about the school at http://www.brenderuphojskole.dk/filer/english.htm
REQUIREMENTS: People, who are used to work with their hands in combination with artistic skills, will be preferred to the work camp and volunteers are expected to be ready to share their culture with the other participants and students at the school. Special motivation letters and other requirements may be attached to the info-sheet. English at a conversational level is required.
Dänemark MS 04 Peace and Tolerance camp, SOENDERBORG 15.08.-25.08.2012 STUDY 18vols
For volunteers 18-30 years old.
WORK: The Peace and Tolerance Camp is hosted by Soenderborg Student Foundation (SSF), which is a foundation working to create an exciting, appealing and rich learning environment, for all appealing and rich learning environment, for all students in Soenderborg no matter their nationality.
The camp is located in the city Soenderborg, near the border between Denmark and Germany. The Peace and Tolerance Camp is making a statement towards the intolerance that exists today between different countries, cultures and religions. The aim and purpose of the camp is to educate the volunteers to become peace and tolerance ambassadors. Based on the wish to make the world a better place, the work camp will work with examples from all over the world, which proves that all humans can live together and benefit from diversity. There will be workshops, lectures and debates about the problems and how people can learn from different conflicts around the world. At the end of the work camp, the aim is to create an online action plan, on how to create awareness about peace and tolerance around the world. This plan will be based on different solutions discussed and debated during the camp. The idea behind the location in the border are, is to explore the living and coexisting habits from the past and up to the present in this particular area, as an example on how people of different nationalities, co-exist in the border area. Denmark and Germany were at in war for many years and even though they have been enemies many times in the history of mankind, there is a minority of the Danish and German families living on both side of the border. They live with each other, in peace and tolerance, benefiting from each other’s diversity. The work camp wants to explore if there is something we can learn by studying this community and the way they coexist, which can be related to the rest of the world. As a part of the online action plan, it is planned to create an online ambassador forum and a video which promotes peace and tolerance.
LOCATION: Soenderborg on the island of Als. Terminal: (Train) Soenderborg. Nearest airport: Billund (From here there are bus connections to Soenderborg). Soenderborg also has its own airport bus, but it is very small.
ACCOMMODATION: To be announced.
Remarks: The volunteers are expected to be active participants in debates and lectures.
REQUIREMENTS: The volunteers of this project should be interested in, of course, the ideas of peace and tolerance, but also in the online community and media. English at a conversational level is required.