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Your EVS placement
You can find a database of organisations that are entitled to host and send volunteers in the EVS-database.
An EVS project can focus on a variety of themes and areas of intervention, such as culture, youth, sports, social care, cultural heritage, arts, civil protection, environment, development cooperation, etc.
High-risk interventions in immediate post-crisis situations (e.g. humanitarian aid,
immediate disaster relief, etc.) are excluded.
An EVS placement cn take place in any Programme Country or Neighbouring Partner Country within the Youth in Action programme.
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As volunteer, EVS does not cost you anything! (at least as far as money goes!)
Your sending organisation will receive an amount of money for preparing you in a proper way, for the support they provide, and they get 100% of your travel costs, so they can buy you a plane, bus or train ticket to your host country.
Your host organisation can receive an amount of money for accommodating you, for providing you food, language courses, guidance and support, and insurances. They can receive money to pay your travel costs.
Also you get some pocket money (volunteer allowances) and if you have visa costs or vaccination costs you can get them for 100% back.
In case you have any special needs, additional costs that you have, can be reimbursed (for example: additional insurances for wheel chairs)
A complete survey with the overview of funding rules, in the programme guide found here
Group insurance plan
EVS volunteers are covered by a group insurance plan specifically designed to protect them during their period of voluntary activity. The cover is compulsory and free of charge to the Volunteers. The following guides provide information about the principles of this insurance.
Do you need to know the language of your host country?
The selection of volunteers should not be made according to language skills, unless a basic knowledge is needed for a specific task. Linguistic support is provided during the EVS project in order to ensure the volunteers’ integration. The host organisation is responsible for the linguistic support of EVS volunteers in order to ensure the integration of the volunteer.
Important Infomation
Please note that Volunteer Ireland are not currently accepting EVS volunteers at this time.
