This Regulation lays down standards regarding candidate volunteers and EU Aid Volunteers with respect to the following matters listed in Article 9(2) of Regulation (EU) No 375/2014:
a competence framework used for the identification, selection and preparation of volunteers as junior or senior professionals;
provisions to ensure equal opportunities and non-discrimination in the identification and selection process;
provisions to ensure compliance of sending and hosting organisations with relevant national and Union law and law of the hosting country;
standards governing the partnerships between sending and hosting organisations; and
provisions for recognition of the skills and competences acquired by EU Aid Volunteers, in line with existing relevant Union initiatives.
For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 375/2014 and the definitions provided for in the Commission Implementing Regulation to be adopted on the basis of Article 9(3) of Regulation (EU) No 375/2014 shall apply. The following definitions shall also apply:
‘Competences’ mean according to the definition laid out in the European Reference Framework on Key Competences for Lifelong Learning(1) a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes appropriate to the context, allowing EU Aid Volunteers to contribute to the provision of needs-based humanitarian aid;
‘Transversal competences’ mean competences required in many sectors of volunteering and employment and which are not specific to humanitarian aid;
‘Specific competences’ mean competences required for the EU Aid Volunteers initiative and humanitarian aid more widely;
‘Technical competences’ mean competences resulting from specialized knowledge relevant in the context of humanitarian aid;
‘Learning outcomes’ mean according to the definition laid out in the European Qualifications Framework(2) statements of what a learner knows, understands and is able to do on completion of a learning process. They are expressed in terms of knowledge, skills and competences.