Travelling the world with kulturweit

kulturweit is the international education program of the German Commission for UNESCO. Thanks to funding from the Federal Foreign Office, young people aged 18 and over can get involved in the international network of foreign cultural and educational policy for six or twelve months.

Whether in German lessons in Tbilisi, at the Goethe-Institut in Hanoi, in the biosphere reserve on Mount Elgon or in the school sports club in Ulan Bator – kulturweit volunteers work for six or twelve months with partners in countries of the Global South, Eastern Europe and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States).

Anyone who has special requirements for their place of assignment due to a disability or chronic illness can contact kulturweit directly before applying. Together with the partner organizations, we will then look for suitable places of assignment. This is what Marei Beckermann did when she was a kulturweit volunteer in Bükk National Park in Hungary.

"Despite all the difficulties, this voluntary service enriched me to an incredible extent. And that also applies to the relationship I have with myself and my invisible disability," she reports.