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European Solidarity Corps Guide TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 4 PART A - GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY CORPS 5 What is the policy context? ............................................................................................................................... 6 What are the objectives, priorities and important characteristics of the European Solidarity Corps? ............. 7 What is supported under the European Solidarity Corps? .............................................................................. 11 What is the budget? ........................................................................................................................................ 12 Who implements the European Solidarity Corps? .......................................................................................... 13 Who can participate in the European Solidarity Corps? .................................................................................. 15 PART B – PARTICIPATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN SOLIDARITY ACTIVITIES ..... 17 VOLUNTEERING PROJECTS ................................................................................ 19 What are Volunteering projects?..................................................................................................................... 19 Which activities can be supported under this Action? .................................................................................... 19 How to set up a project? ................................................................................................................................. 20 What are the eligibility criteria for volunteering activities? ............................................................................ 22 What are the funding rules? ............................................................................................................................ 24 How to access funding? ................................................................................................................................... 28 VOLUNTEERING TEAMS IN HIGH PRIORITY AREAS........................................... 30 What are Volunteering Teams in High Priority Areas?..................................................................................... 30 What are the objectives?................................................................................................................................. 30 Which activities can be supported? ................................................................................................................ 30 How to set up a project? ................................................................................................................................. 31 What are the criteria used to assess projects? ................................................................................................ 32 What are the funding rules? ............................................................................................................................ 35 QUALITY LABEL .................................................................................................. 36 What is the Quality Label?............................................................................................................................... 36 What are the different types of Quality Label ................................................................................................. 36 How does it work? ........................................................................................................................................... 36 What are the principles and quality standards? .............................................................................................. 37 What is the Quality Label for lead organisations? ........................................................................................... 40 What are the criteria used to assess the Quality Label? ................................................................................. 40 What are the monitoring, reporting and quality assurance measures ............................................................ 42 SOLIDARITY PROJECTS ...................................................................................... 44 What is a Solidarity Project? ............................................................................................................................ 44 What are the objectives and impact? .............................................................................................................. 44 How to set up a project? ................................................................................................................................. 45 What are the criteria used to assess projects? ................................................................................................ 46 What are the funding rules? ............................................................................................................................ 48 What are the rates? ......................................................................................................................................... 48 2 Table of Contents PART C – PARTICIPATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN HUMANITARIAN AID RELATED SOLIDARITY ACTIVITIES .................................................................... 50 QUALITY LABEL FOR HUMANITARIAN AID VOLUNTEERING .............................. 52 What is the Quality Label?............................................................................................................................... 52 What are the different types of Quality Label? ............................................................................................... 52 How does it work? ........................................................................................................................................... 52 What are the quality standards ? .................................................................................................................... 53 What are the criteria used to assess the Quality Label? ................................................................................. 56 What are the monitoring, reporting and quality assurance measures ? ......................................................... 59 PART D –QUALITY AND SUPPORT MEASURES .................................................... 60 SUPPORT TO LEARNING ..................................................................................... 61 General Online Training ................................................................................................................................... 61 Language learning support .............................................................................................................................. 62 Training and Evaluation Cycle .......................................................................................................................... 62 Mentoring ........................................................................................................................................................ 67 Recognition of learning outcomes ................................................................................................................... 68 INSURANCE ........................................................................................................ 69 What should you know about insurance? ....................................................................................................... 69 For whom? ....................................................................................................................................................... 70 How does it work? ........................................................................................................................................... 70 EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY CORPS PORTAL ........................................................... 72 How does it work? ........................................................................................................................................... 72 OTHER IMPORTANT FEATURES .......................................................................... 73 Certificate of participation .............................................................................................................................. 73 Agreements ..................................................................................................................................................... 73 Visa and residence permits ............................................................................................................................. 73 PART E - INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS ........................................................ 74 WHAT TO DO IN ORDER TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION?.................................... 74 Step 1: Register the organisation ..................................................................................................................... 74 Step 2: Check the compliance with the criteria ............................................................................................... 75 Step 3: Check the financial conditions ............................................................................................................