Social activity as a form of professional development
2019-2-PL01-KA105-066142

Summary

The project assumes the organization of an 8-day expert seminar addressed to 35 coordinators, mentors volunteering and apprectises programs from 4 Program Countries and 1 Partner Country, aimed at promoting high-quality work with youth who would like be a sport trainers/coaches/youth workers in the future. The main goal of the project will be expanding the range of tools used by 35 employees and youth leaders to:
* to conduct an open, transparent and non-exclusive volunteer and apprentices recruitment process, which enables reaching out with volunteering and approntices opportunities also to young people with fewer opportunities (including young people from refugee families, from a social margin, have learning difficulties),
* conducting a meaningful analysis of the volunteers' and apprentices' needs and expectations, defining their strengths and weaknesses and educational priorities,
* setting, by means of a consensus with a volunteer, ambitious, measurable and realistic goals, the attainment of which will guarantee the development of the volunteer's and apprentice's competence and provide him with satisfaction from the job,
* supporting integration and team building processes in the international group, between foreign volunteers and apprentices and the local community,
* monitoring the development of hard and soft skills by the volunteer and apprentice, the reachability of the assumed partial and strategic goals,
* conducting, together with the volunteer, ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of performed activities, supporting the volunteer and apprentice in the process of self-assessment and indicating ways to improve unsatisfactory work areas by the volunteer and work.