Call for Applications: European Volunteering Capital Competition 3rd &4th Editions

CEV Calls for Applications for the European Volunteering Capital
Competitions 2016 and 2017

CEV launches the third and fourth editions of the European Volunteering Capital competitions and calls for applications from municipalities of any size that support the implementation of PAVE (The Policy Agenda for Volunteering in Europe).

The European Volunteering Capital Competition aims to promote volunteering at the local level by giving recognition to municipalities that support and strengthen partnerships with volunteer centres and volunteer involving organisations and celebrate and promote volunteering and the impact made by volunteers.

Deadline for applications: 21 September 2015
Find the application form here.
A video overview of the 2014 EVCapital is available here.

The awarded municipalities are chosen from the candidates by an international jury of key personalities connected with volunteering, representing civil society, the private and for-profit sector, as well as the EU institutions. The judging criteria are the recommendations in the Policy Agenda for Volunteering in Europe (PAVE).

This call invites municipalities to participate in the competition for the titles for 2016 European Volunteering Capital and/or 2017 European Volunteering Capital.

Municipalities can apply to both competitions. The two winning municipalities will be announced on the 5 December 2015, the International Volunteer Day. The titles will be used in order to raise awareness about volunteering and volunteer-related activities at local, national, regional and EU level.

The winners from the previous editions are Lisbon- 2015 European Volunteering Capital and Barcelona- 2014 European Volunteering Capital.

The European Volunteer Centre (CEV) is the network of over 80 national, regional and local volunteer centres and volunteer support agencies across Europe. CEV has, for 20 years, promoted and supported volunteering through advocacy, knowledge sharing and capacity building & training. In this way CEV reaches out to the many thousands of volunteers and volunteer organizations who look to volunteer centres a source of support and in particular bringing the European dimension to their work.