Messzelátó Egyesület

What is EVS?
It is a 2-12 month-long, EU-funded voluntary work opportunity in the non-profit section mostly in one of the EU countries. For the participation you need to apply to the national agency, which deals with the voluntary service related issues. The main aim of the program is to support the informal learning of the youngsters and to help the local communities. It is also a goal to build a flourishing connection between the different countries.

Admission information:
You have to be between 18-30 years old (You have to start the project before you turn into 31).

The conditions of the participation in the program:

• you need a sending organization who
  • helps to choose the project
  • is in connection with the hosting organization and the National Agency
  • deals with the administration
  • pays the travel costs of the volunteers with the help of the EU support
  • prepares the volunteer for the program and the travel
  • is in touch with the volunteer
  • after coming home helps the volunteer to "adapt him/herself back" to the community
• a hosting organization who
  • ensures the realization of the project (it teaches the tasks to the volunteer and ensure the work)
  • ensures the whole catering of the volunteer (accommodation, food, education, pocket money, etc.) with the support of the EU.
• and a volunteer, who
  • fulfills the tasks
  • tries to adapt him/herself to the local community

Apart from the catering the volunteer gets

• travel costs
• accommodation
• pocket money between 80 and 120 Euros depending on the hosting country
• 2 free days per month
• local language classes
• whole health insurance

About the hosting project you can find a database on this homepage, where you can search in various topics, such as country, city, theme of the project: http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm

The volunteer or the sending organization sends the CV of the volunteer to the chosen organizations, whose projects the volunteer prefers. Then these hosting organization choose - according to their preferences - the adequate volunteer. It is worth sending the CVs to at least 20 places, because there is significant over-application to many of the projects. After the selection of the volunteers the sending or the hosting organization submits the application to the national agency, where it will be considered during 1,5 month (you can apply 5 times per year). usually projects are only rejected due to formal problems. The minimum 2, maximum 12-month-long project can earliest start 3 months after the submission of the application. The duration of the project depends on the hosting organization.

The sending organization is most of the time civil societies, municipalities, schools or even churches. Our organization, the Messzelato association is a sending organization, which has already sent many volunteers to various countries. If you wanna know more info about the EVS, the project and the procedure, please get in touch with Tunde Udvarnoki, EVS coordinator (tundeudvarnoki(at)gmail.com, +3630-3864228).