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DYVO

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Social assistance and welfare

The project contributes to facilitating and innovating the recognition and validation of competences acquired through non-formal and informal learning in the field of youth volunteering. The main aim lies in enhancing young people’s employability and social participation as well as the quality of the work done by youth/voluntary organisations.

CSV Marche

CSV Marche is the volunteering regional network which pursues the empowerment of volunteering organizations in the Marche Region. Its membership base is around 400 volunteering organizations. CSV has its headquarters in Ancona, 5 provincial head centres and 19 secondary information desks. CSV Marche delivers free services such as administrative and fiscal advises, communication, promotion, support to project development and to collaboration with public administration and other local entities, also through thematic networks.

Italy

Via Della Montagnola 69/a Ancona

Partner 1

Warehouse Hub SRL

Warehouse Hub specializes in Learning by Doing training paths, to develop cross-sector know-how, or ‘soft skills’, and provide an entrepreneurial education. We also offer high school and university students, as well as young people who have just completed their education, mentoring and vocational services and an access to local and international networks, allowing them to be active, to acquire knowledge and know-how and to find their own path to access the job market.

Italy

Via Strada di Mezzo, 17 - Fraz. Marotta, San Costanzo (PU)

Partner 2

E.N.T.E.R. GmbH

E.N.T.E.R. is a versatile and highly motivated networking company, specialising in the dissemination and implementation of EU projects. We are located in Graz, Austria, but we work on an international level. Our team participates in several EU projects and manages this networking platform.

Austria

Geidorfplatz 2
8010 Graz
Austria

Partner 3

Jaunuoliu Dienos Centras

Jaunuoliu dienos centras (JDC) is a social service institution that was established in 1996 by Panevezys Town Council in Lithuania.

We provide daily activities for disabled youngster’s severe and moderate physical and intellectual impairment over 18 years of age. These activities include small work tasks, drama, art, sport, IT, and informal education. We also provide social care for our clients.

Our mission is to foster the uniqueness of each person while working towards the integration of disabled people into society.

We give a lot of importance to links with the community and organize special activities such as a theatre festival, sports competitions, and Christmas activities. JDC is constantly seeking to develop through professional staff development, creating new activities that lead to development opportunities for disabled people and cooperating with organizations in other countries, adopting good practices from abroad.

At the moment the institution joins 70 users with various types and degrees of disabilities: users with mental, mobility, speech problems, and long-term diseases. The age of our users is 18- 45 years.

Lithuania

Kranto g. 18, LT-35173, Panevėžys

Partner 4

CEV

The Centre for European Volunteering (CEV) (until 1 July 2020 known as the European Volunteer Centre), established in 1992, is the European network of over 60 organisations dedicated to the promotion of, and support to, volunteers and volunteering in Europe at European, national or regional level.

Through our network we aim to be the leading voice in the values-based volunteering debate in Europe, influencing and sharing the current trends & challenges and those predicted for the future, developing and providing policy advice and expertise for European Policymakers so that volunteering policies and programmes developed at European level are effective and fit for purpose. Network members are also supported to further their own objectives at national/regional & European level by the protection and support for a free and enabling civil society space, advocating for suitable European funding support, and by developing supportive policy statements at the European level on pertinent volunteering issues. In this way, reaching out to the many thousands of volunteers and volunteer organisations in Europe as a source of support in bringing the European dimension to their work.

Belgium

Avenue des Arts 7/8, 1210 Brussels

Developing a new digital, easy-to-use and innovative tool to support the recognition and validation of competences in youth volunteering.

Empowering young volunteers, youth workers and organisations to develop and exploit methods, tools and procedures for validating competences including the new Europass framework.

Elaborating a clear framework of learning outcomes and related competences, informal learning through youth volunteering and a clear methodology of validation.

Promoting the recognition and validation of competences of young volunteers with fewer opportunities.

The DYVO app is a blockchain-based certificate platform (desktop and mobile use) for the management of the competence validation process. Within this digital environment, all the steps of validation can be performed easily: identifying and documenting acquired competences, producing a portfolio, assessing and certifying competences through blockchain technology. The final version of the DYVO app will be freely and fully accessible in five languages: English, French, Italian, German and Lithuanian.
Competence framework: competences acquired in volunteering experiences with a link to the labour market, highlighting ways of capitalising learning outcomes in a job context.
Methodology of validation: definition of methods for identification, documentation, assessment and certification of competences under the DYVO Model.
Collection of case histories of young volunteers and voluntary organisations to function as role models.
The training package is a set of innovative training programmes for young volunteers, tutors and assessors aimed at empowering them into recognising and validating transversal skills. It consists of two parts: course work which trains competences, the validation process, and job orientation, and a handbook with a methodology and guidelines on organising DYVO training courses for groups of young volunteers and tutors. The training package will be designed, tested and released as an open education resource.

Roles of the volunteers

70%

Have been involved in the implementation

Eu program

"I can feel that this project is run with the heart!" Christian, volunteer.

Validation Skills Volunteering Blockchain Digital Youth

Quality Standards of project with volunteers

I declare that my project meets all the quality requirements here listed

  • There are clear, planned outcomes for the local community based on identified needs.
  • Volunteers bring added value to the project and don’t replace paid staff.
  • Volunteers are recruited, trained and managed according to the quality volunteer management cycle.
  • The conditions of the opportunity are inline with the relevant legal framework in the country/ region concerned. Eg regarding insurance, expenses payments, agreements/contracts etc.
  • The volunteers are celebrated and thanked for their time and commitment.

Yes

  • The organization providing the volunteer opportunity demonstrates an inclusive approach. Volunteers from all backgrounds and situations are welcome.

Yes

  • There is the opportunity for the learning acquired through volunteering to be validated, if the volunteer desires it.

Yes

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