Community-Based Organisations Capacity-Building 

CoPPer stands for Cooperation to Promote a European Volunteering Training Programme in Probations Services. Despite the differences in various European Probation Services, this training was developed from a common ground competences identified for volunteers in probation work. For the training creation, a Competency Framework was tailored based on 3 clusters/questions:

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Attitude and Qualities - how should the volunteer position himself?
Knowledge - what should the volunteer know?
Skills - how should the volunteer act?

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As result, this “Core Competences for Volunteers in Probation” training focuses on the basic principles of probation and equipping the volunteers with a set of knowledge and skills, combined with qualities, and attitudes which are the basis for the expected conduct that enables volunteers to carry out the voluntary work at a certain level within the domain of the probation organization.

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Target group: the target group of this training course is volunteers who are involved or intend to be involved as volunteers within Probation Services.

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The course will be conducted in a blended-learning format. Module 1 is asynchronous online (consisting of viewing content and activities on a Learning Management System) and can be followed at home. Modules 2, 3, 4 and 5 are synchronous face-to-face. All of these last four modules will begin with a webinar common to all countries, introducing the topic and lasting an average of 20 minutes. In-person training lasts 4 hours, in total.

The 5 modules are:

- Knowledge of the professional field (e-learning)
- Relational skills (in person)
- Communication skills (in person)
- Observation and signalling (in person)
- Problem-solving ability (in person)​