EVS, If you also want

to Develop!

About Kumulus

• National resource center for youth policy 2003-2007 commissioned by the Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs.

• Mission: develop and create new opportunities for young people to develop through international experiences.

• EVS as one tool for doing this

Claudia KjellstrandMathias LarssonE-mail: mathias@kumulus.seTel: +46 480 450196

Coordinating EVS organisation

Since 2004:• Hosted 22 volunteers • Sent 6 volunteers• Started 14 EVS projects

E-mail: claudia@kumulus.seTel: +46 70 474 8841

Kumulus offers youth

• Information about EVS• Function as sending organization• Help and support to find EVS projects in Europe• Application assistance• Flight, train reservations, visa applications• Contact during your stay in a foreign country• Follow-ups after the project period

Kumulus offers organisations

• Information about EVS• Support in getting started as a sending or hosting

organization• Application assistance• Administration of language courses, payment of pocket

money etc• Continuous meetings with EVS-supervisors to secure the

quality of the projects• Trainings

Who is the winner?

• Everybody…Volunteers

• Self confidence, belief in oneself• New perspectives to see things, wider view, to be open-

minded• New (working) experience• Language training • Meeting a new culture• A year that can help you find out where you are going and

what you want to do• Non-formal education• Traveling• New friends• …………………………………………

Who is the winner?

• Hosting Organisation• New view of work• New methods for working• New experience to the stuff by “know how”• A young person as a resource of opinions and experience• Motivation – one is capable – that motivate others• An intercultural dimension – intercultural learning• International cooperation – local publicity to the

organisation• ………………..

Who is the winner?

• Local community• People with different view to look at the city• Higher tolerance and better understanding for other

people.• Development of new ideas and new projects after EVS

projects• More interested in taking part in local activities • Spread information to local youth• Economic incomes (7000 Euro)• ……………………………..

Youth Centre Ladan

Youth Centre ZokkerHouse of Possibilities

Skälby 4H-farmYouth centres in Kalmar

Development departmentElderly care centre

Culture centre

Youth Center in Oskarshamn

EVS-projects in Kalmar County

Youth café LumbusYouth office

Table tennis club

EVS PROJECT: SKÄLBY 4H FARM IN KALMAR

• Hosted 5 EVS-volunteers since 2005

• Volunteers help out with taking care of the animals, work in the café and arrange activities for children and youth visiting the farm.

EVS PROJECT IN EMMABODA: HOUSE OF POSSIBLITIES

• Hosts 2 volunteers in 2007 (Latvia and France)

• Volunteers help out in the various activites at the House of Possibilities: environmental station, second-hand shop and at the Youth Centre in the city.

EVS PROJECT IN HÖGSBY: CULTURE CENTRE

• Hosts 3 volunteers in 2007/08 (Germany and France)

• Volunteers help out with the cultural activities such as music, theatre and dance classes.

Start working with EVS?

• Being a part of European Voluntary Service is an adventure giving young people the exciting opportunity to widen their horizons and develop themselves both on a personal and professional level while at the same being able to enjoy the benefits and security offered by a well established organization.