Volunteer opportunities
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Volunteer Camps
1 - 3 Weeks
Abroad / Switzerland
+ 16/18 years (unlimited)
Open Volunteer Camps in Switzerland
In 2025, we were able to run more than 10 volunteer camps. From nature-based projects to art camps, participants from more than 30 countries gained valuable experience in international teams in Switzerland and supported projects through voluntary work. The next camps will take place in summer and autumn 2026.
The camps are now open for registrations. Join us!
Volunteer camp abroad
There are more than 300 volunteer camps in over 90 countries. The list is updated on a regular basis. There are volunteer camps for everyone!
Open volunteer Camps in Switzerland 2026
Nature Parc Ela – Preserving traditional cultivated landscapes
Date: 19 July to 01 August 2026
Location: Parc Ela, Savognin, Grisons CH
Age: 16–99 Years
Discover a craft that has been passed down through generations and help preserve the cultural heritage of Parc Ela! You will have the opportunity to learn more about the conservation and protection of Alpine biodiversity—with professionals on site! The work takes place in a breathtaking Alpine landscape and includes tasks such as removing trees and bushes, maintaining trails, and restoring traditional wooden fences.
Find all the relevant information here.
Intercultural Building Project – Building Together and Learning from One Another
Date: 20 to 31 July 2026
Location: Zurich CH
Age: 18–35 Years
Join us and become part of an intercultural construction project at the “Dynamo” Youth Center in Zurich! Together with people from different countries, you’ll get creative, learn various techniques (woodworking and metalworking), and get to know the community center. In addition to hands-on work, the focus is on learning together, living together, and gaining new perspectives.
Discover the camp online and sign up now!
Pro Terra Engiadina – Working for Nature and the Cultural Landscape
Date: 26 July to 08 August 2026
Location: Sent, Grisons CH
Age: 18–99 Years
Get actively involved in preserving the unique cultural landscape of the Engadin! Together with experts, you’ll work outdoors in nature and support projects to protect biodiversity and traditional habitats. You can expect a variety of hands-on tasks in a stunning mountain landscape—and exciting insights into sustainable landscape management, local history, and Alpine agriculture.
You can find all relevant information here.
Art Camp – Art, Creativity & Intercultural Exchange
Date: 08 to 15 August 2026
Location: The Creative Factory (Atelier Kreativ-Werkstatt) , Solothurn CH
Age: 18–99 Years
This volunteer camp is the perfect opportunity to learn about arts, your creativity and yourself! The volunteers will work on intercultural written images: together they create small-format wedge frames with the material available. People will write their own short texts, poems, word collages, etc. on the canvases to be created and develop their creative skills while meeting new people!
Sign up now online and join us this year!
Conservation of Chestnut Forests in Misox
Date: 09 to 22 August 2026
Location: Fondazione Mont Grand, Soazza, Grisons CH
Age: 18–99 Years
Help enhance the landscape of the Mont Grand mountain pasture by caring for the chestnut forests. The work mainly involves haymaking among the trees; under certain circumstances, you may also be involved in other landscape conservation activities, such as clearing brush, collecting stones, etc. During the work, you will learn a lot about botany, biodiversity, history, and cultural landscape management. Please note that this is physically demanding work.
Find all the relevant information here.
Preserving Alpine biodiversity in the Vaud Alps
Date: 12 to 20 September 2026
Location: Villars-sur-Ollon, Vaud, Switzerland
Age: 16–99 years, open to families
Immerse yourself in the daily life of mountain farmers in the Swiss Alps and expand your knowledge of ecological interrelationships and the value of important habitats for endangered species! Together with a local farmer and volunteers from around the world, you will remove invasive or unwanted plants to help preserve the mountain pastures. You will also assist with other activities in support of Alpes Vivantes. Please note that this involves physically demanding work.
Discover the camp online and sign up now!
Intercultural weekends
2- 3 days
Switzerland
From age 16 / 18 (often family-friendly)
Open Intercultural Weekends in Switzerland 2026
The next weekends will take place in summer and autumn 2026 and will be published here in spring. More will follow.
Weekend in Valais – Encounters, nature, animals and creativity
Date: 5 to 7 June, 2026
Location: Salgesch (Valais, CH)
Age: 16–25 (exceptions possible)
You will spend a weekend with young people with and without migration-experience. You will live and work with the group and discover new perspectives. You will take part in creative workshops using natural materials and wood, in physical, artistic and circus activities, as well as in animal-assisted activities. You will cook together and work in the garden. You will discover life on a farm as well as an approach that respects the environment and animals.
The project takes place at our partner Treffpunkt Tschüdanga. It is a non-profit association that offers a meeting place for artists, older people, asylum seekers, people with disabilities, socially disadvantaged people and those seeking authenticity. Read all conditions online.
Sign up online before May 24, 2026 and take part this year!
Long-Term-Volunteering (LTV)
In a long-term assignment, you as a volunteer will make a large contribution to a charitable project in Asia, Africa, Latin America, UK, Spain, North America. The duration is 1 – 12 months. You will immerse yourself in a different culture and acquire new skills that will enrich you personally and that will also help you when you return to Switzerland. From 18 years old.
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