TRAININGS
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 long-term and workcamp volunteers) will take place on the following date: Saturday, 25 October 2025. Find out more!
Upcoming Training courses
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TESTIMONIALS
What our volunteers say
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