• My EVS Experience – Week X

    My EVS Experience – Week X

    After all the projects were finished, I received the visit from a friend from Portugal, that came to stay in Timisoara for a few days. In the first two days, I showed around in Timisoara and, for the next three,…


  • My EVS Experience – Week IX

    My EVS Experience – Week IX

    To continue with the non-stop wave of projects, as soon as the previous one was finished, we immediately started a Youth Exchange, named “Intervention for Youth”. This time it was a bit different, as I was not taking part as…


  • My EVS Experience – Week IIX

    My EVS Experience – Week IIX

    Right after finishing the project in Baia Mare, we came back to Timisoara and started a new project. Even though it was nice to get to know a bit more of Romania, I was glad I was back in Timisoara…


  • My EVS Experience – Week VI & VII

    My EVS Experience – Week VI & VII

    The next 10 days of my EVS were spent in Baia Mare, a city in the county of Maramures. During these days, I took part on an international training course, developed under the framework of the Erasmus+ programme. The project,…


  • My EVS Experience – Week V

    My EVS Experience – Week V

    The time before leaving Timișoara again was very brief. During these days I worked on a project I’m writing as part of my EVS. This is a new experience for me, since I’ve never wrote or been in contact with…


  • My EVS Experience – Week IV

    My EVS Experience – Week IV

    After finishing the on arrival training in Bucharest, I got the chance to continue to get Romania a little bit more and, this time, I headed to sighisoara with a group of volunteers I met during the training, whose project…


  • My EVS Experience – Week III

    My EVS Experience – Week III

    After three weeks in Romania, I left Timisoara for the first time, in order to attend the On Arrival Training, in which all the EVS volunteers participate once they start their projects. I headed to Bucharest and the trip was…


  • My EVS experience – Week II

    My EVS experience – Week II

    My second week as an EVS volunteer was the moment to get to know my place, in some way or another. This was the moment where I was assigned with my mentor and started having the meetings aimed at, firstly,…


  • My first week as a volunteer

    My first week as a volunteer

    New country, new challenges! April 29th was the day I landed in Budapest to come to Timișoara, and that was the moment it really hit me that this was real. My first week on EVS has now come to and end and I still don’t…


  • What is EVS?

    What is EVS?

    EVS (European Voluntary Service), soon to be called ECS (European Solidarity Corps), is an international volunteer program funded by the European Commission. It gives the opportunity to all young people legally resident in Europe, between 18 and 30 years, to…