European Solidarity Corps

Since 2017, the program also offers opportunities for European youth to get engaged as volunteers in their own communities.

[1] Since the early 1990s, the European Commission was engaged in financing international voluntary service projects for young people as part of the program Youth for Europe.

[3] In 1996, the European Voluntary Service was established, when 200 volunteers were sent abroad for six to twelve months in a pilot project.

[3] The program is being administered by the Directorate General for Education and Culture of the European Commission.

[5] The grant covers insurance, linguistic support, travel to and from the project, accommodation and food as well as a small allowance for personal expenses.