The objectives of SIV were set according to the priorities tackled, the needs encountered both inside the partners’ organizations and in the field of youth volunteering in general. These objectives were further correlated with the activities planned to create the main result, which is expected to improve the partners’ work in volunteering projects by integrating it in the daily activities. - Create an instrument to improve the participation of all young people in ESC projects in an informed and secure manner - Facilitate previous preparation of volunteers for the ESC projects - Foster the integration of the volunteers in the project community (village/town/city – neighborhood) - Improve the collaboration between hosting organization and volunteers - Develop the sense of initiative and social entrepreneurship of youth and youth workers
Our consortium applied this project as we encountered a problem and a need in the european volunteering projects. Moreover, at an international level this problem increased due to the covid-19 pandemic that has especially hit hard the recruitment of international volunteers. During a previous KA2 project, coordinated by Deses-3, REEVOL – “The referee for volunteering” with the reference number 2018-2-ES02-KA205-011520, an APP was created as, in which organizations involved in EVS, further ESC, had the opportunity to share possible problems that may occur during a volunteering project, as well as solutions. After analysing and interpreting the data collected, Deses-3 proposed this project, which comes as a response and solution to an issue that was identified as being the cause of most of the problems shared: the lack of previous structured and objective information regarding the community where the hosting organization is located (village/town/city – neighborhood). That is why our project comes as a solution to the encountered problem and needs of our organizations by creating an APP with information generated by local and/or foreign volunteers on the villages/towns/cities of organizations which host ESC project.