Background and objectives:
The experience in European projects both organizations have, the will of improving and doing better and better, more and more, trying new ideas and developing new projects with new partners, having in mind the sharing of good practices and the need to find solutions or improve solutions for local / regional problems is the rationale of this project. Organizing Senior Volunteering Service abroad, as sending and hosting organizations, is certainly a motivating challenge for this partnership. We find it very interesting to promote such interesting and useful work among senior people, who, most of time, feel they are of no use any longer. Thinking that we can send them in a project to a different country, for a considerably period of time, to work as volunteers, make them feel useful both in a different country and in their own home country, is something that makes the partnership feel proud of.
So, the main objectives of this project are:
• To promote translational mobility with the possibility of learning / volunteering in foreign countries, including foreign languages and respective culture among senior participants;
• To consolidate the network of partners interested in promoting translational volunteering work;
• To defend the sharing of good practices concerning the mobility of senior volunteers and respective service abroad;
• To develop an efficient way of transferring results;
• To develop standard procedures for the development of the volunteering service experiences abroad;
• To promote the fact that senior people are very useful to society;
• To promote volunteering work among senior people;
• To promote the development of volunteering activities abroad among senior people;
• To promote the feeling of usefulness among senior people;
• To promote the inter-relationships, friendship among senior people from different nationalities;
• To contribute to the development of the local community;
• To promote intercultural sensitiveness, the understanding and respect of other cultures, boost dialogue between cultures;
• To give adult volunteers the possibility to enrich themselves by learning/acquiring diverse competences (critical thinking, autonomy, cooperation, problem and conflict resolution, etc) and values (solidarity, openness to new ways of living and thinking, friendship, love, respect, democratic values and participation, cooperation, etc);
• To contribute to create a culture of peace (UNESCO, United Nations Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace, A/RES/53/243, 6 October 1999);
• To promote non-formal education and mobility as means to promote lifelong learning and contribute to the personal, social and professional development of adult volunteers;
Promote the development of senior volunteering projects abroad in as many organizations as possible.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
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