Collaboration in the Aachen regional group - Become part of one of our five exciting projects

Do you feel like getting involved in development cooperation? To help people who are less fortunate than we are? To work with people around the world and develop sustainable projects together?

Then you've come to the right place. We are the Aachen branch of the Germany-wide association Ingenieure ohne Grenzen e.V. (Engineers without Borders) and currently run five projects in technical development cooperation from Aachen. In order to carry out these projects, we are always looking for interested and committed people of all ages and professions (especially non-engineers, such as computer scientists, educators and designers). You can also approach us with your own project ideas at any time.

To give you a better impression of our projects, we briefly summarize here which topics the projects deal with. For even more information, feel free to visit our website.

In the first project, we support people in the Tikar region (Cameroon) in establishing a sustainable water supply and improving the hygiene situation.
In our second project, in Solukhumbu (Nepal) we aim to strengthen the positive effects of a reliable electricity supply in the target region and increase electricity security through improved electrical installations and educational programs.
In our third project, we aim to improve hygiene conditions in Tonkolili (Sierra Leone) through the construction of dry separation toilets and workshops at three schools.
And our latest project in Mukono (Uganda) is about improving sanitation at a school with 750 pupils.
In addition to the projects abroad, we are also involved with a project group at schools in Aachen with an integration projectand project days on the topic of global learning.

If this appeals to you, then feel free to write to us!

Your Tasks

We have a variety of tasks that you can take on. These depend on the focus of the project and the current project phase. So you can bring in your previous knowledge or try your hand at something completely new!

To give you a taste, here are a few sample tasks:

• Collaborating on the elaboration of technical concepts (e.g. construction of dry separation toilets, conceptual design and improvement of energy networks)
• Collaborating on the elaboration of educational concepts (e.g. E.g. workshops on hygiene)
• Conceptualization and implementation of teaching days at schools in Aachen and surroundings
• Organization of events, campaigns and booths
• Collaboration in the maintenance and improvement of our Digital Collaboration Platform (Open Project, Nextcloud)
• Having fun at team-internal events :-)

What's needed

All are welcome!

Time required

With us, you can contribute as much time as you can and as you like. In order to actively participate and also be able to take on independent tasks, you should, however, already plan five hours per week.

When you invest your time is up to you. Each project has a group meeting in the week of about two hours (voluntary participation), the rest of the time can be freely divided.

Well, write to us if you have any questions about it!

Engineers Without Borders is a non-profit recognised private aid organisation. The aim of Engineers Without Borders is to improve the living conditions of needy and disadvantaged people in the long term.