We are proud to be able collate and disseminate expertise in volunteering across the globe.  Thanks to our many partnerships across Europe, we are able to share our knowledge and models of good practice to best effect. We lead the Volonteurope network of organisations, and are also a member of SOLIDAR and the European Civic Forum.

Many of the participants in our flagship Full-Time Volunteering programme hail from Europe and further afield, thanks to our work with EVS (European Voluntary Service) and European Solidarity Corps Programme.

Volonteurope

Volonteurope is an international network promoting volunteering, active citizenship and social justice in Europe and beyond.

Volonteurope works at all levels, from the local to the international, and across the public, private and third sectors. We facilitate exchange, foster collaboration, and carry out research and advocacy. Volonteurope is a full member of the Social Platform, the Lifelong Learning Platform and Civil Society Europe.

Volonteurope currently has close to 60 members and partners in more than 20 countries across Europe.

For more information visit the Volonteurope website 

In this section

Erasmus+

Volunteering Matters has a number of strategic partnership projects within the lifelong learning programme of the European Union, “Erasmus+”.

EU Aid Volunteers

Volonteurope, along with its consortium partners Alianza por la Solidaridad, GVC and HBAid, is working with 16 organisations (including Volunteering Matters), offering technical assistance on the path to European Commission accreditation.

Valuing Volunteering

Volonteurope produced a report which promotes the need for greater recognition of volunteering and explore ways to better capture its impact in systemic form.

Active Citizens for the Common Good

Volonteurope along with the European Civic Forum, have, via a continent wide survey, begun to address what it means to be an active citizen and the barriers and enablers to becoming an active citizen.

European Reports

Click here to read reports published by our European team and partners, covering all of their projects and work across the continent.