2010-09-27

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

2010-09-07

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.


All the best
On behalf of the WG
Ondřej Lochman and Josef Boček (Czech National Institute of Children and Youth)