Experiencing European Citizenship in Romanian Rural Communities is a group EVS project involving 26 young volunteers from programme countries and other partner countries of the world for a 9 months EVS service experience in 8 rural and small developing urban communities from Dolj County. SW Oltenia: Amarastii de Jos, Calarasi, Carcea, Dabuleni, Daneti, Giurgita, Melinesti, Segarcea. The project gathers 26 sending partner organizations from 17 different countires from Europe (Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Portugal, Turkey), Latin America (Argentina, Peru, Uruguay) and Africa (Cameroon, Marocco, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda).The project idea originates from the positive results and added value brought by the previous EVS projects implemented in Dolj County by EPYD and Regional Association for Rural Development, and aims towards continuing and extending the community development process launched in 2010.The project activities will focus on urban/rural development and Education through sport and outdooractivities.The general objective of the project aims towards Developing activities that stimulate the personaldevelopment of both volunteers as well as the target group, share best practice experience and results fromprevious EVS projects and contribute to the hosting community development by spurring youngster'sparticipation, raise their European awareness and increase the liability of the local institutions.The EVS project will follow a similar but improved format than our previous EVS projects and is to be divided in 4 main phases: A training and preparation phase (Pre Departure Training, Capacity Building Training, On Arrival Training), A cultural and organizational accommodation phase (Community Discovery), Community Activities Phase and a Monitoring and Evaluation Phase (Mid term and Final Evaluation, Monthly Evaluations and Weekly meetings)The methods that are to be used during the project will focus on sport activities and non formal outdoor activities (games, camping, etc). An innovative method to be implemented is theatre form