Valid Vol: validation of key competences in voluntary service organizations

Short description 

The project increases the employability of people over 50 by encouraging them to take up    volunteering as a way to provide a social service to the local community, but also as a widely   recognised non formal and informal learning experience through the certification of key    competences acquired during the service.

The objectives of the project are:

• To create a model of validation of key competences acquired during senior volunteering and to test it;
• To promote the acquisition of key competences through senior volunteering;
• To contribute to set up a European system of recognition of competences acquired through non formal and informal learning by people over 50;
• To promote the exchange of good practices at European level on validation of key competences in non formal and informal learning for people over 50.

Lead partner 

North West Regional College, United Kingdom

Term 

01.01.2014 - 21.12.2015

Promotor 

BFI OÖ