Re-invitation to the Blog

Dear Colleagues,

since only a few people have accepted the invitation to the Blog of "Creating more opportunities...", I have sent it again for the case it had got stuck somewhere in the pipeline.

In case you face technical problems accessing the blog, please let us know.

In addition, I am using this opportunity to appologise for a little delay with the report from our meeting in Prague. I will be sent within a day or two for your comments.

Best regards

Josef

Update after the meeting in Prague

Dear All,

thank you for you energy that you gave to our meeting last week. 

As promised the presented presentations can be found at our "storage" at http://www.mladezvakci.cz/en/volunteers-mobility-eu/ . It is accompanied by the study on volunteering in the EU.

Final report of the meeting is in progress, so I add at least our priorities. As we talked in Prague, it be great if you start sharing here interesting links/ideas/comments regarding these topics. So if you for example know how to make volunteering attractive - BRING it ON!

An here goes our priorities:

Cluster 1 (“Butterfly”) - discussed

Matching existing programs and funds with new ideas (Hungary)

Foster volunteering between neighbouring border regions (Czech Republic)

Border activities (Germany)

Projects using the priorities and funds of the Visegrad Fund (Slovakia)

Using Visegrad Fund (Slovakia)

Cluster 2. (“Heart”) - discussed

Lobbying for policies and programmes? (Slovenia)

Open up national programmes for all EU citizens. (Czech Republic)

Continuous exchange of structured information. (Germany)

Do we need political dimension of the cooperation?

To identify common elements through comparison (France)

Cluster 3 (“Star” – not specifically discussed)

Awareness and recognition of CBV + promotion (Slovenia)

Database of opportunities on-line (Poland)

Provision of information for volunteers about options abroad (Germany)

Cluster 4 (“Flower” – not specifically discussed)

CB cooperation during the sports events (Slovakia)

How to make Euro 2012 a tool for development of CBV? (Poland)

How to involve CBC volunteers into Euro 2012 project? (Poland)

CB activities for specific groups. (Slovakia)

What after EVS? (Slovakia)

Other – not clustered - not specifically discussed

How to improve the image of the volunteer through international cooperation (France)

Share Experince (Cyprus)

Define volunteerism (Cyprus)

Greetings from Prague

Ondřej and Josef

The storage of files

Dear collegues,

this blog was established to serve as an informal space to spread and share information relevant for the work of the WG. Due to the fact that at the blog one can not upload files (just pictures, video, text or posting a link) we have set this space, where we will post all the relevant files regarding the work of the WG.

So the BLOG remains as the main communication tool and the "STORAGE" is its support in terms of storing all diffrent formats of files.

The STORAGE can be found at http://www.mladezvakci.cz/en/volunteers-mobility-eu/.

All the best

On behalf of the WG

Ondřej Lochman and Josef Boček (Czech National Institute of Children and Youth)

Dear colleagues,

my name is Josef Bocek and I hope you remember me from the 1st session of the working group on creating more opportunities for young volunteers in the EU in March.

Just before the next Meeting of the Expert group on mobility of young volunteers in the EU I am coming back to you to announce some news regarding the Meeting.

First of all I have to appologize for not joining you for this meeting for serious personal reasons (I have heard the calling of life long learning and entered again the gates of formal education :-) and I am attending my yearly exams on the very same date as the meeting in Paris :-( ).

Neverthless I have found more than better substitution in person of my colleague and friend Ondrej Lochman, who is pefectly briefed on the history and matters of our WG and also very experienced in volunteering in general. Besides, he was deeply involved in the Czech Presidency Conference on mobility of young volunteers which can be seen as one of the roots and sources of the Volunteers mobility expert group. So I hope you will give him a warm welcome as if he had been with us from the beginning. :-)

Secondly, I would like to draw your attention to the freshly established informal communication platform we called for at the last meeting. It is a simple google-service-based blog but I hope it can offer us a useful space to exchange ideas and views. You can find it at http://volunteersmobilityeu.blogspot.com. Me and Ondrej will let you know soon how to register and start using it.

It is all from me for the moment. I wish you a sunny week end and a productive meeting on Monday.

Looking forward to working with you on our highly interesting topic.

Best regards

Josef