Youth Employability via Volunteering Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth Employability via Volunteering

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 2016

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The unemployement rate of youth in Europe was in the time when this project was shaped very urgent issue. It was connected with the fact that the youth and youth workers struggled to understand and mainly present non-formal learning and volunteering as activities building soft skills which are important for labour market and labour market lacked awareness and acceptance of volunteering as source of competencies and experience of their young job candidates.

Therefore the project “Youth Employability via Volunteering” was focusing on increasing employability of young people by raising acknowledgement of competences gained through volunteering. The project targeted young volunteers, youth workers and also representatives of labour market (mainly companies, but also labour offices) by following activities:

– networking among all project stakeholders,
– researching in-depth the current status of how the labour market perceives volunteering – results available at https://www.inexsda.cz/docs/volunteering-and-labour-market-research-youth-employability-via-volunteering.pdf
– joint collaboration on upgrade of innovative competences tracking application IM-PROVE linking it with other existing tools such as Europass and Youthpass and their acknowledgement and usage by all three target groups (volunteers, youth workers and labour market) – available at improve.inexsda.cz and in App Store (iOS) and Play Store (Android)
– capacitating youth workers to use such self-reflection/tracking tools as part of their daily work and providing them with easy to use e-handbook on how to do so – available at handbook.inexsda.cz

The project was realised by INEX-SDA (Czech Republic) together with Zavod Voluntariat (Slovenia) and Solidarités Jeunesses (France), organisations, which work together more than a decade on various projects concerning volunteering, non-formal education, employability issues and global learning. The project was also envisaged to target interested stakeholders in respective countries (civil service, ministries, companies, youth organisations, other NGOs working with youth and volunteering…) whom we cooperated with and / or presented the results of the project and discussed about further cooperation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 79822 Eur

Project Coordinator

INEX – SDRUZENI DOBROVOLNYCH AKTIVIT Z S & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• SOLIDARITES JEUNESSES MCP
• VOLUNTARIAT ZAVOD ZA MEDNARODNO PROSTOVOLJNO DELO LJUBLJANA