“Levol-app” is a 28-month strategic alliance under the funding of the Erasmus+ programme within its Key Action 2 for the development of vocational training coordinated in Spain by Neo Sapiens and in cooperation with non-profit organisations from Portugal, Slovakia, Italy and the United Kingdom. It has brought together organisations from different contexts with the aim of developing training programmes for volunteers and training for the staff responsible for volunteering.
Through this initiative, the exchange and testing of best practices related to the training of non-profit coordinators has been achieved, enabling them to be able to design and implement volunteer management programmes (both at local and international level). To achieve this goal, the project partners have cooperatively developed an online platform in 5 different languages to support NGOs seeking to create or improve their volunteer management programmes. This has led to a greater involvement of the volunteers involved, to motivate them as active citizens and to improve the professional capacities and skills of those who are in charge of their coordination.
Thanks to this transnational collaboration between the countries involved in the project, contents and products have been created, tested and edited in cooperation with the heads of non-profit organisations, adaptable to different realities and contexts. For more information on the objectives, calendar of activities and results or products developed during this project, please consult the sections at the bottom of this page.
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Dates: 01/10/2017 to 31/01/2020
Partner entities:
- Encourage the use of new technologies as tools for more accessible learning.
- Develop educational materials adapted to non-profit organisations to enable the training of their teams.
- Encourage the exchange of good practices among professionals working in the teaching of management processes and coordination of volunteers.
- To promote networking at local and European level between volunteer organisations that work in common areas or can cooperate with each other.
- To contribute to the visibility of European programmes aimed at funding transnational initiatives for education, active citizenship and social inclusion.
- To promote and recognise the figure of the person who coordinates volunteering within the working and educational environment.
- Project preparation (October 2017).
- Interviews and working groups (December 2017 to January 2018).
- First transnational coordination meeting in Spain (January 2018).
- Design and creation of the intellectual material of the project and design of the online platform (February to September 2018).
- Second transnational coordination meeting in Slovakia (September 2018).
- Editing and launching of the online platform (September to December 2018).
- Third transnational coordination meeting in UK (December 2018).
- Transnational training course for tutors of the platform (January 2019).
- Testing of the materials developed through the online platform for potential beneficiaries from non-profit organisations (February to June 2019).
- Evaluation of the results obtained from the testing and implementation of the knowledge acquired through the platform within each participating entity (May to September 2019).
- Fourth transnational coordination meeting in Italy (June 2019).
- Improvements in the volunteering programmes and final editing of the online platform (June to August 2019).
- Study of results and impact on the participating organisations and beneficiaries of the online platform on the implemented volunteering programmes (September to October 2019).
- Multiplier events in each of the partner countries to disseminate the results of the project (November to December 2019).
- Online training platform for the elaboration of volunteer management plans: click here (also available in slovak, english, italian y portuguese).
- Introductory videos on the different steps of a volunteer management plan: click here (in English with subtitles in Spanish, Slovak, English, Italian and Portuguese).
