'On the waves of European volunteering' is a long term Evs involving one volunteer and 3 organizations. The CO, Jeugddienst Don Bosco, the SO, Associazione Porta Nuova Europa and HO, De Takel in Ostend will cooperate to run this project. Youth centre De Takel is a meeting place for young people, mostly migrants coming from disadvantaged backgrounds: refugees, school drop outs, NEET's, ... So, the centre is a shelter for these youths, a place where they can feel at home and relax, meet each other but also develop competences (social) and take up responsibility for their own centre. The selected volunteer will do his or her service in this youth centre in Ostend. he orshe will work with young people aged between 12 and 23 years old. The voluteer will organize different activities fot these youths and open the youth center on a 5-days base. The activities he or she organizes can be game nights, outdoor activities, excursions, home work guidance, youth work competence training... After a period, the volunteer gets the opportuntiy to develop personal workshops, projects and activities which also meet his or her own interests. The HO and the CO will support the volunteer in this.The volunteer will have a background on volunteering and more especially in working with disadvantaged young people after this Erasmus+ experience. The result an impact of the project are mostly concentrated on the volunteer in relationship with the wide range of competences that he or she will develop during the project. An important aspect of impact is the influence of the volunteer's work among young people attending De Takel - the services offered in the youth centre will be more diverse, and young people will grow through interacting with an international volunteer. By meeting and coopreating with a European volunteer, we want to develop a broader perspective on youth work and on volunteering with the local youths of Ostend. We want to start up intercultural, interreligious dialogue in order to exchange opinions and learn from each other in a respectful way. With the presence of a European volunteer, we want to motivate and inform young people to also volunteer abroad and on local level. Volunteering and working in social organizations can lift up their self confidence and create new opportunities for them.