Creating Volunteering Circles

Creating Voluntering Circles, aims at developing the overall capacity of youth organisations to effectively manage voluntering projects cofunded with the support of Erasmus + and European Solidarity Corps grants.

Aim is to build a strong partnership, understand the ESC concept and its importance and to improve the capacity of practical realisation of voluntary projects in the frames of Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps Programme,.The specific objectives of the project are:
- To bring together youth workers implementing volunteering projects and other actions in their organizations and to provide a meeting point for organizations to exchange information, to
establish international partnerships and to support quality partnership development.
- To understand the concept of international volunteering and European Solidarity Corps.
- To explore how Erasmus + Key actions can be implemented in order to support volunteering
- To find ways to promote European Solidarity Corps in local area and to promote implementation ofvolunteering projects.
-To raise awareness of the learning dimension in volunteering and provide tools for learning support
- To offer a participatory program of activities enriched with a variety of methods
-To create new volunteering projects within the partner organisations and to exchange volunteering opportunities.

We wish to achieve the goal by means of successively implementing the following objectives:

• Expending European network and building partnerships for future collaborations.
• Sharing experiences and the best practices, as well as learning form the examples and best practices of the other partner organizations.
• Up-skilling staff/coordinators/supervisors which builds competence of their organizations.
• Familiarizing themselves with possibilities within Erasmus+ and Solidarity programme.
• Concrete knowledge and competences of how to create European volunteering network, how prepare high quality application for accreditation and how organize whole process.