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   The aim of the European Voluntary Service action is based on three fundamental principles.
   • To provide an informal intercultural learning experience for young people by encouraging their social integration, active participation, and increasing their employability and giving them opportunities to show solidarity with other people;
   • To support the development of local communities;
   • To encourage the establishment of new partnerships and the exchange of experience and good practice between the partners.

          YAP-RO through the EVS is both sending and hosting organization. The program is open to all young people who are legally resident in an eligible country and are, in principle, aged between 18 and 25 years. The volunteers give their time and efforts for a project benefiting the local community in exchange for an opportunity to practice their skills, gain cultural and social capital.

Responsibilities of the sending organization
          Preparation: The preparation required includes helping the volunteer to find and contact a host organization. In addition, volunteers need to be prepared for their stay abroad according to their individual needs (including travel and visa). The sending organization is obliged to make sure that the volunteer attends one of the regular pre-departure training sessions arranged by the National Agency.
          Contact during volunteering: The sending organization should keep in contact with the volunteer and with the host organization during the project. This will help to avoid crisis, and it can help the sending organization to organize the follow-up of the volunteer upon return.
          The sending organization should evaluate the volunteer’s service. They should provide support for the volunteer so that he/she can integrate into the community at home after the end of the service and give him advice on how to use the experience gathered. The volunteer should also be given support in order to continue his educational/professional activity for finding a place of work.

The host organization can be:
          - a nongovernmental organization
          - an association
          - a local authority
          - a local, non profit initiative

Responsibilities of the host organization:
          - Preparation of the volunteer. The volunteer should be guided and advised in order to use his personal abilities. The volunteer should be sent to intermediary evaluation seminaries organized by the host country’s National Agency.
          - The integration of the volunteer in the life of the local community
          - Finding a mentor directly responsible for the volunteer’s linguistic and pedagogical support
          - The volunteer’s linguistic preparation
          - Assurance of the adequate adaptation and food
          - Health assurance

          All volunteers are automatically assured in case of disease, accidents, permanent invalidity and repatriation in case of severe disease, accident and death.
          All the young persons who finished a project within the European Voluntary Service will be given a certificate signed by a member of the European Community responsible for the YOUTH program. In this certificate will be mentioned the period of the volunteer’s service as well as details of her/his activities. In case of successful completion of the EVS program, the volunteers have the possibility to make a founding application within the Action 3 – Investments for the Future for developing/perfecting the acquired experience. Such a project can start in maximum 2 years from the date of completing the volunteer service.
          YAP-RO sheltered a big number of international volunteers through the EVS and Robert Bosch Foundation, within Cojocna Social Centre and other organization projects.
          EVS sending, within Yap EVS long program, managed to send a important number of youth in the UK countries.
          2005- “Hosting the future”- Cluj-Napoca, May the 7th –May the 14th – international EVS training.