Civic Volunteering – Innovations in Action Erasmus Project

Project Title

Civic Volunteering – Innovations in Action

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The project , Civic Volunteering – Innovation in Action “included an innovative approach to training and development of youth work in the area of civic l volunteering understood as a volunteering in public institutions such as the police, medical service , military and volunteering at various events. The project is the result of cooperation established by the Association Volunteer Centre in Kielce ( Poland ) and Momentum World CIC and Volunteer Police Cadets (UK), which is engaged in youth work and volunteering in the London Police, Villa Elba ( Finland ) and the Estonian Defence League ( Estotnia ) . These organizations share common objectives related to the promotion of voluntary activities – decided to establish a strategic partnership in order to develop new tools for working with young people and assess their competence with a very rich experience in different areas , depending on the country .
The main objectives of the project:
– Improving the quality of jobs in the form of youth involvement in civic volunteering through the development of new and innovative approaches and tools.
– To support the professional development of youth workers through the exchange of good practices and the creation of new methodologies for training and working with volunteers.
Participants are youth workers from the partner organization and public organizations with which they work ( including the London Metropolitan Police , the Police and the Volunteer Firebrigades in Kielce , Finnish Fire Brigade, Army of Estonia) project can be divided into 4 stages :
I. Visits Training – study in all the countries involved in the project ,
II. Development of intellectual outputs
– manual for the training for volunteer leaders l and long-term support system for civic leaders ,
– guide for civic volunteering events organising ,
– A tool to assess the development of social competence volunteers .
III. Testing phase involving 63-week mobility of youth workers
IV. The evaluation phase of testing , the results of intellectual outputs and dissemination ( dissemination seminars for 10-50 people in each country)
The results of the project are increased professionalization activities of partner organizations and tools for the development of social volunteering for anyone interested in volunteering organizers . Very important was also to promote civic volunteering as such and a involvement of the local authorities, in the future thousands of people will be able to participate in projects of civic volunteering.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 112493 Eur

Project Coordinator

REGIONALNE CENTRUM WOLONTARIATU & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Nuorisokeskus Villa Elba
• Momentum World Community Interest Company
• ESTONIAN DEFENCE LEAGUE