ewoca³ - european workcamps
A Grant Programme for Youth Organizations in North Rhine-Westphalia
13 youth organizations in North Rhine-Westphalia received the go-ahead at the beginning of 2009 to organize work camps for young people between the ages of 16 and 23 in conjunction with 26 international partners. A youth organization in North Rhine-Westphalia is now organizing three-week work camps in three successive years with two international partners.
Structure and Organization
The work camps will take place in summer 2009, 2010 and 2011 respectively. Over these three years, each of the three partners will hold one work camp for around 30 participants. The work camps are organized by the project partners of Internationales Bildungs- und Begegnungswerk e.V. President of the North Rhine-Westphalian State Parliament, Regina van Dinther, is patron of the three-year programme.
Objectives
One objective of the project is to network youth organizations throughout Europe. The other is to promote the intercultural and social competence of the young participants and to focus on projects that deal with environmental issues.
The 13 Youth Organizations in North Rhine-Westphalia:
- Haus Niedermühlen, Oberhausen,
www.jugendheim-niedermuehlen.de
Project 2009: "Let’s go – Youth Leading the Way" (education trail in Asbach) - Steinfurt District Youth Welfare Office – Department of Youth Social Work in cooperation with the Naturschutz Tecklenburger Land ANTL nature conservation organization, Tecklenburg, www.antl-ev.de
Project 2009: "Nature Experience 2009 – Let's Build a Jetty" (in Tecklenburg) - SJD – Die Falken Hagen, www.falken-hagen.de
Project 2009: "People and Nature at One" (design of a small garden in Hagen) - Stadt Gevelsberg – Jugendzentrum, Gevelsberg
Projekt 2009: "Naturspielfläche Hellerfeld" (in Gevelsberg) - Hagen Town Council – Dept. Youth & Social Affairs, Hagen
Project 2009: "Woodwork – New Trees for Hagen" - Verein für Jugendheime e.V. / Heinrich Pardon Haus, Recklinghausen, www.hochseilgarten-re.de
Project 2009: "Building a Water Play Area" (in Recklinghausen) - Gustav-Stresemann-Institut e.V., Bonn, www.gsi-bonn.de
Project 2009: "Shape Your Future! Our Environment – Our Energy – Our Future" (save energy campaign in the Cologne/Bonn region) - Soz. Friedensdienst zur Völkerverständigung mit Osteuropa e.V., Dortmund, www.friedensdienste-osteuropa.de
Project 2009: "Nature-friendly Village House" (energy saving campaign in Fanipol, Belarus) - Offene Tür St. John (Cologne) in cooperation with Grüner Grashalm e.V., Fahren, www.ot-stammheim.de
Project 2009: "Building a Youth Centre in Siberia with Young People" (in Podgornij, Russia) - Heimstätte Dünne gGmbH, Bünde
Project 2009: "Building for a Common Future" (completion of the Meeting House in Stari-Lepel, Belarus) - DGB Bildungswerk e.V. Youth Education, Hattingen, www.dgb-jugendbildung.de
Project 2009: "Great Climate?" (Workcamp on climate change and forest living environments in Hattingen) - Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Agenda 21 NRW e.V., Schwerte, www.lag21.de
Project 2009: "Natura – a Multilateral Workcamp on Sustainability" (climate agent training at the Nadeshda Children's Centre, Belarus) - Cologne Youth Welfare Office in cooperation with "Alte Schule e.V.", Cologne
Project 2009: "Let the sun come in" (regenerative energy supply for youth centres, construction of a reed bed sewage treatment system and a solar water supply system)