SEEDS - Volunteering for Iceland

The training module of Foster Social Inclusion

06.12.2021

The project partners of Foster Social Inclusion have each created training modules. Here are the links to the modules published so far: Vilnius: NEUROEDUCATION FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION https://issuu.com/fostersocialinclusion.eu/docs/brochure_neuroeducation_for_social_inclusion_tra Italy:...

VOLUNTEERING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PURPOSES - Foster Social Inclusion

17.11.2021

About the Foster Social Inclusion project "The project is built to support, address diversity and promote, through best practices, the social inclusion of persons at risk of social exclusion such as migrants, refugees, health-related conditions, low-skilled and low-qualified, female...

Let us introduce: Foster Social Inclusion

16.11.2021

We'd like to tell you a little bit about a project we are taking part in. The project is called "Foster Social Inclusion" and working on it are organisations from Poland, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Lithuania and Iceland. Each of the organisations are working actively in different...

WHY PLASTIC? documentary screening | SEEDS X Nordic House

15.11.2021

The collaboration between SEEDS and THE WHY foundation began in 2020. The later is a danish non-profit media organisation located in Denmark. Their mission is to produce and distribute investigative documentaries and make them available for everyone, everywhere. Thanks to their network their work...

My volunteering experience - testimony from Julcsi Boros, a long-term volunteer of SEEDS

27.10.2021

It’s been a while now since I left Iceland - almost three months now! Yet still, there hasn’t been a day without thinking back to those five months I spent on this magical island. It has been one of the most important phase of my life. It has given me so many lessons, so much joy and laughter,...

Podcast project: One Radio Erasmus

25.10.2021

About one year ago, in July 2020, SEEDS was invited to join a project called OneRadioErasmus. Together with four other NGOs we would create podcast episodes revolving around topics like culture, politics, art and music. The aim of this project was and is to give young Europeans a voice to talk about...

SEEDS 065. Environmentally Aware & Trash Hunting in Reykjavík 07-15 September 2021

14.10.2021

Led by our two Swiss long-term volunteers, camp 065 took place in September. The participants came from all over the world, more precisely from Mexico, Portugal, Belgium and of course Switzerland. The first evening was all about getting to know each other and listening to the "Welcome to...

SEEDS 022. Flúðir – 13-23 June 2021

12.07.2021

For 11 days in June, five SEEDS' long-term volunteers moved to a campsite in Flúðir to help out the host with outdoor and environmental work. The volunteers had several tasks, such as removing invasive plants, painting campsite objects and improving hiking paths. To learn how it all...

NEW! SEEDLING magazine – official SEEDS magazine – summer 2021

02.07.2021

After months in the making, the new SEEDS (online) magazine is OUT! SEEDLING's first edition will give you a closer, more personal look into SEEDS and its projects. It will show you Iceland and volunteering through the eyes of our volunteers and will include some gorgeous photos taken by...

SEEDS 018. Highlands - Kjölur Road – 6-19 June 2021

01.07.2021

The camps in the Highlands are always highly anticipated by our leaders and their participants. The work is physically demanding, but the nature and landscape are unforgettable. A two-week camp took place at the beginning of June and we asked Sara and Benedikte, the leaders of the camp, a few questions...