2020

• Standing Together Against Racism: A Training Handbook

  The Standing Together Against Racism Training Handbook provides staff in youth and voluntary service organisations with concepts and methods on various topics related to racism, such as empowerment, microaggression, power dynamics, stereotypes, prejudice, oppression, colonialism and intolerance. These activities provide a forum in which to identify and challenge racist attitudes and their harmful effects.

  The guide was produced as part of the project Standing together against Racism in Europe – STAR E (2017-2020, Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership), which aimed to promote the anti-racism work of ICYE organisations and to support and strengthen the role of other youth organisations in combating racism and becoming facilitators of dialogue and inclusion. The project was coordinated by ICJA Freiwilligenaustausch weltweit e.V., Berlin, Germany and involved seven youth organisations and two expert consulting organisations from eight different EU countries. The handbook is available on ICJA’s website.

• Managing Organisational Change: Tools and methods to become a diversity-sensitive NGO

  This is the method book for the publication “Standing Together Against Racism: A Training Handbook” that contains tools and exercises for addressing diversity and inclusion in organisations. It introduces dynamics and perspectives we consider central within the theoretical approach to diversity. The method book is available on ICJA’s website.

• Handbook for Social Entrepreneurship through Volunteering
  

  The Handbook for Social Entrepreneurship through Volunteering is a publication of the project Young Leaders for Social Change: Entrepreneurship through Volunteering, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. The handbook offers a range of non-formal and social entrepreneurship methods for young people and two formats of a training programme, which aims to prepare and train young people to undertake social entrepreneurship during their international voluntary service. For the handbook, click here for English, click here for Spanish.

2019

• Practical Guide for Intercultural Learning in International Voluntary Service

  The Practical Guide for Intercultural Learning is a publication of the project “Skills and Competences for a Global World”, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. It aims to prepare, train and support young people in making the most of their volunteering experience and maximising their intercultural learning. The guide offers 45 non-formal and intercultural learning methods including theoretical input and introductory exercises that facilitate reflection and learning on identity, diversity and power relations, and promote a society based on solidarity and values of human rights. For the practical guide, click here.

• Impact Study Report – Skills and Competences for a Global World

  A qualitative study, conducted within the scope of the Erasmus+ Key Action 2 project “Skills and Competences for a Global World”, assessed the impacts of the EVS volunteering experience on ten volunteers in the project and their host organisations, as well as examining the systems and process in place for volunteer management and support. For the full report, click here, for the summary in English, click here, and for the summary in Spanish, click here.

2017

• ICYE Guide to Visibility and Promotion

  The ICYE Guide to Visbility and Promotion has been produced within the scope of the Erasmus+ Key Action 2 project “Calling Youth to Action in a Global Visibility Drive”. It aims to assist all organisations that wish to promote long-term international volunteering and non-formal learning. For the guide, click here.

• Non-Formal Learning Handbook for Volunteers and Volunteering Organisations

  The Non-Formal Learning Handbook was produced within the framework of the project “Volunteers at the Interface between Formal and Non-  Formal Education”, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union . It aims to prepare, train and support volunteers for their voluntary service in formal and non-formal educational host organisations, offering a wide selection non-formal methods and activities that can be implemented with children, youth, differently abled young people and those at risk. For the handbook, click here.

2016

• ICYE Impact Assessment – Human Rights in Diversity
  

  The Human Rights in Diversity study was conducted within the scope of the project “Communicating Human Rights in Diversity”, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union . It explores the impacts of the human rights learner-centred project on the holistic development of the volunteers. For the full report, click here, for the executive summary, click here.

• Toolkit: Human Rights Education in Volunteering
  

  The Human Rights Education toolkit is a product of the “Communicating Human Rights in Diversity” project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, and aims to provide a human rights educational approach to international voluntary work. For the toolkit, click here.

• #time4diversity Handbook

  Time4Diversity was an international project funded with the support of the European Commission in the frame of the Erasmus+ Programme as a Strategic Partnership for Youth. The handbook is a useful source for institutions and organisations to foster intercultural understanding among pupils especially in vocational schools and to help them to deal with conflicts constructively. The handbook is available here.

2015

• ICYE Social Media Guide

  The ICYE Social Media Guide, a practical guide for beginners and experts on social media, was produced by the ICYE Social Media Task Group. It provides general information on the different social media channels and how they can be used to promote international volunteering. The Guide draws on ICYE National Committees’ best practice and shows how social media can be used more effectively through increased interaction and connectivity within the ICYE network.  For the Guide, click here.

• Manual on how to support civil courage in youth projects

  The aim of the manual is to provide a framework for civil courage in youth work and international voluntary projects. This manual, created by trainers, introduces a collection of methods, activities, initiatives and projects on how to teach and promote civil courage. All methods have been implemented during the training courses “I can do it! Support civil courage within the EVS” and “Stand up! Support civil courage within your youth projects” organized by the Austrian organization Grenzenlos Intercultural Exchanges. The publication is funded by the wienXtra‐jugendinfo in the frame of „Eure Projekte“. The manual is available here.

2014

• Impact Assessment with volunteers in Ghana

  ICYE Ghana conducted impact assessment with international volunteers in Ghana. For the report, click here.

• Impact Assessment with volunteers and host organisations in Mexico
  

  SIIJUVE – ICYE Mexico conducted an impact assessment with volunteers and host organisations in Mexico. For the report, click here.

• Impact Assessment with host organisations in Russia

  ICYE Russia conducted an impact assessment with local host organisations in Russia. For the report, click here.

• Meaning Well. Doing Good? Critical Perspectives on Donations made by International Volunteers from the Global North within the North-South Context

  The publication provides a critical evaluation on the subject of donations within the framework of voluntary service. The aim is to help the opinion-forming process of all those who are involved in voluntary service in countries of the Global South: sending and host organisations, partners in both North and South, voluntary assignment locations, host families, sponsors and donors – and of course volunteers themselves or those who are thinking of becoming volunteers, in addition to anyone else interested in the issue. Available on ICJA’s website in English, Spanish and German.

• „Plus up your projects!” – Manual

  This manual is an outcome of the training course called “Plus up your projects! – Train your team on Inclusion & Diversity” organised by Grenzenlos Intercultural Exchanges. It was a part of the plan of Action 2014 of the Alliance of European voluntary organisations and funded by the European Commission through the Key Action 1 “Mobility of individuals within the Erasmus+. The manual provides youth leaders and trainers with activities and tools to support inclusion within mobility projects. The manual is available here.

2013

• IMPACT ICYE – Practical Guide and Impact Assessment Reports

  IMPACT – ICYE is a publication of the ICYE International Office, produced within the scope of Action 4.3, Youth in Action Programme of the European Union. April – October 2013.  For the Practical Guide click here. For impact assessment questionnaires for volunteers, host projects, and host families in Spanish, click here.

• Impact assessment with volunteers and host organisations in Finland

  Maailmanvaihto – ICYE Finland conducted assessments of the impacts of long-term international volunteering on volunteers and host    organisations in Finland within the scope of the Action 4.3 “Training on Cross Cultural Volunteering Impact”. For the report of the impact assessment  with volunteers, click here, for the report of the impact assessment with host organisations, click here.

• Impact assessment with host organisations in Denmark

  Dansk ICYE conducted an assessment of the impacts of international volunteers on “Efterskole” host organisations within the scope of the Action 4.3 “Training on Cross Cultural Volunteering Impact”. For the report, click here.

2011

• VOSESA Research Report on International Voluntary Service in Africa
  

  On International Volunteer Day (December 5th, 2011) Volunteer and Service Enquiry Southern Africa (VOSESA) published a 2011 research report on International Voluntary Service (IVS). The study, supported by Trust Africa and partnered by ICYE, looks at the experience of IVS from the perspective of European volunteers who served in African countries, and host organisations and host communities in Mozambique and Tanzania. For the executive summary, click here. For the full study report, click here. For the report on the volunteer survey, click here.

2010 -2008

EVS – ICYE Publications & Volunteer Testimonials

These publications and Volunteer Testimonial were produced within the scope of EVS Multilateral projects coordinated by the ICYE International Office and supported by the Youth in Action Programme 2007-2013 of the European Union.

• EU & Latin America EVS Project on Cultural Diversity, Indigenous People and Social Inlusion (2010)
• EU & Africa EVS Project on Youth and Children Rights (2008-2009)
• EU & Asia EVS Project: Youth and the environment (2008-2009)
• EU & Africa EVS Project on “Social Inclusion” (2007-2008)
• EU & Asia EVS Project on “Youth and Intercultural Dialogue” (2007-2008)
• EU & Latin America on “Participation of Young People” (2007-2008)

2008

• Practical Guide for ICYE/EVS

  The Practical Guide for ICYE/EVS Trainings in EU and Partner Countries was a product of the project “Promoting Interethnic Dialogue and Intercultural Learning – Training for EVS sending and host organisations in EU, African and Asian Countries” within the scope of the Youth in Action Programme 2007-2013 of the European Union. For the Practical Guide, click here.