The project “Gaining from Giving” aims to promote long term EVS as a tool for social action, able to encourage social inclusion of youth at high risk of marginalisation, stimulate social cohesion of local community, spread culture of solidarity and multiculturalism, and provide "added value" to local NGO's initiatives by enriching them with a European and international dimension. The project will have a social profile connected not only to the actual aim of the actions carried out by volunteers but also to the condition of social and/or physical disadvantage of the beneficiaries of these actions. Indeed, through the activities of the project (support to awareness campaigns on social inclusion, promotion of and short trainings on volunteering aimed at minors in conflict with the law, dissemination of information on international mobility through Eurodesk point and "tour of volunteering", recreational activities within community centres managed by local partners...) volunteers and persons from extremely different cultural and social backgrounds will be brought togheter. Doing so, the project will promote mutual understanding and share of knowledge, creating simultaneously an extremely enriching learning environment for the volunteers and the local communities concerned. The project envisages the participation of 2 volunteers coming from two different European countries (SK, ES) from 01/12/2015 to 30/11/2016. They will support InformaGiovani staff in designing and managing international mobility projects in the field of social inclusion, and in building up a network of relations among hosting NGO and other local, and not local, partners in order to enhance social measures made in the territory. Volunteers will be a tool of dissemination and promotion of the values of active citizenship and social volunteering/international mobility, addressing with particular attention three target groups of youngsters: minors in conflict with the law (in strict collaboration with the office of Juvenile Justice), youngsters with hearing disabilities (with the help of LIS interpreters) and visual disabilities (in cooperation with the youth section of Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired). The service will last 12 month for both the two long-term EVS volunteers. The project as a whole will last 18 months. The adopted methodology will pay attention to a continuous dialogue between EVS volunteers and local actors, and to their active involvement in the working team, in order to promote a process of personal growth supported but always based on volunteers’ individual initiative and responsibility. Thus, volunteers will be guided in the development of their own active citizenship and, at the same time, they will be actors promoting active citizenship towards local community. The project will have a twofold impact both on EVS volunteers and local communities involved. On the one hand, the involvement of young people from different countries and social and cultural backgrounds will help them to stimulate openness to the cultures of other nations, to increase their own visions, and break down potential prejudices and stereotypes. On the other hand, the great social value of the activities envisaged by the project will give volunteers the perception of their role in building solidarity and equal relationships among EU citizens. In particular, being beneficiaries of activities young people at high risk of social exclusion, both they and EVS volunteers will perceive how important is to be part of the European community, seen not only as an institutional integration, but also as a place of participation with a broader perspective than the local and national one. In the long term, the project will trigger a virtuous circle such that an increasing number of young people in the local and international community will have an interest in being involved in social voluntary actions and in having experiences of international mobility. At the same time, the project will strengthen citizens’ perception of EU programmes as tools of social intervention, especially, for highly marginalised population groups.