What’s happening at EVEC.

What actually counts as EVEC Athens news?

Four things, and deliberately nothing else: open calls for Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps projects; results from projects that have finished; free toolkits; and first-person stories from the people who took part. There is no press-release filler and no recycled sector commentary — everything in EVEC Athens news comes out of a project we ran, hosted, sent people to, or made.

How often is the page updated?

Whenever there is something real to publish, which in practice means bursts rather than a fixed weekly slot: the archive holds eleven entries from the first four days of January 2019, and ten across the whole of 2021. That is why the badge at the top of the page says “Updated regularly” instead of promising a frequency we would then have to pad out.

There is an Open Call here dated months ago. Has nobody taken it down?

It is up because it is open. The web designer / developer placement in Athens is the standing example: a European Solidarity Corps position posted in February 2026 that keeps its Open Call tag until the right person applies. We would rather hold a place open for months than fill it with the wrong volunteer.

So read an old date on an Open Call as information about when we started looking, not as evidence that we have stopped. It is the misreading of EVEC Athens news we would most like to correct.

How long would I be away?

That depends on the project, and it is genuinely not our decision to make. Duration is set by the Erasmus+ rules for the relevant Key Action and by the grant agreement behind the project; the exact dates for any given opportunity are printed in its own post. If you already hold dates of your own, because your institution holds the grant, send them to us and we will work to them.

How quickly will you reply?

Within a maximum of two working days. That covers everything — an application to a call, a question about a project that has already run, a first approach from a partner organisation abroad. If two working days pass in silence, something has gone wrong with the message rather than with your application, so send it again.

What does it cost to take part?

Read the call, because they differ and only the call is authoritative. For the July 2026 exchange in Spain, accommodation, meals and eligible travel were covered. What a specific project costs you is answered in the post for that project, and never inferred from a different one.

Separately from the mobilities, our online Volunteers Academy carries no fee at all, for anyone, at any age, under-18s included. You can reach it through Get Involved, which is also where local volunteering and internships start — those are separate arrangements on their own terms.

Why are some posts written in Greek?

Because some calls are addressed to young people already living in Greece. EVEC Athens news runs bilingually: entries marked EL in the archive are Greek-language, and the Ισπανία call is the clearest example of a post that exists in both, listed twice in the 2026 section, once in each language.

Can I come and talk to someone in person?

Yes. The office at Polifimou 17 in Zografou is open every working day, 09:00 to 16:00. If you are in Athens and would rather ask ten questions across a table than write them all out, that is a perfectly good way to begin. Bring the EVEC Athens news post you are asking about and we can go through it together.

I do not want to travel abroad. Is any of this for me?

Some of it, although you would not guess as much from this page alone. Alongside the mobilities, EVEC Athens runs local and online volunteering and takes on interns, and Get Involved is the entry point for all three. Those routes are not published as dated calls, so they never appear in the EVEC Athens news archive above.

I represent an organisation, not a participant. Where should I start?

With the Project Result posts in EVEC Athens news rather than the calls — they show what we produce. The accreditation strip at the top of this page carries the identifiers a partner search needs: the Erasmus+ KA1 Youth accreditation, the ESC Quality Label, the OID and the PIC. From there, the Erasmus+ hub sets out the six strands we work across.