CEV European Volunteering Capital Competition

European Volunteering Capital Competition: Gdansk (PL), Gorizia (IT), Izmir (TR), & Madrid (ES) are the candidate municipalities for the European Volunteering Capital 2022 title. The candidates will gain European-wide visibility for excellence in policies & programmes that support volunteers & volunteering as well as for ambitious, credible and quality-focused plans for future development in the field of volunteering. They will play a key role in motivating, inspiring and encouraging other municipalities to improve their provision of supportive and facilitatory policies & programmes for quality volunteering. CEV launched the European Volunteering Capital Competition to promote and develop volunteering at the local level. The first winner of the competition to be awarded the title European Volunteering Capital in 2014 was Barcelona, followed by Lisbon European Volunteering Capital 2015, London European Volunteering Capital 2016, Sligo European Volunteering Capital 2017, Aarhus European Volunteering Capital 2018, Košice European Volunteering Capital 2019, Padova European Volunteering Capital 2020 and Berlin European Volunteering Capital 2021.