IMPULSE BOOST CAMP 2025

Our international training course for young activists.
Next Date: 17 – 25 May 2025.

What is IBC?

Impulse Boost Camp is an international training course for young people who are voluntarily active in civil society. During the 9-day long program, you will participate in a variety of workshops that will introduce you to useful tools for your activism and voluntary work.

Topics of these workshops cover team communication, storytelling, design thinking, but also contain methods for personal development and stress prevention. Therefore, non-formal methods such as from the Art of Hosting framework with an innovative and interdisciplinary character will be selected. The seminar will be shaped by the active participation of each participant, so we can share our stories and learn from each other.

After the seminar, you have the chance to pass on your freshly gained knowledge to your peers at home. IBC will provide tools and methods for this purpose.

Impulse Boost Camp will take place from 17 to 25 May 2025 in the beautiful countryside Altenburger Land in Thuringia (Germany) not far away from the vibrant city of Leipzig. We will all be staying together in a group house, where we will live and work collaboratively throughout the seminar.

Impulse Boost Camp 2025 is currently in planning. This is how our Seminar Schedule last year looked like:

What will you get out of the Seminar?

Learn new effective methods for your activism and voluntary work
Discover and pass on insights, networks, and projects with a peer-to-peer approach
Boost your soft skills for idea development, storytelling, team communication and problem-solving
Personal reflection on both your personal and professional life
Learn how to host fruitful and participative conversations
Connect with other activists from different countries
Time in nature with healthy food and good people around you

Requirements for Participants

Good English level (minimum B2)
Experiences in voluntary work or activism, ideally in a team where you did not get paid for your work (please do not apply if this requirement does not match your profile)
Age between 18 to 30 years old
Sensitivity for global and interpersonal power structures, own privileges, and different forms of discrimination
Motivation to learn and to share your own experiences and knowledge
Motivation to actively contribute to the seminar
Commitment to filling out the evaluation forms after the seminar

Eligible Countries

EU Countries and all neighboring countries including the MENA region

Costs

40 € for participants living in a country with average annual wages in 2022 below 30 000 USD (e.g. Egypt, Albania, Estonia). Please check the ILOSTAT Statistics on wages to check the numbers of your country of residence.
80 € for participants living in a country with average annual wages in 2022 above 30 000 USD (e.g. Germany, France, Italy). Please check the ILOSTAT Statistics on wages to check the numbers of your country of residence.
Fresh healthy food, accommodation in a 4-6 people dorm, and learning material included (bed sheets will not be covered from our side). You can also bring your tent and camp outside.
After the camp, we will reimburse 70 % of your travel costs, but not more than a certain amount based on the distance of your departing city and Altenburg, the venue of IBC. This calculation is based on the EU Erasmus + standards.

10 – 99 km: max 20 Euros
100 – 499 km: max 180 Euros
500 – 1999 km: max 300 Euros

Unfortunately, we are not able to refund more than 300 Euro.

Q & A Video Call

Are you interested in applying for IBC 2025 but you still have some questions? Join our Q&A Zoom Call with the team of IBC and former participants that offer insights into the programme on Monday 18th November at 5:30 pm (Central European Time!)

Applications

If you’ve read through all the information and meet the requirements, we’d love for you to apply! We’re excited to see what you’ll bring to IBC. Please submit your application here.

If you do not want to use Google Forms to submit your application, you can download the application form here and send it together with your CV via mail to ibc(at)ifzw-impulsstiftung.de.

For questions regarding the applications, feel free to contact Lea.

Our Facilitators

Marie Nele Wolfram is a trainer for social activism and political participation. Today, she works as Directing Manager of the environmental protection NGO BUND Leipzig. She was elected as a member of the city council of Plauen in 2014 and has been active in work against right-wing extremism and populism for many years. She started the political campaign Informationen für Deutschland and founded a social charity network in Dresden. Nele studied International Relations and has lived in the USA, Paris, Burundi, and Tunis until she moved to Berlin where she trained diplomats from all over the world at the German Federal Foreign Office. Since 2020, she is based in Leipzig, serves as a board member of ASA-FF e.V. and completed her Masters in Peace Studies at the University of Innsbruck.

Nikolai Christian Alber is a trainer for political- and media education, teambuilding – and team development. He studied political science at Freie Universtät Berlin followed by a Master (MA) in and social- and cultural anthropology at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Since 2016, he works for the welfare association Arbeiterwohlfahrt Landesverband Berlin and trains and accompanies young adults through their year of social service. Besides that he works as a freelance trainer for different companies and institutions such as Planpolitik GBR, Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB), Netzwerk für Demokratie und Courage (NDC) or the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation. Besides his political engagement, he works as an artist within his own music-project Nïer. Nikolai, formerly from southern Germany, has lived in Hungary and Kenya and now settled down in wonderful Berlin.

Questions?

Don’t hesitate to contact IBC’s project coordinator Lea at ibc@ifzw-impulsstiftung.de in case you have any questions or want to learn more about the project.