🇩🇪 ESC Volunteering in Germany 🎵 Cultural Space Facilitator at Other Music Academy in Weimar 🎨

Weimar is one of Germany’s cultural capitals — home to Goethe, Bauhaus, and a living tradition of art, music, and community. The Other Music Academy (OMA) is an empowerment centre running international community arts projects from a building in the heart of Weimar, and they’re looking for an ESC volunteer to help keep that building alive, creative, and open to the community during a major renovation and transformation phase.

🏛️ About Other Music Academy

OMA is a multilayered empowerment centre with international community arts projects based in Weimar, Germany. They run an OMAcafé, host concerts and workshops, produce the annual Yiddish Summer festival (yiddishsummer.eu), and operate as a learning community hub. Their building is currently undergoing significant renovation — and they want to keep it open and active throughout.

🎯 The Role

This is a hands-on, creative, and community-facing role. You’ll be co-developing programming for the OMA building, supporting the café, working with the social media team, contributing to festival logistics, and developing your own small-scale independent project within the organisation.

📋 What You’ll Do

🏠 Co-develop a programme for the use of the OMA building during its renovation and transformation phase

☕ Support the team in keeping the OMAcafé open and welcoming to the community

🎶 Help run concerts and workshops at the space

📱 Work with the social media team to communicate OMA’s activities and community

🎪 Contribute to the implementation of the Yiddish Summer festival — learning logistics, management, and hosting of a learning community

💡 Develop a small-scale independent project of your own within OMA

🎁 What the Project Provides

🏠 Shared flat in Weimar with 2 other volunteers — private room with shared kitchen and bathroom

🍽️ €313 per month for food (€10.43 per day)

💶 €7 per day pocket money provided monthly

🚌 Deutschlandticket — monthly public transport pass valid across all of Germany

🚲 A bicycle for inner-city transport if desired — Weimar is bicycle-friendly

🧑‍🏫 A personal mentor at OMA for help and advice

📋 Participation in mandatory German National Agency seminars — on-arrival and mid-term

🤝 Biweekly team meetings and regular feedback sessions

🗂️ Additional support with bureaucratic hurdles and working environment issues

👤 Who Should Apply

OMA is looking for volunteers who are:

💡 Motivated, flexible, friendly, curious, and self-confident with good communication skills

😄 Ideally with a sense of humor — they mention it specifically

🗣️ Good written and spoken English — required

🇩🇪 Basic to good German — useful given the focus on local community work

🛠️ Basic skills with management and communication tools

🎪 Prior experience with community or event organising is a plus

🌍 From diverse backgrounds — OMA actively aims for a workplace sensitive to discrimination

⚠️ Do not use ChatGPT to write your application — OMA explicitly asks for genuine, personal applications. Apply via the ESC portal and fill out their own application form: https://forms.gle/1kYdthCMkkaR3pap9

⚠️ The OMA building is not yet accessible for people with disabilities — contact them directly to discuss your needs if relevant. Start and end dates can be discussed if needed.

🔎 New to ESC volunteering? Everything you need to know about how the programme works is right 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 🇵🇱 Poland 🇷🇴 Romania 🇸🇰 Slovakia 🇸🇮 Slovenia 🇪🇸 Spain 🇸🇪 Sweden

📅 Activity Dates

🗓️ 15 April 2026 — 30 May 2026 (42 weeks total)

📍 Ernst-Kohl-Straße 23, Weimar, Germany

⏰ Deadline

15 May 2026

📬 How to Apply

Apply via the ESC portal and fill out OMA’s own application form:

📝 https://forms.gle/1kYdthCMkkaR3pap9

🔗 https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/51130_en

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