"Within a few weeks, the Corona crisis has led to developments in the field of volunteer work which for years seemed unthinkable and which have turned current developments that gave cause for concern into the opposite. Even though data cannot be available at the time of writing this application, it is already possible to say with certainty:-Voluntary work and the associated assumption of responsibility in civil society have gained a completely new appreciation.-The tools developed for this purpose (such as platforms for placing volunteers) were developed, activated and used virtually ""overnight"" thanks to digital technologies.People not only volunteer for the well-being of their neighbours, offer interactions with people who cannot leave the house or take on shopping services. They also take on activities that have nothing to do with their actual job: Those affected by short-time work or lack of orders are also involved as volunteers in areas outside their profession where support is urgently needed: in care, in agriculture, or in the mobility economy. Regardless how different in terms of professional background the volunteers are, they have one thing in common: Volunteering in times of the pandemic is an opportunity to proactively combat limited employment and loss of income, to be socially active and to feel being part of civil society. Equally important, it is also a way to gain new soft skills like team spirit, critical faculties, communication skills, intercultural competence, stress management, discipline, and self-confidence. Volunteering is an effective learning environment, especially for those people who had to realize that their professional activity is by no means systemically relevant in terms of crisis management. Strictly speaking, volunteering is a great opportunity, namely that of acquiring and validating soft skills and then being able to use it in any professional environment as an additional qualification. However, how can a volunteer recognize and validate those new skills? How can an employer be made aware of these skills as an added value for the creation of teams, stress situations or intercultural tasks? Consequentially, it is absolutely fundamental to properly validate those “soft skills”, i.e. new personal competences. Although the wording suggests otherwise, it is ""soft skills"" that can make the difference in working life.Therefore, the overall aim of the CRISISS project is to provide organisations which employ volunteers with support and guidance to implement internal systems of recognition of soft skills, in order to empower volunteers to recognize and appreciate their growth in soft skills. In order to reach this objective, the specific objectives are-to create Soft Skills Identification (IO1) and Assessment Tools (IO2), in order to support volunteers to recognize and validate their own soft skills, increase the awareness of the importance of soft skills in professional life, and to recognize informal and non-formal competences through evidence gathering;-to elaborate Self-Promotion Tools (IO3) which will assist volunteers in promoting their soft skills they have acquired in volunteering, and provide the instruments they need to use for presenting and taking advantage of their soft skills in an effective way; -These materials will be made available at a multilingual and interactive e-platform (IO4) and as mobile apps for smart phones (IO4). Parts will also be available as podcast or can be activated by smart-home voice assistants such as Alexa or Siri. All products will remain accessible at least five years after the end of the project, i.e. until 2027.The transnational collaboration will benefit from the various experiences and competences of the partnership which consists of 7 institutions working with volunteers, organisations working with people with disabilities, youth and family counselling organisations, social partners, adult education institutes, social research centres and ICT experts for the development of open educational resources (OERs).The primary target groups for our project are organisations which employ volunteers in their daily work. The secondary target group are the volunteers who will be able to use the assessment and promotion tools and for whom the visualisation, documentation and recognition of formally, non-formally and informally acquired soft skills in the field of volunteering during the pandemic will increase their career opportunities as well as their personal development."