Youth exchanges and voluntary services

The project aimed at bolstering co-operation with European youth attendants in an international summer camp in different countries. Forty youngsters from Liechtenstein (aged between 12 and 20) participated in these camps.

A Youth exchange "Johnny on the Spot” gathered young people with the aim of raising awareness (of both young people and their surrounding) about youth rights and about how do young people see their rights. This theme – youth rights – was processed through various creative workshops (theatre, film, painting, dancing…), all the workshops presented their results on the last day of exchange in one public event organised by participants of the exchange. All activities in the exchange were filmed and resulted in a movie.

Youth exchange with a motto “MORE ATTENTION, PLEASE!” is a project about social inclusion, participation and equal opportunities. It gathered young people with fewer opportunities, autism, cerebral palsy and dystrophy, but also young people without disability, from Serbia and Slovenia. The main aim of this project is to encourage participation and social inclusion of young people through art, music, sport activities, work with animals in the zoo, activism… With this project, young people with disabilities were enabled to feel positive benefits of participation and inclusion; they gained more confidence in their society, increased their mobility and developed their sense of citizenship and mutual understanding.

Olga Gaponova was sent as an EVS to “Seevögel- und Wattenmeerschutz” project in Verein Jordsand, Germany. The NGO “Youth Information Centre” organised on-arrival training for EVS volunteers in Russia.

The goal of the project was to raise the level of youth participation in society. The project’s basic task was to form a group of young people and to train them in the knowledge and skills needed for them to conduct youth exchanges on the themes of tolerance, citizenship, and human rights.

The youth information centre in Salzburg organised a Youth Mile European Football Championship in 2008 "BallArt”: a youth mile have been organised in front of the headquarters offering young people a special programme during 3 days, during which matches took place in the city of Salzburg. There were band performances, workshops, raffles. 15 young EVS-volunteers from different European countries have been involved in the project.

A youth information centre in Vorarlberg organised an information event about the EVS programme. Eighteen youngsters took part in the event.