Education

• Coaches for people with ambitions to pursue further education and training

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  online

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  Year-round

  
  education user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  EDUCA SWISS is the Swiss foundation for promoting and financing education. We help people to develop, budget and carry out their own further education project. If needed, we also arrange student loans and mentors to help bring the project to life. We are looking for worldly-wise volunteers to coach our candidates in developing life and financial goals. Would you like to volunteer and advise people from lower-income backgrounds on how to plan their own further education project?

• Inspiring young people for a successful application

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  The whole of Switzerland

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  Year-round

  
  education user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  Inspire youth with the Application Process module of the Young Enterprise Switzerland (YES) Personal Economics program. First, we offer you a short training course to become a YES volunteer. Then you can get to work with young people right in their classroom! Self-awareness and knowledge of the world of work, researching job offers, writing job applications and most importantly simulating job interviews: you coach the students (14-16 years old) in one or more of these topics according to the needs of the class and thus prepare them in an optimal way for their future job applications. You are free to use our teaching materials, to draw inspiration from our other volunteers or to share your knowledge in your own way. We need your professional experience to give the students the best chance to be inspired and motivated! Volunteering with YES allows you to support youth and have a real positive impact. Furthermore, it's also an opportunity to develop new professional skills and access our network of partners and volunteers.

• IT Trainer at Powercoders

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  online, Zurich, Bern, Lausanne

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  Year-round

  
  education user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  Support Refugees & Migrants. Powercoders is a work integration program for refugees and migrants. We offer a 3-month coding bootcamp, followed by a 6-12 month internship. The goal of IT training is to support the Teaching Lead as well as the participants during the bootcamp. You as volunteer will step in and help the individuals doing IT exercises and to get their homework and projects done, onsite usually half-days and online a few hours.You have an understanding of some technologies in a specific IT field, mostly Web development, but also DevOps, Software programming,Testing, Machine Learning and more. No prior teaching experience is required.

• Job Coaching at Powercoders

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  across Switzerland

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  Year-round

  
  education user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  Accompany a Refugee / Migrant during their Internship: Powercoders is a work integration program for refugees and migrants. We offer a 3-month coding bootcamp, followed by a 6-12 month internship in an IT company or IT department. To support the participants in making their internship a success, all of them are accompanied by a volunteer Job Coach. The Job Coach meets the coachee regularly and supports him/her in reaching their goals. The Job Coach also joins monthly meetings at the company and supports the coachee in his/her social and professional integration. Job Coaches can be based anywhere in the Romandie or Deutschschweiz.

• Mwalimu – specialized training for the long-term unemployed

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  Biel oder Bern

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  Year-round

  
  education user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  Mwalimu – specialized training for the long-term unemployed As part of the project “Mwalimu” (Swahili for “teacher”), we are looking for volunteers to support and, if needed, advise participants in the final stages of preparing to enter the world of work. The participants are all employed in the private sector and are working towards meeting the minimum requirements for a permanent position or formal vocational qualification. We are also looking for volunteers to prepare and deliver remedial classes tailored to participants’ needs. A teaching qualification is desirable but not necessary.

• Inspiring young people and discovering the economy

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  The whole of Switzerland

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  Year-round

  
  education user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  Inspire the youth with the programme Our Community of Young Enterprise Switzerland (YES). First, we offer you a short training course to become a YES volunteer. Then you can get to work close with young people right in their classroom! Thanks to our available programme, you will teach 5 lessons that will take the students (9-10 years old) on a journey through a fictitious community to discover, in an interactive and playful way, the functioning of the economy and life in society. We need your professional experience to offer students varied lessons anchored in reality! Volunteering at YES allows you to support the youth and to have a real positive impact. However, it is also an opportunity to develop new professional skills and access our network of partners and volunteers.

• Inspiring young people in dealing with money

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  The whole of Switzerland

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  Year-round

  
  education user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  Inspire the youth with the Money Management module of the Young Enterprise Switzerland (YES) Personal Economics programme. First, we offer you a short training course to become a YES volunteer. You can then work together with young people, right in their classroom! Budgeting, savings, insurance, payslips, tax returns or even telephone subscriptions and leasing: you coach the students (14-16 years old) in one or more of these topics according to the needs of the class with the aim of enabling them to face the future calmly and avoid excessive indebtedness. You are free to use our teaching materials, to draw inspiration from our other volunteers or to share your knowledge in your own way. We need your professional experience to prepare young people for life and to give them inspiration and confidence! Volunteering with YES allows you to support youth and have a real positive impact. Furthermore, it's also an opportunity to develop new professional skills and access our network of partners and volunteers.

• The translation team at the voCHabular association

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  The whole of Switzerland

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  Year-round

  
  education user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  The voCHabular association has developed a self-learning tool in the form of a book and an app to help people with a refugee background integrate into Swiss life. Vocabulary, explanations and instructions must therefore be translated into different languages. The first edition of voCHabular is available in English, Arabic and Persian. We are currently working on translations into Amharic, Tigrinya, French and Turkish, and other languages are under consideration. The voCHabular website is also translated into the relevant languages. All of this is made possible by our fantastic translation team. The project is managed by a young interdisciplinary and intercultural team of over 60 volunteers. It includes various people with a refugee background and different residence statuses, who provide valuable input on the development of content, translations, the app and the ongoing development of voCHabular. VoCHabular is therefore itself an integration project. Other projects are published on UBS Helpetica.