AVSO does not run voluntary service programmes. If you are interested in volunteering abroad, please contact one of our members.
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AFAIJ - Asociación para la Formación y Actividades Interculturales para la Juventud
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AFAIJ goal is to
promote the development of young people through intercultural
activities of social interest working within two main areas:
European and International Voluntary Youth Service and
International Youth Exchanges, which promote Intercultural
Education.
AFAIJ tries to reach its objective by:
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AFSAI - Associazione per la Formazione, gli Scambi e le Attività Interculturali
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AFSAI Mission is
to promote no-formal education opportunities for young people,
through: transnational socio-cultural activities; international
voluntary service and the international youth mobility.
Its main objective is to spread out intercultural learning activities for young people aiming:
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AGDF - Aktionsgemeinschaft Dienst für den Frieden (Action Committee Service for Peace)
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AGDF is an
association of 34 peace organisations. As a registered
non-profit organisation the AGDF represent their members'
concerns such as reconciliation and international co-operation,
support and encouragement for initiatives working for justice,
for social security and for environmental concerns. Voluntary
service through the AGDF is open to everyone.
For more than 25 years, the AGDF has been working for: increasing recognition and promotion of volunteer services with regard to international youth work, reconciliation work, development services, through co-operating with churches, governments and international institutions, awareness-raising about peace issues through e.g. planning of and participation in annual peace weeks, peace festivals, disarmament campaigns, church conferences and in the "conciliar process of mutual commitment to justice, peace and the integrity of creation", improvement of the substantive and organisational aspects of voluntary services. |
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ASC was
established on February 1996 and founded by 4 Italian national
organisations (ARCI, Arciragazzi, Legambiente, Uisp). Auser is
the 5th national member from 2001. ASC is composed by 81 ASC at
local level (usually province) and by 13 ASC at regional
level.
Each local ASC has a different number of local members (normally no profit organisations on different fields of social activities). At the same time ASC has effective special agreements with municipalities, hospitals, universities to represent and to be responsible to the National Office for Civic Service for their national civic service (NCS) projects. At December 2007 local members are 924 organisations. The areas of work are: human needs, cultural programs, social and environmental activities, projects on foreign countries. The most important activities of ASC are: to insert new members on the national list of NCS organisations, to submit projects to the National Office, training of young people and manager programs, projects’ tutorship, Annual Report. |
ASF - Aktion Sühnezeichen / Friedensdienste (Action Reconciliation / Services for Peace)
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ASF- Aktion
Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste, or Action Reconciliation Service
for Peace (ARSP), is a German peace and volunteer service
organization founded in the aftermath of World War II to
confront the legacy of the Nazi regime.
At its onset, the mission of ARSP was to volunteer in countries affected by World War II and to work with the peoples who suffered during the Nazi regime. The founders of ARSP called upon young Germans to work for peace through social services in these countries as a sign of atonement. The mission has evolved. It now includes learning from Germany’s history, taking a stand against racism and hatred today, and creating a positive future for everyone. The reasoning is that by acknowledging the past and learning from our history we can work for a better world. ASF's mission is accomplished through long-term and short-term volunteer programs. |
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CIU - Centrum för Internationellt Ungdomsutbyte (The Swedish Centre for International Youth Exchange) |
The 'Foundation
for International Youth Exchange' (SIU) was established in
1990. It was initiated by the Swedish government, the Swedish
Sports Confederation and the National Council of Swedish Youth
Organisations. Then, in 1996, a re-organisation took place and
SIU changed its name and organisational form.
Today the
Swedish Centre of International Youth Exchange (CIU) has got 28
members and together with several international partners we
conduct two international youth exchange programs. The programs
are called Sweden World Youth (SWY) and Youth Partners in
Development (YPD). The programs are 6 months long and the
participants spend half the time in Sweden and half the time in
the partner country. The participants in SWY and YPD live in
host families and take part in local voluntary work connected
to sustainable development. CIU also develops methods and tools for the improvement of youth exchange and voluntary work. At the moment CIU focus on an own method for the recognition of informal learning which is called ELD (experience, learning, description). Together with the Swedish National Agency for School Improvement CIU has got a project with the objective to increase the internationalisation of schools. CIU is a member of the European network EYRICA (European Youth Information and Counselling Agency) and also represent Sweden in the European Members States Expert Group on the development of youth-specific elements of Europass. |
Concordia
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Concordia was
created in 1950 and is a well established non profit making
NGO, committed to international voluntary service. It is a
democratic organisation that encourages active involvement of
its volunteers and members. The focus of Concordia's work is on
promoting international youth exchange through short-term
international volunteer projects.
Concordia is a French non-governmental and non-profit organisation, founded in 1950 by English, German and French youngsters. Their aim was to enhance the values of tolerance and peace after the 2nd world war by organising international workcamps of young volunteers. |
Cooperativa Sociale Kara Bobowski
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The non-profit social cooperative Kara Bobowski was formed by members of GAD(Parents and Friends of the Disabled) in 1992. Kara Bobowski is based in Modigliana, a town in the province of Forli-Cesena (region Emilia Romagna, Italy). The organisation's key activities include:
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CSV Training & Enterprise North
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CSV is the
largest voluntary placement organisation in the UK. CSV exists
in England, in Scotland and in Wales. The organisation has a
wide range of programmes that are dedicated to giving everybody
the chance to play an active role in their community through
full-time volunteering, training, education and the media.
There are many hundreds of different volunteering opportunities offered by CSV. All full-time volunteer placements are in social care projects throughout Britain. The role of volunteers on project placements can include giving pupils with special needs a boost in their reading, helping homeless people move into more permanent accommodation, befriending a young person to help prevent their re-offending or going clubbing with a student with physical disabilities. CSV recruits most of its volunteers from within the UK. However, there are several hundred people, aged between 18-35, who come to Britain each year from countries worldwide to volunteer full-time with CSV. Over the years, CSV has developed partnerships in many countries. |
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EDYN - European Diaconal Year Network
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The European
Diaconal Year Network (EDYN) is a network of lay and ecumenical
Christian organisations who offer young people a possibility of
volunteering in social activities throughout Europe.
The objectives of the network members are:
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Experiment e.V.
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Experiment e.V.
is a non-profit organisation whose goal is the exchange between
people of all cultures, religions and age groups. By making it
possible for people of different origins to live together, we
want to contribute to mutual understanding and cultures living
together in peace.
Experiment e.V. is full member of Experiment in International Living (EIL) that is one of the first organizations to engage individuals in intercultural living and learning. |
Hacettepe University
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ICYE - International Cultural Youth Exchange - European Association
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ICYE is an
international non-profit youth exchange organisation promoting
youth mobility, intercultural learning and international
voluntary service.
It's aims and purposes:
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ICP Partneriaeth
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ICP Partneriaeth
was founded in February 2000. Its aim is to promote European
volunteering opportunities for young people in Wales.
Its main areas
of work are promoting the European Commission's Youth Programme
in Wales, especially the European Voluntary Service (EVS)
scheme, and delivering intercultural training. They are an approved EVS hosting co-ordinator and sending organisation and they are also one of the approved EVS training providers for Wales. ICP is represented on the UK EVS Task Group, the All-Wales EVS Task Group and Connect Cymru. They are also affiliated to the WCVA (Welsh Council for Voluntary Action). |
IJGD - Internationalen Jugendgemeinschaftsdienste
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IJGD
(International Youth Community Services) are a non-profit
organization independent of any religious or political party.
They organise volunteer service programmes in Germany and
abroad. The aim is to forward young people's awareness of social conditions. By developing a feeling of social responsibility, young people will be able to make their own decisions in a democratic social environment, to act responsibly and to promote international understanding and cooperation. Other aims thus include the promotion of international understanding and the reduction of prejudice between people of different nations, social backgrounds, religions and political ideas. The contribution of young volunteers from all countries serves for the preservation of peace. The main emphasis is based on self-organisation of group life by working and living together on a democratic basis, internationalism and emancipation of the sexes. Voluntary work for common good forms the aims of IJGD. |
LUNARIA
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Lunaria is a
non-profit, non-confessional and independent association, free
from political parties’ control and influence. It was founded
in 1992 and it carries out research, training, and
communication activities on fair economy and third sector,
migrations and globalisation. It promotes initiatives
concerning international volunteering and youth policies.
Through its activities Lunaria experiments new forms of active participation and social transformation inspired by the principles of justice and social solidarity, democratic participation to community life, guarantee of civil, social and human rights in the national and international context. |
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NoBorders
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NoBorders was
established in 2003. It started as a volunteers sending
organisation. Then, to reduce the time investment of the youth
organisations working with volunteers they created two internet
tools called:
These websites have grown the last years. In the year 2007 NoBorders decided to dedicate all its time and energy to maintain and develop these websites in order to assist youth organisations working with volunteers. |
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Plateforme Pour le Service Citoyen
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The Plateforme
was created in December 2007, by members of 3 Belgian
associations who are active with young volunteers.
(Solidarcité, Asmae, Trans-mission). The platform wants to
support and assist with the establishment of a collective civic
service scheme in Belgium (groups of 10 young people with
different social backgrounds, active full-time in different
associations for a few months).
The Plateforme wants to bring together all the Belgian associations, organizations and actors who are interested in exploring the opportunity of a Belgian civic service. It intends to open the platform to associations who are active in youth voluntary work. They are currently active in studying the different possibilities and opportunities for the organization of this service in Belgium. The ultimate objective of the platform is to convince the politicians to write and approve a law that would recognize and organize a Belgian civic service. The objective is to develop in order to become the reference on the subject in our country. The founding members of the Plateforme are:
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PRAXIS
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PRAXIS is a youth non-governmental
organization in Serres, in North Greece which has activities in
culture , media and environmental fields.It was founded in 1995
in order to offer a broad spectrum of cultural activities to
the town youth and involve them in cultural issues. PRAXIS
works as a sending and a hosting EVS organization since 1998
and co-operates with the municipal cultural centre of Serres,
several Greek universities, local University, UNESCO, the
cultural ministry, General Secretary for Youth, Ecological
groups, and other institutions.
The main office
with the radio station 'Rodon FM' in the center of Serres
co-operates with PRAXIS. It broadcasts current news and
information about all kinds of events in Serres as well as long
music broadcasts with Greek and international quality music.
Radio Rodon Fm gives young people the possibility to make their
own broadcasts; everybody can come and play music. Furthermore
we run the Youth Information Center in Serres and a computer
laboratory where Praxis creates CD ROMs and web sites. The mission of Praxis is to provide opportunities at the pan-European and Mediterranean level to all young people without discrimination, prejudice or exclusion. |
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Silesian Diakonie - Slezská diakonie
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The mission is to
promote the quality of life of those who are in need through
providing social services of high quality. The services of high
quality are reached by the support of life long learning of
staff and national volunteers.
Previous Activities: providing social, health care, pastoral services, and counselling to those who are in need ( children, youth, elderly people with disabilities, elderly people, children and youth at risk, homeless people, victims of violence ). The activities are running in 40 different placements. Diacony Institute offers the seminars, trainings for own staff, as well for the staff of other non governmental organizations in the Moravian Silesia region. The programme of the international volunteerism is considered as important because of the development and support of the intercultural, interreligious learning and promotion the local community building. |
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UNIS-CITÉ
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Created in 1994,
Unis-Cité proposes a year of civic service and personal
development to young people aged 18 to 25. In this innovative
programme of long-term youth service in France, young men and
women of all cultural and social backgrounds and education
levels come together in teams of 8, for a full-time six or nine
months commitment working for the community.
This civic 'rite of passage' has a double impact:
Since 1995, almost 2,000 young people have risen to the challenge, completing more than 1000 projects benefiting thousands of people in communities all around France, in partnership with more than 600 local and national organisations. Unis-Cité currently operates in 9 major French cities and 6 medium-size cities, engaging young volunteers who: serve disadvantaged children/ youth/ adults, isolated elders, people with disabilities, homeless people, and work to combat racism and discriminations, protect the environment, promote community economic development. |
VERTIGEM - Associaçao para promoçao do patrimonio
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Vertigem is a non
governmental youth association, without lucrative purposes,
political or religious ends. Vertigem develops activities and
events to promote the Architectonic, Cultural and Natural
Patrimony.
They organize youth exchanges, training courses and inform young people. They aim at stimulating the development of local communities in their range of action; at informing and promoting events and opportunities for young people; at sensitizing for the protection and preservation of the nature. They promote volunteering. |
YAP - Youth Action for Peace / Action Jeunesse pour la Paix
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YAP is an
international youth movement, a network with branches mainly in
Europe and associated groups and partner organizations
elsewhere world-wide. In particular, the movement has
increasingly focused upon the combat against social exclusion
and the support of people I their struggle for freedom and
self-determination.
There are three main types of activities carried out by YAP:
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