Volontariato Europeo in una scuola di agricoltura biologica in Danimarca

AFS Interkultur

da agosto 2021 a luglio 2022

Kalø Økologisk Landbrugsskole is Northern Europe’s oldest organic farming school. Our approximately 100 students and future farmers are instructed in domestic animal care, cultivation of plants, technical skills, social studies, economics, production and management.

The school is placed in a very beautiful Danish countryside near water, forest and cultivated fields. Personally and collectively we highly value ecology, community, development, credibility and quality in everything we do.
The students can choose to live at the school. This creates the best possible way of forming a close relationship with each other as well as with the staff. The atmosphere at the school is very informal and the placement will be great for a volunteer who is not afraid of getting his or her hands dirty from digging up vegetables or helping out taking care of the animals in the stables.

At Kalø we have an international program called ” Global Organic Farmer”. Classes of this program consists of 70% Danish and 30% foreign students from EU countries. The foreign students live at the school together with the Danish students, creating an international environment. The staff consists of: Agronomist, agricultural technologist, kitchen staff, farmer, IT, leadership, consultant, craftsman etc.
In total we are about 25 people working at Kalø. Our staff is used to dealing with intercultural as well as interlinguistic differences appearing among the young people.

The school is placed 15 minutes walk from the city of Rønde (approximately 3000 citizens, various stores) next to Mols Bjerge National Park. It takes 30 minutes by bus to get to Aarhus (Denmark’s second largest city) and there are several bus lines going there.

At Kalø Økologiske Landbrugskole they imagine that the volunteers are enrolled in a mixed program along the year according to the season. All year long farming, including livestock (pigs, sheep, hens, cows), plants, field work, managing agricultural machinery, preparing vegetables for the farm shop etc.

Farming will involve establishing, maintaining, and harvesting crops as well as animal care-taking, processing or selling the meat. The school uses their own crops and meat in the organic school kitchen. The school also have a farm shop with a large variety of vegetables, which the volunteer also will be involved in to preparing.

In general the volunteer will get the opportunity to learn about domestic animal care, animals’ and plants’ annual cycles, greenhouse and outdoor farming, becoming acquainted with organic and sustainable cultivation. As animals can be hungry at all times a day, the volunteers should be prepared to work outside normal office hours. Naturally they will be given time off at other times.

The  volunteer will live at the school together with the students and will be expected to integrate him or herself in the social life as well as the responsibilities at Kalø. The school has a large selection of student driven social activities and facilities such as choir, fitness room, table tennis, pool, football etc.

The surrounding nature obviously gives you the possibilities of bathing in the ocean (it might be cold, though), walking or biking in the forest. In Aarhus you can also find plenty of opportunities for spare time activities.

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The recruitment process is open to all, but it would be generally preferred that the volunteer should have a keen interest in learning about agriculture, organic farming and sustainability. We will highly value a volunteer who is not afraid of getting his or her hands dirty from digging up vegetables or helping out taking care of the animals in the stables.

The volunteer will live and eat at the school together with the students, and will be expected to integrate him or herself in the social life as well as the responsibilities at Kalø Økologisk Landbrugskole. The school has a large selection of student driven social activities and facilities such as choir, fitness room, table tennis, pool, football etc.

The surrounding nature obviously gives you the possibilities of bathing in the ocean (it might be cold, though), walking or biking in the forest. In Aarhus you can also find plenty of opportunities for spare time activities.

Within the project the following is covered:

• International transport is covered to a certain amount (approximately 90%).
• Health insurance
• Food and accommodation
• Allowance/pocket money: 220 euro in total: 180 euro (decided by the department of the EU) + 40 euro from the local AFS department.
• Transportation covered: from home to project and from home to language school (if chosen)

Working hours: 30-38 hours/week

All volunteers save up 2 holidays every months.

Kalø Økologisk Landbrugsskole has a partnership with AFS Interkultur Denmark, who will administer the European Solidarity Corps grant – including the volunteer allowance to be given to the volunteers during the programme.  Kalø Økologisk Landbrugsskole as the hosting school will provide accommodation and three meals a day to the volunteer.

AFS Interkultur will make sure that the volunteer gets a mentor/contact person who will help the volunteer integrate into the Danish local community and support the volunteer with every matter related to the stay of the volunteer.  AFS also helps the volunteer become part of the overall volunteer network in Denmark.

Both AFS Interkultur and Kalø Økologisk Landbrugsskole will assist volunteers with the administrative paperwork related to arriving in Denmark.

Si prega di fare domanda inviando il proprio CV in inglese, una lettera di motivazione e il modulo compilato a invio@incoweb.org, specificando nell'oggetto il titolo del progetto ESC per cui ci si candida.

Qualche suggerimento per la lettera motivazionale: cerca di farci capire cosa ti interessa di questo progetto, cosa ti ha colpito, cosa vorresti imparare, quale passione hai che vorresti condividere con lo staff e gli altri volontari.

Please be aware that your application and supporting documents will be shared with people involved in the selection process within AFS Interkultur Denmark and within the hosting project. If you are selected for the position, your application will also be shared with AFS local chapter, your mentor and your host family. We look forward to receiving your application provided you can accept this.

If you have been shortlisted for the project we will contact you for a skype interview before February 1st  2021.