V4V project webpage:
www.v4v-sport.eu

https://projects.eose.org/project/v4v/

 European Observatoire of Sport and Employment   (EOSE) newsletter 

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V4V - Skills acquired through Volunteering in Sport

 The V4V project targeted impacts will be to raise the profile of sport volunteers and the skills they gain, to increase volunteer recruitment and retention, and to smooth transition from voluntary to paid employment, thereby to address skill shortages.

 Leading Partner: European Observatoire of Sport and Employment (EOSE)

Partners: International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA), European Volunteer Centre (CEV), World Rugby,  ja SpordikInternational Judo Federation Academy Foundation (IJF), Romanian Football Federation (FRF), Finnish Athletics Federation (SUL), The Sport and Recreation Alliance (SRA), Portuguese Institute for Sport and Youth (IDPJ), University of Physical Education (UPE), National Institute for Sport Research (NISR), Leeds Beckett University (LBU), Estonian Foundation of Sports Education and Information

Duration: January 2021 to December 2023

V4V project webpage:  https://projects.eose.org/project/v4v/  

Press Release - 11th May 2022 

EOSE and the partners in the V4V project have launched a new survey aimed at the whole sport sector which covers key issues related to sport volunteering. The target group for the survey is all sport organisations with an interest in sport volunteering and the recruitment, retention, and engagement of sport volunteers.

 Press Release - 5^th May 2021 and Picture

The 5th of May 2021 saw the kick-off meeting for V4V, a new project funded through the Erasmus+ Sport programme of the European Commission. Coordinated by the European Observatoire of Sport and Employment (EOSE), with the support of 12 other expert partners from the European sport sector, V4V aims to analyse the sport volunteer workforce, improve recruitment and retention, and create an innovative online self-assessment tool which identifies and showcases their skills and competences to potential employers and education providers.

 Press Release - 15th October 2021 and Picture

15^th October 2021 saw the second full partner meeting for V4V, another innovative project coordinated by the European Observatoire of Sport and Employment (EOSE) and funded through the European Commission’s Erasmus+ Sport programme. The partners had hoped to convene in Romania, but due to the ongoing COVID pandemic, they agreed to meet online. The purpose of the meeting was for partners to review progress in the desk research and interview component of output 1 – a comprehensive mapping of the volunteer workforce.

Press release - 10th of November 2021

Following their successful meeting on 15^th October 2021, the V4V partners met again online on 10^th November to begin planning the final component of Phase 1, a comprehensive mapping of the volunteer workforce in Europe. This new component will be the first ever survey of sport organisations across Europe with a focus on the volunteer workforce. 

Press release - V4V Full Partner Meeting, 20-21 April 2023 

The 13 partners in the EU funded V4V project “Skills acquired through volunteering in sport” gathered for their fifth Full Partner Meeting in the City of London as guests of the UK’s Sport and Recreation Alliance.

Coordinated by EOSE, this two-day event gave the partners a full opportunity to review and approve the final draft of the project’s key research report A Comprehensive Mapping of the sport volunteering workforce in Europe, to continue their detailed work on two practical online toolkits and to plan how the project’s outputs can go forward after its conclusion in December 2023.