‘Discover

e-volunteering’ competition

3rd edition

According to the Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2012 regular internet users - those who use the internet at least once

a week – currently represent 67.5% of the population of Europe.

But they’re not only passive users – thanks

to the Web 2.0 technology they can also create the Web. Every day people and

communities share knowledge and skills, give advices, support each other on

forums and do many different things we call:

e-volunteering.

The ‘Discover e-volunteering’ competition was created to promote

and award the best practices in creative usage of the ICTs.

So far, thanks to the competition, we have gathered

over 140 projects

from 31 European countries.

There were more than 240 000 e-volunteers

engaged in such projects!

About the competition

What do we search for? Projects in which Internet users in a voluntary and non-paid way support others, share their knowledge and skills or create something for social good. Projects can fit into one or more types of e-volunteering, but doesn’t have to!

There are two categories: a. for existing e-volunteering

projects,

b. grant category for new corporate

e-volunteering projects.

What to win?

Who can enter the competition? European NGOs and employees co-operating with them, who give Internet users the opportunity to undertake social activities via the Internet by organizing e-volunteering projects.

Financial awards Promotion Networking

Winners of previous editions were, among others:

Project that gives people in different ages the opportunity to become the civic journalists. (Croatia)

Thanks to that project people can create a map of places (non)accessible for the disabled. (Turkey)

Self-help group and virtual support on drugs, pills and gambling. (Belgium)

Project allows children in hospitals to explore the world by virtual meetings with travellers, actors, journalists, etc. (France)

On-line campaign on conscious organ and blood donation. (Poland)

Virtual university (including peer-to-peer learning) for teenagers from Lithuania. (Lithuania)

Schedule of the competition:

January 2014 Educational campaign on e-volunteering #1

February 1 – February 28 2014

Call for applications

April 2014 Educational campaign #2 – promotion of finalists

April 15 – May 15 2014

Online voting

May 2014 Hackathon for e-volunteering

June 2014 ‘Discover e-volunteering. Change the WWWorld!’ conference and the Final Gala of the competition

Become our partner!

There’s another important aspect of the ‘Discover e-volunteering’

competition: the network of European partners.

Partners are the local discoverers,

who promote the idea of e-volunteering and search for

the best pracitice in their countries.

You can join our network!

Discover… the partnership!

We’re searching for:

European Partners - local coordinators of the

competition

and Media Partner - partners responsible for the promotion of the competition

Your role: 1. Moderation of the competition.

2. Submission and verification of regional applications,

3. Promotion at the regional level.

Your role: - Distribution of information and promotional materials

provided by organizers.

You can choose, in what way would you like to be involved.

Detailed information on both types of partnership can be found on: http://www.e-volunteering.eu/en/discover-e-volunteering/partnership

Our support You can rely on us at every stage of the project! We’ll organize on-going virtual meetings, webinars and newsletters. You will be provided with all necesary educational and promotional materials on e-volunteering and the competition.

Duration of the project January 1 – October 31, 2014

How to become a competition partner? 1. Read the descriptions of both kinds of partnership on: http://www.e-volunteering.eu/en/discover-e-volunteering/partnership and choose, in what way would your organization would like to be involved.

2. Visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nuhIy0dHrT4T_LrkuYqImpB8NWphua7XBhBFif0XZFY/viewform

3. fill in the application form 4. and wait a while for the results of the Call for Partners!

About the Good Network Foundation

We believe that there’s so much good on the Web! We explore and promote the idea of e-volunteering since 2009. We launched the www.e-wolontariat.pl website (available also in English), we organized four Polish and two European editions of the ‘Discover e-volunteering’ competition through which we gathered over 140 good e-volunteering practices (available here: http://www.e-wolontariat.pl/good-practice. It’s the 1st database of that kind in Europe) and created a community of e-volunteers and organizers of e-volunteering projects from whole Europe.

Who are we?

Join us!

Marzena Kacprowicz m.kacprowicz@e-wolontariat.pl

mob. 505 474 355

Beata Borowiecka b.borowiecka@e-wolontariat.pl

Tel. 22 825 70 22