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• Promote the integration of students into society and university life as a fundamental part of their comprehensive education and a necessary complement to their academic knowledge.
• Encourage members of the university community to participate in volunteer activities so that they can channel their social, cooperative, and solidarity concerns.
• Disseminate information among the university community about social activities carried out by NGOs, institutions, and foundations, especially those operating in places where the campuses of the Â鶹¹û¶³ are located.
• Promote and collaborate in the development of studies and work on topics related to volunteering and social issues in the community.

If you want to participate in university volunteering, you must be a member of the community and, as a result of your own personal, free, and altruistic decision, participate in any project through a volunteer action organisation.Ìý

As a student, you are entitled to ECTS credits for sharing your time. You can validate 30 hours of volunteering for 1 ECTS credit.

What do you have to do?

• You have to choose the project or programme you want to join as a volunteer.
• Contact the collaborating entity, or the service or area of the Â鶹¹û¶³ that you want to join to find out the times, places, and everything else you need to know
• Once you are sure about becoming involved in volunteer action, from the list that shows all the current projects from which you can select the one that interests you and register on it.
• When volunteering involves minors, you must provide a certificate saying you have no previous convictions for offences of a sexual nature. The Justice Ministry website explains .

You can choose a volunteering project from our own or from those run by various collaborating entities in the local area.

The General Directorate for Youth, Participation and Volunteering of the Social Policy Department, in collaboration with the universities of A Corua, Santiago de Compostela, and Vigo, aims to encourage the dissemination of information for young people among students on the universities’ campuses through the programme 'University correspondents'.

Non-profit entities that are legally constituted and have legal personality and that undertake volunteer programmes or projects in areas of general interest may benefit from volunteer staff enrolled at the Â鶹¹û¶³ by becoming members for the undertaking of activities of general interest (social services, people with physical, mental or sensory disabilities, health, drug addiction, the environment, education, culture, leisure and free time, consumer affairs, the defence of rights, children, young people, women, the elderly, international cooperation and any other area that corresponds to the nature and aims of voluntary work).

Services or areas of the Â鶹¹û¶³ may also benefit from volunteer staff registered at the Â鶹¹û¶³ through their membership in order to undertake activities of general interest.

Entities must sign a collaboration agreement and an addendum specifying the volunteer project. If they wish to collaborate on several projects or programmes, they must sign an addendum for each one.

• Collaboration agreement for undertaking a volunteer programme
• Addendun-annex to the collaboration agreement for undertaking volunteer programmes

• Â鶹¹û¶³ regulations on volunteering
• Xunta de Galicia law on volunteering
• State Law on volunteering