WEActiveVol
– Ways to enhance active aging through volunteering
Erasmus
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18 months: 2016-2018
Coordinator: Wojewodzki Urzad Pracy
w Katowicach (Poland)
Partners:
Association E-Seniors (France), Asociacija
"Iniciatyvu tinklas"
(Lithuania)
ÖKA – Önkéntes Központ Alapítvány (Hungary)
Centrum dobrovolníctva (Slovakia)
CVCN – Centrul de Voluntariat
Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
The key aim of the WEActiveVol project is to
strengthen the volunteering activity among the over 50 people. It will be
accomplished by international cooperation of the staff of participating
organisations, who will be exploring the theme of volunteering by exchanging
ideas, knowledge, experience and good practices.
The specific goals are aimed at:
1.
Getting familiar with some basic law regulations and
statistic data on the volunteering in the partners’ countries;
2.
Exploring the methods of work with the Over 50s volunteers
in partners’ countries;
3.
Learning about obstacles, which restrict the voluntary activity among the
Over 50s;
4.
Gaining information about attitude of entities
organizing voluntary work towards the
Over 50s volunteers;
5.
Promoting volunteering in partners’ countries through
dissemination events, leaflet and brochure of good practices.
The target group consists of educators/trainers/coaches
active in the adult education, volunteer coordinators, and project managers,
practitioners working in the field of volunteering and active ageing, advisors,
and decision-makers from the participating organisations. They will be directly
addressed by the project activities. They will acquire knowledge and
competences in the field of volunteering. The indirect target group are people
aged 50+, including those at the pre-retirement age or in transition from work
to retirement who are already performing voluntary work or could be involved in
this activity. The latter indirect group consists of different supporting
entities dealing with active aging or volunteering activities. Due to the
project it will be able to get more people aged over 50 involved in voluntary
activities, as the specialists working in favour of this group will learn how
to prepare tailored to their needs trainings, which can help to equip
volunteers at this age to carry out their tasks more effective.