Youth Volunteering & Preparedness: two interconnected webinars
Jointly organised by SALTO ESC, DG EAC and DG ECHO, the webinars focus on the European Solidarity Corps 2026 Call and its new priority on preparedness
Webinar
Key information
- Date(s)
- -
- Attendance type
- Online
- Registration instructions
To participate, please register by 20 January via the link below:
Webinar Youth Volunteering & Preparedness
The webinar access link will be shared with registered participants closer to the event date.
- Attendance model
- Open
Description
Youth programmes, and in particular the European Solidarity Corps, can play a meaningful role in strengthening preparedness at community level - without taking part in professional emergency response systems.
To explore this potential, we invite you to a two-part webinar series: Youth Volunteering & Preparedness - Building Bridges between European Solidarity Corps and Civil Protection.
The webinar series is jointly organised by the SALTO European Solidarity Corps Resource Centre, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC), DG ECHO, the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), and the Strategic National Agency Cooperation on Volunteering; the webinars aim to bring together two important groups to contribute to population preparedness:
- Organisations already participating in the European Solidarity Corps (programme beneficiaries and multipliers)
- Civil protection organisations interested in youth engagement, (organisations with experience in preparedness/resilience but little or no experience with the European Solidarity Corps).
By fostering mutual understanding, showcasing good practice and clarifying programme requirements, the series supports, in line with the European Preparedness Union Strategy, a whole-of-society approach to preparedness and may open doors to cross-sector cooperation.
Objectives of the webinars:
- Raise awareness of preparedness and resilience as a new priority within EU youth programmes, and in particular for the action of the Corps “Volunteering Teams in High Priority Areas”.
- Create a shared understanding between youth volunteering and civil protection actors.
- Showcase how European Solidarity Corps projects already contribute to preparedness in meaningful, non-emergency roles.
- Explore future potential for cooperation and project development.
- Clarify technical and procedural requirements to access funding, including Quality Label requirements and application procedures.
Webinar 1: The contribution of youth volunteering to resilience and the European Preparedness Strategy. Focus: policy context, programme perspective and concrete project examples.
Date: 22 January, from 14.30 to 16.00 CET
Webinar 2: Youth Volunteering and Civil Protection: Practices & funding opportunities within the European Solidarity Corps. Focus: cooperation models, clarify technical and procedural requirements to access funding, including Quality Label requirements and application procedures to access funding.
Date: 19 of February, from 14.30 to 16.00 CET
To participate, please register by 20 of January: https://forms.office.com/e/fguekVYjC4?origin=lprLink
While the webinars are interconnected, participants may attend Webinar 1 as a standalone session. Participation in Webinar 1 is recommended in order to fully benefit from Webinar 2.