Welcome to the project “E-volunteering – building an online volunteering ecosystem”! It aims to enable the transformation of transnational volunteering practices, by using new approaches introduced through a sustainable e-volunteering ecosystem. After we had researched the capacities of organizations to engage e-volunteers and mapped policies regulating this field, the time has come to start the Living Lab phase of the project. Within it, we will:
- Develop a sustainable e-volunteering ecosystem involving tools, standards, and recognition models,
- Raise capacities of youth organizations across Europe to introduce transnational e-volunteering,
- Develop policy recommendations targeting standardization and promotion of e-volunteering.
WHAT IS THIS EVENT ABOUT
The Living Lab Meeting will gather stakeholders and engage them in open innovation processes focusing on the co-creation of innovations that will boost the capacities of both youth organizations and their volunteers to engage in impactful e-volunteering experiences.
By participating in the Living Lab you will experiment on:
o processes of education needed to ensure sustainable e-volunteering practices,
o existing tools for e-volunteering and drafting of specific tools for youth organizations,
o policy changes that will ensure the sustainability of e-volunteering practices.
WHO CAN APPLY
You are welcome to apply for participation if you are:
- Youth worker and Youth organizations representatives, NFE educator, Volunteer, Policymaker, and IT expert with experience in online or in-person volunteering.
- Coming from, Serbia, Greece, Spain, France, Slovenia, and Belgium (*or from countries from which are CI member organizations).
- Willing to offer your knowledge and expertise and contribute to forming a better e-volunteering era.
- Ready to participate in this event in its entirety and have decent command of the English language.
WHERE – WHEN –HOW
The event will be held in Belgrade, Serbia from 13.12.2023 to 16.12.2023, and the working language is English.
HOW TO APPLY
Deadline for applying: 1.11.2023, at 23:59 CET
TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION
Organizers will cover all costs related to travel, accommodation, and food. Participants are obliged to use the most cost-efficient means of travel. Organizers will cover travel costs in accordance with CONNECT International’s guidelines on travel expenses reimbursement, depending on the country of origin.
If you are selected you will be provided with additional information on the dates, schedule and exact venue of the event.
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The project “e-volunteering” is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.