Active citizenship pays off: European cooperation on a recognition system for volunteering and active young people Erasmus Project

Project Title

Active citizenship pays off: European cooperation on a recognition system for volunteering and active young people

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

Project Summary

With the project „Active citizenship pays off: European cooperation on a recognition system for volunteering and active young people” the project partners aha – Jugendinforma¬tions¬zentrum Vorarlberg/Austria, Young Scot/Scotland and Amt der Vorarlberger Landesregierung – Büro für Zukunftsfragen/Austria aimed at promoting and recognizing volunteering activities among young people. During the project period (1/1/2016 – 30/6/2018) the partners shared experience and expertise on voluntary engagement and developed “aha plus”, a recognition scheme for Vorarlberg: With “aha plus”, young people between 12 and 24 in Vorarlberg have the opportunity to get active in voluntary activities (“Quests”) offered by associations or other organisations, collect “Points” for the activities and exchange them for meaningful products or special experience (“Rewards”). As part of the project the basic structure of a “Social CV” was developed which lists the experience collected doing the activities and which should subsequently be of help to young people with job applications. Two results of the projects are the aha plus website www.ahaplus.at and a manual which documents the process of development and the functionalities of the two recognition schemes in Vorarlberg and Scotland. The project results were disseminated locally in numerous workshops with young people and associations, nationally with organisation in the youth information field and on a European level at a conference with youth card organisations.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 54982 Eur

Project Coordinator

AHA – JUGENDINFORMATIONSZENTRUM VORARLBERG & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Amt der Vorarlberger Landesregierung
• Young Scot Enterprise