Topic:
Volunteering, Youth participation, International Volunteer Management and MentoringContext:
Volunteerism is a movement and a means of active participation that is extensively supported by European mobility projects. The advantages of volunteering for the greater benefit of larger communities and society in general are indisputable. However, volunteering has also extensive benefits for volunteers and it is promoted as a powerful learning experience and process, especially when under the European Voluntary Service scheme. Nonetheless, it needs a number of processes and measures for it to become a quality experience, both for the volunteer and the hosting organization. The relation amongst Volunteers, Volunteer Managers, Mentors, Sending, Coordinating and Hosting organizations and all the activities surrounding their interaction need to be dealt with a procedure/system, which is referred to as VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT.
“VOLU.M.E” Volunteer Management Enhanced is envisaged as a long-term project which will include a training course + a seminar focused on offering an experience in Volunteer Management to youth workers and volunteers in organizations which already have at least 1 experience as international Hosting organizations (in the EVS program). The term Enhanced promotes the idea of going deeper into Volunteer Management steps, exchanging expertise, good and bad practices, stories, disappointments, etc. It will also deal with the Role of the Mentor of the volunteers, as an important element in the whole learning process.
Aim:
The project (through the combination of the training course and the seminar) aims at developing competencies of youth workers and organisations in Volunteer Management and Mentoring of EVS volunteers. The purpose is to enhance the quality of EVS projects as learning experiences in all levels - from the writing of a project right through the closing and evaluation.
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