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Volunteering in local development, an incubator of transversal skills for employability

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2019-2-FR02-KA205-016443
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for youth Funder Contribution: 159,310 EUR

Volunteering in local development, an incubator of transversal skills for employability

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ContextYouth unemployment is an Europe’s unshakeable challenge and volunteer activities are not only a way to serve the local community, but can also be a successful strategy as part of youth employability. Local development can be a direct response to a high, persistent and concentrated youth unemployment. If implemented properly, local development initiatives can bolster efforts to create employment, tackle poverty and improve governance. VOLEM project aims to strengthen the recognition of key competences acquired by young adults during volunteer activities in local development and to promote them as valuable for their entrance into the labour market. This strategic partnership is a cross-sectorial cooperation between the Municipality of Cinisello-Balsamo (public body, IT) UAESS-CAP SOLIDAIRE (non-profit organisation, FR) ART SQUARE (company, LU). The objectives - To raise awareness and upskill volunteering stakeholders and young people on innovative youth volunteering experiences in the field of local development- To design a competency framework using innovative badges for the validation of competences acquired through voluntary action in local development by young people- To boost the vocational integration and the employability of the youth by the recognition of their skills and knowledge acquired during their voluntary missions.- To strengthen the capacities of the organizations working with volunteers.- To create working synergies in the promotion of voluntary missions in Europe and the recognition of competences acquired by the young volunteers at the local or European Union level.Participants will be young people, young volunteers, and youth workers and will be more than 200 direct participants (about 80 youth workers and more than 130 young people) and more than indirect 600 participantsActivities and methodology As first, the VOLEM consortium will co-design a template in order to collect case studies, projects, practices etc. (IO1) based on specific criteria such has for example the key competences (innovation/creativity, teamwork, project management, entrepreneurship culture) that are developed during the volunteering experiences in local development. The second production will bring the partners to design awareness raising and promotion toolkit on the added value of youth volunteering in local development context (IO2) based on the key findings which emerged from the first activity (IO1). This production will in the future enable volunteering organisations (national and European) to have tools to raise awareness and encourage young people to volunteer but also to raise awareness among youth workers and local actors about the skills that can be enhanced through volunteering experiences in local development.The third production (IO3) will design a competences framework for the skills that could be acquire in local development volunteering experiences using innovative digital badges methodology. This third IO will give sustainability to the transfer of the toolkits (IO1 and IO2), giving the opportunity to the youth workers to capitalize what they have experienced and learnt for the benefit of the youth they work with.Furthermore, two learning and training activities will be organised: one short-term staff training in order to aware and upskils youth workers on local development and social innovation initiatives as incubators for transversal key competences, and a blended mobility for young people to experiment design thinking methodology and contribute in the IO3.ResultsCreation of innovative tools for the validation of the competencies acquired through voluntary activities in local development Experimentation by the youth workers on the use of the innovative developed tools in particular digital open badgesCreation of a connection between the experience of volunteering in local development and the labor market. Dissemination of tools and experiences of the project among all subjects potentially interested: public institutions, local development stakeholders and volunteersExpected impactA bigger awareness about volunteering as useful way for the entrance into labor market The ability to valorize in job seeking the transversal competences learned in local development volunteeringAwareness of the importance of educating and acting for a more sustainable local developmentA higher sense of belonging to the European Union and the desire to get involved in European activities and motilitiesFinally the potential longer term benefits. - Enhancing skills of youth workers in the local development field- Facilitate the access to employment of the youth volunteers- Help the target groups to develop a renovated sense of shared and common European values and identity;- Improve the level of communication, coordination and joint work between the institutions involved, promoting and enhancing good practices, both at national (for the partner’s countries) and European level

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