Start here

• What do you want to do?
• What is Involvo?
• Do I need an account?
• How event information on Involvo works
• Your first event, start to finish

What do you want to do?

Pick whichever of these is closest to what you came for.

I want to find an opportunity

Browsing the listing, narrowing it down, and finding events held abroad that you can apply to from here.

→ Find opportunities

I want to attend an event

Applying or registering, what the statuses mean, checking in on the day, and what to do when something is not working.

→ Take part

I want to meet the people there

Seeing who else came, friend requests and the questions that guard them, and what other people can see about you.

→ People

I want to publish or manage an event

Putting an event on Involvo — your organization's or one you found — then handling applications, the door, and what you learn afterwards.

→ Publish & manage events

I want to understand my account and rewards

Your profile and preferences, notifications, and the two things Involvo calls Points and Stars.

→ Account & rewards

I want to understand what Involvo is

What it does, whether you need an account, and where the information on an event comes from.

→ What is Involvo?

First time using it?

Your first event, start to finish walks the whole path in order, from finding something to turning up.

What is Involvo?

Involvo is a place to find events and opportunities for young people, and to sign up for them.

Workshops, conferences, training courses, seminars, hackathons, competitions, youth exchanges, roundtables, forums, volunteering and informal meetups. Some happen in person, some are online, and some are held in another country but open to people applying from yours.

The problem it solves

Opportunities like these are usually announced somewhere easy to miss: an Instagram story that disappears after a day, a group chat that moves too fast, a friend who mentions it once registration has already closed. The event was never hidden. The announcement just did not reach you in time.

Involvo collects those announcements in one place, so finding an opportunity does not depend on following the right account at the right moment.

Involvo does not organize the events

This is the most useful thing to understand early, because it explains a lot of what follows.

The events listed here are run by other people: non-profit organizations, community and student groups, businesses, and independent organizers. Involvo lists their events and, for many of them, handles registration. It is not the organizer, and it is not there on the day.

In practice:

• Questions about the program, the venue, costs or who gets selected go to the organizer, not to Involvo. Every event page shows who is running it and how to reach them.
• Event details are only as current as whoever added them keeps them. Some events are added by the organization running them; others are added by someone who simply spotted the event elsewhere. See How event information on Involvo works.
• Registering through Involvo puts you on the organizer's list. That is all registration does here — it is not a review or an endorsement of the event by Involvo.

What you can do here

Without an account you can browse the whole listing, search, filter, and open any event to read what it is, when and where it runs, and who is organizing it.

With an account you can also save events, get reminders, apply or register, check in when you arrive, keep a record of what you have attended, and connect with other people who were there. See Do I need an account?

Anyone can also add an event to Involvo, including one they did not organize themselves. See Publish & manage events.

What it costs

Finding events on Involvo and taking part in them is free, and so is adding an event.

Two things are worth separating from that. Individual events may charge their own fee, decided by the organizer and shown on the event page. And Involvo has optional paid plans for people and organizations who need more capacity than the free one gives; nothing in this guide requires one. See Plans and limits.

Where to go next

If you are here to find something to attend, start with Your first event, start to finish.

Do I need an account?

No. You can browse everything on Involvo without one.

Without an account you can look through the feed and the calendar, search, apply every filter, and open any event to read what it is, when and where it runs, and who is organizing it.

An account matters once you want to do something rather than just look.

What an account adds

• Save events and get reminders, so an interesting event does not depend on you remembering it.
• Apply or register for events that collect registrations through Involvo.
• Check in when you arrive, which also lets you see who else is there.
• Keep a record of the events you have taken part in.
• Connect with people you met at an event.
• Follow organizations whose events you want to hear about.

Registering without an account

Some organizers turn on guest registration for their event. Where they have, you can register with just your details and no account.

If you later decide you want an account, you can turn that guest registration into a full one and keep the registration you already made. You are not starting over.

Guest registration is the organizer's choice, event by event, so it will not be available everywhere.

Signing in

You can sign in with an email address and password, or ask for a magic link — a one-time link sent to your email that signs you in without a password.

Where to go next

Your first event, start to finish walks through what actually happens, from finding something to turning up.

How event information on Involvo works

Involvo lists events that other people run. Knowing how a listing got here tells you how much to trust its details — and who to ask when something is unclear.

Two ways an event gets listed

The organization posts its own event. Someone who is part of the organization running the event adds it, and it appears straight away. They can update it as things change.

Someone shares an event they found. Anyone can add an event they did not organize — one they saw on Instagram, or heard about from a friend. These are checked by Involvo before they appear. If the organization behind the event is not on Involvo yet, a page is created for it.

The second path is what makes Involvo useful. It is also the reason some listings are maintained by nobody.

Claimed and unclaimed

An organization page is claimed when someone from that organization has access to it on Involvo and can manage it.

It is unclaimed when the page exists — usually because someone shared one of their events — but nobody from the organization has access yet. Nobody there is updating it, and they may not know the page exists.

Some organizations also carry a verified badge. Verification is granted by Involvo; it is not something an organization switches on itself.

You can see which of these applies on any organization's page. See Organization profiles and badges.

What this means when you are deciding whether to go

For an event posted by its own organization, the page is as current as the organizer keeps it.

For an unclaimed event, the details are a snapshot of what was true when someone added them. That is usually fine, and it goes out of date rarely — but it does happen. A deadline can pass, a venue can move, an event can be called off without the listing changing.

So, before anything that costs you money, travel or a missed deadline, confirm it against the organizer directly. Every event page shows who is running it.

How you reach them from there depends on the listing. An event posted by its own organization links straight out to that organization's site, page or registration form. On an event added by someone else, those outward links are hidden until you open them, which uses Impact Stars — see Earning and spending Stars. You can always search for the organizer yourself instead.

If something already looks wrong, see When something looks wrong.

Involvo is not the organizer

Whichever way an event got here, Involvo is not running it. Questions about the program, the venue, the cost or who gets selected go to the organizer. See What is Involvo?

Your first event, start to finish

This is a map of the usual path from finding an event to turning up at it, with a link to the detail for each step.

It is a typical journey, not a required one. Events differ: some ask you to apply and wait, some let you register on the spot, some are invitation-only, and some you can simply walk into. Not every step below applies to every event.

The usual path

1. Find something. Browse the feed or the calendar, and narrow it down to what fits you — The feed and the calendar, Filters.

2. Read the event page. Check the date, the location, who is running it, and how you are meant to sign up — Reading an event page.

3. Save it, so you do not lose it. Especially useful when registration has not opened yet — Saving events and reminders.

4. Get in. Apply, register, or follow the organizer's own registration link — whichever this event uses — How you get into an event.

5. Turn up and check in. Checking in also shows you who else came — Check in and check out.

6. Say how it went. Feedback goes to the organizer — After the event: feedback.

Before you start

You do not need an account to browse, but you do need one for most of the steps above. See Do I need an account?