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Are you at least 19 years old, enjoy creative work with children and teenagers and want to get involved as a volunteer? Then join this year’s Digitale Welten Festival in Frankfurt!

You will guide young people in thinking critically and creatively about digital reality. Under this year’s motto “SWIPE RIGHTS: Adults broke the internet. Now they want to ban it.” you’re invited to help young people push back against digital restrictions and invent a better online world using creative, technical and artistic tools. The participants aged 11 to 18 will develop their own projects during a creative hackathon and afterward, their creations will be showcased in a public exhibition.

Festival Setup: October 12, 2026
Creative Hackathon: October 13–15, 2026
Exhibition Opening: October 16, 2026

As a mentor, you can expect to:

  • Engage: Work with young participants, inspiring and guiding them through their projects.
  • Facilitate: Help them brainstorm and turn their ideas into projects.
  • Collaborate: Partner with talented artists and other mentors who will support the projects with their skills and creative ideas.
  • Support: Provide hands-on assistance and mentorship to help the participants succeed.
 

→ Basic Requirements

To become a mentor, you should be 19 years or older and enjoy working with teens aged 11 to 18. If you have experience in this area, it’s a plus! Good German skills are advantageous, as many participants do not speak English fluently (yet). Additionally, you need a current extended police clearance certificate. Once you’ve signed up, we’ll guide you through the process and let you know everything you need to know and do.

→ Skills

The goal is to provide participants with a wide range of support. That’s why we’re looking for a group of mentors with diverse skill sets, creating a friendly and supportive environment for everyone involved. You have expertise in coding, design, crafting, tinkering, electronics, music, education, social work or some other comparable field? Awesome, come join us!

It’s very important to us to enable everyone to participate. Therefore, feel free to contact us if there are any restrictions or obstacles for you regarding the event. We are more than happy to work together to find a solution.

→ What should you bring?

  • Commitment to teamwork and engagement
  • The ability to work independently and conscientiously
  • Enjoyment of and ideally initial experience in working with young people
  • The motivation to contribute your own skills, ideas, and questions
  • We need a current extended police clearance certificate (“erweitertes Führungszeugnis”) from you. You will receive a document from us for the application so that you don’t have to pay anything. More info here.

→ What’s in it for you?

  • A pedagogical introduction and briefing to your tasks
  • An amazing atmosphere and excited young experts around you
  • Tasty food, snacks and drinks
  • Paid special leave or a volunteer compensation paid by us *
  • Our infinite gratefulness <3

* As a volunteer for our kids & teens program, you can work with us while still being paid by your employer. We will provide an official letter, along with the local Youth Care Center of Frankfurt, explaining the special leave conditions to your employer, who will be compensated for your salary. More info (in German only) here and here.
If you don’t qualify for special leave (e.g. you’re not employed currently), you’ll receive a financial compensation from us: 100 euro/day.

 
 
 

 

→ What is Digitale Welten?

Digitale Welten is a network for political, cultural and artistic, informatic and digital media education in Frankfurt am Main and Hessen and the youth program of NODE Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur e.V. Together with exciting international media artists, we develop workshop and other project formats for young people that invite them to critically and creatively take apart or reinvent technologies.

We organize the youth media art festival Digitale Welten and Jugend hackt Frankfurt, as well as various other events for young people. We also develop offers for professionals in out-of-school youth work in Hesse.
NODE is a non-profit association and a recognized voluntary youth welfare organization in Hesse.

 

 

 
 

The Team

 

Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

Artistic Director, Board, Managing Director

Sarah Wenzinger

Artist, Educator

Elena Schweikert

Jugend hackt, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Anastasia Wilbrandt

display Team, Event Manager, Space Manager

Sandra Binder

Team Digitale Welten

Carlotta Scheitterer

Team Digitale Welten

Andrea Eberlein

Pedagogy, Team Digitale Welten

Elizaveta Kazantseva

Social Media, Team Digitale Welten

Rainer Killinger

Jugend hackt, Team Digitale Welten, Technical Director, Workshop Host

Kathrin Stößer

Team Digitale Welten

Carolin Liebl

Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler

Kati Hyyppä

 

Funding & Partners

 
 

Join us for this year’s Digitale Welten Festival: Reprogramming Reality in Frankfurt! Spend 3 days working with enthusiastic youth to develop projects that engage creatively and critically with both online and offline worlds and their binary structures. Collaborate with skilled artists and help guide the young participants as they brainstorm and bring their visions for a better reality to life.

As a mentor, you can expect to:

  • Engage: Work with young participants over 3-4 days, inspiring and guiding them through their projects.
  • Facilitate: Help them brainstorm and turn their ideas into actionable projects.
  • Collaborate: Partner with talented artists and other mentors who will support the projects with their skills and creative ideas.
  • Support: Provide hands-on assistance and mentorship to help the participants succeed.
 

→ Basic Requirements

To become a mentor, you should be 19 years or older and enjoy working with teens aged 11 to 18. If you have experience in this area, it’s a plus! Good German skills are advantageous, as many participants do not speak English fluently (yet). Additionally, you need a current extended police clearance certificate. Once you’ve signed up, we’ll guide you through the process and let you know everything you need to know and do.

→ Skills

The goal is to provide participants with a wide range of support. That’s why we’re looking for a group of mentors with diverse skill sets, creating a friendly and supportive environment for everyone involved. You have expertise in coding, design, crafting, tinkering, electronics, music, education, social work or some other comparable field? Awesome – come join us!

It’s very important to us to enable everyone to participate. Therefore, feel free to contact us if there are any restrictions or obstacles for you regarding the event. We are more than happy to work together to find a solution.

→ What should you bring?

  • Commitment to teamwork and engagement
  • The ability to work independently and conscientiously
  • Enjoyment of and ideally initial experience in working with young people
  • The motivation to contribute your own skills, ideas, and questions
  • We need a current extended police clearance certificate (“erweitertes Führungszeugnis”) from you. You will receive a document from us for the application so that you don’t have to pay anything. More info here.

→ What’s in it for you?

  • A pedagogical introduction and briefing to your tasks
  • An amazing atmosphere and excited young experts around you
  • Tasty food, snacks and drinks
  • Paid special leave or a volunteer compensation paid by us *
  • Our infinite gratefulness <3

* As a volunteer for our kids & teens program, you can work with us while still being paid by your employer. We will provide an official letter, along with the local Youth Care Center of Frankfurt, explaining the special leave conditions to your employer, who will be compensated for your salary. More info (in German only) here and here.
If you don’t qualify for special leave (e.g. you’re not employed currently), you’ll receive a financial compensation from us: 100 euro/day.

 
 
 

 

→ What is Digitale Welten?

Digitale Welten is a network for political, cultural and artistic, informatic and digital media education in Frankfurt am Main and Hessen and the youth program of NODE Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur e.V. Together with exciting international media artists, we develop workshop and other project formats for young people that invite them to critically and creatively take apart or reinvent technologies.

We organize the youth media art festival Digitale Welten and Jugend hackt Frankfurt, as well as various other events for young people. We also develop offers for professionals in out-of-school youth work in Hesse.
NODE is a non-profit association and a recognized voluntary youth welfare organization in Hesse.

 

 

 
 

The Team

 

Elena Schweikert

Jugend hackt, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

Artistic Director, Board, Managing Director

Elizaveta Kazantseva

Social Media, Team Digitale Welten

Andrea Eberlein

Pedagogy, Team Digitale Welten

Felix Bitz

Awareness, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Liv Märtens

Jugend hackt, Team Digitale Welten

Rainer Killinger

Jugend hackt, Team Digitale Welten, Technical Director, Workshop Host

 

Funding & Partners

 
 

To ensure the success of our Jugend hackt event in Frankfurt, we need your support as a mentor. At Jugend hackt, young coders are guided by volunteering technically skilled mentors who help them bring their ideas to life and are there to answer any questions.

 

If you have the time and expertise to support us, please sign up as a mentor!

 

Sign up now!

 

 
 

lila Jugend-hackt-Alpaka Logo

 

 

Basic Requirements:

To become a mentor, you should be 19 years or older, have coding skills, and enjoy working with teens aged 12 to 18. If you have experience in this area, it’s a plus! Additionally, while most activities in the programming world happen in English, good German skills are advantageous, as many participants do not speak English fluently (yet). Additionally, you need a current extended police clearance certificate. Once you’ve signed up, we’ll guide you through the process and let you know everything you need to know and do. More info in German here.

Programming Skills:

The goal is to provide participants with a wide range of support. That’s why we’re looking for a group of mentors with diverse skill sets and experiences in programming, creating a friendly and supportive environment for everyone involved. But you don’t have to be a pro in all things coding – everyone’s there to help each other out.

It’s very important to us to enable everyone to participate. Therefore, feel free to contact us at ffm@jugendhackt.org if there are any restrictions or obstacles for you regarding the event. We are more than happy to work together to find a solution.

What you get from us:

In return for your voluntary work, we offer you:

  • a free pedagogical-didactic training as part of the mentor briefing
  • networking opportunities with other developers and creative coders from all over Germany
  • a fantastic atmosphere, lots of experience, and the participants’ grateful smiles
  • little sleep
  • plenty of mate (the caffeinated soft drink)
  • eternal gratitude from the teams of NODE, the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, and mediale pfade
 

More info?

You can find more information about the event HERE and on the Digitale Welten Website. More general information about the project can be found on the Jugend hackt Website.

If you have any questions, send us an Email to ffm@jugendhackt.org. Your contacts are Liv (she/her) and Elena (she/her), both speak German and English.

 

 

 

 

Your Jugend hackt Frankfurt Team

Liv Märtens

Elena Schweikert

Andrea Eberlein

Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

Rainer Killinger

Elizaveta Kazantseva

Felix Bitz

 

Funders & Partners

 

Join us for this year’s Digitale Welten Festival: Urban Creators Hackathon in Frankfurt! Spend 3 days working with enthusiastic youth to develop projects that reimagine urban life in our city. Collaborate with skilled artists and help guide the young participants as they brainstorm and bring their visions for a better Frankfurt to life. Be a part of this exciting event and support the next generation in shaping the future of their city!

As a mentor, you can expect to:

  • Engage: Work with young participants over 3-4 days, inspiring and guiding them through their projects.
  • Facilitate: Help them brainstorm and turn their ideas into actionable projects.
  • Collaborate: Partner with talented artists and other mentors who will support the projects with their skills and creative ideas.
  • Support: Provide hands-on assistance and mentorship to help the participants succeed.
 

→ Basic Requirements

To become a mentor, you should be 19 years or older and enjoy working with teens aged 11 to 18. If you have experience in this area, it’s a plus! Good German skills are advantageous, as many participants do not speak English fluently (yet). Additionally, you need a current extended police clearance certificate. Once you’ve signed up, we’ll guide you through the process and let you know everything you need to know and do.

→ Skills

The goal is to provide participants with a wide range of support. That’s why we’re looking for a group of mentors with diverse skill sets, creating a friendly and supportive environment for everyone involved. You have expertise in coding, design, crafting, tinkering, electronics, music, education, social work or some other comparable field? Awesome – come join us!

It’s very important to us to enable everyone to participate. Therefore, feel free to contact us if there are any restrictions or obstacles for you regarding the event. We are more than happy to work together to find a solution.

→ What should you bring?

  • Commitment to teamwork and engagement
  • The ability to work independently and conscientiously
  • Enjoyment of and ideally initial experience in working with young people
  • The motivation to contribute your own skills, ideas, and questions
  • We need a current extended police clearance certificate (“erweitertes Führungszeugnis”) from you. You will receive a document from us for the application so that you don’t have to pay anything. More info here.

→ What’s in it for you?

  • A pedagogical introduction and briefing to your tasks
  • An amazing atmosphere and excited young experts around you
  • Tasty food, snacks and drinks
  • Paid special leave or a volunteer compensation paid by us *
  • Our infinite gratefulness <3

* As a volunteer for our kids & teens program, you can work with us while still being paid by your employer. We will provide an official letter, along with the local Youth Care Center of Frankfurt, explaining the special leave conditions to your employer, who will be compensated for your salary. More info (in German only) here and here.
If you don’t qualify for special leave (e.g. you’re not employed currently), you’ll receive a financial compensation from us.

 
 
 

 

→ What is Digitale Welten?

Digitale Welten is a network for political, cultural and artistic, informatic and digital media education in Frankfurt am Main and Hessen and the youth program of NODE Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur e.V. Together with exciting international media artists, we develop workshop and other project formats for young people that invite them to critically and creatively take apart or reinvent technologies.

We organize the youth media art festival Digitale Welten and Jugend hackt Frankfurt, as well as various other events for young people. We also develop offers for professionals in out-of-school youth work in Hesse.
NODE is a non-profit association and a recognized voluntary youth welfare organization in Hesse.

 

 

 
 

The Team

 

Elena Schweikert

Jugend hackt, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Nathalie Emmer Menzel

Art Education, Pedagogy, Team Digitale Welten

Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

Artistic Director, Board, Managing Director

Elizaveta Kazantseva

Social Media, Team Digitale Welten

Andrea Eberlein

Pedagogy, Team Digitale Welten

Felix Bitz

Awareness, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Sascha Korolkov

Community & Program Curator, display Team, Mentor

Liv Märtens

Jugend hackt, Team Digitale Welten

Rainer Killinger

Jugend hackt, Team Digitale Welten, Technical Director, Workshop Host

Verena Kuni

Curatorial Advisor

 

Funding & Partners

 
 

Damit Jugend hackt in Frankfurt am Main wieder ein Erfolg wird, brauchen wir deine Unterstützung als Mentor*in!

Denn: Bei Jugend hackt werden die Teilnehmer*innen von ehrenamtlichen, technisch versierten Mentor*innen begleitet, die ihnen bei der Umsetzung ihrer Projekte helfen und generell bei technischen Fragen jedweder Art zur Seite zu stehen.

Wenn du Zeit und Lust hast, uns dabei zu unterstützen, kannst du dich HIER als Mentor*in anmelden!

 

Hier anmelden!

 
 

lila Jugend-hackt-Alpaka Logo

 

Grundvoraussetzung

Mentor*in kann werden, wer 19 Jahre oder älter ist, entwickeln kann und Freude und/oder Erfahrung am Umgang mit Jugendlichen zwischen 12 und 18 Jahren hat. Außerdem sind, auch wenn in der Programmierwelt das meiste auf Englisch passiert, sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse von Vorteil, da die meisten Jugendlichen natürlich (noch) nicht fließend Englisch sprechen.

Programmierkenntnisse

Das Ziel der Veranstaltung ist es, den Jugendlichen im Fall von Fragen mit vielfältiger Unterstützung zur Seite zu stehen. Hierfür wünschen wir uns in Bezug auf das Mentoring einen bunten, modernen Mix von (Programmier-)Kenntnissen und Fähigkeiten, um die Jugendlichen bestmöglich betreuen zu können.

Es ist uns sehr wichtig allen die Teilnahme zu ermöglichen. Schreib uns daher gerne unter ffm@jugendhackt.org an, falls es für dich bei der Veranstaltung irgendwelche Einschränkungen oder Hindernisse geben könnte. Wir versuchen sehr gerne gemeinsam ein Lösung dafür zu finden.

Gegenleistung

Im Gegenzug zu deiner ehrenamtlichen Arbeit bieten wir dir

  1. eine kostenlose pädagogisch-didaktische Schulung im Rahmen des Mentor*innen-Briefings
  2. Vernetzung mit anderen Entwickler*innen und Creative Coder*innen aus der ganzen Welt
  3. eine großartige Atmosphäre und leuchtende Augen von den Jugendlichen
  4. viel Mate
  5. wenig Schlaf
  6. ewige Dankbarkeit von den Teams des NODE Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur, der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland und mediale pfade.org – Verein für Medienbildung
 

lila Jugend-hackt-Alpaka Logo

 
 
 
 

Das Team

 

Liv Märtens

Jugend hackt, Team Digitale Welten

Jannik Buddeberg

Jugend hackt, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten, Technical Director

Felix Bitz

Awareness, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Elena Schweikert

Jugend hackt, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Rainer Killinger

Jugend hackt, Team Digitale Welten, Technical Director, Workshop Host

Anna Meik

Curator, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

Artistic Director, Board, Managing Director

 

 

Partner, Förderer und Sponsoren

 

Mozilla Hubs

One of the spaces is the GreenHouse NAXOS, an open virtual playground created in cooperation with studioNAXOS. The project uses Mozilla Hubs – an open source project that explores how communication in mixed reality can come to life. We have designed our own 3D festival experience for NODE20 in Hubs which will be a platform for gathering in virtual space, meet ups, workshops and for our exhibition. 

 

In Mozilla Hubs you will support people with:

  • navigating their avatar through different spaces
  • joining a virtual session or workshop or other parts of the program
  • engaging and interacting with other users and the community
  • building additional structures

 

Screen GreenHouse NAXOS

Festival Hub

NODE20’s main virtual Festival Hub is the web and mobile app Talque. Here, festival visitors can attend the conference sessions streamed from Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and join the conversations. They are able to share their (professional) profiles, interests and network (professionally or personally).

 

In Talque you help people to:  

  • watch the multiple live streams of our program
  • join the interactive online workshops
  • engage on our physical stages via live chat, Q&A and webcam
  • network and discuss with the speakers, artists and the whole community
  • host own agenda sessions on our virtual Unconference Stage

 

 

Help NODE20 to happen!

Your skills:

  • English fluency
  • ability to speak freely with a headset and explain solutions
  • understanding of basic computer technology (microphone, webcam)
  • openness toward people of all kinds of backgrounds, experiences and abilities
  • interest in gaining new experiences with a digital festival and Mozilla Hubs
  • ability to work remotely if you are not based in Frankfurt with a stable internet connection and laptop/PC
  • Time for a 2 h introduction workshop in Hubs or Talque (end of September – week before the festival) 
  • approx. 10-13 h during the festival period

Why to volunteer?

We offer:

  • unlimited access to the online festival (incl. the vvvv workshops and talks documentation) (except for the working time sessions)
  • introduction into Mozilla Hubs and Talque
  • insights into digital festival production processes
  • becoming part of a community of artists, developers, designers and researchers
  • “Zeugnis” / certificate for volunteering

 

Interested? Awesome!

We are looking forward to your applications until 15.09.2020 via e-mail to help@nodeforum.org.

We need you to make NODE17 happen!

We’re looking for motivated volunteers for a range of tasks before, during and after the festival:

  • construction within the space (some day in between June 22nd -25th)
  • helping the technical team with sound and light installation
  • daily routines like venue clean up, entrance check, welcome desk
  • social media support
  • exhibition support and guided tours
  • mentoring of specific workshops for kids and younger audiences
  • dismantling of the festival after the last day (Monday 3rd, Tuesday 4th)

Why volunteer? What you get:

  • You will have access to all the workshops, performances and other events held during NODE17! (no guaranteed seat though…)
  • You will have the chance to become part of a creative community and learn new skills and the opportunity to meet a range of new people and future collaborators!
  • Delicious food and soft drinks will be provided on shift!
  • An amazing team of collegues you will have fun with.

 

Want to get involved?

Be part of our team, enjoy the festival program and help us shape #NODE17 as a volunteer! Please send us an email with your area of interest or the duties that you would like to get involved with to katharina@nodeforum.org.

We are really excited to hear from you!

Please address all your questions
regarding volunteering at NODE to: