Location: Frederiksberg, Denmark

Project name: Volunteering at AFS Interkultur Program Team

Hosting organisation: AFS Interkultur

Sending organisation: “Common Sense” Youth Organisation

The volunteer will be part of the Program Department in the office which consists of nine staff members. 
He/she will also be a member of the volunteer committee POK which is responsible for planning and implementing camps for AFS school program participants, conducting information meetings for potential applicants and keeping young national volunteers actively engaged. POK meets every Tuesday to coordinate, plan and socialize. After meetings they always eat together and hang out as a group. Thus, POK is not only volunteer work, but also a social community.
He/she will job-shadow both key staff members and volunteers to get an in-depth understanding of the way AFS Interkultur is organizing its activities in Denmark.

The main tasks include:

  • Being the liaison between the AFS-office staff and the national AFS-volunteers, helping them recruit new volunteers and motivating the exciting ones, preparing orientations for Danish and foreign participants etc. This will give him/her a thorough knowledge and experience in how to work with volunteers in a volunteer-driven organization.
  • Taking part in the weekly evening meetings of the volunteer committee. 
  • Being directly involved in the implementation of meetings and orientations as co-facilitator. This will enable him/her to get hands-on experience in the running of volunteer youth activities. Among other topics, the training will be about team building, cultural encounters and conflict resolution. The activities also include a variety of practical tasks.
  • Being a co-coordinator of the fall camp
  • Being trained and working on programmatic and administrative issues linked to AFS youth exchange and voluntary service programs such as: public relations, quality assurance, project management, networking and partnership building, etc. The volunteer’s learning process in the above fields will be supported by on-the-job training whenever needed, structured and informal discussions as well as regular planning and sum-up meetings.
  • Coordinate volunteers engaging in intercultural learning activities at schools. 

The volunteer will also be invited to join an ongoing effort to develop and distribute information and knowledge regarding intercultural learning in and outside of the AFS Interkultur, through various channels.

The volunteer will have access to and will work with publications and on-line information about different types of youth and voluntary service programmes and implementation guidelines, which will enable him/her to gain knowledge about such programmes and the issues at stake when implementing international youth exchange and voluntary service programmes.

Much of the work of this position takes place outside normal office hours in evening hours and over the weekend. These hours will of course be counted equally to working office hours.

Project period – 01/08/2025 to 31/07/2026

Deadline: 31/12/2024

How to apply? – Please get registration number, and only apply through this Link!
!!Do not apply through the ESC-Portal!!

How to get a registration number? – If you don’t have an account on European Youth
Portal, please watch our instruction videos from this Link.


All costs are covered by European Solidarity Corps

No participation fee! 

Language: English

Accommodation, food and transport arrangements: 

The volunteer will be working at our office in Copenhagen. We are located approximately 3.5 km from the city centre. You should expect to work approximately 37 hours a week. At this time the volunteer can do his/her Danish lessons as well. There will occasionally be evening/weekend work as well. The hours done outside office hours can be taken off at other times. The volunteer will receive two days off per month.  
The working language is Danish and the ESC volunteer will be expected to learn Danish to a certain degree. Until the volunteer feels more comfortable with Danish, we will use English.  
AFS will be responsible for finding accommodation for the volunteer. 

As a part of the European Solidarity Corps program, the following is covered by us:

  • International transport is covered to a certain amount. The EU sets a budget depending on the distance to our office. If you travel in a green way your budget will be higher!
  • Health insurance
  • Food and accommodation
  • Allowance/pocket money: 380 euro/month in total: 360 euro (decided by the department of the EU) + 20 euro from the local AFS department.
  • Transportation covered: from home to project and from home to language school (if chosen). Your main means of transportation will be a bicycle.

Application conditions and requirements for volunteering: 
✔ good level of English knowledge
✔ Between 18 and 30 years old
✔ interested in intercultural learning and experiences
✔ creative/flexible/open-minded
✔ interested in learning the danish language

Hosting organisation information 

Name of the sending organisation: “Common Sense” Youth Organisation 
OID number : E10200624
City and country of your sending organisation: Sumgait, Azerbaijan
Person in charge (name and surname): Ramiz Aliyev
E-mail of the person in charge: evs@csyo-az.org