East-West Dialogues is a partnership building and EVS quality improvement training. The training aims at setting up high quality EVS projects in which partners from Western European, Eastern European and partner countries cooperate.This intensive networking programme will involve participants from at least 12 countries. Participants will not only get to know eachother, but also receive hands-on advice on improving EVS project management, volunteer recruitment and preparation, expectation management and crisis resolution. The programme is intended for both hosting and sending/coordinating organizations. During the programme (and the web-based preparatory phase), participants will together develop a Quality Assurance Toolkit, consisting of practical tools and templates for drafting partnership agreements, activity agreements, recruitment of volunteers, mediation, mentoring and evaluating EVS projects.Participants have been selected with the aim of enhancing and supporting the cooperation between organisations from Programme Countries and Eastern Partnership countries. An elaborate selection process and needs analysis of all partners has been made in order to optimize the learning benefits for all partners in this project.