The EVI-DEMS project partners met during the month of December for the EVI-DEMS Training Activity. Between the 10th and 16th of December 2023, the EVI-DEMS team, together with 28 participants, including University Lecturers, Volunteer Managers and other practitioners, came together in Kaunas, Lithuania, to test, evaluate and support the completion of the EVI-DEMS Higher Education learning modules for Volunteer Manager qualifications.
The curriculum includes four modules that will cover volunteer management from different perspectives: the individual, the organisational, the society levels, and continuous professional development for volunteering managers. It was intended, through the training activity in Lithuania, that the participants not only provide valuable feedback on the quality and usefulness of the curriculum and support the completion of the program, but also that they increase their own capacities to teach the developed curricula.
Indeed, with this training, the project partners intended to gather feedback from experts on the field on three fundamental aspects of the course: Learning Objectives, Assessment Plans, and Adaptability and Sustainability in different contexts.
By gathering participants from different organisations and backgrounds, the event had a great diversity of input, contributing to the improvement of the materials in a diverse manner. Furthermore, introducing the materials to the educators present in the training activity, allowed the project partners to “plant the seed” of the EVI-DEMS course in those present, encouraging the embrace and utilisation of the materials in their own contexts, especially but not limited to those in Universities and Higher Education institutions.
The synergies created in Kaunas, Lithuania, opened the core project team to different perspectives directly from the field of volunteer management which will contribute to the completion of the EVI-DEMS course, while also promoting the use of the EVI-DEMS materials post-training, and of course providing new networking opportunities to all those who were present.
The input gathered over the course of these five days in Kaunas is now being considered and adapted into the previously developed course, in order to make it not only more complete but also more meaningful and effective in different contexts, especially those that were represented during the EVI-DEMS training activity. The final programme and its complementary outputs will be presented during the EVI-DEMS Conference, on March 7th, in Brussels, Belgium.
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