What is volunteering for the Alliance

The Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations is an International Non-Governmental Youth Organisation. It represents national voluntary service organisations that promote intercultural understanding, peace, democratic participation and equality, in the spirit of respect for universal human rights.

The Alliance, founded in 1982, is presently made up of 53 members from 31 countries in Europe, Asia and America. Each member organisation runs an annual programme of International Volunteer Projects in their own country and exchanges volunteers with each other following the Alliance Quality Charter. Every year an average of 12.000 young volunteers participate in more than 1.200 local community projects organised by member organisations.

The Latest News from The Alliance

Here you can follow the latest developments in International Voluntary Service from Alliance activities and initiatives.

Alliance Technical Meeting 2023 (01-06 March 2023)

Published: 14/03/2023

We concluded the Alliance Technical Meeting hosted by Youth4Smile between the 1st-6th of March in Riga, Latvia . Throughout the meeting, our members and partners from more than 30 countries and more than 40 organizations represented their work camp programs with each other. We are looking forward the host thousands of volunteers from all over […]

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Alliance Joint Meeting #1 (12th – 16th of January 2023)

Published: 24/02/2023

Between the 12th and 16th of January, 27 participants who are involved in different Alliance bodies came together for the first Joint Meeting of the network in Prague, Czechia hosted by our member organisation INEX – SDA. During three productive days, apart from kicking off the yearly activities in 2023 for the network, we worked […]

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International Day of Solidarity with Palestine

Published: 29/11/2022

In the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine as IVS movement, we choose to take a common stand with the Palestinian people. In September 2022 Representatives of different International Voluntary Service (IVS) organizations and networks, participated in a 10 days study visit to Palestine, organized by the Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVS), hosted […]

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Alliance General Assembly 2022

Published: 29/11/2022

On the 3rd, 4th, and 5th of November, the 40th Alliance General Assembly (GA) took place in Antalya, Türkiye hosted by our member organisation Gönüllü Hizmetler Derneği 46 delegates from 26 member organisations took part in the GA and made decisions that will shape our network starting from 2023. This was also the last General […]

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Calendar of Alliance’ Activities