Önkéntesmenedzsment 2.0

<< Background >>The decision of the project was based on the evidence that the volunteering rate of young people aged 15-29 is below the EU average in all partner countries. Taking into account the partner organisations' own experiences, each organisation identified the need to modernise volunteering, including volunteer management. A particular focus was on including practices from several countries to improve the youth participation in volunteering through an online guideline.The new approach to volunteer management has to face new challenges and our project provided support, solutions and best practices. We raised awareness of the need to involve target groups with fewer opportunities into volunteering, to take sustainability aspects into account and the increasing importance of digitalisation techniques in working with volunteers. We were looking for answers to the question of how an organisation can involve young volunteers in its work or how can a young person starts to organise volunteers informally, as well as how the volunteer management can take into account and integrate different aspects at the coordination level.<< Objectives >>The aim of the project was to provide up-to-date, professional support in the field of volunteer management tailored to volunteer coordinators from the youth sector. The Erasmus+ strategic priorities (inclusion, sustainability, digitalisation) in the field of volunteer management were examined. We produced an online practical guide with the involvement of peer volunteer coordinators and organised a practice-broadening workshop to introduce the guide and to study good practices. Volunteer Management 2.0 project aimed to highlight the importance of volunteer coordination and new ways of organising volunteers, adapted to the language and mindset of young people.Partner organisations working with young people and coordinating volunteers in 3 countries have gathered experiences and solutions. Later good practices have been put into a story, suggested by the young participants, and published in a way that is enjoyable and understandable for their peers. Already during the project, several young volunteers have joined the organisations, but we are confident that the long-term goal of increasing the number of local volunteers and ESC hosting will be achieved by all three partners after the project.<< Implementation >>Activities carried out:- 5 online partnership meetings (kick-off and evaluation meeting, 3 intermediate meetings) and 2 additional online professional consultations according to the needs- 3 offline partnership meetings to learn best practices thematically (inclusion, sustainability, digitalisation) in 3 countries- Collection of best practices, analysis of the situation of young people in each country, needs assessment among young people- Compilation and publication of an online guide ’Coordinate with Ömi! Guide to working with volunteers’ with innovative story and practices in the volunteer management 2.0 approach- Skills development for young people at the practice-broadening workshop in Szeged, mutual learning among young volunteers from other countries - Wide dissemination of project results: 1 online session, 5 offline sessions.Professional activities were carried out jointly by the partners, tasks were distributed between the partners, each partner/country was responsible for 1 thematic area (HU - digitalisation, SK - sustainability, SRB - inclusion).In line with the project's commitment, we compiled modern and youth-tailored support in the field of volunteer management to the volunteer coordinators involved.<< Results >>The number of shared practices is 31, showing a wide range of practices from different countries. The partners have learned about good practices from each other's countries, systematised them and incorporated the elements of inclusion, sustainability and digitalisation into their work to renew their volunteer management practices.17 participants (76% of them young people) attended the participatory learning based practice-broadening workshop, 12 of them were participants with fewer opportunities and country balance were ensured.Innovative, practical elements in the compilation and design of the online guide were developed by young people. The new and innovative layout of the guide was used to create a user-friendly tools and content. The guide is available for download in each partner’s websites for free of charge and a Serbian translation has been produced as an extra result. The project implementation capacity of the partner organisations has increased, and further cooperation has been established for other international and cross-border projects. The percentage of young people involved in professional work is 50.4%, with real joint creation across generations and borders.