"European Gateways Throughout Armenia" is a group EVS project involving 9 EVS volunteers from 6 EU countries (Sweden, Romania, France, Poland, Lithuania, and Czech Republic) doing their EVS service in 5 host organisations in 5 different towns in Armenia (Goris, Alaverdi, Vanadzor, Gyumri, Yerevan). 7 EVS volunteers will be doing their EVS service for 12 months starting from September 2013 and 2 volunteers will start their EVS service from November 2013 for 10 months. The themes of this project are European Awareness and Urban/Rural Development. EVS volunteers will run European Clubs in 5 towns of Armenia, including deprived urban areas. The objectives of the project are:-fostering intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding between EVS volunteers and Armenian young people from excluded areas and Yerevan while raising their Intercultural sensitivity-raising the awareness of young people from excluded areas in Armenia and Yerevan on current European topics, Youth Policy, Neighborhood Policy, EU Structures and Values, thus raising their sense of European Awareness-raising the volunteers' sense of Active European Citizenship and initiation while running European Clubs and promoting these values in deprived urban and rural areas of Armenia and in Yerevan having a large impact on local communities and empowering local young people to be active participants in their own societies-developing cooperation between sending, host and coordinating organisations involved in the project while strengthening already existing trustful cooperation and leaving room for other future planned projects within EVS and other actions of YiA and/or new youth programme of EC starting from 2014.