Volunteer Work Placements at Summer Camps in Europe

Camp Europe is a non-profit organization that wants to bring young adults and kids the joy of being part of an international camp. We offer great opportunities for volunteer positions in European Camps with children and staff from more than 60 nations.

All placements that we offer include full room & board. Some placements are Stipend Paid. Camp Europe offers mainly four different type of placements, according to the program's nature and length. Although must of our programs run for about 8 weeks through the summer months (end of June, July and until late August); we also provide longer term placements such as a 3-month Internship & a 6-month Outdoor Education Diploma.

All of these Experiential Learning Programs are provided along with extensive training sessions. 

Feel free to explore the different possibilities and choose what suits you best. We are looking forward to receiving your application form and have you in our next season's team!

International Outdoor Education Training

In order to take place in any of Camp Europe´s programs, you must attend an intense International Outdoor Education Training, that will allow you to learn first hand, a wide array of topics, to later on put them into practice during your placement and the rest of your life. You will gain new hard-skills, develope soft-skills, and enhance your world vision and expand your criteria by simply living out of your comfort zone and spending a wonderful summer with marvelous people like you, from all over the world.

Our intensive International Camp Counselor (ICC) training session  focuses on your personal skills with the aim to offer you a specific profile-oriented preparation for the role you will perform within the different camp program areas, for which you will get special training sessions. 

Furthermore, you will obtain a Bronze Cross -Life Guard- Course & Certificate, complementary to the ICC.

Optionally you can also participate in a 1 and a half day First Aid course.

All in all, you will get started with a professional complete 7 days training session through which you will be able to considerably broaden your personal skills.  So, you can expect…

• A fantastic week full of an energetic crowd gathering in a patch of forest, ready to have some outdoor fun.

• An opportunity to meet like-minded people and enjoy experiential learning through educational and recreational activities, games & group dynamics.

• A lot of action at our campsite in Walsrode. where you’ll meet other international faces with whom you will spend a wicked summer.

• The contents of the International Camp Counselor Training are many. From knowing how you can entertain children and young people to what to do accurately with homesickness: passing through legal aspects, on how to develop presentation skills to perform in front of large groups and other counseling techniques for instructing various activities such as survival, team building, etc.; our coaching team has prepared a full training pack for you. The only thing you must bring, is your own fantastic & motivated good feeling vibe to start the summer!

• If you don’t have a first aid certificate or your old one has expired, you can complete this course after the International Camp Counselor Training at our campsite in Walsrode.

• The camp-specific seminars, they all take place directly at each camp-site, during this occasion you will meet with the rest of the team, explore the premises, etc.

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Take a look at the amateur video below, created by Paige Seagall, one of our summer 2018 participants.

Following next, take time to watch the 14 min. documentary about Camp Europe´s philosophy and its approach to

Outdoor Education and Experiential Learning.

Volunteer Work at Camp 

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Long story, short...

Our programs are designed to allow young people to travel to Europe, meet people from many different countries, to benefit from a top class Outdoor Education Intense training and get a few certifications along the way. Then, having met cool people and being pumped up by the training, you might find some time to do some traveling around Europe with your new international friends. Travel, enjoy and relax to then show up at your designated campsite to perform as a role model, spend time playing outdoors like a kid, experience working in a team-based environment, and have the time of your life.

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• Learn or practice a new language.

• Meet people from all over the globe with like-minded interest.

• Acquire teaching experience through a variety of stimulating, fun and safe activities for children and youth.

• Mainly, there are 2 different placement positions available each summer:  Camp Counsellor & Language Coach.

• Camp Europe participants receive an Official Certificate of Participation in an International Internship Program.

• Camp Europe programs are most often bilingual; offered in English as well as in the native language of the host country.

• Locations are concentrated mainly in Germany, Austria, Ireland, Spain, and France.

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