VOLUNTEER - KEY TO THE FUTURE
The European Youth Congress is the main event of "Volunteer - Key to the Future". Over 50 , representing 25 organisations from 12 EU member states (AT, BE, CZ, DE, ES, IT, MT, NL, PL, SI, SK, UK) will attend this congress. The main aim of the congress is to debate on the challenges which volunteers face in their engagement:
- The first day of the congress focuses on the challenges of volunteering: engaging volunteers, professionalisation of the voluntary sector, legal and regulatory framework, risk of instrumentalisation of the voluntary sector, safeguarding, ... For this day we will invite policy makers to share their opinions directly with the participants. The methods we will use for these sessions are presentations, plenary and group discussions.
- The second day focuses on the European opportunities which exist in the field of volunteering: recognition of NFE, increased employability, funding programmes, providing adequate training to volunteers ... These sessions will be more active than those of the first day, focussing on delivering practical tools and methods which the participants can use in their voluntary work.
- During the evenings we have informal activities which contribute to the learning process: on Friday we’ll have an intercultural evening. On Saturday we make a trip to Krakow for a guided tour.
- The coordinating team will make an evaluation of the meeting and send a press release to all promoters which they can use to promote this activity in local media.
To register for the congress please click on the link in the menu. Also a detailed programme is available in the menu.