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 which promote democratic youth participation,intercultural education, understanding and peace through voluntary service.

The Alliance, founded in 1982, is presently made up of 50 members from 29 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 18.000 young volunteers participate in more than 2000 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 2015

Published: 27/11/2014

The 2015 edition of the biggest IVS event worldwide, is taking place in Yerevan (Armenia) on March hosted by HUJ.

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Alliance extra videos

Published: 29/08/2014

After "Volunteering with the Alliance", 8 new short videos are now available online with inspiring messages for everyone!

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Analyze, update, innovate! New trends in IVS

Published: 08/08/2014

The Capacity Building "Begin Anywhere" successfully took place in Serbia on 1-4 July 2014. A well motivated group of participants, an innovative methodology and an impressive amount of quality results...

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100 years after the beginning of World War I…

Published: 22/05/2014

...campaigning for PEACE and NO HATE SPEECH! 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. Nowadays though, peace and human rights are still at risk. The Alliance supports the No Hate Speech Campaign of the Council of Europe's Youth sector and the Raising Peace Campaign promoted by our sister network CCIVS.

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Calendar of Alliance’ Activities