Jóvenes y Bioconstrucción en Ecoaldeas

Project description

Nowadays, the youth is looking more and more in the ecovillage experience for answers to the challenges that the global world brings up to them. The ecovillage movement aims to connect with nature and human needs for health, integration and coherent vision of the future and its objectives are sustainability and resilience. Los Portales, founded in 1984 and located in Castilblanco de los Arroyos (Seville, Spain), is one of the oldest and stablest ecovillages in Spain. Since 2011, young people from all over the world have come looking for an experience that meets these challenges, and then brought this seed back to their places of origin. The aim of this experience is to make young people aware of the importance of living in healthy self-construction spaces, providing them with tools and experiences that will enable them in the future to continue training or experiment with what they have learnt, in order to intervene in situations that may require this knowledge.

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Accommodation, food and transport arrangements

As a hosting organization we have a house with shared rooms with wardrobes, shared bathroom with hot water, kitchen and common lounge. The house has drinking water in all taps, electricity and wood heating. In Los Portales we do all the meals together. Breakfast usually starts at 7:30. Lunch at 13:30 and dinner at 20:00. All the food we cook is mostly organic and vegetarian and we give priority to cooking with garden ingredients. When we ear meat, there is always a vegetarian option. We organise transport to the village and buses to Seville.

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Training during the project

- theoretical learning on the techniques of construction with soil and straw and putting into practice in the building in renovation; its characteristics, properties of isolation and advantages; - preparation of a mud plaster "body layer" composed of straw, mud (clay soil, straw, sand and hay), to plaster a wall of bales of straw already built; - plastering of partitions with mud, with hands and with tools for levelling and flattening; - preparation of finishing plasters for existing partitions and an exterior wall; - plastering of these finishing layer partitions;

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Volunteer profile

The participants in this project do not need any previous experience for the planned activities described above. However, they are expected to show interest in the ecovillage way of life, with all that this implies in terms of cooperation, sustainability, sensitivity to issues of social inclusion and equity, as well as environmental issues. In the particular case of this project, the selected candidates will find an answer to their specific demands for training in bio-construction, so they are expected to be deeply involved in the learning.

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How to apply

Please send us your CV and covering letter to: Neus: escprojects@losportales.net

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Related links

Los Portales

Project dates

A total of 8 week(s) during the period 01/02/2019 to 29/03/2019

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Project location

Finca Los Portales (ecoaldea Los Portales in Google Maps), 41230 Castilblanco de los Arroyos (Sevilla) Spain

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Looking for volunteers from

Spain, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Italy

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Project topics

Climate action, environment and nature protection

Rural development and urbanisation

Health and wellbeing

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Application deadline

Application deadline: 05/05/2019

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Contact

Name: Neus Valls

Phone: +34 676 053 759

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Hosting organisation

LOS PORTALES ESPACIO COOPERATIVO

Castilblanco de los Arroyos, Spain

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Sending organisation

Eurocircle Deutschland e.V.

Berlin, Germany

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SCAMBIEUROPEI ETS

MONTEGRANARO, Italy

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Stichting GEN-NL

Varik, Netherlands

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Permakultur Danmark

Hillerød, Denmark

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Asociacion Red Iberica de Ecoaldeas

Lakabe, Spain

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