The good, the youth & the volunteer Erasmus Project

Project Title

The good, the youth & the volunteer

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The partners of « the Good, the Youth and the Volunteer » project, all active in the field of international volunteering and users of the EVS programme, felt the need to reflect about their daily practice, to exchange, between experienced persons, on the mechanisms (good practices) to maintain, develop and adapt in order to guarantee the quality and the accessibility of international volunteering and thus the success of youth and social inclusion policies, especially for the young people with fewer opportunities.

The impact study ordered by the European Commission and published in April 2017 highlighted in its conclusions the need to implement support actions in order to improve quality and accessibility of the programme. Our project provided answers to these needs.

The project objectives were the following :
– ensuring quality of the volunteering experiences for young people with fewer opportunities and especially in the search for a balance between social impact and the learning dimension.
– gathering experienced coordinators to reflect together on identifying good and less good practices of the field
– offering the adapted framework to exchange in depth and to capitalize on our mutual experiences
– experimenting new methodologies to work with young people with fewer opportunities, identified within the consortium and developed and adapted during the project
– succeeding in transferring good practices to a new context or target group
– involving volunteers, interested youth, ex-volunteers in the reflection for a better adequation to their needs
– being able to measure the efficiency of the support and the impact of international volunteering on the participants, the organisations and the local community
– presenting the fruit of these exchanges to the public and especially the key stakeholders related to international volunteering, in order to disseminate as largely as possible the best practices and favour an increase in the support of public authorities

To do so, we produced a booklet of good practices and a Quality Charter compiling all our resources on the topic.
These documents were created by the consortium following a process of : research, experimentation, capitalisation and dissemination. The cycle included job shadowing mobilities for volunteering coordinators and a final seminar to exchange, share and disseminate towards volunteers, tutors, mentors, key stakeholders and institutional partners.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 82720 Eur

Project Coordinator

HORS PISTES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• POLITISTIKO ERGASTIRI AYION OMOLOYITON
• P.E.CO. – PROGETTI EUROPEI DI COOPERAZIONE
• NGO “Actio Catholica Patria”
• Centrum ds.Katastrof i Klesk Zywiolowych TRATWA
• COLLECTIU LA VIBRIA DINICIATIVES CULTURALS PER LA TOLERANCIA I LA INTEGRACIO
• ASOCIATIA TEAM FOR YOUTH ASSOCIATION