Additional Services

Our Projects

Vocational Education and Training

· KA1 VET learner and staff mobility
· KA2 VET partnerships

Adult Education

· KA1 adult education staff mobility
· KA2 adult education partnerships

Youth

· KA1 youth mobility
· KA2 youth partnerships

The key component of our Programme in internationalizing the volunteers experience is about providing opportunities and encouraging them to engage with mobility.

Creative and innovative tasks are carried out very differently internationally as they recognize different pedagogical approaches.

Enabling and encouraging volunteers to visit different countries under this program allows them to identify and explore different approaches to teaching and learning practices, and to understand better the different contexts from which their students originate.

Additionally, it widens their professional practice and professional networks, frequently kick-starting wider collaborations with partner institutions such as EU funded mobility and research projects.

Having taken an active part in the Erasmus+ Programme themselves, volunteers are able to provide better advice and support for the education areas in the future.

Examples of typical tasks:

The programme supports participants and volunteers to expand their internationalization and cooperation strategies, by sending and receiving the participants from around the world beyond Europe. Potentially It opens up new learning experiences, provides insight into different cultures, and, most importantly in such turbulent times, nurtures the concept of global citizenship amongst our staff and students. Meanwhile, they will help local organizations, communities, and hosting groups with multi-cultural ideas and practices.

The Programme brings volunteers following impacts in terms of learning opportunities:

1. Individuals plan to engage in further education opportunities (formal, non-formal, vocational)

2. Develop a clear idea about individual professional career aspirations and goals

3. Potentially increase job chances

4. Develop clear idea about future educational path

5. Develop individual networks and communication

6. Increase confidence to engage in multi-cultural activities

7. Raise awareness of social affairs, such as caring of the vulnerable groups.

8. Help young people better prepared to participate actively in social or political issues.

Participants Background:

We select students, trainers, young teachers and professionals from the education and training area.

Recruitment process:

• The recruitment will be open, based on personal motivation, not competences.

• CVs, motive letters, Skype, various ways of understanding participants.

• Information confirmation and personal evaluation of participants

• Data protection of the candidates’ information

• Provide access for candidates to check and feedback on any outcomes

• Open access for candidates to communicate and negotiate

• Recruitment ends with signing volunteering agreement.

The organizations will host 2-3 volunteers.

• Provide suitable accommodation and meals, or food allowance, covering also the holiday period to the volunteers

• Ensure safety and adequate living conditions of the accommodation for volunteers by appropriate arrangements of cost.

• Keep contact and communications with volunteers to ensure their safe staying in the accommodation

We will guarantee a safe living and working environment for the volunteers:
1. Accommodation for the decent and friendly atmosphere among volunteers

• Decent conditions- safe, clean, decent standard, which is acceptable for the proportionate to living conditions in the hosting country.

• Personal space; own room, or at least separate space for ‘alone time’

• Appropriate distance from the office

• Available for the whole period of volunteering, including holidays.

• Instructions for usage of devices. Approachability of all responsible persons, contact numbers given. Own desk and computer(if needed)

• Sanitary facilities and lunch space, or lunch time-out.

• Flexible working time allowed.

2. Inspiration and encouragement for volunteers in relation to the tasks,

• Clear, neat and suitable working and living environment mentioned above.

• Short/mid/long-term evaluation and feedback system for volunteers to make adjustments in case of mistakes and demotivation.

• Contact and support from mentors regularly to encourage volunteers.

The organization is responsible for participants’ safety during the programme period.

Before applicants leave their country, the sending organization is responsible for their safety and travel arrangements. Including:

• Book tickets for participants

• Purchasing Travel Insurance for participants before they leave the country.

• Arrange participants’accommodation, hosting before they leave their country.

After participants leaving for the destination of the programme, the host organization is responsible for participants travel arrangement, including:

• Pick up and send participants to their accommodation which is booked in advance

• Ensure participants’ travel insurance after their arriving.

• Allocate participants’ transport fees according to the agreements with partner organizations.

• Responsible for participants’leaving at the end of the programme

• Ensures that means of local transport are available for the volunteers

• Provide transport advice and information for volunteers

• Keep regular contact with volunteers during their travel to ensure their safety

• Allocate the transport fees for volunteers with appropriate plans

The organization is responsible for participants’ insurance and safety during the programme period.

Insurance for Health and Safety:

• The organization will guarantee that every participant is in possession of a European Health Insurance Card.

• According to the Youth Exchange Programme recommendation, the organization will find proper and appropriate insurance company and suitable insurances for participants during the programme period.

• All insurances for the participants will cover: Accident and serious illness; Death; etc.

• The organization will guarantee that every volunteer must be enrolled in the Erasmus Volunteering Insurance foreseen by the Erasmus+ Programme, which complements the coverage by the European Health Insurance Card and/or national social security systems.

Visa:

The sending organization and hosting organization will be responsible for participants’ visa issues. All organization will collectively be responsible for documents and application preparation:

• All organizations will ensure that the authorisations required (short/long stay visas or residence permit) are in order before the planned activity takes place.

• All organizations will ensure that the authorisations are requested from the competent authorities well in advance.

• The hosting organization in the Programme countries will fully assist the National Agencies and the Exclusive Agency.

Mentoring and Support:

• The participating organizations will ensure volunteers’ social safety by offering daily help and safety supervision.

• Organizations will arrange online service, support for language learning in the youth mobility project.

• Organizations will offer pre-departure trainings. In this training, participants will have opportunities to talk about their expectations, develop their motivation and learning objectives, and obtain information on their host country and on the Erasmus+ Programme.

• Offer supervision and guidance to the volunteers through experienced staff

• Provide personal support during the learning process.

• Give volunteers the opportunity to integrate into the local community, to meet other young people, to socialize, to participate in leisure activities, etc.

• Encourages contact with other EVS volunteers whenever possible.

Other supports:

• Submit applications and bear the financial and administrative responsibilities for the entire project towards the National Agency or the Executive Agency.

• Ensure that all volunteers receive the EVS Info Kit and attend the full EVS Training and Evaluation Cycle

• Carry out all or some of the administrative tasks of the sending or receiving organizations involved in the projects

Monitoring of the programme:
To support the volunteers with a better experience, the organizations will engage into the programme with three different monitoring dimensions:

• Informing. Providing information about programme, subjects, activities and outcomes.

• Consulting. After informing, take participants’ ideas and opinions into consideration, and give relative feedback, eventually coming up with final decision.

• Co-deciding. Full participation and assistance through the different stages of the programme.

Mentoring:
The selection of mentors is based on their professional areas. All of mentors will be selected not only by expertise but also their motivation and dedication to the programme. Mentoring methodology:

• Provide psychology support and help.

• Conflict mediation.

• Integrating volunteers into local society

• Efficient contacts