Where to do an EVS?

Where to do an EVS?
ERASMUS MOST POPULAR DESTINATIONS COUNTRIES In the picture above we can see (but maybe not very well) the most popular destinations when it comes to making a European voluntary or Erasmus. In early position if you can not see it clearly, we find Spain, Germany, France and the UK … Of course, the destination you ...

Yes, no, yes, no, yes… Why do EVS?

Yes, no, yes, no, yes... Why do EVS?
From my own experience as EVS and the opportunities that I’ve had travelling during this year, I can say that having the opportunity to leave your own country, your comfort zone, for be brave and learn and adapt yourself to another country with a different language, culture, religion etc is a vital experience, a kind of ...

EVS… what is that?

EVS... what is that?
European Voluntary Service (EVS) is a long-term volunteer experience abroad. It enables young people aged 18 to 30 years to live up to 12 months in another country providing their service in a non-profit organization. The European Voluntary Service is funded by the European Commission within the Youth in Action Programme and aims to improve ...

EVS MidTerm

EVS MidTerm
Like we began our EVS experience with the “On-Arrival Training”, we ended up with a “Mid Term Training”. A time and a place to share among volunteers, our experiences, opinions, feelings, future perspectives… Volunteers from Spain, France, Germany, Georgia, Albania and the Czech Republic were hosted in the city chosen for staying, Torun. What it meant to me ...

International Boat of Culture Festival

International Boat of Culture Festival
In the city of the longest street in Poland, Łódź, it took place last weekend from 5th to 7th, the International Boat of Culture Festival. A festival organized by the hand of international and Polish volunteers who living in Łódź. One can say that this festival has been the end result of a long activity of cultural projects that ...

On-Arrivial Traning. Warszawa

On-Arrivial Traning. Warszawa
Warszawa is the city chosen to pass the first of the two Trainings that each volunteer is invited to attend to during our EVS. Different nationalities, different cities of destination in Poland, different languages… but approximately the same time of being newcomers in this new country. This training offered us the opportunity to reflect, answer to questions, ...

A Canarian EVS in Poznan! 5

A Canarian EVS in Poznan!
Yes, I am the new EVS! My name is Esther, and I come from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, (Spain). I am here to continue during one year, this work as part of European Voluntary Service (EVS) in Stowarzyszenie Na Rzecz Spółdzielni Socjalnych (Association for Social Cooperatives). Laia, my predecessor, has left an emptiness among her friends, ...

Playing in a place called Ursus 2

Playing in a place called Ursus
Forty five minutes by bus from the centre of Warsaw to the East there is a calm and solitary neighbourhood called Ursus. You will not see many people in the street, perhaps at the most an elderly woman who feels like talking with a group of young people. One shop in a corner, one pub ...

On-Arrival Training. Chapter two

On-Arrival Training. Chapter two
On-Arrival Training is said to be an excuse to meet new volunteers and to have the chance to travel all around the country. It’s really a good point! Actually, my friends in Poznan told me before: try to meet someone who is living in Krakow in order to have somewhere to sleep if we ever ...

On-Arrival Training. Chapter one 1

On-Arrival Training. Chapter one
One of the activities you have to do during your EVS is the On-Arrival Training. All European volunteers who have just started their projects in the same country go to meet each other and share different experiences. In Poland, it took place in Warsaw, so it was great for me to visit the Polish capital for the first ...