Digital tools for better European Solidarity Corps volunteering

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Digital tools can enhance learning by offering more in-depth opportunities for volunteers, foster more inclusive projects that promote beneficiary participation, engage and inform young people more effectively, and raise awareness of the green transition. At the same time, they also bring challenges such as online safety, wellbeing, cyberbullying, and the excessive use of digital devices. Understanding how to navigate these opportunities and risks is now essential for everyone involved in ESC projects.

This webinar aims to inspire organizations by presenting good practices that are easily adaptable or transferable within ESC organizations.

Barbara Eglitis representing SALTO European Solidarity Corps will open the webinar series with welcome words.

With a background in Communication Science, Journalism and Visual Media, Barbara has many years of experience in the volunteering field — from volunteering herself in the Middle East to coordinating inclusive voluntary service initiatives for volunteers with disabilities worldwide. She is particularly interested in how technological developments can strengthen inclusion and serve society. In this context, Barbara contributes to the European Commission’s Digital Steering Group for Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps.

Guest speakers:

Apostolos Alexiadis is an EU project manager and digital transformation expert in the youth field, with extensive experience in Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes. He has managed Transnational Cooperation Activities at the Hellenic National Agency for Erasmus+ Youth & Sports and European Solidarity Corps, overseeing project design, implementation, and evaluation. Currently working at System and G as Project Manager, Trainer, and Youth Worker, he develops innovative non-formal education initiatives integrating digital tools and blended learning methodologies. His work focuses on meaningful youth participation, digital innovation, and strengthening the impact of European youth programmes.

Magali Lansalot is the Deputy Director of Pistes-Solidaires, a French youth organization, focused on learning mobility, youth work and education on Europe. With more than 14 years of experience in the field, she leads the development of mobility projects at European and international level and she is the one running and developing all the digital innovations in the organisation, including contents and tools such as web applications.

Jakub Sztombka is Vice-President of POLITES Association in Szczecin, Poland, and Project Manager of European Solidarity Corps actions within the organization. Active in the volunteering field for over 15 years, he manages local and international projects, supports youth development and the NGO sector, and each year works with a group of 31 international Solidarity Corps volunteers. He is the creator of a digital app that helps volunteers adapt to a new environment and better recognize what they learn during their volunteering experience. Jakub also runs a local NGO Support Centre and shares his practical experience as a lecturer at the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, combining project management, volunteer support, and civic engagement in his daily work.

Arthur Vincent is the founder and director of Planet Citizens, a non-profit based in Île-de-France whose European volunteers combine language learning with physical activities to give kindergarten and elementary school pupils in priority neighborhoods a playful, immersive way to practice foreign languages and open up to international mobility. He also designs and builds LangoMove, an edtech platform offering ready-to-use, movement-based language activities for teachers.