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19 Oct 06 - myEVS

Myevs is a Blog for EVS volunteers. Through this Blog EVS volunteers can stay in touch with their friends and family abroad. They can write messages, post pictures and share your experiences with people at home, new friends and also with future EVS volunteers. Please have a look at www.myevs.net . All EVS Volunteers can get a free Blog by registering at www.myevs.net read all »

04 Apr 06 - Forum for Centreal & Eastern Europe

We invite you to take part in the Visegrad Summer school ! The aim of the Visegrad Summer School is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and to create an alternative learning environment for young people from Central and Eastern Europe. The program is an opportunity for the participants to get acquainted with and discuss current social and security, economic, political and cultural... read all »

11 Mar 06 - Post EVS seminar in Stockholm - October 06

nOva re-started last year, thanks to the special grant and the very help of Internationell KulturUtbyte. Since last November, we started to create tools to inform about EVS, creating a national network and try to take part to the international movement. We also decided to work in the field of validation... The Project We are proposing a post-EVS seminar that aims at evaluating our EVS... read all »

23 Nov 05 - Help for a Future Capital...

Hello, My name is Guillaume, I am French and, beetween 2003 and 2004, I have been a volunteer in Norway. Since September, I am now working on my Future Capital project. The idea is to create a DVD which will be a multimedia testimony about how people experienced their EVS. The final objective is to diffuse this tool in France but also all over Europe to 300 EVS hosting and sending o... read all »

12 Nov 05 - Web Community for EVS Volunteers in Poland

If you took part in an EVS project in Poland, or thinking about doing so or if you are Polish, please read on...(actually everybody are welcome to;-)) My name is Andreas Lang-Jensen. I am from Denmark, Copenhagen. I did my EVS project in Poland last year. After my project ended I actually didn't plan to use my Future Capital. However, in a moment of energy and enthusiasm I changed my mind ... read all »

29 Aug 05 - Marzine - magazine 4 EVS

Hello, I'm Sylvain Bardy from France. After my EVS in Jaca, Spain, in the project of the way of Santiago in Aragón, I'm now preparing my Future Capital. For this reason I'm writing to you and your organization, I would like to get some informations and help. My Future Capital will be a magazine (its name will be Marzine) with edition every 2 months and telling about the cultural even... read all »

27 Mar 05 - Ex EVS let's do more

I’m Akvilë from Lithuania. We are very young ex-evs association from Lithuania. It is very interesting for us to know more about the associations abroad. What are your goals and how do you plan to reach them, do you have enough interested and active people, what have you done already and how do you organize everything? We are planning to do youth exchange this summer here in Lithuania and l... read all »

06 Mar 05 - The Volunteer Programme of Torino 2006

In 2006 Winter Olympics game will take place in Torino, you can play an active role by taking part as volunteer. In 2006 the spotlights of the entire world will shine on Torino. The eyes of millions of people will follow the greatest sports event in the history of our Country and the people who will make it possible: the volunteers of the Noi2006 Team. The volunteers o... read all »

05 Feb 05 - EVS Seminar

Hello! My name is Katrin Krämer and I make my EVS in Lille, France. I want to organise a seminar with former and topical volunteers. So I search a organisation who is interested in this project and who helps me! I send you the first information sheet. Please tell me if you are interested or not, thank you very much. Katrin - europe@reussir.asso.fr Yves BOURDÉRO... read all »

30 Aug 04 - What other do youngsters think about Europe ?

What other do youngsters think about Europe - I was very interested to find that out! I am an ExEVS volunteer, from Austria and I am doing my future capital project at the moment, which is about collecting opinions about Europe from young people living there. The statement what they think about Europe will be put together with a photo of them into a calendar, the name of the project is ... read all »

19 Jun 04 - Summer Work Camp Spain

12 available places in a summer work camp in central Spain Our organization AFEMJO-CLM will be running a summer work camp for youths, here in Central Spain. The camp will run from the 1st to the 15th of August, it will be situated in the area of Alcoba de Los Montes. The accommodation will consist of a number of log cabins. We will also have access to a private swimming pool, and al... read all »

10 May 04 - Short & Funny questionnaire on EVS

We are truly happy to have again a mail from Vincent and to know that his Future capital project is "in progress". Here we publish a mail we have just got. I’m Vincent, ex-volunteer in Germany. I organize an international EX-EVS seminar to make an evaluation of the knowledges and competences learned during EVS , it’ll take place in Tours in September. One of the aim of this seminar... read all »

17 Apr 04 - Volunteering in Mongolia

For everybody interested in getting a inforgettable experience this summer try beeing a volunteer in Mongolia. The organisation MYDC (Mongolian Youth Development Center) annually arranges camps for volunteers and Mongolian Youth. The tasks of the volunteers can be everything from manual work to teaching English - to get an idea look at the home page www.mydc.org.mn If you're under ... read all »

17 Apr 04 - Meeting in Brussels - Saturday the 24th of April

Hi European Volunteers! We have a new Meeting-point!!! Our next activity will be in Brussels on Saturday the 24th of April 2004. What’s the program? Because Belgium is famous for its comics and Brussels is a great city, we will focus on this theme. We’ll have a “comic-tour” in the city centre of Brussels! We’ll show you the great comic-wall drawings. (Don’t forget walking shoe... read all »

25 Mar 04 - International Seminar : “ Acknowledging EVS Experience”

I’m Burais Vincent , EX-European Volunteer (Germany, sept. 2001/ march 2002). I have achieved to validate this wonderful experience to enter a Social Work School in Tours and kept contact with the volunteers by being member of SVE-connexion . In general, EVS is an intense and positve experience, however, very few institutions currently recognize the value of such a non-formal edu... read all »

09 Mar 04 - Barcelona - World Youth Festival and others

World Youth Festival - 8/14 August 04 - Barcelona, Spain (EN) After Lisbon in 1998 and Panama City in 2001, Barcelona will host this third World Youth Festival, which aims to take a step forward in cooperation among youth organizations from around the world and bring together 10,000 young people from all the continents. The festival's motto is "Let's build the world" . More information ... read all »

29 Feb 04 - German EVS look for Help for her Future Capital

Susan is a german girl who was EVS in Sweden, you can know more about her here She wrote us because she needs help for her Future capital. Here the letter we have got that explain everything. Hi everybody! I´ve always been so surprised and happy about the supports volunteers give each other and now I hope to receive some myself! I´m a German girl doing a Future Capit... read all »

19 Feb 04 - Third Meetingpoint.evs Party in Antwerp City

Saturday the 13th of March we organize the 3rd Meetingpoint.evs party in Antwerp! The best international party you had! We found a great DJ and a party always is the best way to meet people you didn’t know before or see folks you didn’t see in a long time. Place to be: same place as before: Paljaskeskelder (it’s in the basement of a pub) in “De Trein Der Traagheid” , Lange Noor... read all »

05 Feb 04 - Site Mantainance

From tomorrow and for the whole weekend this site will be under extraordinary mantainance, so it will be possible that not everything will be working propely. This in needed because of the upgrade to the new version. Have a nice week-end. Ciao read all »

21 Jan 04 - EVS CO-OPERATION SEMINAR - Romania

EVS CO-OPERATION Seminar Organized by AIESEC Bucharest Date: between 10-15 May Period: 3 days Location: Romania Participants: Representatives of Romanian and international NGO’s. The language of the event will be English. Objectives: The main goal of the seminar is to give the participants the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas, share experiences in European V... read all »

19 Jan 04 - [IMPORTANT] How to safely update your data !

Well, I' must apologize to all the people who had problem in updating their information in the personal area I'm really really sorry and I promise you a beer for this. Well, read this message before write anything in your presentation how the system works Well, the story is long and I don't think you are relly interested in these technical stuff, so I just want to tell you what yo... read all »

17 Jan 04 - Account activation delay

Due to some technical problems for the next 10 days will not be possible for us to activate the accounts of the new registered peoples. So, please, don't worry if you have registered and your account don't became active. Thanks a lot. read all »

14 Jan 04 - Alojamiento

hi, from 16th of february to 5th of april we are going to travel through south spain, visiting cordoba, cadiz, sevilla, malaga, granada because of our future capital, a travel guide for handicapped people. if you have the possibility to host us some days or know someone who could do, please tell us. of course, you are although invited to visit us. stephie and nina stephie.zip... read all »

25 Dec 03 - FRENCH ORGANISATION

French ex-volunteers are organising themselves by creating several local organisation... read all »

21 Dec 03 - Some nice photo from Netherland !!

As you can see from our news database there was an EVS / EX-EVS meeting in Utrecht some days ago. There is a gallery with the pictures from that meeting on the website of the dutch EVS organisation. We have took one as example ... :-) For the whole gallery check : http://www.dutchones.com/fotonov03.html Ciao ciao !!! read all »

13 Dec 03 - Want to be a photographer ?

Ciao ! We have got a request from Stijn a Belgian EVS who needs help for his future capital. Here is the mail ... Hello, I'm a belgian boy and did my EVS in France last year. The whole experience got me motivated to do a future capital project by myself... And here we are... For my Future Capital project I'm looking for photographers that are willing to take some pictu... read all »

01 Dec 03 - EVS-Networks in Europe 1.12.03 updated addresslist

Hei! At the file you can find the addresslist of EVS-Networks in Europe. If there are some new networks or contact person in new countries - please - inform me. Also let me know if there is some chances in your networks contact informations. Hugs! :) kati EVS-NETWORKS IN EUROPE   HOMEPAGE AND DATABASE FOR EVS-VOLUNTEERS www.4evs.n... read all »

30 Nov 03 - new wesbite

hi, finally we managed it. german ex-evs has a new website: http://www.ex-evs.de/ visit us!     read all »

30 Oct 03 - Meeting in Utrecht for EVS

The March 22 EVS trip to the typical Dutch villages of Marken and Volendam was a great succes. Click here for some pictures . For November 29 (Saturday), the Dutch Ones plan a new EVS volunteer day, this time in Utrecht. The program (subject to change) is: - visit to a traditional beer brewery, of course with the possibility to taste... - climbing the Dom tower: from the tallest ... read all »

25 Oct 03 - Sosforevs.org has new site

The official web-site for EVS has restyled is web-site. Some more information are available in it and there is also a small part for Ex-EVS organisation. The web-site can be found at this address http://europa.eu.int/comm/youth/program/sos/index_en.html read all »

03 Oct 03 - Party in Antwerpen for EVS and EX-EVS

Hello everybody ! We want to inform you about a party that will take place in Antwerpen on the 25 of October! All the volunteers and EX-Volunteers are really wellcome to join it !!! The party will be at : Paljaskeskelder/Trein der Traagheid, Lange Noordstraat, 2000 If you want to get a more information and a personal invitation write to: meetingpoint.evs@yucom.be read all »

03 Oct 03 - about future of ex-evs

there is a evaluations of the ex-evs-associations at the moment, means that the national agencies collect the information about the ex-evs-associations of their countries and send it to the European commission. Until November they want to make a new guideline for ex-evs-work. german ex-evs has good chances to get money again, because we also went to brussels and meet the people there. Bu... read all »

17 Sep 03 - New version - suggestions are welcome

Hello everybody ! We are planning a new version of the website www.4evs.net ! The site will have all the features this one have and many more ! Most of them will be to facilitate active partecipation in the community of the Volunteers, and to allow a better communication between EV-EVS organisation and the volunteers. Here a short link of the new features (in no particulary or... read all »

27 Aug 03 - www.go4evs.at

Attention! The Austrian EVS-homepage lives again! Visit it under www.go4evs.at and share your EVS experience with other ex-volonteers! We are especially happy about messages at our forum! read all »

12 Jul 03 - some things for better understanding (ex-evs-future and...

hello, the reason why i thought about waiting for the decision of the european comision was not as much because of financial questions of the seminar as more because we do not need a network meeting if in the future our ex-evs-associations won´t get any more money, what means that they can´t really exist any more. so the first thing we have to do is to make clear to our national agencies... read all »

12 Jul 03 - about the seminar in redon and new plans

hi, now i want to tell you just a little bit of that redon seminar i went to. it was a contact making seminar for people who are still involved in the european youth programme and wanna find new partners for projects. it was not just for ex-evs-work, but when we formed groups to plan new projects, i was in that one, who wants to organize another big international ex-evs-network-s... read all »

12 Jul 03 - Future of Ex-EVS-Associations?

hello, there are discussions about the future of the found for ex-evs-associations at the moment. for those who still don´t know. there might be a new found for us in 2004, not earlier. so those which don´t have any more money or wanna get money the first time have to wait now, try to get money from other actions or work together with other ex-evs-associations which sti... read all »

05 Jul 03 - Summertime

Summertime and the living is easy .... Well, it's a while that nobody add some news, but don't be afraid the community is still alive and in a good shape. During this summer period the activities are slowed down, people are on vacations and the administrators too. But don't be afraid ... we are preparing many news for the next period !! So, be ready ... The community has now almost 1... read all »

21 Jun 03 - GuestBook for U

I have setup a first beta version of Guestbook system. Now, when you are in the presentation page of one volunteer, you can see a new menu voice "GB". I you click there, you'll access his/her GB, you'll be able to see all the message lived by the other and add your own! Remember that: You have to be logged in to sign someone else GB. Read weel what you wrote before to send i... read all »

20 Jun 03 - New web site about EVS in Italian and English

The Youth Department of the City of Turin has created his own web site about the EVS office like sending and coordinating organisation. It can be useful also for all Italians who don't understand English or French to see how to do to became an EVS volunteer! www.comune.torino.it/infogio/sve   read all »

12 Jun 03 - Registration process

Hello everybody, I just want to tell you that I have changed the registration process. Now, you MUST insert your project code to complete the registration ! It was to hard for me to find the code for all the people that couldn't remember it ! I have added in the second registration page a complete list of all the project for every country, so to facilitate the research of the code. ... read all »

11 Jun 03 - network-meeting in france

international network-meeting in france will take part (see attachments). read all »

05 Jun 03 - workcamp in belgium/ future capital project

international workcamp in belgium from 01. until 10.08.2003. read all »

03 Jun 03 - Meeting in Bruxelles

Seminar of german and finnish ex-evs-associations in bruxelles in april 2003. read all »

02 Jun 03 - Updated cities for Finland, Germany and Greece

We have updated the cities list for Finland, Germany and Greece. Thanks to : Sara for the Finnish list Stephanie for German one. Marina for the Greece list. If you think that in the list of cities for your country some city is left, don't hesitate to send a mail to us with its name! It'll be inserted for sure in the database. As usual any kind of comments and fee... read all »

30 May 03 - City travel guide of spain for handicapped people

with beginning of next year we are going to start our fc-project. the preparation process already has begun. stephie and nina read all »

28 May 03 - New website

Hello to everybody ! Finally after long time a stable version of the this website is on-line ! It took almost 4 months but the result isn't that bad ! Or ? But the works isn't finished, or probably is just began ! Many think are left, and first of all is time to start to build a real working network between EVS ! Everybody can help, and we need the help of anybody! Yours too so don't... read all »

17 May 03 - Ex-evs meeting

Ex-evs meeting in Latvia will take place from 19-21th of May. read all »