1. Open "About your Organisation"

Click on About your Organisation in the content menu. The About your Organisation screen opens.

1.1. Update Organisation type

1. Initial information on your organisation is prepopulated from the organisation profile, retrieved from your organisations OID entered in the Context section of your form, and cannot be changed, including:

• • Organisation ID, name and Country 
  • Is the organisation a public body? 
  • Is the organisation a non-profit?

2. Select the Type of organisation from the drop-down list (if not already supplied). Depending on your selection, you may have to fill in the additional field Main sector of activity.

2. Provide details on Profile, Motivation and Experience

Scroll down to the section Profile, Motivation and Experience

Provide the requested information in the mandatory fields, and select the main topics you foresee to address in your planned activities from the drop-down list.

3. Review past participation

If you have participated in previous Erasmus+ or European Solidarity Corps projects, your past participation is detailed in the form.

You can add a comment in the optional field regarding your past participation.

4. Add "Associated persons"

See the page Associated Persons in applications for more details on how to complete this section of your application. 

5. Provide Hosting Location, if applicable

This section only applies to:

• organisations who are applying for host role

• organisations who already hold a Quality Label for host organisations awarded under the previous European Solidarity Corps programme

Scroll down to Hosting Locations in About your Organisation.

5.1. Complete Location 1 details

Initially Location 1 is prepopulated with information taken from the applicant organisation.

• You may change the location name.
• Select the Contact person for this location from the drop-down list of associated persons.
• Provide the foreseen number of volunteers for short and long term projects as well as volunteers in team activities.

Location 1 is marked with a green line in front of the Location ID when correctly completed.

5.2. Add additional hosting locations (optional)

If you plan to carry out activities in additional locations, select Yes to the related question. A new location card is added, with Location ID 2.

For each subsequent location, click on the Add location button at the bottom of the screen.

5.3. Fill in the details for additional locations

For each additional location fill in all the details as required.

For the Contact person, you can choose an existing contact from the drop-down list or you can add a new location contact at this point.

5.3.1. Add new location contact

When filling in the details for additional hosting locations, it is possible to add a new location-specific contact person by selecting Add contact person from the drop-down list.

This will create an empty card, where you have to fill in the contact's name, address and other details.

If the contact's address is different from the location address, also fill in the address fields.

If the contact's address is the same as the location address, click on the Use Same Address as Location button, and the address will be filled in automatically. This can be reversed at any time by clicking the Use Different Address from Location button.

In our example, the contact's address is the same as the location address.

6. Example of a completed "About your organisation" section

Once you have correctly completed all sections and subsections, the section is marked with a green check.