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Voluntary Social Year - Das Freiwillige Soziale Jahr (Short: FSJ)

FSJ is the abbreviation for a voluntary social year. That means:
Young adults voluntarily help in a public-welfare-oriented institution for one year. They do not get paid but may get pocket money and sometimes room and board.
The institution might be a hospital, a kindergarten, a music school or a sports club among other possibilities.
Participants learn how public-welfare-oriented institutions in Germany work.

In the framework of a FSJ you can:

  • familiarize yourself with the working routines of different kinds of professions,
  • try out which professional tasks and activities fit best for you,
  • plan and realize your own projects and events,
  • find out which professional training or area of study you would like to choose after the FSJ.
  • The FSJ addresses everybody, you don’t have to be German and you don’t have to currently live in Germany to participate.
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