In order to exploit, in the most positive way, the potential mobilization and contribution to the society from senior volunteers, it is important to provide the right political and practical local framework, which among other things include training activities towards the volunteers. The partners behind the EVARS project want to address the issue of political awareness related to elderly volunteers as a resource for our society and in that connection develop, test and implement a training module in a close collaboration between training organizations, local authorities and senior volunteers.The local authorities estimate e.g. that it will be important for elderly volunteers to obtain some basic training within the following areas; a) Illnesses such as dementia and alzheimers, b) Pedagogical principles that are important when working with children and young people, c) Ethical issues and d) How to take care of themselves, making sure that the voluntary work will not hurt them in any way.The EVARS project will be implemented in close collaboration with the local authorities and will be process oriented in its nature, using the collaboration to describe good practice examples and policy recommendations which will support the exploitation and uptake of the results.The project is an active contribution to both the European Year of Volunteering (2011) and the European Year of Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity (2012), providing qualified input on how to enable a better collaboration between local authorities and elderly volunteers, creating a win-win situation, through learning activities for seniors.The EVARS project will be carried through by 5 partners in 4 countries and will have an important European reference group consisting of AGE Platform Europe, Council of European Municipalities and Regions, and the European Parliament.