Volunteering is a very special learning environment, where people have to manage a wide range of tasks and complex situations, which can have a significant impact on individual people, on the community and on the broader society. LEVER UP focuses on the soft and multi-disciplinary skills that people acquire informally, highlighting this skillset and taking care that it can be transferred to other professional, learning and social settings. Tracing the footsteps of a previous project, LEVER-UP develops the skillset model, aligning it to European frameworks and tools of reference such as EQF, EUROPASS and ECVET. It designs infrastructure and content for a validation service activated across Italy and in line with the criteria of quality shared with other countries, while setting the bases for a three-way interaction between the job market, VET (Vocational Education and Training) and the third sector.

LEVER UP draws on the legacy of the previous “LEVER” project (2014-2016), pursuing two main objectives:
Strengthen mutual trust, based upon a common model and tools to evaluate multi-disciplinary skills in total transparently, which can be transferred between VETs, the volunteering sector and the job market; Implement a dedicated service that can promote the entire system nationally and internationally.

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