The aim of the eQval project is to define and promote across the EU the adoption of the ‘European Quality Standards in Validating the Learning Outcomes from Volunteering’. 

The first version of the European Quality Standards in Validating the Learning Outcomes from Volunteering was produced by the partners of the eQval project in March 2023. Over the next few months, the project partners conducted a public consultation on this initial version of the standards. A total of 684 people from across the EU, representing all the stakeholders involved in the process of validating the learning outcomes from volunteering, took part in the public consultation: 

66 Universities

64 Vocational schools

 64 Providers of non-formal education 

61 Enterprises 

42 Public administrations and policymakers in the field of education and training

155 Voluntary organisations 

232 Volunteers 

Based on the feedback from the participants in the public consultation, the partners of the eQval project produced the second version of the European Quality Standards in Validating the Learning Outcomes from Volunteering’. 

Next, the project partners produced a manual to support all those interested in adopting these quality standards. The manual contains detailed guidelines and support materials to facilitate the implementation of the ‘European Quality Standards in Validation of Learning Outcomes from Volunteering’. The Manual can be downloaded here

We are currently working on the second version of the manual, improved based on the results of the recently concluded transnational testing. The revised version of the manual will be published on this website in June 2025.