Description
The project entitled „Volunteers’ Academy” has its objective to contribute to the active participation in community shaping of a great variety of people with ages between 16 and 40, coming from different ethnic groups. The stimulation of active citizenship will happen in the framework of a volunteer programme organized during the preparation and implementation of the „Cluj Napoca European Youth Capital for 2015”. At this moment there is no volunteers’ infrastructure developed in any of Romania’s big cities which would be capable to offer possibilities of learning and implication for volunteers. Our project comes as an answer for this problem of lacking a developed system for accepting and occupying volunteers in Cluj Napoca. We propose a Volunteers’ Academy which consists of a Volunteers’ Guide, development programmes based on a competence system, training for volunteers and organizations, career creativity events, 8 preparation camps, an online platform that will deal with assigning 2000 volunteers in 50 working groups as well as offering continuous support through the on-line platform for them and the evaluation and monitoring of their activity.
Summary of project results
“Volunteers’ Academy” had as main objective to contribute to the active participation in community shaping of a great variety of people with ages between 16 and 40 in Cluj-Napoca, during the preparation and implementation of the “Cluj Napoca European Youth Capital for 2015”. The project started from the need for a volunteers’ infrastructure that is not developed in any of Romania’s big cities. This kind of infrastructure would be capable to offer possibilities of learning and participation for volunteers on a larger scale. The project was implemented throughout the year in which Cluj Napoca was the European Youth Capital and consisted in developing of a Volunteers’ Guide, development programmes based on a competence system, training for volunteers and organizations, preparation camps for volunteers and working groups offering continuous support for them and the evaluation and monitoring of their activity.
Summary of bilateral results