Cotravaux is the coordination of voluntary service organisations in France, created 50 years ago. Cotravaux gathers 11 national members organisations and a regional network, all involved in the voluntary work. Within the platform, the organisations share their experiences and discuss on various issues, such as :

• European and international exchanges
• voluntary services
• regionalisation

Each year, in France, almost 8.000 volunteers, coming from France and other countries, contribute to the 600 workcamps organised by Cotravaux members. Over 3.500 volunteers, mainly young people, participate to many projects abroad.

In 2005, Cotravaux has initiated an observatory on collective voluntary work named “Observo”. The observatory reports and analyses the trends and development of any collective work initiatives : workcamps, week end projects, week camps, youth local workshops, …