Jugend Umwelt Projektwerkstatt - Bad Oldesloe
Working in JUP! - Bad Oldesloe
Jugend Umwelt Projektwerkstatt ________________________________________________________________
means in English »Youth Environmental Workshop«. This is an environmental NGO where young people develop their own projects or ideas. JUP-Bad Oldelsoe is a self-organized youth structure, where young people can find support for their activities. The members are the ones who create the structure in JUP!. It is important to insist on the meaning of the self-organization, which means freedom but also much responsibility. There is no boss or leader who controls the work. Self-organization, responsibility, motivation are main keywords for the smooth and unproblematic running of the organization itself. The co-operation in the name of the environmental protection is a current need all over the world. There are different methods to influence local governments, to reach certain aims. In JUP! topics about the environmental education have priority. For many people still only a lip service. You have to start, if something shall happen!
During your EVS______________________________________________________________________________
in the Youth Environmental Project-workshop you can implement your own ideas or you can join existing projects. Workshops are places for doing and trying things on your own. But there are people to ask and to talk to, info, books, »high-tech«, tips and others. Important parts of the work are: public relations, actions, seminars and leading youth groups. It still depends on which workshop you are in. The aim is to change the lifestyle of all persons involved, to give nature and humans the durable possibility to live next to each other equally….
...to make Utopias come true!
Here you can get active…_____________________________________________________________________
Youth environmental project workshop (JUP!) uses the same building as »initiative house
( www.inihaus.de ) , that it founded with other youth groups from Bad Oldesloe. There young people organize concerts, political lectures, movie evenings, planning meetings and five times per week the café is open. A big environmental library, a seminar room, a layout workshop and slide archive belong to JUP!..............................................................................
Projects...____________________________________________________________________________________
By the way, self organization doesn’t mean »holidays«, on the opposite many huge and small projects are running, in which you can take part. Of course you can also bring in your own ideas or start new projects. Here are some of our projects:
>> Nuclear power, no thanks!
Not only in Gorleben resistance against a degrading and dangerous energy source is needed. Nuclear wastes are transported through nearly every big town, but nobody talks about it. That’s why project groups of different environmental workshops regularly make actions against these transports to attract the public’s attention.
>> Editing newspapers and publications!
We edit an environmental newspaper and several publications. The special thing about our publications is, that every writer is responsible for his own article and there is no censorship… If you get for example intothe newspaper project, you can write articles, make interviews with »important« persons, take part in discussions in regional editorial meetings implement your own ideas for layout in the newspaper, organize advertisement or what else you would like to do.
With the homepage www.oekojobs.de we spread useful information through the internet. Other publications are "Natur-Erlebnis-Mappe", "Öko-Job-Broschüre" and "Regenbogen-Kämpfer-Mappe".>> Education: Workshops and seminars
Unfortunately, the schools still don’t support enough environmental education. That’s why the environmental workshops have different educational offers for young people. With seminars about different topics (from making apple juice until weaving with willows) we try to make young people appreciate interesting topics and try to show
them environmentally friendly techniques and lifestyles. From this work the »Natur Erlebnis Mappe« developed.
>> Ecomobile
The ecomobile is an old circus wagon, which was ecologically rebuilt by a group of young people and it is pulled by a tractor. The ecomobile can be used for many different projects. On Demos and caravans, as a mobile information point or as a mobile concert wagon. For example the ecomobile took part in a caravan from the west to the east of Schleswig-Holstein against the highway A20.
There is much repairing- work left to build at the ecomobile and at the tractor. You have the possibility of organizing your own tours or of running seminars with it. As an ecomobile volunteer you don’t need to work only at the ecomobile. You also can take part in many other JUP! projects as well.
You live together with the other volunteers from different countries in a flat that is situated in Inihaus.
