The background of this course

The European Solidarity Corps is an incredible opportunity for young people to demonstrate solidarity and contribute to their communities. It is also an empowering experience that helps them develop new competences.

Youthpass can help them become more aware of their learning and document the learning outcomes they acquire during their project. In order to make the most of this opportunity, young people might benefit from some support from their mentors, coaches, project organisers.

And as a mentor, coach, project organiser, you might need some guidance on how to make use of Youthpass, too!

At the end of this course, you, as a support person, will understand how the learning journey of a participant in a European Solidarity Corps project unfolds and how the Youthpass can be implemented along the way. You will develop the competences needed for supporting the participants, through self-assessment and reflection.

The course objectives

The course aims to empower and equip support persons active in the Eurpean Solidarity Corps – such as mentors, coaches, youth workers and others – with the information and competences they need to implement the Youthpass process.

Specifically, it aims to

The target group

The target groups of this training course are project organisers and support persons within the European Solidarity Corps programme including mentors, coaches, tutors, youth workers as well as young people carrying out a Solidarity Project. Additionally, everyone who is interested in supporting learning processes is welcome to join and explore the resources available.

The structure of the course

The course is composed of the following nine modules:

The methodology of the course

Each module is structured into several chapters offering different content. Participants learn through videos, texts, practical exercises and reflections. 

Each module will require 2-3 hours to complete the activities.    

Register/enrol in this course

Self-enrolment at the top of this page

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Course authors/facilitators: Anita Silva, Michael Kimmig
Course providers: SALTO Training & Cooperation Resource Centre, in cooperation with JUGEND für Europa (National Agency - Germany). The course was created with the support of Anefore (National Agency - Luxembourg) and Agência Nacional para a gestão do programa Juventude em Acção (National Agency - Portugal).
Course duration: self-paced (approx. 2-3 hours / module, nine course modules)
Course language: English
Target group: Project organisers and facilitators of learning in the European Solidarity Corps programme including youth workers, mentors, coaches and trainers as well as young people carrying out Solidarity projects
Requirements: none 
Learning recognition: Youthpass Certificate

Last update: 30.09.2022

What is this course about?

The online NET Partnership- Building Activity "Youth work, national policies and solidarity action in Euro-mediterranean area”, organized by the Hellenic National Agency Erasmus+/ Youth & European Solidarity Corps,  aims, through its 6 (six) sessions,  to provide inspiration for qualitative engagement and networking within the Euro-mediterranean area by providing good practices, ideas and space for interaction and networking 

This course aims to:

• create some space for opinion exchanging about solidarity and youth work and their understanding in Euro-mediterranean area

• create a digital library of good practices in Euro-mediterranean area

• create a network that contains organizations and youth workers active in Euro-mediterranean area

• give a space to plan, create and develop a volunteering project by exchanging ideas

Units overview

• Introduction to the Training Course

• General Information about to the European Solidarity Corps Programme & the Concept(s) of Solidarity

• Digital library of practices in European Solidarity Corps programme Euro-mediterranean area

• Networking - Building a network to initiate projects

• Project creating

• Evaluation and next steps

Who is this course for? 

This course is for both newcomers and experienced practitioners in the youth field such as youth workers, project managers, youth leaders, beneficiaries who are coming from organisations that hold Quality Label and are interested in creating projects in Euro-mediterranean area.

How to register/enroll for this course?

The course is an open access course for everyone who is registered to the HOP Online Learning platform. For any queries, please contact Natassa Dedousi

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Course trainers and facilitators: Agne Rapalaite, Sabrina Apritz and Konstantinos Stergiou

Course provider: Hellenic National Agency Erasmus+ Youth & European Solidarity Corps/ INEDIVIM

Course duration: self-paced (approx. 3-4 hours / module, six course modules for the course content)

Course language: English

Target group: Youth workers, youth project managers, beneficiaries involved in ESC and active in Euro-mediterranean area

Requirements: registration on HOP

Last update: December 2020

What is this course about?

The online NET Activity " Intercultural Competence Training (ICC) on ESC”, organized by the Hellenic National Agency Erasmus+/ Youth & European Solidarity Corps, aims, through its 5 (five) sessions, to enable participants to develop their intercultural competence and enhance the quality of their engagement to the European Solidarity Corps in terms of participation, inclusion and solidarity.

This course aims to enable attendees to

• recognize cultural variations in communication styles.

• have a better understanding of the diversity of cultural values and attitudes.

• explore and develop their intercultural competence in order to increase the intercultural, participatory, inclusion and solidarity qualities of their projects.

• look into practices of application of intercultural competence within ESC projects.

• enable exchange and networking among participants towards ESC projects' development in the future.

Units overview

• Overview of the course

• Essentials of Intercultural Competence

• Intercultural competence in ESC projects

• How to improve Intercultural Competence

• Webinar on intercultural competence

• Self-assessment understanding of intercultural competence

Who is this course for? 

This course is for youth workers, youth trainers, youth project managers, volunteering mentors who are interested to enhance their intercultural competence within the European Solidarity Corps.

How to register/enroll for this course?

The course is an open access course for everyone who is registered to the HOP Online Learning platform. For any queries, please contact Natassa Dedousi

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Course trainers and facilitators: Nerijus Kriauciunas, Olga Kiriakidou and Athanasios Krezios

Course provider: Hellenic National Agency Erasmus+ Youth & European Solidarity Corps/ INEDIVIM

Course duration: self-paced (approx. 3-4 hours / module, five course modules for the course content)

Course language: English

Target group: Youth workers, Trainers, Youth project managers, Volunteering mentors

Requirements: registration on HOP

Last update: October 2020

What is this course about?

The online NET Activity " Solidarity in Balkan Region”, concerns a Partnership-building Activity for people who are involved in ESC and they are active in the region of Balkans or have an interest to create international teams and develop volunteering projects in this region.

This course aims to enable attendees to

• create some space for opinion exchanging about solidarity and its understanding between Balkans countries

• create a network that contains organizations and youth workers from Balkan countries

• provide information about core elements of a volunteering project, like Visa, insurance and Youthpass

• give some examples of projects that participate Balkans countries.

Units overview

• Overview of the course

• Exploring Balkans

• Planning a volunteering project

• Exploring the application

• Webinar

• Evaluation

Who is this course for? 

This course is for representatives of organizations active in the region of Balkans and project managers and Youth Workers from Balkan countries.

How to register/enroll for this course?

The course is an open access course for everyone who is registered to the HOP Online Learning platform. For any queries, please contact Natassa Dedousi

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Course trainers and facilitators: Snezana Baclija Knoch, Mihaela Amariei and Dragan Atanasov

Graphic Designer:  Andreea Buzec and Paul Dumitru 

Course provider: Hellenic National Agency Erasmus+ Youth & European Solidarity Corps/ INEDIVIM

Course duration: self-paced (approx. 3-4 hours / module, four course modules for the course content)

Course language: English

Target group: Youth workers, youth project managers, representatives of organisations from Balkan countries

Requirements: registration on HOP

Last update: November 2020

Dates: 22nd October - 6th December 2024
Course facilitators: Nerijus Kriauciunas and Laimonas Ragauskas

Course provider: 

This course is coordinated by the SALTO European Solidarity Corps Resource Centre, hosted by the Lithuanian National Agency for European Solidarity Corps (Agency of Youth Affairs)  in partnership with the German National Agency for European Solidarity Corps (JUGEND für Europa). 

The content is developed by the team of course facilitators and developers from the NGO "AWERO" in cooperation with a range of external experts and researchers. 

Course language: English, with most content translated to Spanish, Italian, German and Turkish.

Target group: anyone interested in European Solidarity Corps

Course credentials: Open Digital Badges and a Youthpass certificate

Get a glimpse into the course - https://youtu.be/9OOArStVQHo 

What is this course about?

The online national NET Activity "Rural areas, challenges and solidarity”, organized by the Hellenic National Agency Erasmus+/ Youth & European Solidarity Corps, aims, through its 5 (five) sessions,  to enable participants to develop their knowledge upon the European Solidarity Corps Programme and discover its possibilities for their communities.

This course aims to:

• enable attendees to better understand the European Solidarity Corps Programme and explore its possibilities and benefits on rural areas that exist through it.

• disseminate the European Solidarity Corps Programme to areas in need, facing challenges, mostly in the periphery of Greece.

• discover, collect and share good practices of solidarity actions in Greece and Europe.

• support participants to express the challenges they face concerning their area, create an alliance to face them through solidarity and to exchange good practices for resolving them through the Programme

Units overview

• Welcome to this course

• Essentials of ESC

• Examples of ESC projects in rural areas

• Challenges of rural areas

• Closing and evaluation session

Who is this course for? 

This course is for representatives of municipalities in rural areas and representatives of organisations that are active in such communities who are interested in getting engaged to the Programme

How to register/enroll for this course?

The course is an open access course for everyone who is registered to the HOP Online Learning platform. For any queries, please contact Natassa Dedousi

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Course trainers and facilitators: Nerijus Kriauciunas, Olga Kiriakidou and Konstantinos Stergiou

Course provider: Hellenic National Agency Erasmus+ Youth & European Solidarity Corps/ INEDIVIM

Course duration: self-paced (approx. 3-4 hours / module, five course modules for the course content)

Course language: English

Target group: representatives of municipalities and youth workers in rural areas

Requirements: registration on HOP

Last update: August 2021

What is this course about?

The online national NET Activity "Training for Mentors”, organized by the Hellenic National Agency Erasmus+/ Youth & European Solidarity Corps,  aims, through its 6 (six) sessions,  to enable participants to develop their competence of mentoring, through enhanced modes of training delivery and also through sharing, exchange and the construction of common understanding and goals among mentors.

This course aims to:

• Explore the European Solidarity Corps Programme

• Build a common understanding of quality aspects of the European Solidarity Corps volunteering

• Train and empower a national team of mentors, who will continue working with their National Agency

• Develop participant’s competences in counselling, giving feedback, and guiding the process of project idea development

Units overview

• Welcoming session

• Discover essentials on mentorship in the European Solidarity Corps

• Explore stories of mentors

• Find out how to improve yourself as a mentor

• Q & A on mentoring in ESC

• Evaluation & Self-Assessment

Who is this course for? 

This course is for both newcomers and experienced mentors of the European Solidarity Corps Programme who are interested in developing their mentoring and networking competencies.

How to register/enroll for this course?

The course is an open access course for everyone who is registered to the HOP Online Learning platform. For any queries, please contact Natassa Dedousi

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Course trainers and facilitators: Nerijus Kriauciunas, Olga Kiriakidou and Athanasios Krezios

Course provider: Hellenic National Agency Erasmus+ Youth & European Solidarity Corps/ INEDIVIM

Course duration: self-paced (approx. 3-4 hours / module, six course modules for the course content)

Course language: English

Target group: mentors in Volunteering Activities / European Solidarity Corps

Requirements: registration on HOP

Last update: June 2021

This is an online training course about the European Solidarity Corps projects with benefits for Young Refugees, Migrants and Asylum Seekers (YMRA).

Aim

To develop the capacity and competences of youth workers who work with young migrants, refugees and asylum seekers (YMRA) in order to foster inclusion in local communities through the European Solidarity Corps programme, based on non-formal education.

Objectives

• To exchange information and realities in the different countries of the participants.

• To get a deeper understanding of the diversity of this topic.

• To deepen understanding of the legal framework and terminology related and relevant in working with YMRA.

• To explore the role(s) of a youth worker in the inclusion process of YMRA.

• To share good practices, tools, methods on specific topics related to working with YMRA.

• To work on the possibilities that ESC offers to inclusive projects.

• To exchange ideas on how ESC can contribute through all its aspects to support young refugees.

Participants

Youth workers who work with young migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

Organisers:

The Hellenic National Agency host this transnational NET Activity funded by European Solidarity Corps.

Cover photo by Matteo Paganelli on Unsplash

This activity will be an online training course that will take place on HOP Online Learning Platform composed of 6 units:

• A quality welcome for quality people

• Quality label: The story so far

• Quality matters

• Quality and Learning

• Hands on Quality: Let's get practical

• Quality Management: The project cycle

Aim

The main aim of this course is to inspire practitioners to engage in the QL process and see it as a real opportunity to invest in the quality of their projects. This online training course will offer a space for good practices and further support for both newcomers and experienced organizations.

Objectives

To critically reflect upon the previous international volunteering experience and the impact on young people, organisations and the wider community.To increase the understanding of different quality aspects of volunteering projects and occupational strand.To experience a non-formal learning process and understand how to support young people's learning process in the project.To exchange good practices between newcomers and experienced organisations.To improve their project management competences (knowledge, skills and attitudes). To build a strong networking.