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We are a group of 3 ecovillages in Romandie, French speaking part Switzerland, latino spirit.
We are artists, artisans and social entrepreneurs. Our ecovillage lifestyle simple and try to apply daily ecological good practices (recycling, vege organic food, etc) and solidarity (sharing meals, making music...).
Our little network of ecovillages is part of the Global Ecovillage Network and part of the European Network of Living Labs. We share financial resources to buy local organic food, to make our own cleaning products, we support the DIY culture by creating our own decoration, ecoconstruction etc...
One ecovillage where you could stay is 10 minutes away by walk from the Lac Leman, we enjoy having a swim there. We also have a permaculture garden, several terrasses and common spaces (cafeteria, multi-purpose room, game room...) where we enjoy spending time together, playing music, playing boardgames, brainstorming... We speak french, english, portuguese and spanish.
One of our current projects that animates a lot of us is the creation of an escape room!
We welcome volunteers all year to offer the opportunities to learn about community life, sustainable practices and ecoresponsible professions, while being directly immersed in our ecosystem, living, creating and working by our side.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
DIY and building projects
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We follow an ecological and community-based way of living. We cherish diversity and have various nationalities among our residents. We often have international travelers/volunteers staying with us, from various sites with great friendship created ...
The volunteers benefit from the experience of our cooperative and non-profit artists association. Thanks to our large shared spaces (cafeteria, party rooms, workshops, multi-purpose rooms) volunteers are able to socialize with many people, share stories, garden, cook together and enjoy our parties and concerts. They can learn how to live a daily life among our community and bring their own skills.
Help
We welcome your contributions in several aspects of the ecovillage/entrepreunarial life:
- Decoration in a dynamic creative spirit. We would sometimes need help with repairs or keeping the premises in good condition, as well as dealing with improvements requested by other cohabitants.
- Administration in our coworking spaces (to be fluent in french is required). Excel tables, monitoring of entries, payment entry, writing of letters, accounting entry, statement of charges, tax returns...
- Community management. Maintenance of our websites, social medias, promotion of events, video making, signaletic design, holding our stand in fairs during summer...
Needed at the moment: support with ADMINISTRATION!
To these missions could be added some common tasks like all the inhabitants: cooking or grocery shopping with our cook Alberto, gardening, supporting in the maintenance of the house...
You can also develop your own artistic projects, keeping up with the spirit of the place, with our supervision. We are also an incubator for local social-entrepreneurs.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Fluent
Portuguese: Fluent
Accommodation
In one of our cohousing structures in the little region of Romandie (french part of Switzerland), we have free space to receive 2 volunteers. We provide food and accomodation. Private room (at least 75% of the time, usually 100%) and sometimes dormitory availability for 2 people in the same room (max. 25% of the requested time). We accept couples.
What else ...
We use Telegram to connect, please you can contact us via Telegram on the mobile number.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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Montserrat a fait une première immersion dans notre écovillage, et montré ses bonnes compétences en vie communautaire, pratiques d'écologie profonde.
C'est une personnalité forte, ouverte au dialogue, et avec la force de l'expérience.
On lui souhaite succès pour ses prochains séjours dans des écolieux.
Ecopol Team
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Montserrat a fait une première immersion dans notre écovillage, et montré ses bonnes compétences en vie communautaire, pratiques d'écologie profonde.
C'est une personnalité forte, ouverte au dialogue, et avec la force de l'expérience.
On lui souhaite succès pour ses prochains séjours dans des écolieux.
Ecopol Team
