e-VELP: Youth Volunteer Educators e-Learning Program

• Young Volunteer Educators e-Learning Program (e-VELP) is an Erasmus+ European project (2019-2022) which enables young migrants/refugees to offer high quality workshops and share their knowledge, skills, and culture with local communities and organisations. 
• The program will work to ease their integration into their new environment and open more opportunities for finding work. Building an active community of motivated young migrant/refugee volunteer educators (VEs) and youth volunteer educator trainers (VE-Trainers) is an essential part of the growth foreseen for the e-VELP project.

The specific objectives of the project are to:

1. To contribute to young migrants’ and refugees’ integration into European societies by promoting positive images of their cultures and identities;
2. To help young migrants/refugees in becoming aware of their skills and knowledge, and in defining their fields of expertise;
3. To provide young migrants/refugees with skills in the conception, development and implementation of workshops aimed at sharing their culture/knowledge and expertise;
4. To train young migrants/refugees to become Volunteer Educators, and youth workers to become their mentors, creating solid networking opportunities at the local, and European level;
5. The system change objective is to introduce and promote new role of Volunteer Educator (VE) in the civil-society non-formal educational system.

The specific activities of the project are to:

• Creation of an e-Learning platform providing teaching materials and tools to equip migrants and refugees with skills in the conception, development and implementation of workshops for local communities;
• Development of an online course for young migrants/refugees to become Volunteer Educators in their communities;
• Development of an online course for youth workers to become mentors for Volunteer Educators;
• Organization of two learning mobilities for Volunteer Educators and their Trainers, as part of their training and as an attempt to connect young people from different European countries.

The project includes 5 partner entities:

• • P1- Coordinator: TeachSurfing, Germany
  • P2: Vilnius University, Lithuania
  • P3: CESIE, Italy
  • P4: GEYC, Romania
  • P5: Center for Social Innovation, Cyprus