🇩🇪 ESC Volunteering in Germany 🏫 Volunteer with Children & Youth at Urspringschule — Southern Germany 🌿

A former monastery in the quiet village of Schelklingen, nestled in the foothills of the Swabian Alps. Around 270 pupils aged 8 to 20 living and learning together in small classes of 16. And a private boarding school that sees education not as instruction but as a shared life — cognitive, emotional, and creative development all at once. Urspringschule is looking for an ESC volunteer who genuinely wants to be part of that environment.

🏫 About Urspringschule

Urspringschule in Southern Germany is a private boarding and day school committed to realising its educational mission as a unity of living, learning, and teaching. Around 130 students live at the boarding school and the rest attend as day pupils — all in an atmosphere that balances specialist knowledge, humanity, and creative development. The school is housed in a former monastery in Schelklingen, offering a calm, communal, and genuinely unique setting for this volunteering placement.

🎯 The Role

As an ESC volunteer, you’ll be supporting children and young people aged 8–20 in developing their individual life skills— their cognitive, emotional, methodological, and social potential. You’ll be embedded in the daily life of the school, working alongside staff, participating in team meetings, and contributing to the community that makes Urspringschule what it is.

📋 What You’ll Do

👦 Support children and young people in their daily school and boarding school life

🤝 Assist staff in educational, recreational, and social activities

🏃 Contribute to sports and physical education activities

🎨 Help facilitate creative and extracurricular programmes

📋 Participate in team meetings and maintain regular contact with your tutor

🎁 What Urspringschule Provides

🏠 A fully equipped employee’s apartment located on the school grounds

🍽️ Food five times a day at the school canteen

💶 A monthly allowance for days off to cover personal food expenses

💶 Monthly pocket money of €210

🚌 A monthly transport ticket valid across all local transport in Germany

✈️ Travel expense reimbursement according to ESC guidelines

🗣️ At least one German language course plus the online OLS language course via the ESC system

📚 Two obligatory trainings organised by the German National Agency, plus one workshop organised by coordinating organisation VIA e.V.

👤 Regular meetings with a personal tutor throughout the placement

👤 Who Should Apply

Urspringschule is looking for a volunteer who is:

❤️ Strongly motivated to work with children and youth — experience in this field is a plus

👥 A genuine people person with the ability to work in a team

🚗 In possession of a valid driver’s licence qualifying for driving in Germany, with driving experience

💬 Open, communicative, and adaptable

🗣️ Has a good level of English or German

🔞 Aged 20 or older

🔎 New to ESC volunteering? Everything you need to know — from how to apply to what the programme covers — is all in one place here: https://youthworkshub.org/15101/

🌍 Eligible Countries

🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇧🇬 Bulgaria 🇭🇷 Croatia 🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇪🇪 Estonia 🇫🇮 Finland 🇫🇷 France 🇬🇷 Greece 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇮🇸 Iceland 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇮🇹 Italy 🇱🇻 Latvia 🇱🇹 Lithuania 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 🇲🇹 Malta 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇳🇴 Norway 🇵🇱 Poland 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇷🇴 Romania 🇸🇰 Slovakia 🇸🇮 Slovenia 🇪🇸 Spain 🇸🇪 Sweden

📅 Activity Dates

🗓️ 1 September 2026 — 31 July 2027

📍 An der Schwäbischen Alb, Urspring 1, Schelklingen, Germany

⏰ Deadline

30 April 2026

🔗 Link

https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/51093_en

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