Volunteer Management in Europe’s Youth sector / VOLS EUROPE Erasmus Project

Project Title

Volunteer Management in Europe’s Youth sector / VOLS EUROPE

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 neighbouring and enlargement countries

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

Through this project we want to promote voluntary work among youngsters and youth organizations, to promote the Erasmus + programme as a stimulants for volunteering and especially EVS, to strengthen youth workers in their striving for young people’s active (social/civic) participation on European level, as well as in their local community. With the increase of EVS budget of the European Commission from 60 million to >90 million in 2017, the amount of EVS projects will drastically increase; together with the quantity, the NA’s and the DG EAC have expressed the clear need to keep the quality of EVS high, and with this project, we intend to strengthen youth workers and project managers to embed a high quality volunteer management in their working, locally and internationally, and we will strengthen them to facilitate a quality competence management within their EVS projects. Volunteer development is an issue that all organizations share in common. Still, organisations don’t know always how to promote voluntary work good enough and to make their activities visibly for greater number of youngsters. The recruitment, retaining and training volunteers are problems for a lot of them. With this training we want to promote values of voluntary work and to improve volunteer management of partner organizations. The training project does not only includes the volunteer management on local base, but also with international volunteering EVS. We have embedded a clear competence management – dimension in this training. Participants will be enabled to articulate competencies gained through volunteering (with e.g. EVS profiles), will be trained how to stimulate the learning during the service activities, and how to plan the learning process prior to the EVS and local volunteering activities, we will exchange about how to facilitate the learning and gained competencies during the volunteering, and last but not least also how to evaluate the learning during volunteering. This project is a chance to learn about volunteering realities in Europe. It’s important to have a network of organizations from different European countries and to bring people who work in a similar context closer to each other and to give them opportunity for sharing experiences, as well to develop links between them that can stimulate future cooperation. In this way we are working on the further development of a European citizenship. With regards the priorities of E+ for 2017 in particular, the project contributes to the capacity building of youth workers and the organisations, but also in the different aspects of volunteering, we tackle the different priorities of E+, especially inclusion of YPFO, and reaching out hard to reach young people, or people that are in different countries less involved in EVS (such as migrants and refugees). Other priorities such as intercultural learning/dialogue and sense of initiative of young people are also explicitly embedded in the programme.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 20150 Eur

Project Coordinator

UDRUZENJE AGENCIJA LOKALNE DEMOKRATIJE IZ MOSTARA & Country: BA

Project Partners

• DRUSTVO ZA RAZVIJANJE PROSTOVOLJNEGA DELA NOVO MESTO
• AGENCIJA ZA LOKALNU DEMOKRATIJU
• CENTAR LOKALNE DEMOKRATIJE UDRUZENJE LDA
• LOCAL DEMOCRACY AGENCY OF KOSOVO
• GENISTA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
• CONSORZIO COMUNITA’ SOLIDALE SOCIETA’ COOPERATIVA CONSORTILE
• UNITED SOCIETIES OF BALKANS ASTIKI ETAIREIA