More than a place to stay
Find out about ÖJAB and the advantages it offers you – oejab.at/morethanstay
Community Events
Experience community and make friends – at the annual ÖJAB Football Cup or right here in your ÖJAB dorm: Your sporting event, your concert, your comedy evening, your discussion event, your poetry reading... are waiting to become a reality. ÖJAB helps you with the organization, providing venues and tips.
www.oejab.at/termine or contact your housing manager for more information
Have your say and become a resident speaker
Run for floor representative, dormitory speaker or ÖJAB resident speaker. In this way you can promote your concerns, ideas, and visions about the stay in your ÖJAB dorm. Use your right to vote in dormitory speaker elections. Because only those who vote have a say.
For more information, please contact your Housing Manager
Volunteer work in dorm management
Support your dorm management and the residents. As a thank you, you will receive various benefits.
For more information, please contact your Housing Manager
Visit senior residents and get involved as a volunteer
We invite you to visit elderly people in our nursing homes – German language skills are required for this volunteer work.
For more information, please contact one of our Residences & Nursing Homes by phone or email.
Trips to other countries – cheap or for free
ÖJAB organizes a variety of EU projects, youth exchanges, and international workshops. Take part and make new friends in other countries.
Your travel expenses are usually covered by grants.
Get involved in development cooperation
Organize a party or event at your ÖJAB house to raise funds for ÖJAB projects in Burkina Faso, Africa.
For more information, please contact your Housing Manager
Volunteer with us or do an internship. bewerbung@oejab.at
Do your civilian service at ÖJAB
As an Austrian citizen, you can do social work in ÖJAB instead of serving in the Austrian Armed Forces.
Affordable short-term accommodation – summer jobs
Family or friends are visiting? They can stay for a short time at ÖJAB dorms if there are vacancies. Or at myNext Hotels in Vienna and Salzburg, and at the Europahaus Wien. These are ÖJAB subsidiaries. Receptionists are often needed there during the summer – a popular summer job.
For more information, please contact your Housing Manager
Your meaningful job in ÖJAB
Do you want to work something meaningful and to develop yourself further? Apply at ÖJAB: www.oejab.at/jobs.
ÖJAB is an independent non-profit organization with 43 locations and 1.000 employees and volunteers, founded by Dr. Bruno Buchwieser in 1946. Shape the future with us in the following areas of impact:
- Students & Youth – 23 dormitories
- Seniors & Nursing Care – senior residences in Vienna, Salzburg and Güssing (Burgenland)
- Education & Integration – vocational training, socio-educational support, European cooperation, youth exchange with Japan
- Development Cooperation – projects in Burkina Faso for vocational training, sanitation, sustainable rural development and women's rights