🔑 Key Information

Activity ⭐️ Title

Windmill Tree in Nemoland

Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location

Training Course

18-25 August 2026 | Międzylesie, Poland


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❗️What Is This Training About?

Outdoor learning experience - nature, simple living, creative tasks and community as tools for emotional recovery, resilience, and teamwork


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ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity

It is a project about slowing down, reconnecting and discovering how the forest, the fields, the body, the group and imagination can become part of meaningful educational practice. 

Nemoland, meaning “no man’s land”, is a 36-hectare remote nature reserve around Ramberg and the Kamienica River — a place of absolute silence, darkness and wild nature.

It is hidden between Isermountains (Góry Izerskie), Giant Mountains (Karkonosze) and the Bóbr Valley Landscape Park (Park Doliny Bobru).

In 1997 the Dutch nature association Nemo founded Nemoland as a non-profit cooperative and autonomous zone to live with what nature and the Polish villages of Stara Kamienica are offering.

Participants will sleep in two-person tents provided by the organisers.

Food will be provided by our cooks, but the programme will also include a shared cooking experience:in mixed groups, participants will also cook one meal themselves as part of the outdoor experience. 

18 and 25 of August are project travel days.

This project is a completely alcohol-free and phone-free zone. Participants are expected to respect those guidelines during the entire stay.

Training overview

This Training Course is

for 20 participants

from Austria, Belgium - DE, Belgium - FL, Belgium - FR, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Western Balkan countries

and recommended for

Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Youth policy makers, Volunteering mentors, Youth coaches, Youth researchers

Working language(s):

English

Organiser:

Windmill Tree Foundation (Others)

Instagram: foundation_windmill_tree

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📥 Contact

Contact for questions:

Katarzyna Petyniak

E-Mail:

Phone: +48 888 473 397

💶 Costs

Costs

Participation fee

No participation fee.

If you are over the granted travel budget the amount above you must cover yourself.

Accommodation and food

Organisation provides accommodation and food.

Travel reimbursement

WE REIMBURSE YOUR TRAVEL COSTS CALCULATE YOUR ROUTE WITH THE DISTANCE CALCULATOR AND THEN YOU WILL RECEIVE REFUNDS:

10 and 99 KM: 20 EUR

100 and 499 KM: 180 EUR

500 and 1999 KM: 275 EUR

2000 and 2999 KM: 360 EUR

3000 and 3999 KM: 530 EUR

WE WILL ALSO SEND YOU A TRAVEL GUIDE BY E-MAIL

📜 Certificate

Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:

https://youthworkshub.org/15122


⚠️ Important Dates

Application deadline (24h UTC): 26 July 2026

Date of selection: 30 July 2026

🔗 Official Link

https://www.salto-youth.net/tools/european-training-calendar/training/windmill-tree-in-nemoland.15070/

🗂️ Documents

LINK to INFOPACK Windmill Tree in Nemoland.pdf


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