My first Magazine handbook for better quality in evs projects_eu_eec | Page 2

About the project
EPIC (EVS Planning Is Crucial For Quality) training course has been organized in Prague, Czech Republic from 16-24
February 2018, by International Educational Center GEMS (Czech Republic) in cooperation with Youth
Cooperation Centre of Dilijan (Armenia) in the frames of Erasmus Plus Programme . The main goal of the project
was to improve knowledge and exchange the skills in running long-term volunteer projects for the organizations.
We have chosen to put the main focus of our project on planning voluntary projects, because we believe that if
organizations and volunteers who are about to get involved in long-term voluntary service are well prepared and
are aware about the various aspects related to EVS and possible challenges, most of the risks and problems during
implementation of projects can be avoided. Therefore, in this training we discussed how to prepare not only a
project which looks good on the paper, but also how to assure good practical preparation of the various
actors/players involved in EVS (volunteer, HO, SO, CO, the local community, etc.)