The EVEC Volunteer Academy is the app of EVEC Athens, a non-profit youth organisation in Athens, Greece. Here you learn how Erasmus+ youth projects really work, and you volunteer online with our team. We are an independent NGO, not part of the European Commission or of any National Agency. Official programme information: erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu

Learn
Five modules of ten short lessons each. You read them as cards on your phone and answer a few questions at the end:
• Before you apply: what Erasmus+ is and is not, who pays for what, how participants are chosen, your motivation letter, what your parents will ask, who is responsible for you, what is not okay and who you call, your phone, your photos and your data
• While you are there: the group, the group agreement, speaking up, culture, English that is nobody's first language
• After, and the next one: Youthpass, the report, telling people what you did
• Facilitation: planning and running a session with a group (its questions open at 16)
• Group leader: the online part of preparing to lead a group (its questions open at 18)
You can read every lesson straight away. When you pass a module's questions, our coordinators see it on your profile. It is our own recognition, not a qualification and not a place on a project.

Volunteer online
Small, real tasks: research, fact-checking, planning, short pieces of writing, checking our pages and our Greek, translation, articles, graphics and content for our social media. Each task says what to do and roughly how long it takes, and a person on our team reads what you send. Articles, graphics and screenshots are sent as links, for example from Google Docs or Drive, so some tasks need a Google account. As our team approves your tasks, your level goes up and the team can give you longer tasks. When you register, a separate tick gives EVEC a licence to publish work our team approves on our websites and social media accounts. The work stays yours, and your name appears only if you agree.

Messages, notifications and reports
Write to our team in the Messages tab. Everyone on our team can read that conversation, and there is no chat between volunteers. Choose which notifications you get on your phone: a new task, a reply to your work, a message from our team. You can report a problem from the bottom of every Academy screen, and report any graphic you are shown.

Drachmas (₯)
Lessons, approved tasks and published work earn drachmas, our own points. If you are 18 or over, you can also earn drachmas for following and engaging with EVEC's own Instagram, Facebook and TikTok accounts; volunteers under 18 do not see these actions. Drachmas are points, not money: they can never be bought, cashed or exchanged for money, and they do not pay fees or travel. In the app you can swap them for EVEC's own certificates of recognition. Volunteers who earn drachmas count as active volunteers, and active volunteers get priority when EVEC selects participants for its programmes, together with each programme's own criteria. That is priority, not a guaranteed place.

Who it is for
Anyone aged 15 or over. If you are under 18, a parent or guardian registers you first, and then you choose your own username and password. The app is in English and Greek.

Your account and your data
You can delete your account at any time, in the app (My file, then Delete my account) or through our website. Privacy policy: evec.org.gr/privacy/

About EVEC
EVEC Athens (European Voluntary and Educational Center) holds the Erasmus+ accreditation in the Youth field and the European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.