Massive Open Online Course on European Solidarity Corps

This online course will help you discover all the opportunities that the European Solidarity Corps Programme offers, so you can start making a difference today. Enrol now (NO APPLICATION and NO SELECTION required, you will enrol to the course immediately) by using this link https://hop.salto-youth.net/courses/esc

HOP platform will ask you to create a profile or use My Salto login credentials. 

The course materials are in English, with most content translated to Spanish, Italian, German and Turkish.

Get a glimpse into the course - https://youtu.be/9OOArStVQHo 

You can access the online content at any time starting from 22nd October to 6th December 2024 and you can go through it in your own pace. In addition to that, we offer live webinars (11th and 25th November), online forums and Q&A possibilities on your future projects.  Participation in the webinars is possible without completing the modules. Registration for the webinars will be available after enrolling in the course.

This Massive Open Online Course offers opportunities to explore:

• Learning the essentials of the European Solidarity Corps
• To learn how to reach the impact on the personal, organisational and community levels
• Discovering the format and practice of Volunteering projects;
• Discovering the essence of the Solidarity project and the main steps to start it
• To learn what it takes to be ready to apply for the ESC grant
• To learn how to acquire a Quality Label
• To explore opportunities of Humanitarian Aid activities
• To understand what are the possible ways to support young people during the European Solidarity projects
• Networking among course participants.

You can choose freely which modules you would like to complete. 

We will organise 2 thematic webinars focusing on the community impact of ESC projects:

• Webinar on “How to increase the community impact of your ESC project?”: 11th November, 11:00 CET  - 12:00 CET

Speaker: David van de Velde, researcher, Impact Centre Erasmus, Erasmus University of Rotterdam

Best practice presentation: Karla & SIlvia Paulíková, Defenders of the riverscape, ESC solidarity project owners

• Webinar “Tools and practices to measure the ESC impact in the community”: 25th November, 15:00 CET - 16:00 CET

Speaker: Tenna Soerensen Jochumsen – project officer at Centre for European Volunteering (CEV)

Best practice presentation: Tihomir Georgiev - project manager at Smokinyia Foundation

You can enrol now using your Salto-Youth login or your HOP account. There is an option for you to attend just the webinars - without the completion of the modules of the course  - and  learn more about community impact measurement and how to increase it.

This path is primarily recommended to those who already have some knowledge about the European Solidarity Corps Programme (or Erasmus +) and want to increase the impact of their projects. Upon successfully completing the course, learners will be awarded with Open Digital Badges and a Youthpass certificate.

Course provider: 

This course is coordinated by the SALTO European Solidarity Corps Resource Centre, hosted by the Lithuanian National Agency for European Solidarity Corps (Agency of Youth Affairs)  in partnership with the German National Agency for European Solidarity Corps (JUGEND für Europa). 

The content is developed by the team of course facilitators and developers from the NGO "AWERO" in cooperation with a range of external experts and researchers.