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Active volunteering for all

2018-3-PL01-KA205-0610862018Strategic Partnerships for youthfinalized
Countries: PL|ES|TR · Grant: €52,183
Health and wellbeingHealthy lifestyle, active ageingInclusion - equity

Project summary

The implementation of the project involves improving quality working with young people in the field of work with youth volunteers in sport, as part of establishing strategic cooperation between organizations from Poland, Turkey and Spain. The main goals of the project will be: * to conduct an open, transparent and non-exclusive volunteer recruitment process, which enables reaching out with volunteering opportunities also to young people with fewer opportunities (including young people from refugee families, from a social margin, have learning difficulties), * conducting a meaningful analysis of the volunteers' needs and expectations, defining their strengths and weaknesses and educational priorities, * setting, by means of a consensus with a volunteer, ambitious, measurable and realistic goals, the attainment of which will guarantee the development of the volunteer's competence and provide him with satisfaction from the job, * supporting integration and team building processes in the international group, between foreign volunteers and the local community, * monitoring the development of hard and soft skills by the volunteer, the reachability of the assumed partial and strategic goals, * conducting, together with the volunteer, ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of performed activities, supporting the volunteer in the process of self-assessment and indicating ways to improve unsatisfactory work areas by the volunteer. The main axis of project activities will be: - publication of a publication presenting a set of tools applicable to conduct more effective than before volunteer recruitment processes (including reaching volunteer groups with fewer opportunities), conducting an effective analysis of volunteers' needs, setting schedules of activities providing volunteers with high quality informal education, conducting evaluation and monitoring activities, - conducting specialist training in the field of running volunteering projects in sport in accordance with the principles of project logic addressed to 21 short and long-term volunteer coordinators from 3 Partner Countries - creating a specialized platform for the exchange of experiences and good practices in the field of volunteering in sport, to which access will be gained by 3 partner organizations and at least 30 NGOs from 3 Partner Countries, which are indirect beneficiaries of the project.

Final report summary

The implementation of the project involved improving quality working with young people in the field of work with youth volunteers in sport, as part of establishing strategic cooperation between organizations from Poland, Turkey and Spain. The project was aimed to promote high-quality work with young people involved in voluntary activities in sport by extending the range of tools used by 35 employees and youth leaders to: * conduct an open, transparent and non-exclusive volunteer recruitment process, which enables reaching out with volunteering opportunities also to young people with fewer opportunities (including young people from refugee families, from a social margin, having learning difficulties), * conducting a meaningful analysis of the volunteers' needs and expectations, defining their strengths and weaknesses and educational priorities, * setting, by means of a consensus with a volunteer, ambitious, measurable and realistic goals, the attainment of which will guarantee the development of the volunteer's competence and provide him with satisfaction from the job, * supporting integration and team building processes in the international group, between foreign volunteers and the local community, * monitoring the development of hard and soft skills by the volunteer, the reachability of the assumed partial and strategic goals, * conducting, together with the volunteer, ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of the performed activities, supporting the volunteer in the process of self-assessment and indicating ways to improve unsatisfactory work areas by the volunteer.

Project partners (3)