Organisations active in the fields of education, training and youth receive support from the Erasmus+ Programme to carry out projects promoting different types of mobility. 

What
Voluneering Activities allows young people, from 17 to 30 years old, to personally commit through unpaid and full-time voluntary service for up to 12 months in another country within or outside the European Union.
Young volunteers will have the opportunity to contribute to the daily work of organisations dealing with youth information and policies, young people’s personal and socio-educational development, civic engagement, social care, inclusion of disadvantaged, environment, non-formal education programmes, information and communication technologies and media literacy, culture and creativity, development cooperation and others.
Young people with fewer opportunities can receive additional support to enable their participation and would also be allowed to go on Volunteering Activities for a shorter duration of time (from 2 weeks and up).
A volunteering project can include between 1 and 40 volunteers who can do their voluntary service either individually or in group.

Participating organisations will
– arrange subsistence, lodging and local transports of volunteers;
– envisage tasks and activities for volunteers that respect the principles of the Erasmus+ Volunteering Activities;
– support volunteers throughout the duration of the activity.

Role and tasks of participating Organisations
– Coordinator of a youth mobility project: applying for the whole project on behalf of all the partner organisations. If the project foresees only one activity, the coordinator will act either as sending or receiving organisation. 
-Sending organisation: in charge of sending young people and youth workers abroad (organising practical arrangements; preparing participants before departure; providing support to participants during all the phases of the project).
– Receiving organisation: in charge of hosting the activity, developing a programme of activities for participants in cooperation with participants and partner organisations, providing support to participants during all the phases of the project.

Eligible participating organisations
– Non-profit organisation, association, NGO;
– European Youth NGO;
– Social enterprise;
– Public body at local level;
– Group of young people active in youth work but not necessarily in the context of a youth organisation (i.e. informal group of young people);
– a public body at regional or national level;
– an association of regions;
– a European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation;
– a profit-making body active in Corporate Social Responsibility
established in a Programme Country or in a Partner Country neighbouring the EU 

Who can apply
– Any participating organisation or group established in a Programme Country can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project. A mobility activity should involve at least two participating organisations (sending and receiving organisation) from different countries. If a Youth mobility project foresees only one activity, the coordinator must also act either as sending or receiving organisation. If a youth mobility project foresees more than one activity, the project coordinator can – but not necessarily has to – act as sending organisation or receiving organisation. In all cases, the coordinator cannot be an organisation from a Partner Country neighbouring the EU.
– Activities within Programme Countries: all participating organisations must be from a Programme Country.
– Activities with Partner Countries neighbouring the EU: the activity must involve at least one participating organisation from a Programme Country and one participating organisation from a Partner Country neighbouring the EU.
Either the sending organisation(s) or the receiving organisation(s) in each activity must be from the country of the National Agency receiving the application.

Eligible countries
– 28 Member States of the European Union,
– EFTA/EEA countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway,
– EU candidate countries: Turkey, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
– Partner countries neighbouring the EU: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Territory of Ukraine as recognised by international law, Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Territory of Russia as recognised by international law.

Eligible activities
– Volunteering activities 

Duration of project
– 3 to 24 months.

Where to apply
– National Agency of the country in which the applicant organisation is established.

Deadlines:

– 15 February at 12:00 (midday Brussels time) for projects starting between 1 May and 30 September of the same year; 
–  26 April at 12:00 (midday Brussels time) for projects starting between 1 August and 31 December of the same year;
–  4 October at 12:00 (midday Brussels time) for projects starting between 1 January and 31 May of the following year.

Interested organisations should read the Erasmus+ Programme Guide.
For further support they should contact the National Agency in their country.

Individuals seeking to apply should contact their organisation, institution, or educational establishment.

Find out more: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/discover/guide/index_en.htm