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Savvy Facilitator – Validating Competences in Volunteering

This 3-day course in December 2023 aims to bring about the concept of validation and competence oriented learning to facilitators of volunteering actions.

Category:

Course Venue

Göttingen, Germany


Course Duration (in days)

3


Next Available Course

Oct 2025



Organised by

BUPNET GmbH

Language(s)

English


Description

Volunteering is an important way for people to develop themselves, by building new relationships and gaining a whole set of life skills that can improve their employability. It serves to gather important experience in unknown fields, to develop social, personal and organisational competences. However, the competences acquired in volunteering are rarely assessed and validated; hence, they are “lost” in the CV of the volunteers, even though employers state how important they are when it comes to selecting a new employee. Also, there is a lack of feasible and easy-to-use instruments for validating informal learning in volunteering. The course, developed in the framework of the 2-year Job Bridge project (12/19-02/21, Erasmus+),  aims to enable representatives from volunteering organisations and adult education organisations welcoming volunteers to implement competence-oriented approaches with volunteers and validate competences acquired in the voluntary activities.


European Dimension

The course was developed in the framework of the 2-year Job Bridge project (12/19-02/21, Erasmus+) and uses the project´s outcomes as e.g. the Job Bridge e-learning platform.


Tentative Program & Schedule

Teaching/Learning approach:

The course will be delivered through different methods such as group work, discussion and reflective rounds, seeking to promote the active participation of participants by inviting them to share their experience, knowledge and personal resources in regards to competence-oriented learning and validation approaches in volunteering.

Competence Oriented Approach:

The aim of the course is to bring about the concept of validation and competence oriented learning to facilitators of volunteering actions. It seeks to enable them to further develop their offers and activities into learning experiences that make a difference also in the career pathways of the volunteers. They learn how to make learning perceivable and how to plan, assess and evidence rather informal ways of learning in their volunteering contexts. Hence, the course focusses on validation of informal and non-formal learning (VINFL) and Competence Oriented Learning (COL).

Blended Learning Modalities:

The course is organised in a blended learning format consisting of three components: Self-learning (inaugurated by a webinar), 3-day face-to-face course and a follow up phase (transfer phase).


Expected Outcome

The course aims to enable representatives from volunteering organisations and adult education organisations welcoming volunteers to implement competence-oriented approaches with volunteers and validate competences acquired in the voluntary activities.


Certification

Assessment Methods:

One of the central topics of the course is assessing and evidencing competences by means of the validation system LEVEL5 – we will also use LEVEL5 for assessing and evidencing the learning outcomes of our course participants. A LEVEL5 certificate evidencing the progress of the participants will be issued.

Documentation:

The learning progress of the participants will be documented by means of the LEVEL5 system (https://reveal-eu.org/level-5).

Certification: Yes

Badges:

An electronic badge, presenting the competence development of the participant will be issued on completion of a defined number of learning activities provided on the Job Bridge e-learning platform.



Venue address

BUPNET GmbH
Am Leinekanal 4
37073 Göttingen
Germany


How to Apply

Please send an e-mail to Sabine Wiemann at info@job-bridge.eu


Minimum Number Of Participants

10


Participation Fee

€ 300


Course Website
https://job-bridge.eu/
BUPNET GmbH

BUPNET GmbH


Address

BUPNET, Am Leinekanal 4, 37073 Göttingen

Website URL

https://www.bupnet.eu/

Contact persons

Sabine Wiemann