🇩🇪 ESC Volunteering in Germany 🎵 Conne Island Self-Managed Youth Culture Centre with Concerts, Skate Park and Sound Engineering 🛹

VILLA gGmbH

Leipzig, Germany

⭐️ Activity Title

ESC @ Conne Island: Events and Culture

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🔷 Activity Details

Description

Conne Island is a self-managed youth cultural centre in Leipzig-Connewitz. Our premises host concerts and parties, information events, workshops, reading circles, a skate park and much more. Decisions on the content are made by consensus in the Island's Monday public plenary sessions. Not only the permanent staff, but also the volunteers and people who are interested in the development of Conne Island take part in this plenary session. Conne Island has a left-wing orientation and relies heavily on the voluntary commitment of its visitors. It also offers plenty of space for your own project ideas. You will be mainly involved in the event management and in setting up the technology for the events, like the live mixing. You will also learn how to use the professional sound equipment. Furthermore, you can participate in/ contribute to the other projects in Conne Island or also implement your own projects.

Accommodation, food and transport arrangements

The volunteer lives in a single-bed room in a flat share with other volunteers in Leipzig. In the shared flat, residents must take care of the cleaning of the flat. You will receive a ticket for public transportation, as well as pocket & food money. Go here for more details: https://villa-leipzig.de/europaeischer-solidaritaetskorps/hosting/living

Training during the activity

During the ESC: the volunteer receives a basic language training (no official language course), also other training needed to carry out agreed tasks and the volunteer attend the On-Arrival training and Mid-term seminar offered by the NA. In addition, there will be realised several project days towards topics of solidarity in Europe / participation / social projects for all ESC volunteers. More information on this website: https://villa-leipzig.de/europaeischer-solidaritaetskorps/hosting/available-voluntary-place/esc-conne-island

Participant profile

Aged between 18-26 years, interest in working with young people, some organizational skills, open-mindedness, own ideas, able to communicate in english (speaking german is not a requirement), agreement with the principles of Conne Island (especially its against anti-Semitic orientation), preferably a FLINTA-person (FLINTA is a german acronym for: women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender people), if you like to skateboard, this is your place to be :)

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🔑 Key Information

Activity dates

From 01/09/2026 to 31/08/2027

Activity location

Lessingstraße 7, Leipzig, Germany

Activity type

Individual volunteering

Looking for participants from

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

Activity topics

Social challenges

Creativity and culture

Working against discrimination (including gender discrimination)

Deadline for applications

Application deadline: 05/07/2026 23:59

Project code

2026-1-DE04-ESC51-VTJ-000400956

If you have problems understanding the questionnaire, you can send an e-mail to esc@villa-leipzig.de for further assistance. Please don't send several applications for the same position by email and this form.

General:

Dear candidate, please fill in this form. Please complete all questions, otherwise your application will not be considered. The first part is inquiring about general information we would need for the ESC process. Afterwards, we ask for your personal motivation. If you want to apply for multiple positions, please fill out another form.

Before you complete this form, please read the project details about the project you apply for carefully. We collect all applications until the application deadline. We need around 8 weeks to process the applications. Please be patient and we will get back to you.

🔗 Official Project Page

https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/52728_en

WE ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS THROUGH OUR FORM: https://forms.gle/UKap37j376mJTdMUA

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