Seminars & Workshops

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. 

Participation costs CHF 60 (including meals) for all other volunteers. Please transfer the CHF 60 to our account before the seminar begins: Service Civil International Switzerland, Monbijoustrasse 32, 3011 Bern, IBAN: CH26 0900 0000 8003 3387 4
The training is free of charge for volunteers participating in a long-term camp and for camp coordinators.

Are you interested in participating and have questions? Please contact us at info@scich.org

• The next pre-departure training (for long-term and workcamp volunteers) will take place on the following date: Saturday, 14. March 2026