Volunteer Ireland has taken an active role in a number of European wide Erasmus+ programmes aimed at researching and advancing volunteering engagement leadership across Europe.

We have partnered with a number of Volunteer Centres and National Volunteer Development Agencies, amongst other partners, on these projects over the last number of years and will continue to do so into the future. These projects are co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission.

We are always interested in collaborating on new and innovative projects around the topic of volunteering, particularly in relation to societal changes.

If you have a proposal please email Stuart Garland.

You can learn about our most recent projects below:

REAL
The REAL project is all about helping community leaders, Leaders of Volunteers, and decision-makers gain the knowledge, skills, and tools they need to support sustainable growth, build stronger communities, and encourage people to get involved.
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TEAM IV
This project aims to contribute to the social inclusion of people with disabilities.
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Stop Loneliness, Start Volunteering
This projects aims to develop volunteering as a means of preventing social isolation in young people.
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Powered by V
This project aims to support volunteer involving organisations and young people to use volunteering to strengthen democracy, European society, its values and identity.
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eQyvol - European Quality Standards in Youth Volunteering
This Erasmus+ project aims to define and disseminate across the EU the first European Quality Standards in Youth Volunteering.
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Family Volunteering – a new form of engagement
This Erasmus+ project explores and showcases the benefits of family volunteering as a form of engagement
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Making it Matter
The focus of this Erasmus+ project, Making it Matter, was to promote and increase the recognition of volunteering as one of the key components of social inclusion and integration of disadvantaged young people.
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Equal Volunteering Opportunities for All
This seminar was about why and especially, how we can encourage their participation in volunteering activities and projects, as a valid way to be part of the society, develop relevant competencies and, even, to become leaders of new initiatives, promoted by voluntary based NGOs, including the seminar promoter organisations themselves
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e-VOC: Online training for Volunteer Coordinators on the validation of competences
The e-VOC project aimed to offer a new online learning module thereby improving accessibility and quality of training for Volunteer Coordinators on the validation of volunteer competences.
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Volunteering as a tool for inclusion
The overall objective of this project was to increase the social inclusion of disadvantaged and marginalized groups trough volunteering in partner countries and to share already existing experience/practices/tools in the field.
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