Destination Evalidation

Volunteerism is a very old tradition and it is the phenomenon seen in every community on earth. Volunteerism, being the efficient way in coping with the development problems, has such a feature it can change the nature and speed of the development, and brings solidarity and the human resource, a great richness, into existence. The volunteer studies make significant contributions to the global matters and to being in full accord of the community. Further, such studies help to reach the opportunities and services easier, to develop the services, to enable a greater participation and to motivate the communities, so it shows the valuable improvements to humanitarian development. Consequently, Volunteer studies wholely contribute to the community to be in accord.

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In the course of the requirements by the European Commission to develop systems for the validation of non-formal and informal learning nine European countries (Germany, Finland, Italy, UK, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Romania and Bulgaria) founded the ‘Destination eValidation for Volunteers’ project (DesTeVa) as a follow up to the Volunteering Validation Highway (VVH).

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What is validation in a volunteering context? Why validate volunteers’ competences? Who should validate a volunteer’s competences?

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The Level Matrix shows a description of volunteering skills relating to levels two to fivefrom the European Qualification Framework (EQF). For the development of this level matrix, the consortium used the analysis of the National Qualification Frameworks (NQFs) in relation with each other and the EQF as a basis. In addition, the consortium has considered the key competences for lifelong learning adopted by the European Commission (http://eurlex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32006H0962) and the model from Rego, Zózimo and Correia (2014, as competênciasprofissionaisgeradaspelovoluntariado) for its development.

National qualification frameworks have been compared with using the structure of: definition of learning outcomes, structure of competence examples of levels (2 and 6) and correspondence to the EQF.

The matrix below defines where the DesTeVa project is positioned within a possible educational landscape of the European Union.
The project has adopted an individual perspective instead of an institutional onebecause the consortium is not going to target the education system but focuses on individual volunteers, instead. For this reason the consortium is focused on the quadrants from seven up to twelve in the matrix shown below. Within the individual perspective validation is done for two different reasons. On the one hand it is focusing on personal development and on the other hand validation is done for social fields of activity, e.g. for other volunteering fields.

The following questions are used for the online tool in step 2. The questions are
representing the key competences for lifelong learning as well as the knowledge, skills and
attitudes from the DesTeVa level matrix. Each knowledge skill and attitude from the level
matrix is related with a key competence.

The following statements are used for the online tool in step 3 (self-assessment) and step 4 (peer-assessment). The statements are different for each level, which is marked as L2, L3, L4, and L5. Each knowledge, skill or attitude is surveyed with two statements in order to make sure that users answer conscientiously. The volunteers and peers answer these statements on a 5-likert scale. The volunteers do not have to ask all of them, only the statements on the level they have chosen at the beginning of the assessment.

"We produce a new way of validating skills and connect volunteers in Europe"

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"We produce a new way of validating and connect volunteers in Europe"

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Read the PDF for more information about our goals and motivation , incoming events , insight work of the volunteers and information about the alpha testing of the validation tool.