Thirteen towns, thirteen different countries, thirteen organizations and one common goal – strengthening volunteerism and spreading solidarity values across Europe. Get to know the project ERAS – European alliance for volunteer support.
ABOUT
Different organizations from Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portugal, Malta, Albania, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, North Macedonia, Hungary, Greece and Bulgaria will address the various challenges of voluntarism in EUROPE. They all strongly believe that volunteering is a crucial part of a modern democratic society and with nurturing and fostering voluntarism and spreading solidarity values we as Europeans can achieve great steps towards a more developed, inclusive and dynamic society with quality opportunities for all.
The main goal of the ERAS project is a long-term partnership of thirteen towns of thirteen different countries with the common objective to improve conditions for the development of voluntarism in partner countries and across Europe. To achieve that partner organizations will share information, practices, knowledge and expertise and promote voluntarism together. They will ensure a productive, informative and content-rich environment to foster the growth and development of various volunteer programs.
The diverse composition of the partnership will mean a rich intercultural environment where participants will be introduced to various approaches, values, practices, experiences, policies and other aspects of voluntarism. They will also experience the benefits of international programs and will get to know about relevant Union policies that support those programs and how European citizens can cooperate in shaping those policies.
EVENTS
In the next two years, nine international events will take place with the purpose of exchanging good practices, establishing connections with relevant organizations, studying concepts and effects of volunteering in different countries and also promoting voluntarism across Europe. Throughout the project, they will address various sections of voluntarism. From youth voluntarism, voluntarism and population ageing issue, crisis voluntarism (COVID 19 situation), sustainability of voluntarism to European policies on voluntarism and national implementations of selected programs. An important topic that will be highlighted regularly will be the opportunities, practices and goals of the European solidarity corps mechanism.
FOLLOW US
On ERAS communication channels you will be able to follow the stories of European volunteers, insights of international events, different volunteering programs and good practices will be presented, the discussions are to be held and much more. Welcome to like and follow the ERAS project.
CONTACT
For more information on the ERAS project and how to participate in project activities and events drop us a line at info@consulta.si, give us a call on +38659 927 619 or follow this Facebook page ERAS – European alliance of volunteer support.
Project partners:
KOM 018 – Club for Youth Empowerment 018 / Klub za osnaživanje mladih 0188 Município de Lousada Genista Research Foundation: European Consultancy & Media Udhetimi Lire Association “Euni Partners” Social Innovation & Cohesion Institute – Fifty Fifty Stovykla „Draugai“ Volonterski centar Dubrovnik @Центар за граѓанска иницијатива – ЦГИ Center For Civic Initiative – CCI SERDA – Sarajevska regionalna razvojna agencija, DDTG Nonprfit Kft.
Leading project partner:
Društvo za podporo civilne družbe, Ulica Franca Mlakarja 46, 1000 Ljubljana ( NVO Consulta si), The ERAS project is co-funded by the Europe for Citizens Programme (Network of towns) of the European Union@