Volunteer Areas

You are our first point of contact at the festival site. With your friendly and helpful attitude, you welcome our participants or speakers, media partners and journalists or partners. You check tickets at the entrance, issue festival badges and admission wristbands. You make sure that everyone on site finds their way around and has a good start at re:publica. You should have good communication skills, patience and calmness in a sometimes hectic environment and a good command of English.

If you don't want to miss any of the three-day programme and also like to be physically active, then become a build-up or -down volunteer. Please only sign up here if you are physically fit! We are particularly dependent on every hand during the dismantling after the festival, so please only sign up here if you are sure that you will be able to fulfil your shift.

If you are given a build-up shift during the festival, this will be a remodelling at one of the stages.

You will need sturdy, closed shoes and clothes that can get dirty. (If possible, please do not wear trainers/sneakers or fabric shoes - preferably work shoes).

Are you patient and stress-resistant? Then this is the right place for you. The cloakroom / suitcase cloakroom is located directly next to the accreditation. There are periods when there is less work to do, but at busy times you should keep your cool and stay on top of things. You may be assigned to other areas during quiet times.

As a Flex volunteer, spontaneity and flexibility are the most important prerequisites. You help out wherever support is needed. You might also join any department for your whole shift. This can be at the accreditation, program organisation or in hospitality - but physical commitment might also be required. It’s also possible that there are stretches of time when there’s nothing to do. Let yourself be surprised! You need sturdy, closed shoes.

Where can I find the toilet? When is the lecture? How do I log into the W-LAN? At the Infopoint you are the central point of contact for all guests of re:publica. If you are communicative and enjoy being helpful and answering questions patiently, this is a suitable position for you. To be able to answer questions from both German and international guests, you should have a good command of both languages.

In Program or Partner Support, you will support the program or partner team by, for example, transporting things back and forth between the stages, looking after the speaker backstage or the Partner Pop-Up or picking up speakers and taking them to the stages. There will also be idle times when you will be waiting for the next task.

You will screen-print (under guidance) this year's festival logo on items of clothing handed in by visitors to give them a sustainable souvenir of re:publica 26.

Please wear clothing that can get stained.

Does the stage need to be cleaned up? Is there water at the stage? Does a technician need something to eat or drink? Are all the doors closed? Do guests need help? Do we need fresh air? You will assist the stage managers and contribute to the smooth running of the programme.

At the start of your shift, you will arrive at the Volunteer Lounge and wait for a while until you are picked up, as the individual stage managers cannot always plan in advance when they will have time to introduce you to your task.

In the position of Sustainability, you will be on the move, promoting sustainability, waste separation and accessibility. This may include documentation, information, communication or even hands-on work (waste stations).

As a volunteer in the Tech Team, you will either support our technicians in setting up the festival network, the streaming infrastructure or laying the power cables, or you will be involved in data management during the festival for our service provider wecap. With the latter, you will be walking around a lot to collect media at the various stages.

TINCON Berlin, the youth conference for the digital society, will also take place from 18 to 20 May at the same venue. At TINCON, everything revolves around the topics of young people growing up digitally. The programme is divided into many areas: Games, Net Policy & Code, Media Literacy, Science & Education, Music & Lifestyle, as well as Activism and you will take on a variety of tasks such as accreditation, workshop support, set-up and dismantling, stage assistance, and hospitality.

We have various workshop spaces spread across the event site, in which several workshops are offered each day by different workshop organisers. Your task will be to be available as a contact person for one of these spaces and to help the workshop organisers with the preparation and clean-up work.