The VoW project aimed to support the paths of knowledge and commitment towards sustainable (and circular) economy and therefore responsible consumption practices, as fundamental tools to contribute to the fight against climate change and to a truly sustainable global development for all. Starting from personal choices and daily actions that everyone can put on the field. Within this framework, the VoW project aimed to: - To help citizens understand global change and implement virtuous behaviors by providing up-to-date and integrated knowledge of the fair trade system; - Improve the practical knowledge and content to be transmitted to operators, volunteers and citizens on the sustainable economy, networking the knowledge, experiences and practices of organisations operating in this field; - To enable more and more people to be protagonists, active for a sustainable future, strengthening the conditions for volunteering, in fair trade or other sensitive organisations; - Innovate the overall proposal for volunteers in fair trade, experimenting with new forms of volunteering, even involving more the new generations.
The project focused on how to prepare European citizens to address the relevant aspects of the global environmental crisis with greater knowledge and skills. It has addressed the vast sensitive area that is volunteering, improving its ability to be a co-protagonist of actions that contribute to spreading values, choices and behaviors, starting from the experience of European fair trade to combine environmental and social development with economic choices and ethical production. The project focused on people who already dedicate time and energy as volunteers, or who could do so: often senior Fair Trade volunteers who are highly motivated but poorly prepared and have less ability to dialogue with the new generations; young people driven by the desire to change the world as protagonists who often do not know these forms of volunteering; adult and elderly citizens motivated to volunteer who do not have information to approach this opportunity; voluntary organisations working in other areas. And also managers, trainers and volunteer managers, strengthening their skills in recruiting, welcoming, managing and above all training volunteers.