Award in Working with ApprenticesVolunteers for Social Enterprises

This module explores the way the social sector may work with Apprentices and/or Volunteers, training and involving them in order to allow them to be satisfied and prepared. During the module, practical methodologies will be introduced and discussed with the participants, either as stand-alone or as group process, using up-to-date technological tools.

Hosting volunteers and apprentices is an important opportunity for social enterprises because allows them to relax two important constraints: the lack of financial resources and the lack of human resources. Furthermore, to increase innovation and finally their network.

The main idea is to promote within the Social enterprises the habit to host regularly and in sufficient numbers of volunteers and to train trainees, to develop a methodology to involved in the best way volunteers and apprentices, to organize a monitoring and evaluation of this activity, to organize the recruitment activity based on hosting volunteers and apprentices and finally to get this opportunity to wider the social enterprises’ network.

1.The importance of hosting Apprentices and Volunteers in general

2. Who are the Apprentices and Volunteers, and which is their perspectives?

3. The importance of hosting Apprentices and Volunteers for the Social   Enterprises

4. Selection of Apprentices and Volunteers

5. Managing Apprentices and Volunteers

6. Tools for training apprentices and Volunteers

Hours of Total Learning for this module:

• Contact Hours: 21
• Self-Study Hours: 72
• Assessment Hours: 7
• Total Learning Hours: 100

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the module/unit the learner will have acquired the following skills:

1. Organize a call for interns/volunteers
2. Organize activities/tasks for staff and interns/volunteers
3. Involving interns/volunteers
4. Working with interns/volunteers
5. Use creative tools to improve organizational mechanisms in which staff and interns/volunteers may work

Each module will be assessed based on the following components:

1. Quality of Contributions in Forums: 20%
   • Evaluation of participation and the quality of insights shared in online discussion forums.
2. Quality of Contributions in Tutorials: 20%
   • Assessment of engagement and contributions during tutorial sessions.
3. Assignment/Case Study: 60%
   • Completion and quality of assignments that demonstrate understanding and application of the course material.

Passing Criteria:

• Students must achieve an aggregate of 50% or higher across the three components to pass each module.

Scholarship Schemes for Maltese residents:

• MySkills Scheme: Malta residents are eligible for up to 80% reimbursement, capped at €5,000, subject to eligibility criteria. International students would be able to apply for the MySkills Scheme once they obtain their Student Temporary Residence Card (TRC). (For individual modules only)
• Get Qualified Scheme ( Scheme available for Maltese residents ) – 70% refund of course fee as a tax rebate