page_title: European Solidarity Corps
section_title: Financial aspect
hierarchical_section_title: European Solidarity Corps / Financial aspect
caption_attribution_description: English: Volunteers doing reconstruction works on Nevitsky Castle, western Ukraine.Українська: Волонтери на археологічних розкопках на Невицькому замку, Закарпаття, Україна.
context_page_description: European Solidarity Corps, formerly known as European Voluntary Service, is the European Commission's project that allows a young person to become a volunteer in another country for a specified period, normally between 2–12 months. The service activities can be, for example, in the field of environment, arts and culture, activities with children, young people or the elderly, heritage or sports and leisure activities. Each project has three partners, a volunteer, a sending organisation and a host organisation. The project has to take place in a country other than where the volunteers lives, is non-profit-making and unpaid and lasts for a limited period.
  An ESC project involves a triangular partnership: a volunteer, a sending organisation, and a host organisation. One of the countries involved in a project must be an EU Member State or an accession country.
context_section_description: The volunteer's international travel covers reasonable travel costs from the volunteer's home to the host organisation, and the costs are paid to the sending organisation in full when the volunteer uses the cheapest available train or plane ticket (e.g. discount air ticket, or equivalent). A copy of the ticket(s) must be attached to the final report.
  Contribution to the sending activities (recruitment, preparation, contact, assessment, follow-up) is a lump sum payment depending on the length of the project and is determined for each country.
  Exceptional volunteer costs related to the special needs of the volunteer (medical attendance, additional preparation, etc.) are paid in full, provided they are reasonable and justifiable.
  The volunteer's allowance is fixed per host country and is paid in full to the host organisation to be given to the volunteer weekly or monthly.
  On 9 May 2012 Fraternité 2020 was registered as Europe's first European Citizens' Initiative. Its goal is to get 3% of the EU budget for EU exchange programmes like the EVS from 2014 (the share currently is 1.2%). To be successful it needs to collect 1 million signatures by 1 November 2013.
  All volunteers are insured for sickness, accidents, permanent invalidity, and repatriation in case of serious illness, accident, and death through AXA . The insurance also covers civil liability. This insurance complements the protection provided by the national social security (if applicable) which is proven by the E111 (or similar) form of the volunteer. All insurance costs are paid directly by the European Commission and they are not included in project budgets.
caption: Volunteers doing reconstruction works on Nevytsky Castle, western Ukraine
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