Avnø Oasis Volunteering Opportunities
Vitalitetsfonden
Lundby, Denmark
Description
Avnø Oasis Ecovillage & Residential Learning Center (Avnø Højskole) is for people who want to actively experience living in a community, practicing a new paradigm of living—rooted in responsibility, regeneration, and collaboration. Most positions require good English skills and a long term commitment. Volunteering at Avnø for 6-12 months offers rich possibilities for development of personal, practical, organizational, social and communal skills. Volunteering for less time gives you the community experience, while doing more routine tasks like community service and assisting in our teams. We are in particular looking for people with handyman skills, gardening skills, promotion skills, organizational skills, hosting skills, cleaning skills, kitchen assistents & Holistic Green Chef trainee’s.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
You will be part of an aspiring eco-village of residents, teachers, guests and students, where we all aim to participate in essential community building activities. Your room has a private bathroom. The community kitchen serves 3 daily meals made of organic whole grains, beans, seeds & local vegetables and smaller amounts of fermented foods, fruits, nuts, seaweeds, fish, shrimp, and eggs. Vegan is an option. Car service is available. Living in a community can be socially demanding, but it also provides opportunities for personal growth, healing, and deep connections with other people.
Training during the activity
During your first week you observe, learn, and do basic tasks. Bigger responsibilities come after grounding. The volunteer mentor will support you in finding your right place with the right amount of responsibilities and is available for support during your stay. We have a weekly well-being meetings where we discuss each persons well-being community issues as well as roles and responsabilities. During long stays you participate in on-arrival and midterm training. You will be able to participate in sessions in our Residential Learning Center (Avnø Højskole).
Participant profile
For us, it’s very important that everybody here thrive and work from a place of inspiration. If you are a self-motivated individual who are eager to be a (temporary) part of our community, put your body, mind & soul to use in an intense combination of social interaction, research, experiment, design, practical tasks and the co-creation of a more sustainable model of life we invite you to apply. Basic conversational level of English is required. Please find more information and apply through our info package: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10AchU1sOdYgkND1JMpIXsRcSv2PmYkaNKQ9O9ckxlPU/edit
Activity dates
A total of 54 week(s) during the period 31/05/2026 to 31/01/2027
Activity location
Flyvervej 10, Lundby, Denmark
Activity type
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
Activity topics
Environment and natural protection
Health and wellbeing
Education and training
Employment and entrepreneurship
Creativity and culture
Shelter
Deadline for applications
No application deadline
Project code
2025-1-DK01-ESC51-VTJ-000346193