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Project duration: November 2014 – April 2016

The international project Wake-up Call connected partners from five EU countries with the goal to increase the quality of volunteer management with the special attention to the position of volunteer coordinator.

Within the project, the partnership created:

Occupational Profile for Volunteer Manager

Quality Standards for Volunteer Programs

Volunteer Management Training Curriculum

Instrument for Validation of Competences for Volunteer Managers 

The implementation of a survey focused on the opinion of respondents on the role and profile of volunteer coordinators, their professional and personal qualities but also quality standards for the work with volunteers was part of this project. In Slovakia, the questionnaire was filled in by 130 respondents.

Summary Survey Report in Slovak

Complete results of the Survey

This project was one of the activities that inspired the Platform of Volunteer Centers and Organizations to negotiate with the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family and enforce the inclusion the profession of a Volunteer Coordinator into the Slovak national catalogue of professions.

The results and products of this project were introduced at international conference in Bucharest and also at the national conference in Bratislava called Volunteer Coordinator as a Profession – an Ideal or Reality? The latter one was attended by 99 participants from throughout Slovakia.

Project outcomes in English can be found at http://conference.provobis.ro/.

Romanian association ProVobis was the main coordinator of the project. Other project partners were: organization SMART from Croatia, an organization Brivpratigais.lv from Latvia, Önkéntes Központ Alapítvány from Hungary and the Platform of Volunteer Centers and Organizations.