“VOICE” (Volunteering Opportunities to Improve Cohesion and Empowerment) intends to develop structured innovative actions towards increasing the quality of international volunteering mobility (IVM) and building capacity of the youth organizations actively engaged in transnational learning mobility, both sending and receiving international volunteers. VOICE aims to promote IVM as a way to boost youths’ employability potential, foster active European citizenship and feeling as citizens of the world, overcome passivity of younger Europeans and create environment for increasing quality of the IVM supporting organizations.
In particular, the project creates new learning tools aimed to support training providers in partner countries and increase quality to On-arrival service provided to European volunteers attending services in partner countries. The project also directly contributes to increasing employability potential of young people throughout providing EVS services to 18 European young people with fewer opportunities, particularly NEETs.
VOICE specific objectives are:
In particular, the project creates new learning tools aimed to support training providers in partner countries and increase quality to On-arrival service provided to European volunteers attending services in partner countries. The project also directly contributes to increasing employability potential of young people throughout providing EVS services to 18 European young people with fewer opportunities, particularly NEETs.
VOICE specific objectives are:
- to build capacity of the youth workers and organizations working or intending to start working in the field of cross-continental IVM projects and with ESC initiative;
- to capitalize previous outcomes in the field of IVM support and ensure quality transfer of the best practices in the field;
- to build personal and professional capacity as training providers of the youth workers from IVMRO based in partner countries;
- to create new learning tools based on capitalized outcomes that will contribute to increasing quality of youth work and support provided to European volunteers;
- to create opportunity for fostering skills and capacities of European NEETs with an eye to support them in fostering employability potential and further re/enter the labour market;
- to promote active citizenship, volunteering and non-formal learning in partner countries.