Volunteering is in EU countries with a longer history and tradition of volunteering generally recognized not only as a leisure time activity, but also a way to achieve new skills and competencies that are recognized by employers. In Slovakia, the situation has been quite different - there was no system for recognition and validation of non-formal education by colleges or universities (as in UK or other countries) because we have been lacking the legal framework for it and there has been a low recognition of benefits of volunteering by employers in Slovakia. Also the volunteer centres (VC) were lacking the skills and systems necessary for the work with unemployed volunteers. These were the reasons for the project implementation. Main objectives were: 1. To provide especially unemployed volunteers with a tool (V – skills) they can use for understanding and using the competencies they gained through volunteering at the labour market and in such a way to improve their position and competitiveness when applying for a job. 2. To provide unemployed volunteers, professionals at labour offices and volunteer centres with methods (project Welcome from CZ) which enable them to involve unemployed people in volunteering. To help unemployed people to get a job and make them active through volunteering.3. To make employers aware about the competencies gained through volunteering and the tool (V-skills) that can prove the existence of these skills and competencies and to make them recognize these skills in the process of the recruitment. 4. To provide a results study of this project for institution of formal learning as well as for employers, public institutions as labour offices and Ministry of Work. Provide a methodology for labour offices on how to support and motivate unemployed people for volunteering. The project was implemented by the consortium formed by the University of Matej Bel in Banska Bystrica, the Centre of Volunteering in Banska Bystrica and three other VCs in Presov, Kosice, and Nitra. The project will be coordinated by the Platform of Volunteer Centres and Organizations - umbrella organization focused on development of volunteering in Slovakia.The outcomes of the project included: transfer of the system of V-Skills from Scotland, its adaptation to Slovak conditions - we have created a tool for volunteers to verify the skills they gained through volunteering and to make them recognized in an objective process which is available through web and managed by volunteers themselves; transfer and adaptation of method focused on labour offices and volunteer centres which have made volunteer centres able to work more efficiently with unemployed people and labour offices aware of benefits of volunteering for unemployed people and ready to motivate them for such activity. Volunteer centres have cooperated with employers in their regions in order to recognise benefits of volunteering for capacity building and future employment.