Volonteurope is an international non-profit network of over 40 member organisations across more than 20 countries in Europe and beyond. This experienced network, with a track record of operations dating back to 1981, promotes volunteering, social action and active citizenship as pathways to achieve more social justice in Europe and beyond.
The vision of Volonteurope is a world where the principles of inclusion, collaboration, sustainability and equality guide the thinking and practices in Europe and beyond. We strive for social justice for all. The mission of Volonteurope consists of working, in collaboration with its members and partners, to defend volunteering and citizens’ action as a way of bringing social justice to the world.
In order to achieve its objectives, Volonteurope:
- Actively encourages political decision-makers to protect and improve the interests of volunteers and active citizens all over the world;
- Supports the exchange of information and good practice relative to all the aspects, specific or general, which involve volunteering, social action and active citizenship;
- Promotes policies which support, recognise and reward volunteering, social action and active citizenshop to the EU institutions, the Council of Europe and to other relevant national and international stakeholders;
- Organises and supports initiatives of international exchanges of volunteers and, generally, any person involved in social action and volunteering;
- Fights against any form of criminalisation, penalisation or retaliation of, or against acts of, solidarity by volunteers and active citizens across the world;
- Engages in any legal means to defend the role of volunteering and active citizenship as a means of improving universal social justice.
In addition, Volonteurope organises operations of collective interest and offers individual services which are in agreement with its objectives.