Short portrait of bsj

bsj Marburg e.V. is a non-profit youth organisation that works with the physical aspects and potentials of life styles. Body, movement and physical expression are the foci of our social work programmes. Outdoor Adventure Education and experiential learning activities are central aspects of our working agenda.

Founded in 1986 bsj co-operates with the Department of Physical Education of the Philipps-University Marburg. The main target groups in our leisure, school and vocational training programmes  are male and female social disadvantaged adolescents. bsj is working in social deprived areas, with institution of residential care, schools, projects of social work with youth at risk, in integration projects of handicapped and not handicapped young people. We intend to be an innovative and learning organisation.

As a youth support organisation bsj has been responsible for several communal, regional and cross regional pilot projects, funded by different Federal Ministries and ministries of the Federal State of Hesse and the Federal State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Since 1993 bsj runs the outdoor centre ZERUM in Ueckermuende which is specialised in using outdoor adventure education for the integration of handicapped girls and boys. In Hesse, we run  two other outdoor centres,  informal educational establishments, which are specialised in offering projects to schools to innovate the daily school situation.

bsj is organising regional and cross regional conferences, offers a wide range of further education for professionals. We are consulting social institutions and communities in developing their social and youth work. Since 1996 bsj is member of EOE (European Institute for Outdoor Adventure Education and Experiential Learning).