What it means to be part of a Volunteering Team: the experience in Austria

Volunteering projects are unique opportunities for young people to gain experience abroad with the support of European funding. As these are important life experiences that involve a disruption of one's daily routine for several months, the European Commission had the wonderful idea to create the so-called Volunteering Teams: what kind of projects are they? These…

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Che cos’è un Volunteering Team? L’esperienza dei nostri volontari in Austria

I progetti di volontariato sono delle occasioni uniche che permettono ai giovani di fare esperienze all’estero supportati da finanziamenti europei. Dato che si tratta di esperienze di vita importanti che comportano uno stravolgimento della propria routine quotidiana per diversi mesi, la Commissione Europea ha avuto la bellissima idea di creare i cosiddetti Volunteering Teams: che…

“ALL IN” in action! The Local Trainings of the KA2 project

13.12.2018 20 participants 60 pens and colors 10 flipchart leaves 2 facilitators 4 staff persons involved 1 bar... that is always a great thing for a good coffee break! These were my numbers of the day, in that rainy and cold Thursday of December. With these number, I played a new match: my first local…

Tell us about your EVS!

“So, how was it abroad?” – this is one of the first questions that every traveler has to answer upon his return to the home country. The person asking the question is curious, and also expects a nice answer – if possible short, and also profound. The problem is, that this ‘one’ answer is extremely…

Behind the youth work – A training course in Pesaro

Ciao ragazzi! My name is Katharina, and I am a nineteen years old EVS volunteer from Germany. Today I want to tell you a little bit about Vicolocorto's latest project, a training course about Inclusion here in Pesaro from the 13th until the 20th of September. Now first of all: what is a training course?…

BEHIND THE YOUTH WORK – Austria, 3 – 10 July 2014

DAY SIX This morning I woke up with strange feelings. I don’t remember why, but there was something that I couldn’t figure out in my mind. By the way, I stand up and went to have breakfast before my brain started to work too hard. After three sandwiches everything got better and I was ready…