PTG International Youth College

PTG International Youth College (Ungdomshøjskolen PTG) is a private and independent boarding school for young people (ungdomshøjskole in Danish), based at the Tvind campus in western Denmark. It is an alternative school where young people from different walks of life and nationalities can study, work and live together.

Social responsibility
The school promotes social responsibility and works actively to increase cultural awareness, inclusion and tolerance through cultural actions in the local community, as well as on study trips. The school takes an active part in the work to welcome and integrate young refugees, and participate in volunteer work in the local community. Some of the students at the schools come from troubled backgrounds and need social support to build a successful future. The school functions as a social community where everybody contributes with their strengths and positive efforts, and receives support in areas where they are lacking. PTG International Youth College at Tvind is hence another kind of “ungdomshøjskole” – actually a unique school with an extraordinary programme and good results.

Scholarships
The school has the possibility to offer scholarships to students who are socially responsible and who have positive and active personalities. With a scholarship, students get full access to the programme, including board and lodging.

Preconditions for getting a scholarship are:
1. You have to take an active part in the programme and be able to motivate yourself to participate in the daily activities at the school.
2. You have to accept that the school has a strict policy on drugs. No smoking of hash or use of other drugs is tolerated.
3. You have to understand that the school has a strict policy on alcohol. No alcohol can be taken while the student is part of the programme.
4. You are expected to learn Danish.

Scholarships can be given for one, two or three years, depending on what the purpose of the stay at the school is. It is possible to stay one year, as a “gap year” experience, or stay for two or three years, in order to take more formal exams (A’ levels.)

Study trips – The world is our classroom
The PTG ungdomshøjskole has a long tradition for study trips and "learning by doing", and has in the last few years travelled in Belize, Indonesia and India as part of the students’ learning experience. The programme for the study trips has three purposes:

1. To do good. That it is, to participate actively in a local community project, for the benefit of children and youth.
2. To learn about the social reality of normal people in the country – stay with families, meet with local youth, visit schools, play sports and so on.
3. To experience exceptional natural beauty in order to build awareness about Earth’s fantastic natural beauty, and why we need to protect it.

Eco-friendly profile
The school also has a strong eco-friendly profile nature projects and seeks to be CO2 neutral. The Tvind school campus has a wind turbine, and the school experiments with solar panels to become self-sustainable with electricity. Studies about climate change and participation in demonstrations, alternative COP meetings and other actions to promote a green agenda are part of the school’s programme.

You are welcome to learn more about Tvind and the alternative “ungdomshøjskole” PTG at www.tvind.dk and www.ptg.dk

See also our Facebook page: UngdomshojskolenPTG
which has more content in English.