NEW Innovative Tools for sport volunteering After three years of intensive international research and development, the partners in the ground-breaking V4V project are proud and delighted to launch their final products, aimed at improving the recruitment, management,...
V4V News
First Ever European Sport Volunteering Summit organised in Budapest
On 13 December 2023, 65 sport volunteering stakeholders from across Europe gathered in person at the Hungarian University of Sports Science (HUSS) in Budapest, Hungary for the first ever European Sport Volunteering Summit. The event was organised by EOSE and our...
V4V Partners Meet for the Last Time – Celebration and Sadness
All good things come to an end, and there is always a degree of sadness for those involved. This was certainly the case for the partners in EOSE’s V4V project (full title Analysing and Making Visible the Skills Acquired Through Sport Volunteering in Europe) when they...
V4V – Sport Volunteering Research Report Now Available Online!
EOSE is delighted to announce that the online version of research report, Sport Volunteering in Europe: Realities, Opportunities and Challenges, is now available online and can be downloaded from this link. This ground-breaking report is the result of two years of...
V4V partners working towards the development of digital tools on sport volunteering
The 13 partners in the EU funded V4V project “Skills acquired through volunteering in sport” gathered for their fifth Full Partner Meeting on the 20th-21st April 2023 in the City of London as guests of the UK’s Sport and Recreation Alliance. Coordinated by EOSE, this...
Volunteering Skills Survey of Sport Organisations gathers nearly 3,000 responses!
The partners in the EU funded V4V project “Skills acquired through volunteering in sport” met for their fourth Full Partner Meeting in Tallinn (Estonia) as guests of the Estonian Foundation of Sports Education & Information. Coordinated by EOSE, this two-day event...
New tools to support recruitment and retention of sport volunteers discussed at V4V partner meeting in Helsinki
A solid foundation of research to understand the realities and challenges in sport volunteering will inform new toolkits for sport organisations and volunteers. The 20th and 21st of June 2022 saw the partners in the V4V project gather in Helsinki, Finland, for the 3rd...
Groundbreaking European Skills Survey on Sport Volunteering is now open!
Take part now and have your say on sport volunteering in Europe EOSE and the partners in the V4V project have launched a new survey aimed at the whole sport sector which covers key issues related to sport volunteering. The target group for the survey is all sport...
V4V plans the first ever European Volunteer Skills Survey of Sport Organisations
Following their successful meeting on 15 October 2021, the V4V partners met again online on 10 November to begin planning the final component of Phase 1, a comprehensive mapping of the volunteer workforce in Europe. This new component will be the first ever survey of...
V4V researches skills, recruitment and retention issues in volunteering in sport (Partner Meeting 2)
15th October 2021 saw the second full partner meeting for V4V, another innovative project coordinated by the European Observatoire of Sport and Employment (EOSE) and funded through the European Commission’s Erasmus+ Sport programme. The partners had hoped to convene...