The work-camp season 2025 just started. We are very happy to present you selected workcamps that will take place in this summer.
Participate in a volunteer project and contribute to social justice, peace and sustainable development!
There will be more than 300 workcamps offered in about 90 countries around the world! Here is a selection of some volunteer projects available at the moment. Many more are published online in the workcamps search engine.
-> You can filter by date, country and topic. Stay tuned: The list is updated regularly.
If you would like to participate in a Workcamp in Switzerland, you will find all volunteer projects in this list.
If you want to read more information about the Workcamps you can find here the conditions, costs and the registration process. In addition, we organise online information events about the workcamps – sign up for one!
If you have any questions you can write to placement@scich.org or call us on 031 381 46 20.
WORKCAMPS IN SWITZERLAND AND ABROAD
ESTLAND: Winter Kiidi [05 – 11 March 2025]
Description: The charm of Haanja Uplands in South Estonia lies in its lovely hilly landscape, winding roads and numerous lakes. Most of its ancient villages, peculiar dialect, handicrafts and customs have been preserved until today. The whole area, called Vorumaa, is an area of outstanding beauty. It is famous for its diverse and very well preserved nature. With the support of the state and local authorities the eco- and farm sustainable tourism has been developed in this area.
Type of Work: The voluntary working program is diverse. It includes building wooden fence, cleaning hiking, cross-country skiing and snowboarding trails from brushwood, repainting hiking route signs, making firewood (cut woods, pile firewood in ricks), preparing material for rug weaving, cleaning sheep wool for crafts and possibly making woolen carpets. There might be also some light maintaining work in the houses.
SPAIN, CATALUNYA: Let’s build an Iberian house – experimental archaeology [12 – 21 April 25]
Description: We’re witnessing rapid changes in our environment & the protagonists of it ought to be locals aiming to keep it alive & attractive to live in through sustainable land cultivation. In ART we engage in diffrent areas: Culture, urban environment, infrastructures
Type of Work: The work will be mostly manual and it will consist in working with clay to construct a replica house from the Iberian period, using experimental archaeology techniques. We will have the support provided by a collaboration with technicians in biodynamic construction and two others in experimental archaeology.


ISLAND: Environment & Photography – Spring in Reykjavík [27. March – 04 April 25]
Description: During this camp, participants can share their love for (and learn more about) global & local environmental issues, as well as photography. If you are interested in topics such as climate change, waste management, animal protection and sustainability, and you also love taking photographs, making videos or want to develop your photography skills, then this project is for you!
Type of Work: You will visit local projects on environment and conservation. These may include hands-on activities or guided visits. Some examples include outdoor cleanup tasks, a geothermal power plant, a local fauna and/or flora exhibition or an outdoor Icelandic culture museum. Some of these activities are dependent on conditions such as weather, as well as availability or restrictions of our partner organisations.
GERMANY: Unearthing Stories: Archaeology & Remembrance at Ravensbrück [12 – 16 Mai 25]
Description: The Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp was established in 1939 near Fürstenberg an der Havel. Until its liberation in April 1945, more than 120,000 women and children, 20,000 men and 1,000 underage female adolescents from the so-called ‘Uckermark youth protection camp’ were imprisoned there. The Ravensbrück Memorial preserves testimonies and traces, promotes remembrance and research and is also an active place of learning and encounter.
Type of Work: Together with two archaeologists from the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the Archaeological State Museum, archaeological excavations will be carried out at the site of a former prisoner barrack. The work is expected to be strenuous and will take place without a roof.
GERMANY: Holidays for Kids (near Duisburg) [12 June – 26 July 25]
Description: As a provider of several ‘open all-day schools’, SCI:Moers organises holiday care. At several play centres, 6 to 10-year-old children come together in groups of up to 20 children and can take advantage of an attractive range of play, sports and leisure activities. These include excursions, visits and craft activities.
Type of Work: The volunteers support the supervisors and organise their own holiday activities. They learn about child and youth work in Moers and familiarise themselves with the school system. Contribute your ideas and support the carers.
SWITZERLAND: Botanical Garden Alpinum Schatzalp (Davos GR) [29 June – 12 July 25]
Description: The private botanical garden “Alpinum Schatzalp” is a part of the Art Nouveau mountain hotel Schatzalp in the heart of the Swiss mountains. Occupying about 5 ha at the height of 1864m above sea level, there are over 5000 different species and types of plants from all over the world that are cultivated here.
Type of Work: During your stay you will get an insight into horticulture, especially into the field of alpine gardening. Volunteers will mostly be working in the field of nature conservation, espacially controling (weeding) invasive Neophytes. Apart from that, you build pathways, prepare compost, prepare soil for future plants, propagate plants, maintain the garden grounds and prepare flower-beds. Please be aware that the work is physically demanding, you will sometimes need to carry heavy things (& working at the height of 1864m above sea level is more tiring)!

