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• Mentoring by fokusnetzwerk

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  Kanton Zürich

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  Year-round

  
  social user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  As a mentor for fokusnetzwerk, you can use your knowledge and experience to help refugees gain new perspectives and enjoy a richer life in Swiss society. Together with a person from a refugee background, you can practice German over a coffee or during a walk, pursue a hobby or complete math homework together. Of course, there are other areas that you can choose, or you can suggest your own. At fokusnetzwerk you can work with a refugee for six months on an area that suits your strengths and interests.

• Hedge Day in Parsonz

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  Parsonz / GR

  calendar

  18.10.2025

  
  environment user 11 places are still free time 45 days remaining until

  Wild hedges serve as a habitat for countless animals and plants. On National Hedge Day, wild hedges are planted and maintained at various locations in Switzerland, including Parc Ela. In the unique landscape of Parsonz in Graubünden, we plant and maintain hedges together and learn a lot of interesting things about the history of the landscape, the benefits of hedges and how the quality of the habitat can be improved with simple methods. We will also be helping the agricultural sector with its work.

• Doctor-patient-communication app to overcome language barriers

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  The whole of Switzerland

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  Year-round

  
  entrepreneurial user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  PICTOMED’s key project is a web-based, non-verbal, visual communication tool to overcome language barriers in doctor-patient-communication. We enable healthcare providers and patients who do not share a common language to communicate with ease, simply by pointing to pictures. We provide over 300 illustrations of medical symptoms. The website app should be interactive, quick and easy to use to guarantee user-friendliness. Our communication tool offers a wide range of application through independence of language and alphabet.

• Commitment to wild honey bees

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  The whole of Switzerland

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  Year-round

  
  environment user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  Many people know the western honeybee (Apis mellifera) only as a honey provider, but it is much more than that. Originally native to our forests, it has adapted to natural environmental conditions over 10,000 years. Today it is highly endangered in the wild in Switzerland. The loss of old trees with natural cavities, diseases such as the Varroa mite and intensive beekeeping are among the factors that severely affect them. In order for honeybees to form stable populations again, they must be able to adapt naturally to environmental changes and require suitable habitats. They depend on our support. We must give them back the place in nature that is rightfully theirs. But their protection is currently still being subordinated to economic interests and ideologies. FreeTheBees is committed to preserving the honeybee in the wild and therefore promotes its original habitat: the tree cavity. We are investigating whether honeybee colonies can survive for multiple years in the wild, what factors influence their increased mortality and what is needed for them to form stable populations again. This is not only about protecting honeybees themselves, but also about preserving natural biodiversity. Because tree cavities are not only a habitat for honeybees – many other animal species such as countless insects, birds and bats also depend on them. To achieve these goals, we work with two key projects: Swiss BeeMapping and the project ”Tree cavities – biodiversity for the forest”. For this, we rely on the support of volunteers.

• Doctor-patient-communication app to overcome language barriers

  location

  The whole of Switzerland

  calendar

  Year-round

  
  entrepreneurial user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  PICTOMED’s key project is a web-based, non-verbal, visual communication tool to overcome language barriers in doctor-patient-communication. We enable healthcare providers and patients who do not share a common language to communicate with ease, simply by pointing to pictures. We provide over 300 illustrations of medical symptoms. We are looking for volunteers who can help us design medical illustrations. Well-designed illustrations enable healthcare providers and patients to overcome language barriers. Thereby, providing health equity which allows for social and economical integration of migrants and refugees.

• Collaboration on Project App Extension

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  Basel-City / Basel-Country

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  Year-round

  
  social user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  Babsy has been around since 2018, and since 2022 we have been operating an app in the greater Basel area that helps parents and caregivers find each other based solely on donations. We have built the safest contact platform currently available in Switzerland. Searching, booking, finding, chatting, and video calling are already possible, but our users' wish list is extensive, which is why we would like to tackle the next development steps together with you. Topics such as the mutual rating system, extensions to include day care providers, etc., are important to provide relief for parents and at the same time offer great job opportunities for sitters. The association is officially non-profit and is very committed to issues related to integration, equality, and social justice. The assistance can be very individually tailored, work can be done on-site and remotely, and you can use your strengths in a targeted manner.

• Making a difference in the mountains

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  The whole of Switzerland

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  Year-round

  
  environment user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  The aim of the “bergversetzer” (“mountain volunteers”) organization is to support people in the mountain regions in Switzerland by arranging for individual volunteers to help them with projects. This includes tasks such as maintaining pastures and forests, ensuring the upkeep of paths as well as more complex tasks such as building dry stone walls or constructing sheds and stables.

• Volunteering on the Weerd-Fischergrien

  location

  Kleindöttigen / Böttstein (AG)

  calendar

  09.09.2025

  
  environment user 4 places are still free time 4 days remaining until

  The Weerd-Fischergrien is a floodplain of national importance characterized by open areas with ponds. In addition to rare plants, invasive neophytes also grow here, including imported plant species such as the one-year fleabane. Some of these species can spread rapidly and cause native, non-competitive species to disappear. To combat this problem effectively, they must be removed together with the root before they can seed. Thank you in advance for your support! Volunteers will be rewarded with a snack and a 30-minute guided tour of the BirdLife nature center at the Klingnauer reservoir.

• Retired and committed

  location

  The whole of Switzerland

  calendar

  Year-round

  
  entrepreneurial user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  Would you like to stay fit in retirement, pass on your experience and make a difference in society? Would you like others to benefit from the leadership and other skills you gained during your rich and varied career? Then Innovage is the place for you. We bring together retirees with a diverse range of expertise into regional networks to help non-profit organizations – professionally, voluntarily, and free of charge. This is how we get good ideas and innovative projects off the ground.