The EVS experience at ECAS helped me better understand how EU institutions work in practice. Seeing things with your own eyes is very different from reading or hearing about them, and many things were different than I expected, in one way or another. Doing an EVS at ECAS is also quite different from what normally EVS are about, but this is another reason why it was so interesting! The colleagues were also very nice and welcoming, and all in all I am really glad I had this opportunity.