Volunteer Movement Association

Volunteering and Participation

Programme

What is the Volunteering and Participation Programme?

Our mission is to inform and raise awareness — especially among young people — so that volunteering becomes a way of life and civil society sensitivity grows across society. To do that we run a range of events and training courses.

These courses are built on learning by doing and by experience: in the short term they inform, in the medium term they build skills, and in the long term they aim to turn those skills into lasting behaviour and habits.

Activities

What we do in this programme

Volunteer Training Programme (GEP)

We bring everyone who wants to join Volunteer Movement into the Volunteer Training Programme, and turn volunteering into a way of life.

European Solidarity Corps

Young people aged 17 to 30 can take part free of charge, for between 2 and 12 months, in the Volunteering Activities projects of the European Solidarity Corps (ESC) — long known as the European Voluntary Service.

Charity Run

At charity runs and other sporting events you can open a fundraising campaign, support our social responsibility projects and get the people around you moving.

Goods Collection Campaign

You can run a food, toy, book or stationery collection campaign together with the association — at your school, your workplace or in your neighbourhood.

Giving Tuesday

On Giving Tuesday, celebrated simultaneously around the world for volunteering and giving, we run a range of events and campaigns.

Volunteer Trainer

You can share your knowledge and experience from your profession or your hobbies with Volunteer Movement's different audiences, and run training sessions for them.

High School Volunteering Programme

We run a volunteering programme in cooperation with school managements and teachers, particularly in high schools following the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme.

Community Service Practice

We run an 8 to 14 week volunteering programme within the "community service practice" course taught at universities, above all in faculties of education.

Event Partnerships

We work together with public bodies, civil society and private sector organisations at the events they organise, and support them with our volunteers.