The aim of our project was for every person involved to feel to be a part of Europe regardless of their nationality, their age or social background. Everybody got a chance for personal development and discovered new opportunities and perspectives for themselves. Especially our Turkish volunteer benefited from this project but also the children and adolescents of the municipal children's home who, for various reasons, couldn't at that time live at home with their own families. Our emphasis for this project was on raising European awareness. The volunteer and the children and adolescents of the municipal children´s home came to feel that they were also a part of Europe regardless of their own language, social and cultural background. Through various projects (e.g. Turkish language course, cooking class) the Turkish volunteer also achieved to raise awareness for her own culture, religion and language in the children, adolescents but also the staff of the municipal children's home. The volunteer helped to organize the daily routine, sport activities and the leisure time of the disadvantaged children and adolescents. She was also encouraged to realize her own interests and skills. One main objective for the volunteer was to acquire new language skills and to be able to actively use and practice the foreign language in day to day life. The children and adolescents got a chance to come into contact with a foreign language and familiarize themselves with it. Also, the volunteer met and got to know children and adolescents in difficult life circumstances. Through this involvement, empathy and social behaviour was further developed. Informal learning was achieved and expanded throughout the duration of the European voluntary service. The volunteer learned to integrate herself into foreign groups and lived as part of a community in a foreign country. She also learned to be flexible, found solutions and became more independent. She got the opportunity to learn the language through everyday life and was encouraged to use her own initiative and creativity.