The core idea of the next EVS-project in Haus am Maiberg, center for civic education in Heppenheim Germany, is the active participation of the volonteer in our non-formal education and international youth work. In the 12 months of the project the volonteer will be a member of the educational staff of the center. He or she will take part in planning the contents and organizational frames of projects of civiv youth education and international youth encounters with the venue in Heppenheim or in a foreign country. Haus am maiberg is cooperating in this evs-project with the polish association Jeden Swiat. The volontary service should offere space to discover the own european identity and to meet people from a diversity of different backgrounds. The volonteer will be involved in all approx. 15 international excahnge programmes with young people and experts in youth work. He or she will be encouraged to contribute her social, creative and management skills. In the same time the participation in different teams of facilitators will give the volonteer the opportunity to strngthen all these skills and to develop the personality. The volonteer will work more and more independently and will take more and more responsibility for taks like moderation. The voloteer is offered the possibility to work also in other fields of Hasu am Maiberg educational work. He or she is involved in the social networking of the center. The volonteer will live i a flat located in the center. He or she will have the opportunity to attend language classes. The volonteer is supported by a mentor concerning work and a tutor concerning personal affairs. The volonteer will be building bridges in europe when traveling and meeting young people from different social groups and discussing recent social and political issues that are not solved problems like dicrimination, racisms, identiy-making, European integration.