Wake-Up Call: Volunteer Manager Role Erasmus Project

Project Title

Wake-Up Call: Volunteer Manager Role

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 2014

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

This project aimed to increase the quality of volunteerism in general and in the youth filed in particular by taking volunteer management to the next quality level based on tailor-made occupational profile, comprehensive training curricula and competence validation procedure for experienced volunteer managers according to the new occupational profile, quality standards for volunteer management, and creation of support structures in the form of professional communities for volunteer managers. The project objectives have been: # to enhance the quality and relevance of the learning offer in the field of volunteer management in general and volunteer management in the youth field in particular through the development of tailored training curricula based on a competence based occupational profile, the development of quality standards in volunteer management, and the development of validation instruments for competences acquired in non-formal or informal learning; # to increase the use of European reference tools for recognition, validation and transparency of competences and qualifications in the field of volunteer management by stimulating the volunteer managers in 5 countries to use the available and appropriate Europass tools; # to improve the capacities of the 5 resource organizations involved in the project in the area of quality of services and targeted activities for specific groups (namely volunteer managers), project management and internationalization, enhancing the dynamic, committed and professional environment within the organizations.

The project included activities that contributed to strengthening the cooperation between resource organizations from 5 European countries (Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, and Latvia) with a view to # exchange good practices in volunteer management, # develop, test and implement innovative practices in relation to volunteer management in general and volunteer management in the youth field in particular, and # facilitate recognition and validation of knowledge, skills and competences acquired through formal, non-formal and informal learning. The project resulted in professionalization and professional development of volunteer managers in general and youth volunteer managers in particular because of its activities of developing training curricula, delivering training, developing validation instruments and applying them to volunteer managers, exchanging experiences and practices between resource organizations in the countries involved.

The project produced four main outputs:
O1: Volunteer Manager Occupational Profile
O2: Quality Standards for Volunteer Management
O3: Training Curricula for Volunteer Managers
O4: Instrument for Validation of Competences as Volunteer Manager (according to the occupational profile)

All the outputs are available in English and the 5 languages of the participating partners (Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Hungarian and Latvian) on the webpages of each project partner and the Erasmus Plus Project results Platform. .

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 144513,41 Eur

Project Coordinator

Asociatia Pro Vobis – Centrul National de Resurse pentru Voluntariat & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Udruga za razvoj civilnog drustva SMART
• Önkéntes Központ Alapítvány
• brivpratigais.lv
• Platforma dobrovolnickych centier a organizacii