VJMS Wien was founded in 2026 by Shehroz Ali and Ahmed Abdelati — two people who came to Vienna from elsewhere and built their adult lives here. The association is registered with the Landespolizeidirektion Wien (ZVR 1493880648) and operates as a non-profit (gemeinnütziger Verein) under §§ 34–47 of the Austrian Federal Fiscal Code.
The reason VJMS exists is specific: European youth mobility programs are well-funded and well-designed on paper, but they too often fail to reach the young people in Vienna who would benefit most — first-generation Austrians, recent arrivals, people without family networks already plugged into the Erasmus+ infrastructure. The information is in the wrong places, the applications feel forbidding, and the entire system rewards people who already know how it works.
The founders know what that gap feels like from the other side of it. VJMS Wien exists to close it — by running real programs, with real funding, that reach the people the system is supposed to serve.
Our scope, per § 2 of our statutes, covers the full range of activities the Austrian non-profit framework permits in this space: Erasmus+ projects, intercultural educational materials, cooperation with public institutions and NGOs, events promoting active citizenship, and educational strategies that support the professional and personal development of young people.
We start small. We work in public. We invite scrutiny.