🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
Volunteering Teams as a Tool to support Inclusion
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Partnership-building Activity
5-9 October 2026 | Metsäkartano Youth Centre, Finland
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❗️What Is This Training About?
Volunteering Teams as a Tool to support Inclusion partnership-building activity is for organisations looking for partners for volunteering teams, and for ideas on how to include inclusive elements in their projects.
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ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
This activity is an opportunity to explore the topic of volunteering teams in a broader, international context. It will provide networking opportunities and space to build strong, long-term partnerships.
AIM and OBJECTIVES
- In this partnership building activity participants will have the possibility to:
- deepen the knowledge of European Solidarity Corps and volunteering teams and the inclusive potential the format offers
- get to know the good practices of successfully implemented volunteering team activities and get inspired by them
- network with organisations from all over Europe and beyond
- establish partnerships for high-quality volunteer team activities, especially those engaging young people with fewer opportunities
- explore other funding opportunities for your initiatives through Erasmus+ Youth and the European Solidarity Corps, such as mobility for youth workers, youth exchanges, solidarity projects etc.
PARTICIPANTS' PROFILE
This activity is for you if you fit at least one of the following:
- representing a volunteering organisation looking for new partnerships
- involved in the implementation of volunteering teams and wishing to develop new ideas with inclusive elements
- representing an organisation active in individual volunteering activities wishing to explore team volunteering format for your organisational aims
- a social worker or youth worker looking for opportunities for your young people with fewer opportunities in volunteering team activities
PARTNERSHIP BUILDING ACTIVITY with training elements
The partnership building activity is based on non-formal learning methodologies and experiential learning, therefore it will ask for a high level of participants' involvement.
The activity consists of three parts: preparation task, online meeting and the residential meeting.
The online meeting serves as preparation for the training and will focus on getting to know each other and the programme of this activity, Online part will take place on 16.9.2026 from 15.00 – 16.00 CET via Zoom.
This activity focuses on European Solidarity Corps volunteering teams specifically, other European Solidarity Corps and Erasmus+ Youth formats will also find its space.
Facilitators: Lisa Teresa Gut & Kati Paasila
Safety, accessibility and sustainability
In this event, we follow the principles of a safe space. We strive to ensure that everyone is met as their own self and that no one has to fear discrimination or harassment. We expect you to respect the same principle.
Our activities are accessible to people with different abilities. If you need an accessible room, an accessible transport, to bring a personal assistant with you or other kind of support, we will provide it for you. Please tell us about your individual needs beforehand, so we can support you in your participation.
We take sustainability in consideration wherever we can. Since most of the participants have to fly over the sea to Finland, we encourage you to travel on land within Finland. We also encourage you to contact your own National Agency to find out how they support low emission travelling to activities abroad.
We provide plant-based meals, or use locally grown and produced foods, as much as possible. We also respect the diets and food allergies of all participants.
Training overview
This Partnership-building Activity is
for 25 participants
from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries 
, Southern Mediterranean countries , Western Balkan countries
and recommended for
Youth workers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Volunteering mentors, Youth coaches, Quality label organisation representatives
Accessibility info:
This activity and venue place are accessible to people with disabilities.
Working language(s):
English
Organiser:
Finnish National Agency (National Agency)
Co-organiser(s):
- SALTO European Solidarity Corps Resource Centre (SALTO Resource Centre)
- Salto Inclusion and Diversity (SALTO Resource Centre)
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📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Jutta Kivimäki
E-Mail:
Phone: +358 (0)295 338 568
💶 Costs
Participation fee
This project is financed by the participating National Agencies (NAs) of the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme. The participation fee varies from country to country. Please contact your National Agency or SALTO Resource Centre (SALTO) to learn more about the participation fee for participants from your country.
Accommodation and food
Unless specified otherwise, the hosting NA or SALTO of this offer will organise the accommodation and covers the costs for accommodation and food.
Travel reimbursement
Please contact your NA or SALTO in order to know whether they would support your travel costs. If yes, after being selected, get in touch with your NA or SALTO again to learn more about the overall procedure to arrange the booking of your travel tickets and the reimbursement of your travel expenses.
📜 Certificate
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:
https://youthworkshub.org/15122
⚠️ Important Dates
Application deadline (24h UTC): 9 August 2026
Date of selection: 26 August 2026
🔗 Official Link
🗂️ Documents
Draft Programme - Call for PAX.pdf
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