Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity where an individual or a group provides services for no financial or social gain “to benefit another person, group or organisation”. Volunteering benefits also the volunteer and can be means to discover new(social)…
Gaining entrepreneurial skills through volunteering – Volunteering can be a great way to gain entrepreneurial skills, as it can provide opportunities for leadership, problem-solving, and innovation. When volunteering, you may be given the chance to lead a project or team,…
The Job Bridge project has come to an end. We are glad to announce that we have been able to achieve the aspired result. Here is what we did, in a nutshell: As part of the Job Bridge project, facilitators…
We are happy to announce the three winners of our Job Bridge Award – the Job Bridge Award addressed projects and initiatives aimed at validating learning outcomes in volunteering. The winners are: Validation of Volunteer Work, presented by ESN, Belgium…
Our JOB BRIDGE project is heavily affected by the corona crisis. Normally, all partners would currently carry out pilot projects to implement the JOB BRIDGE approach to validate the competences acquired in volunteering. Most of our planned pilot projects had…
Do you do any volunteer work? Then let this voluntary commitment be recognised by a European digital badge. Your voluntary activities make a relevant contribution to your personal development. You will build new relationships and acquire a whole range of…
We are pleased to announce that the Job Bridge training course for trainers and multipliers was successfully carried out on February 11th to 13th in the premises of the BUPNET in Göttingen, Germany. The course lasted 18 hours in total…
The second partner meeting took place on 07. in Rome. The main purpose was to define the topics of the training course for volunteering facilitators and to set up the curriculum for the three-day course that will take place in…
During the project a BADGES-app was created for young adults aged 18 to 35, seeking work or training, who go on mobility to Malta to gain professional experience abroad, learn and use a foreign language, get to know a foreign…
Job Bridge project partners are launching two surveys to help them analyse the situation regarding validation and volunteering in the EU. One is addressing former and current volunteers, the other addresses volunteer-based organisations (facilitators of volunteers). Are you a former…
On 12. of February, 2019, the Job Bridge partners met in Paris for the kick-off meeting. The main purpose of the meeting was to get to know to each other and to plan in detail the first project activities. The…
Volunteering is an important means for (young) people to develop themselves, by building new relationships and gaining a whole set of life skills that can improve their employability. It serves to gather important experience in unknown fields, to develop social,…
The final VALLEY conference was held on February 16 and took place in the Villa Mediterranée in the old port area of Marseille. In this final conference the resources, which were developed by the Erasmus+ project VALLEY to identify and to…
The VALLEY final conference will take place on Thursday, February 16th, 2017, from 12 h to 18 h in Marseille, France, in the premises of the Villa Méditerranée. If you are interested in volunteering and the recognition of competences acquired…
Final conference on 16.02.2017 in Marseille, France Make a note in your calendar – The VALLEY team is organising the final conference which will include conclusions from the piloting phase, a panel discussion with experts from the field, workshops ……