Very often, European volunteers in a postcolonial context such as the Global South perceive their voluntary service as “helping” and as “developing”. With this seminar, we initiated a critical reflection of volunteering in postcolonial contexts among volunteering organisations across Europe. We shared among youth and volunteering organisations approaches, methods and tools on how to make the young people we reach more aware and critical about their own role, when participating in voluntary services in the Global South. We made organisations across Europe aware of the potential of self-development of young people in postcolonial contexts and how to turn this self-development into active citizenship around global justice. Our objectives were: • Exchange best practices on preparing international and local volunteers and reflecting with them on their experience • Analyse the positioning of volunteers in the current economic and political world system with an historical view of its connection to colonialism • Create an awareness and exchange methods on phenomenons such as the white savior complex and similar • Make European volunteering organisations more self-critical towards their own colonial practices and more inclusive for young people of color, young refugees and migrants • Share and develop methods of global education for working with young people • Develop strategies on how to raise an understanding of the daily lifestyles of young people - consumption, interactions with others etc. - and how these are connected to a local and global system of inequalities • Reflect on the motivation of volunteers - solidarity or the need to feel good about themselves or both? • Raise awareness on the history of what is now considered Global South and Global North • Promote European values of democracy, participation and inclusion as reflected and not isolated actions/ systems • Add to the global education toolkit “Picturing the Global South”, which the facilitation team of the seminar had created and edited over the last 3 years • Host an exchange event with local stakeholders to raise awareness on the importance of reflecting motivation, context and impact of international volunteering • Network between organisations and networks • Create common strategies for working together in the future We see this seminar as part of promoting core European values. Being critical towards colonial perspectives of volunteering is crucial for upholding the European values of human dignity and the rights of minorities (such as people of color and refugees).