Global volunteer action: Networking, capacity building, non-formal education and innovation in international youth and volunteer work Erasmus Project

Project Title

Global volunteer action: Networking, capacity building, non-formal education and innovation in international youth and volunteer work

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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The project “Global volunteer action: Networking, capacity building, non-formal education and innovation in international youth and volunteer work” aimed to improve quality of international volunteer and youth activities by fostering cooperation between organizations and increasing capacities of organizations and their activists. The project created opportunities for exchange of information, knowledge, skills and good practices among activists of SCI branches and partners, enhancing synergies and improving the quality of youth work, non-formal learning and volunteering.

It spanned over 24 months and it included various kind of activities, namely on opening seminar that took place in Australia, the Volunteer University in Bulgaria, a training on Social Media and ICT in Hong Kong, a training for multipliers working with international youth groups in Greece and a final Advanced Volunteer University in Spain. Besides, exchange of EVS volunteers took place between Europe and Asia (two volunteers from Asia hosted in Belgium, while 2 European volunteers hosted in India and Hong Kong), promoting transnational non-formal learning mobility between Programme and Partner Countries. The participants coming from 21 different countries enriched the intercultural dimension of the project and its impact. Specific target group of the project were youth leaders, youth workers, volunteers and activists, for a total of 102 people involved, who now act as multipliers within their sending organization and who at the same time contributed to the project content thanks to their experience. The project activities addressed areas which on national and international level present biggest challenges and needs for international voluntary service, such as use of ICT and social media tools, visibility and effective promotion and awareness raising; project management and leadership in international youth and volunteering work; innovative non-formal education methods to promote intercultural dialogue and volunteering.

Updated materials on non-formal education to increase the quality of youth work are available for use and replication to partners and youth workers in SCI (and beyond), and trained multipliers do use and promote them on national and local level in their countries, in local communities and among local partners, NGOs and other educational institutions.

Projects results were shared among partners and within the networks they are part of. For this reason particularly interesting was the participation, beside SCI, of other major IVSO network, such as CCIVS, NVDA and Alliance. Their inputs on volunteering, non-formal education and youth work brought benefit to the project, while project results were contributing to the improvement of the work they are realizing and inspired them with new ideas.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 147414,61 Eur

Project Coordinator

THE ASSOCIATION OF SERVICE CIVIL INTERNATIONAL IVZW & Country: BE

Project Partners