Supporting volunteers in youth organisations Erasmus Project

Project Title

Supporting volunteers in youth organisations

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 2020

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

This is a Strategic Partnership between four youth organisations coming from different realities and working at different levels in their countries. The countries involved are Malta, Italy, Romania and Spain. The main component of this project is a research study which will attempt to discover underlying issues regarding the long-term commitment of young volunteers in the four youth organisations. This study aims at shedding more light on an issue which is common for many voluntary organisations in Europe, and thus to contribute to the available body of knowledge in the youth field.
Moreover the project will include young people in every possible way, including the body coordinating the project, in parts of the research work, as subjects of the research and also the final receivers of the study outcomes. Young people will be actively involved in data collection and will receive related training through this project. The final act of this project will be another training involving 32 young people from the four organisations in a training in the use of the outcomes of the study. This will be a mixed group of volunteers, with volunteers who are involved in the peripheries of the organisations and volunteers working in more centralized decision making roles.
The aim of the four organisations is that by the end of this project they will have enough evidence to come up with a sustainable and effective action plan, consisting of common initiatives to support their volunteers. The end objectives are to help volunteers live a more meaningful and formative experience within their organisations and to enable the organisations to benefit from volunteers that stay involved for a longer time, thus permitting more capacity building of the organisations, which in turn will serve better the purpose of contributing to the building of the different democracies in the different countries.
The project includes also five transnational meeting over a 35-month period, which have the objective of project coordination, quality control, evaluation and contextualization of the research study.
The study will be made available to the public at the end of the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 161537 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zghazagh Azzjoni Kattolika & Country: MT

Project Partners

• PRESIDENZA NAZIONALE AZIONE CATTOLICA ITALIANA
• Asociatia ACRO
• Acción Católica General