The main project aims are to enhance young people’s participation, leadership skills and their engagement in civil society in European Union and South Eastern European countries as well as to facilitate dialogue and exchange between young volunteers and youth from minority groups. Volunteers will be placed both in youth NGO’s and public institutions running awareness-raising and civic education programmes with young people from multicultural, multiethnic and multi-faith backgrounds to empower their participation in local campaigns and local development.

Before and after the Voluntary Service experience, the group of 14 volunteers has the opportunity to meet at joint Preparatory Training- and Final Evaluation meetings. These meetings apart from enriching the intercultural learning process and providing additional support are an opportunity to share experience and exchange opinions with regards to the situation of youth in EU and SEE countries.  In addition, a joint mid-term evaluation of all volunteers and their project supervisors in SEE countries was held in Tirana, Albania, combined with a 1 day seminar on “the role of youth as agents of change in civil society”.