Volunteering for the future: A strategic partnership for innovative learning of European volunteers The project focuses on developing high quality learning opportunities that are tailored to individual adult learners, utilising innovative ways of outreach and delivery. This will include the development and roll-out of a series of courses and resources for returned international volunteers that will promote active citizenship and social inclusion, utilising a blended learning approach. Tailored resources and courses will additionally be developed to support volunteer sending agencies in their role as adult educators by strengthening their competencies to engage with a wide range of learners, using new technologies to support their work and help ensure better teaching outcomes and ensure quality standards in active citizenship and volunteering. Work with returned volunteers is a unique area of adult education. Adults who go overseas to volunteer come from a range of backgrounds and skills, and there is enormous potential to translate the skills and experiences they have as a result of volunteering internationally into lifelong learning and, in particular, transform such individuals to deepen their sense of identity as active global citizens. This project aims to develop curricula and methodologies to enable volunteers to recognise and further develop skills that were stimulated while overseas (e.g. critical thinking, multiple perspectives, community participation, strategies to address global injustice issues, etc.) and equip participants with support and competencies that will enable them to participate as active global citizens, not just in their short term role as international volunteers but throughout their lives. The project will enable blended learning approaches, utilising in particular digital strategies such as webinars, online courses and communication to ensure that learning opportunities are brought to as wide a group as possible, including those living in geographically marginalised areas. The project brings together partners from the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland and the UK, all of whom are very experienced in working with volunteers within the sphere of adult education. It will directly involve just over 440 participants over its 3-year course, and a further estimated 10,000 people indirectly. It will produce a comprehensive suite of research, training and education materials, and online learning opportunities that will be widely promoted through the partners' extensive networks nationally, throughout the EU and internationally, and the resources will remain publicly available at the end of the project’s life cycle. They will additionally be incorporated into the pedagogical framework of relevant organisations through training of facilitators, thereby ensuring their mainstreaming and sustainability.