Volunteer career guide Erasmus Project

Project Title

Volunteer career guide

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits); Recognition, transparency, certification

Project Summary

Volunteering offers a rich learning environment, in which motivated people of all ages can contribute to civil society in a self-chosen position and environment. At the same time they can gain skills and competences that have value for their personal and professional development and career. In this way, volunteering offers a nice mixture of non-formal and informal learning.

This project is based on the results of the Public Consultation ”Towards a European Area of Skills and Qualifications”, published by the European Commission on 17 June 2014. The report of this consultation states that there should be more focus on the individual and on the end users of validation tools, that there should be more attention for guidance, and that the EQF should be more open towards non-formal and informal learning.

Transferred to the world of volunteering this means that
– there should be more attention for guidance of volunteers in their personal and professional development (instead of developing more tools and methods for recognition and validation of their learning outcomes)- the starting point of the validation process should be the individual, not the system- we should build bridges between the outcomes of informal and non-formal learning processes on the one hand and the European Qualifications Framework on the other hand.
The project is innovative in three ways:
– it builds bridges between informal learning on the one hand and the European Qualifications Framework on the other hand
– it creates a clear link between volunteering on the one handand professional career guidance on the other hand
– it does not provide new tools or methods, but provides guidance for volunteers in using these tools and methods for their personal and professional development.

The project results will be:
Booklet (PDF/printed) for volunteers how to ‘’translate’’ their volunteer qualifications to the labour market.
Online training (using the online learning platform PBlearn or a similar platform) to support the use of the booklet.
Face-to-face training in addition to the online training, custom-made for volunteering organisations, to be offered in the framework of Erasmus+ Key Action 1.

The project partners are:
EDOS Foundation – The Netherlands
BONSAI – local volunteer centre of Dubrovnik – Croatia
European Volunteer Centre – Belgium

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 52464 Eur

Project Coordinator

EDOS Foundation & Country: NL

Project Partners

• CENTRE EUROPEEN DU VOLONTARIAT
• UDRUGA ZA RAZVOJ CIVILNOG DRUSTVA BONSAI