🇩🇪 ESC Volunteering in Germany 🎭 Neighborhood Culture and Creative Community Activities 🎶

Description

The Kulturladen Hamm sees itself as a meeting place for the neighborhood and offers self-organized groups, regular courses, and a diverse program of events in the fields of education, creativity, and exercise. Events such as cabaret, music, readings take place all over the year, as well as special programs for children and events for seniors.Together with our visitors, we want to offer easy access to cultural activities within walking distance. As an established neighborhood cultural center, it has been actively involved for many years in planning, implementing, and facilitating a wide range of cultural, social, and educational projects, and works closely with local initiatives, schools, social institutions, and volunteer groups. Through cultural exchange events, international workshops, and collaborations with partner organizations from various countries, the Kulturladen has demonstrated that it actively integrates European perspectives into its work.

Accommodation, food and transport arrangements

Accomodation: you will stay in a shared house in Hamburg, where you will have access to internet, a shared bathroom and kitchen. You will have your own room.

Food: you will receive the official amount for food (345 €) per month and also a monthly pocket money (210€).

Transport arrangements: we will provide you with a bike and a monthly public transport pass (if necessary).

Training during the activity

You will have many opportunities to learn with us! You will attend two mandatory seminars in different German cities, where you can reflect on your learning progress and meet other volunteers like you.

You can improve your language skills thanks to a language course that we will provide. We will also offer you trainings before, during and after your project.

In addition, during your stay with us, we will organise regular reflection meetings.

Participant profile

The biggest building block of our work is the contact with the people that visit our cultural centre. Therefore, we would like to have a person who is courageous to get in touch with our different target groups. Not being shy, being interested in the young people's issues and being open to other people and situations are definitely qualities that will make your start with us easier.

We do not expect any special educational qualifications. Of course, you will not be able to communicate in German from the beginning, but we think that there are many ways of communicating outside of language.

We would like you to bring ideas and initiative to regularly design, plan and implement activities for our visitors. These can be low-threshold projects, for example in the area of music, sport and creativity, in which the visitors can try things out. The projects can be in your areas of interest, and there are many possibilities in our house. The most important aspect for us is that you want to be part of our team for the duration of your service and come into contact with the young people in the projects. We are happy if you bring your own interests and skills into our team.

WE ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS THROUGH THE ESC PORTAL. Please do not send your application to any other email address. If you have any questions, please email esc-hi@ijgd.de ONLY.

Activity details

Activity type

Individual volunteering

Activity dates

A total of 52 week(s) during the period 01/02/2027 to 31/01/2028

Location

Hamburg, Germany

Deadline

30/11/2026

Project code

2026-1-DE04-ESC51-VTJ-000404131

Topics

Looking for participants from

27 countries can apply. The activity takes place in 🇩🇪 Germany.