

However, the competences acquired in volunteering are rarely assessed and validated, hence, they are “lost” in the CV of the volunteers, even though employers state how important they are when it comes to selecting a new employee. Also, there is a lack of feasible and easy-to-use instruments for validating informal learning in volunteering.

Job Bridge aims to fill this gap by developing a fully-fledged user-centred approach for validating non-formal and informal learning processes in volunteering activities, including a well proven web-based documentation, both for learners and those supervising them, the “facilitators”. Furthermore, Job Bridge aims at bridging informal, non-formal and formal learning by integrating social, personal and organisational competences in a system which can be linked to existing validation and certification instruments such as EQF, ECVET, ECTS and/or EUROPASS.