Due to the research published by Manpower group „Millennials Careers: 2020 Vision“ – made in 25 countries, involving 19000 millennials and 1500 managers, ninety-three percent want lifelong learning. With a tighter labour environment, companies are providing more information about their community policies, as well as match-giving and volunteering, as a part of their recruitment (and also retention) strategy (The Allen Consulting Group Pty Ltd, 2007). We see that developing possibilities to learn key competences through corporate volunteering in labour market would help to engage and motivate new generation as well as would give a huge impact to our societies. We also see lack of international cooperation in order to work on this issue. Given that Millennials are a necessary and increasing part of the workforce, and will make up 50% of the global workforce by 2020, this is an issue that cannot be ignored (Jemima Jordan, 2017). Our objectives are: 1. Exchange of experience and know-how between different types of organisations involved in labour, training and youth by corporate volunteering. 2. To promote corporate volunteering and non formal education systems that are better aligned to the needs of youth and opportunities of the labour market 3. To foster links between business and the community 4. Improve provision and assessment of social and civic competences In our activities, business companies, non profit organizations and young employees are expected to participate.In our activities, business companies, non profit organizations and young employees are expected to participate. In training activities will participate workers from each partner organization. They specified in work with youth, training and corporate volunteering. We are planning to implement 3 Study visits in Lithuania, Spain and Netherlands, one Conference in Lithuania, one training course in Ukraine. We will publish methodical tool about application and good practices of corporate volunteering in applying it with young workers. This book will be presented during the conference and published in digital version online.
The project involved 4 countries: Lithuania, Spain, the Netherlands and Ukraine. The following objectives werer eached: 1. Exchange of experience, good practice and know-how between other countries, organizational types operating in employment, training and youth affairs fields through corporate volunteering. During 3 visits in 3 countries: we met and visited 8 business enterprises, 15 non-profit organizations; 2 educational institutions; 1 city municipality. The visits included various organizations operating in: animal care, minority rights, refugees, the poor, the disabled, IT. We performed 5 socially responsible actions and volunteering actions - we participated in cooperation sessions, demonstrations against violence, volunteered with people with intellectual disabilities, the homeless and refugees, and participated in an excursion organized by the homeless. 2. We have promoted the adaptation of voluntareering and non-formal education systems to the needs of young people and labor market opportunities. A methodical publication was created during the project - it is free and publicly available. It consists of: literature analysis, qualitative research and examples of good practice. A total of 22 interviews were conducted (11 business organizations, 2 education organizations, 6 non-profit organizations and 3 representatives of local policy institutions) in 4 countries. Good practices of supplementing the topic - a total of 14 examples (8 business, 2 non-profit organizations, 2 education institutions and 2 local policy implementers). 3. We have strengthened the links between the business sector and the community. We organized an international conference "Corporate Volunteering: A Positive Impact on Youth, Community, Business and Employees". The main topics of the conference were: 1. Volunteering as a tool for youth and labor market issues, 2. The importance of cross-sectoral cooperation: what determines success and where do we see challenges? 3. Developing skills and competences in volunteering: measurement tools, validity and recognition. Speakers of the conference: A. Khamidova, EPAM, G. Lomanaitė, JTBA, M. Sungailaitė, manager of artist J. Vaitkutė, former participant of "Discover Yourself", V. Levickis, Youth Entrepreneurship Promotion Association, L. Cornelissen, NXP company, C. Antelo Albertos, SAP company, J. Šilkaitė, VŠP ŠPC, I.Rukavičiūtė, Cognizant, N. Kurapkaitienė, M. Romeris University, M. Lukoševičiūtė, JRD, J. Angel Poyatos, UN, Voluntare, G.Avalasevičiūtė, Všį social action. Three workshops: 1. The case of SAP company volunteering: strategy, development steps, impact, partners: SAP company and Voluntariado Y Estrategia; 2. How to work with business: practical steps, Samen voor Eindhoven; 3. How to develop a corporate volunteering strategy, Voluntariado Y Estrategia and UN, Voluntare. The conference was attended by 83 participants from various sectors. 4. We formed a positive attitude and promoted the assessment of social and civic competences. Online training brought together representatives of various sectors from Ukraine. The training involved 16 permanent participants, and 15 participants have been involved in concrete topics. The trainings were led by 8 lecturers, but their experience and good practical examples were shared by active representatives of corporate volunteering organizations in Ukraine. In all of our activities activities - visits, trainings and conference - we created a space for informal conversations, networking, therefore we succeeded in various cross-sectoral cooperation in different countries.