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