Volunteering is an important way for 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,
personal and organisational competences.
However, the competences acquired in volunteering are rarely assessed
and validated; hence, they are “lost” in the CV of the volunteers, even
though employers state how important they are when it comes to
selecting a new employee. Also, there is a lack of feasible and
easy-to-use instruments for validating informal learning in
volunteering.
The course, developed in the framework of the 2-year Job Bridge
project (12/19-02/21, Erasmus+), aims to enable representatives from
volunteering organisations and adult education organisations welcoming
volunteers to implement competence-oriented approaches with volunteers
and validate competences acquired in the voluntary activities.
