Senior Volunteering Projects
Senior Volunteering Projects
Senior Volunteering projects funding will help you build a lasting collaboration with another European organisation around a specific theme or activity or target group, through the exchange of volunteers.
You can send senior adult learners (aged 50+) to spend 3-8 weeks as volunteers at your partner's organisation in another country. You will also host the volunteers they send.
The volunteers can be involved in any non-profit making activities, so long as they provide good learning opportunities. These may be formal, non-formal or (most usually) informal activities.
Key Information
- The next deadline to apply for a Senior Volunteering Projects grant will be in early 2011.
- Any organisation involved with adult education can apply.
- Volunteers should be aged 50 or over.
- Volunteering takes place in the host country for 3–8 weeks.
- The project is between two partner organisations from different countries.
- Each partner organisation sends and hosts 2-6 volunteers over the project’s 2 years.
- Volunteers should take part in non-profit making activites that provide good learning opportunities.
Advice & Guidance
If you want to find out more, then please read our 2010 Senior Volunteering Projects Guide (for information only). If you have questions then please call the Grundtvig Helpline on 0845 199 1919, or send an email to grundtvig@ecotec.com.
Funding Information
Organisations can apply for a grant to cover project management, travel and subsistence costs. The amount given depends on the number of volunteers and the length of the visits.
