Volunteering, Equality, Rights, Action 2025

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2025.04.01-2025.12.10.

The Talentum Foundation is once again playing an active role this year in the VERA 2025 programme of the European Volunteer Centre (Centre for European Volunteering – CEV), which forms part of the #REVIVE partnership framework agreement. The overall objective of VERA 2025 is to make volunteering more inclusive and more representative of society as a whole. Detailed information about the programme is available at: https://www.europeanvolunteercentre.org/vera-2025-fstp

Within the project implemented between 1 April 2025 and 10 December 2025, the Talentum Foundation has undertaken, under the thematic area Volunteering & Equality, to conduct regional research on the current situation, opportunities, recognition, validation, and future of the relationship between school service-learning and volunteering in the lives of young people and beyond.

The data collected during the research will serve as the basis for a Regional Volunteering Development and Action Plan, focusing on the transformation of school service-learning into volunteering through recognising the diversity of volunteering and the opportunities available within civil society organisations. This is expected to result in a stronger and more conscious integration of volunteering within formal education.

As part of the project, the following activities are being implemented:

• Regional research involving data collection through surveys conducted among secondary school and university students. The data collection is accompanied by a mini-campaign aimed at demonstrating pathways through which young people can continue their engagement by transforming compulsory school community service into volunteering. To promote the initiative, leaflets and promotional materials are being used.
• Focus group discussions with civil society organisations that coordinate students participating in compulsory school community service (IKSZ).
• Based on the analysis of the data, the preparation, publication, and dissemination of a Regional Volunteering Development and Action Plan in both Hungarian and English, through dedicated dissemination events.

The completed project outputs are available here:

For the implementation of the project, we received a grant of EUR 11,780 under the VERA call for proposals announced by CEV.