S.P.S. EVS

The project idea stems from P.E.CO.’s experience within the coordination of EVS volunteers both in Genova, where we are located, and in other places in Italy.
In particular, given our relatively short experience on the field, we aim at involving organizations with good experience in EVS hosting and coordination to share best practices and learn from each other’s experience.
The project stems from the need to improve the quality of the personal and practical support provided to EVS volunteers, with a special emphasis on the main challenges that, as coordinating and hosting organizations, we are facing when hosting volunteers. The main topic of this seminar, indeed, revolves around EVS volunteers’ support, both on a personal level (eg. mentoring, monitoring of learning process, conflict management) and in terms of training, accommodation, insurance, language support, coexistence with other volunteers and so on. Furthermore, we foreseen a focus on the hosting and coordination of EVS volunteers facing fewer opportunities.
We aim at sharing best practices and main challenges on volunteers’ training and support in order to develop a set of guidelines based on respective experiences in order to improve our work with EVS volunteers and to provide hints to other organizations who face the same challenges.
The seminars wants also to be the chance to build future partnerships or to reinforce existing cooperation among participant organizations.