TRAININGS

“We believe that education plays a fundamental role when striving for peace and development. Education is a human right. In our training courses, we use the Non Formal Education (NFE) method – meant to be participatory and accessible to everyone. Through dialogue and intercultural exchange, we can promote a critical understanding of the world and changes in our society.“

SCI Team

Pre-departure Training

During our pre-departure training you will learn more about our volunteer engagement, the workcamps and long-term projects. Moreover, you will also get to know our values ​​and goals.  We deal with challenges in international workcamps or long-term projects and will offer you various workshops on topics such as interculturality, SCI history, conflict resolution, non-violent communication, group dynamics, cultural prejudices/stereotypes, Global Justice, racism, post-colonialism, gender and safe spaces and much more. In addition, volunteers will report on their experience in a volunteer engagement, and will give you valuable tips.

Participation in the pre-departure training is compulsory for minors who want to participate in a workcamp or LTV project, for volunteers joining a LTV project and for camp coordinators of the summer workcamps in Switzerland.

We organise three preparatory seminars per year. These usually take place in spring (February/March> for interested people in workcamps and LTV), summer (Mai/June> only for camp coordinators and workcamps participants) and autumn (October/November> for interested people in workcamps and LTV). Please contact us if you would like to do a long-term project so that you can be sure of attending a preparatory seminar in advance. In May, the seminar is only open for camp coordinators and workcamp participants.

Are you interested in participating? Contact us: info@scich.org

 

  • The next pre-departure training (for camp coordinators of summer workcamps in Switzerland) will take place on the following date Saturday, 21 June 2025. Find out more
  • The next pre-departure training (for long-term and workcamp volunteers) will take place on the following date: Saturday, 25 October 2025. Find out more
Registration form - "SCI Pre-departure Training for Camp-Coordinators" on 21/06/2025
Registration form - "SCI Pre-departure Training" on 25/10/2025

Upcoming Training courses

Peace training courses

“Peace is a big concept. It has many layers and levels of understanding. Throughout this year and beyond, SCI hopes to broaden young people’s understanding of and engagement with peace, as something more than just ‘absence of war’. We want to show that peace is something which can be lived on a day-to-day basis”. (SCI International)

Peace in Practice (2020)

The training course shed some light on the three levels of peace (“inner peace”, “peace with others” and “peace with nature”).

Peace for Change, Change for Peace (2022)

The project goal was to build the capacity of around 60 youth workers to gain competences essential for building a peaceful and nonviolent world.

Educators for Peace (2023 - 2024)

We will organised 2 training courses (November 2023 & April 2024), where the participants learned, shared and exchanged on how to work for peace.

Environmental and climate advocacy training courses

Eco Stories: Engaging Youth in Environmentalism and Climate Advocacy (2025)

In 2025, we will offer two training courses to empower youth and organizations in climate activism, fostering impactful actions for environmental preservation locally and globally.

Follow up resources

“My Peace Journal”, a guide to encourage reflection and action for peace

One of the tangible outcomes of the project “Peace for Change, Change for Peace” (2022) was “My Peace Journal”, a personal diary providing space for reflection, encouraging thinking about peace and acting for peace, available both printed and in electronic form. If you would like us to send you the printed version, please contact us at info@scich.org

Download the Journal

Peace in Practice Poster

“What will I do for Peace today?” – We are happy to present you this inspiring peace poster which is the outcome from the training course “Peace in Practice” (2020).

The poster is available in different languages, colours, sizes and symbols. We already have the versions in Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, and soon more!

We hope you can be inspired by these small inputs for your daily practice of peace!

More information

TESTIMONIALS

What our volunteers say

Publications & Toolkits

The Power Behind Good Intentions (2021)

A toolkit for critical European volunteering organisations and Global Education practitioners

Free to be You and Me (2019)

The toolkit provides information on gender and sexuality, practical guidelines and easy-to-use tools

The Dailyplate Project (2020)

A toolkit and a cookbook about how our values should and can be represented in our food consumption

Peace on the Streets (2019)

Tools, best practices, knowledge around campaigns and street actions for youth workers and peace activists

FA-SILLY-TATORS!
(2020)

Exploring humour in non-formal education and youth projects


Building Bridges (2017)

Know-how on voluntary projects involving asylum seekers & refugees as well as raising awareness on forced migration

More SCI Publications

Publications from other organizations

The "BreakFree!" Project

The “BreakFree!” Project is a joint project of the SAJV and the ‘Milchjugend’,  in cooperation with “Du bist Du”;  its aim is to strengthen the inclusion of LGBT + youths in youth organizations.

https://samouraimma.com/