🇸🇪 ESC Volunteering in Sweden 🌻 Green Skills Permaculture and Life in an Ecovillage 🔨

Description

Only applications made in this form will be considered. DO NOT APPLY VIA THE YOUTH PORTAL! Green Skills integrates the participants into an international community and facilitates their taking part in civil society and grassroots initiatives. It seeks to address societal issues such as climate change and social discrimination through youth empowerment and competence building. Our main objective relates to environmental challenges that we face globally, as well as to the need for resilience; socially, politically, and environmentally. Through events like workshops, presentations, or documentary screenings, people at Suderbyn have many chances to become more informed about the complexities of environmental, political, and social sustainability. The participants contribute to all aspects of running the ecovillage and are organized in 4 separate activity domains, namely: Infrastructure, Permaculture Garden, International projects & networks, Office & Administration.

Accommodation, food and transport arrangements

You will be hosted at Suderbyn ecovillage. Simple accommodation, private rooms, vegan food. The ecovillage is located 9km away from Visby, the main town on the island of Gotland. Gotland is in the middle of the Baltic Sea and part of Sweden. There are daily ferries from Stockholm, capital of Sweden, to the island. You can read more about Suderbyn here: https://suderbyn.se/ 

Training during the activity

Permaculture gardening: Garden planning, mulching, planting, harvesting, use of garden tools, composting, greenhouse management, foraging

Sustainable food production: Vegan cooking, preservation, drying herbs, baking bread

Low-tech construction, maintenance and renovation

Handicraft: Wood carving, welding, sewing, painting, mechanic, plumbery, electricity

Other areas: Bicycle repair, metal work, electrical work, car maintenance

Communication: Participatory decision-making and sociocracy, conflict resolution, group facilitation

Life-long Learning: Learning to learn, problem solving, critical thinking

Participant profile

Young people aged 18-30 who are interested in spending 11 months in an ecovillage in Sweden, learning about permaculture and building/DIY as well as living in an active community of more than 20 members. From any EU country, Iceland and Ukraine.

Activity details

Activity type

Individual volunteering

Activity dates

From 17/03/2027 to 17/02/2028

Location

Västerhejde Toftavägen 211, Visby, Sweden

Deadline

13/11/2026

Project code

2026-1-SE02-ESC51-VTJ-000401350

Topics

Looking for participants from

28 countries can apply. The activity takes place in 🇸🇪 Sweden.