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CEV News

The Electronic Newsletter of the

European Volunteer Centre (CEV)January 2009Issue 71

In this edition: Action points in RED

CEV Activities: CEV General Assembly in Prague 15 16 May: Is collaboration between companiesand volunteer organisations a mission impossible?

V::I::P - Promotion of Local and International Youth Volunteering for Peace Buildingand Conflict Resolution in Europe report is now published

European Year of Volunteering 2011 Czech Presidency declares support, CEVmembers action needed

Volunteering in Europe: Facts and Figures Report on Slovakia is published CEV stakeholder in European Commission seminar on volunteering of older persons

and the role of public policies, Brussels, 11 March 2009: Places available Work of CEV members successful: ILO adopts Guidelines for Measuring Volunteering Volunteering plays its part in European economic and social development - CEV

contribution to the European Citizens Consultations: Please debate & vote New EVS volunteer at CEV office

CEV Members: New CEV member in the Netherlands: Association of Dutch Voluntary EffortOrganisations (NOV)

CEV members met to discuss about the EYV2011 & Volunteering Research in Italy MOVISIE developed a new Validation of Prior Learning method MOVISIE has taken the lead in a Contact Making Seminar on the Grundtvig Initiative on

Volunteering in Europe for Seniors

EU News: The Czech Presidency of the EU started on 1 January 2009st Official launch of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation European Commission Work Programme 2009 Statistical Report on the Situation of Young Europeans to be published in 2009 European Capitals of Culture 2009: Vilnius and Linz

Calls for Proposals: Call for an EVS volunteer in the CEV office Europe for Citizens Programme Guide has been updated for 2009 Lifelong Learning Programme: Call for Proposals 2009 Youth in Action Programme: New Guide 2009 published European Charlemagne Youth Prize 2009

Other News: EU Civil Society Contact Group launches the European Parliament election toolkit United Nation Volunteers (UNV) conducts research on employee volunteering schemes

within the voluntary or public sector Eugnio de Almeida Foundation in Portugal received a Prize for its Volunteering

Officebox Engage: the new Social Platform publication

residency tests Social Platform assessed French EU presidency and released Czech p Obama celebrates the birthday of Martin Luther King by volunteering

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CEV Activities

CEV General Assembly in Prague 15 16 May: Is collaboration betweencompanies and volunteer organisations a mission impossible?

Our next General Assembly in Prague will be organised incollaboration with Hestia National Volunteer Centre

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Metropolitan University of Prague under the auspices of theMayor of Prague.

The conference will focus on employee volunteering and collaboration between volunteerorganisations and companies: Is successful collaboration between companies and volunteerorganisations a mission impossible? What is in it for both sides to collaborate? The conferenceis held within the period of the Czech Presidency of the EU and it will be a joined meeting withIAVE

2Europe. A detailed schedule andprogramme as well as info on registration will follow

shortly. (Photos source: Prague City Hall3

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V::I::P - Promotion of Local and International Youth Volunteering forPeace Building and Conflict Resolution in Europe report is now published

The final seminar report of the CEV European project V::I::P is now availableon the CEV website. The report presents good practices workshops on localyouth volunteering projects for conflict resolution and peace building in theBalkan region as well as in Finland, Turkey, Northern Ireland and theNetherlands. Moreover, it discusses the role of donors and governments instimulating the potential of volunteering, and showcases the diversecontributions of volunteering to the peace building and conflict resolutionprocess.To download the report from the CEV website click here

4. If you would like to

receive a hard copy of the publication, please contact the CEV Secretariat on [email protected].

European Year of Volunteering 2011 Czech Presidency declaressupport, CEV members action needed

Markus Held, CEV director, and Olga Sozansk, member of the CEV Board of Directors, havemet in the beginning of January representatives of the Czech Presidency of the EU in Prague.Following this meeting, the Czech ministers Ondrej Liska (education) and Vaclav Jehlicka(culture) presented the Czech Presidency priorities for these fields on 19 January to the

European Parliament. We were delighted to see that Minister Liska mentioned volunteering andactive citizenship as priorities for the Czech Presidency term until June 2009 and in particular adecision on the European Year 2011. He stated that we should work here and now with theCommission to drive this matter forward. He also announced that the Czech Presidency willorganise a special event on volunteering on 12 and 13 March 2009 in Prague, focusingespecially on the recognition of skills and competences of volunteers.

While this is a good step forward, the action of CEV members is still needed as there isno official decision on the Year 2011.

1) We need more pressure from national governments following the example of theCzech, Belgian, German, French and Polish ministries. Especially the support of theincoming EU Presidencies of Sweden, Spain, and Hungary will be very valuable to

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move the debate forward. CEV has prepared model letters for you to address yourgovernments and seek support. Letters of your ministers to Figel and Barroso arepowerful tools to make them move.

2) There are voices in the Commission who do not seem to be very convinced thatvolunteering is not replacing jobs. We are, thus, currently collecting information onresearch in Europe that proves that unemployed people have (re)gained work

through volunteering and that the voluntary sector in general created jobs ratherthan substitutes them. We will send a separate call for this to CEV members, butplease do not hesitate to send us digests of pieces of research that you have onthis area notably in this time of a looming economic crisis these arguments willreinforce our case.

Volunteering in Europe: Facts and Figures Report on Slovakia ispublished

CEV has published the Facts and Figures report on volunteering in Slovakia. This countryreport was written by CEV intern Katarna Nikodemov, and highlights the main characteristics

as well as specificities of the volunteering landscape and the third sector in Slovakia. It providesbasic information regarding the definition, statistics and the profile of volunteers, it describesthe reasons behind these figures from three different perspectives historical, infrastructuraland socio-political and, finally, draws conclusions and proposes several recommendations forthe future development of volunteering in Slovakia. You may read and download thispublication from CEV facts and figures reports page

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CEV stakeholder in European Commission seminar on volunteering ofolder persons and the role of public policies, Brussels, 11 March 2009:Places available

The European Commission DG Employment and Social Affairs organises in cooperation withAGE6

the European Older Peoples Platform a first seminar 2009 in order to prepare thedecision of the EC on a possible European Year 2012 on active ageing and intergenerationalsolidarity. The 120-150 participants of the seminar are members of the European expert groupon demography, and they will debate the role of EU policies in promoting volunteering as a toolfor active ageing and intergenerational dialogue. CEV is considered a stakeholder in thisdebate and will participate. We have been offered a limited number of places for CEVmembers experts in the field of volunteering of older people to participate at the conference.For further information please contact CEV at [email protected] as soon as possible as the placeswill be allocated on a first come first served basis.

Work of CEV members successful: ILO adopts Guidelines for MeasuringVolunteering

During the 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians in Geneva, Switzerland thattook place December 2008, the decision to adopt guidelines for measuring the work ofvolunteers using labour force and other household surveys was taken. The International LabourOrganisation (ILO) and the Johns Hopkins Centre for Civil Society Studies will continue thework towards the drafting and publication of the Manual on the Measurement of VolunteerWork, which will notably suggest an international definition of volunteer work and offerguidelines for countries to use in measuring such work.

CEV members have been very active in advocating vis--vis the national Labour statisticiansfor the adoption of the guidelines that will allow the measurement of volunteering.

Congratulations to all of you, who have actively joined the campaign, and have thus contributed

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to the recognition of the economic value of volunteering. For the full press release, click here7.If you want to read any other relevant information on the issue, visit the following page

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Volunteering plays its part in European economic and social development- CEV contribution to the European Citizens Consultations: Please

debate & vote

As announced in the previous edition of the CEV news, the European Citizens Consultations9

is a joint initiative of the European Commission and a consortium of more than 40 Europeanorganisations, and it consists of online debates focusing on the economic and social future ofthe Europe. EU citizens are invited to give an input to policy makers on this topic. Bearing thisin mind, CEV has made a proposal to the forum calling upon the EU institutions to recognisethe role that volunteering plays in European economic and social development, by concretelydemanding the announcement of the European Year of Volunteering 2011.

Please contribute to the discussion, and vote the proposal. To find CEVs contribution, and beable to comment and vote on it, visit this page

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New EVS volunteer at CEV office

Georgios Antonopoulos is Greek and has recently graduated in ComputingSystems Engineering. He has been volunteering for the benefit of disabledpeople, social excluded communities and minorities, as well as in environmentalconservation actions. While at CEV, he is going to enhance volunteeringengagement via the development of web-tools. You can reach him [email protected].

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CEV Members

New CEV member in the Netherlands: Association of Dutch VoluntaryEffort Organisations (NOV)

The Association of Dutch Voluntary Effort Organisations (theNOV11 Association) became a CEV full member organisationduring the last quarter of 2008. NOV represents 350organisations in the Netherlands, which work with or forvolunteers. The NOV Association is unique in that it is the only organisation in the Netherlandsgeared to strengthening the voluntary effort as such. Its member organisations can be dividedinto two categories: organisations that perform voluntary efforts and organisations that therebyperform a supporting or coordinating role.

NOV has three core tasks: (1) to serve the interests of the voluntary effort sector: the NOVAssociation is the spokesperson and lobbyist of the Dutch voluntary effort, and as such adiscussion partner of politicians, government officials and other policy-influencing parties. TheNOV Association provides both solicited and unsolicited advice; (2) to act as an intermediary for

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its members: the NOV Association stimulates networks and offers member organisations thepossibility to meet as a group, and to exchange knowledge and experiences and to developcollaborative projects; (3) to provide a major stimulus to the voluntary effort: the NOVAssociation works towards more public recognition of the voluntary effort, but it also lends itsname to a variety of innovative initiatives in this area. You may contact NOV directly [email protected].

CEV members met to discuss about the EYV2011 & VolunteeringResearch in Italy

On 28th

November 2008, the Volunteer Support Centre ofGenoa (CELIVO), with the collaboration of the ItalianFederation of Volunteer Support Centres (CSVnet) and CEV

organised a round table Volunteers, European Citizens - Looking towards 2011 EuropeanYear of Volunteering. The event took place in Genoa, Italy.

This event served to explore the issue of volunteerism as a tool for a moreinclusive society and for an active European citizenship; and to bring together

local authorities, local and national voluntary associations as well asrepresentatives of many CEV members around the completion of thepublication of Volunteering across Europe research. This research is afollow-up of the research on volunteering started by SPES in 2005, which has

been analysing different aspects of the voluntary sectors in all the 27 EU Member Sates. Theresearch on volunteering across Europe has seen more than 18 CEV members involved in thewhole research work. The process is still on going and the last part of the research onvolunteering in 17 EU member states will be published during 2009.

MOVISIE developed a new Validation of Prior Learning method

MOVISIE has developed together with the volunteering sector in the Netherlands

a method, which helps to identify specific experiences of a volunteer andvalidates competences based on this experience. The VPL method (Validation ofPrior Learning) uses the concept of competences. A competence is the ability to

act, to do something. A competence combines knowledge, aspects of attitude, and skills.

The method makes use of four instruments: 1) A portfolio for the volunteer; 2) A manual for thefacilitator in guiding volunteers through the VPL procedure; 3) A manual for assessor how todetermine evidence for competences that volunteers have identified; and 4) A manual for theorganisation in how to implement VPL.

Implementing VPL for volunteers has a lot of positive outcomes. Volunteers gain more selfesteem and are more motivated to do their voluntary work. Organisations get more motivatedvolunteers and can better keep them. Besides, they have concrete instruments to develop

(further) their voluntary policies and provide career perspectives for volunteers. Moreinformation on VPL, the four instruments and VPL training possibilities are to be found on theMOVISIE website

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MOVISIE has taken the lead in a Contact Making Seminar on theGrundtvig Initiative on Volunteering in Europe for SeniorsIn early December 2008 representatives of volunteer and elderly organisations, educationalinstitutes and governments from Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom and the Netherlandsgathered at a contact seminar organised by MOVISIE in Maastricht (NL) to discuss theGrundtvig Initiative on Volunteering in Europe for Seniors (GIVE) on the exchange of seniorvolunteers.

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After consulting SPES, MOVISIE has suggested that for a successful GIVE initiative,motivational factors and characteristics of senior volunteer should not conflict with and beaccounted for in the objectives and operation of the project. Moreover issues like liability,insurance, language should be dealt with in a professional manner and the volunteerorganisations must take care of more matters than when implementing regular volunteeringactivities (e.g. social aspects and housing). MOVISIE considers the programme a very goodinitiative of the EU. The exchanges can be very rewarding for organisations and give the

volunteers satisfaction. For more information on the GIVE initiative, visit this page13.

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European Union News

The Czech Presidency of the EU started on 1st

January 2009

The Czech Republic launched a six-month rotating presidency ofthe EU on 1

stJanuary 2009 under the motto 'A Europe without

barriers'. Their priorities are summed up in the 3Es: Economy, Energy and External relations.Czech Republic hold the Presidency of the EU in a symbolic framework since in March it will be5

thanniversary of the 2004 EU enlargement and 2009 celebrates the 20

thanniversary of the fall

of the iron curtain. For more information about the Czech Presidency, click here14

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One of the events organised by each member state holding the Presidency of the EU is theYouth Event in which young participants can discuss European issues and send messages topolicy-makers. The Czech Youth event will take place on 2

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Official launch of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation

2009 is the European Year of Creativity and Innovation (EYCI). The EYCI wasofficially launched in Prague on 7

thJanuary in an event attended, among other

top representatives of the EU and Czech government, by the EuropeanCommissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth, Jn Figel.

The ceremony was followed by a conference at which the ambassadors of the year presented areport of creativity and innovation in the EU. Their main message was that investment ineducation and skills should be a priority for the EU. To read more about this event, click here

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To visit the official website of the EYCI, click here17

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European Commission Work Programme 2009

Each year the European Commission defines its priorities and adopts an annual workprogramme. The programme for 2009 takes into consideration the current financial crisis andcalls for solidarity among member states. The priorities for 2009 include growth and jobs, fightagainst climate change and sustainable Europe, a Europe close to citizens, and Europe as aworld partner. To read the work programme for 2009 and more about the priorities for this year,click here

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Statistical Report on the Situation of Young Europeans to be published in2009

It is essential for the European Union to empower young people, develop their skills and allowthem to act an active role in societies. Eurostat intends to publish a statistical book Youth inthe European Union in early 2009. An insight on a number of aspects that the publication willdeal with can be found in an already published leaflet. It provides information about what is theshare of young people in the European population, how many of them are at risk of poverty orunemployed, how many of them participate in social activities etc. To read the leaflet, clickhere

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European Capitals of Culture 2009: Vilnius and Linz

The European Capital of Culture is a European Union initiative, launched in 1985 (Athens wasthe first European capital of culture) that gives the opportunity to showcase the Europeanculture and heritage, as well as its diversity.

Vilnius (Lithuania) and Linz (Austria) have been declared European Capitals of Culture 2009.The concept behind the programme of the Vilnius European capital of culture

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Live, meaning that everyone is invited to be an artist in the city. In the case of Linz Europeancapital of culture

21, the organisers want to take advantage of the events that will take place

uring the year to come to terms with the past of National Socialism.d

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Calls for proposals

Call for an EVS volunteer in the CEV officeDeadline for application to the National Agency of the Youth Programme: 1

stApril 2009

As already mentioned in CEV activities section, CEV currently hosts a EVS (EuropeanVoluntary Service) volunteer in our office. Georgios is staying with us until the beginning of July2009. As from September 2009, CEV secretariat would like to engage another EVS volunteer inour work. We believe this is an excellent opportunity to further engage with young volunteerscoming from CEV member organisations active at local level. This opportunity would give thevolunteer a chance to gain insight into European affairs related to volunteering and youth andfor CEV and its members, it is a great chance to reinforce exchange of experience andknowledge.

Thus, we would like to propose to already accredited CEV members: (1) to put forward theapplication of a young and motivated person who would like to develop his/her skills during a 6months experience at CEV secretariat; (2) to be the sending organisation for the EVS project.Based on volunteers profile and upcoming CEV projects, CEV secretariat will write incooperation with the sending organisation the application. If you collaborate with a volunteerkeen on exchanging knowledge from the local to the European level, to learn more about EUpolicy development, and willing to work in a European NGO, please send us the applicationsnot later than 1

stof March to [email protected]. Do not hesitate to contact us in case of

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Europe for Citizens Programme Guide has been updated for 2009

As expected the Education, Audiovisual, and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) haspublished the updates for 2009 to the Europe for Citizens Programme. If you are interested inreading the revised programme guide, visit this page23.

The February deadlines for submission of application have been extended. Here you can find a

table with the new deadlines:

Actions Deadline for submission

Action 1 Measure 1.1 Town twinning citizens'meetings

1 March

Action 1 Measure 1.2 The thematic networking oftwinned towns

1 March

Action 2 Measure 3 Support for projects initiatedby civil society organisations

15 March

Lifelong Learning Programme: Call for Proposals 2009

The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency(EACEA) has now published all the documentation neededto submit an application in the framework of the Lifelong

Learning Programme (LLP) at centralised level. To read all the information related to this call,click here

24. If you want to know more about the strategic priorities, and read the LLP Guide,click here

25. To access the links to your National Agencies, visit this page

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Bear in mind that the deadlines for the submission of proposals for the sub-programmesComenius, Erasmus, Grundtvig, Leonardo da Vinci Multilateral Projects, Networks,Accompanying Measures is on the 27 February 2009. For the transversal programme: Studies

and Comparative Research, Languages, ICT, Valorisation, Multilateral Projects, Networks,Accompanying Measures, and Studies, the deadline is on the 31 March 2009.

Youth in Action Programme: New Guide 2009 published

The Education, Audiovisual, and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) has published the newprogramme guide of the Youth in Action programme that is valid as from January 2009. Toaccess the guide, visit this page

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European Charlemagne Youth Prize 2009Deadline for application: 16

thFebruary 2009

The European Parliament28

and the Foundation of the InternationalCharlemagne Prize of Aachen29 invite young people (between 16 and 30years old) from EU Member States to participate in a competition on EU

development, integration and European identity issues. The Prize aims to encourage youngpeoples participation in European integration and supports projects that foster understanding,development of shared sense of identity and community tolerance. The project can focus onorganisation of youth events, youth exchanges or Internet projects. The application deadline is16

thFebruary 2009. For more information and application form, click here

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EU Civil Society Contact Group launches the European Parliamentelection toolkit

The European Parliament s seventh directly elected elections will takeplace from 4 7

June 2009. For the first time, all 27 Member States,

including Romania and Bulgaria, which joined the EU in 2008, will voteduring these days to elect a new European Parliament.

In order to support NGOs and citizens groups, the Civil Society Contact Group31

has updated

its 2004 European election toolkit. The up-to-date 2009 election toolkit consists of four actionsand fact sheets: Why vote?, How to engage?, What we expect from future Europeanparliamentarians?, What is the European Parliament? To read more about the toolkit and todownload the action and fact sheets, click here

32. To read more about the elections, click

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United Nation Volunteers (UNV) conducts research on employeevolunteering schemes within the voluntary or public sector please react

The Employee Volunteering Committee of UNV is doing a research in order to draft its ownEmployee Volunteering Scheme. To ensure effectiveness of such scheme UNV conducts a

research to pick up the best practices in this field. The areas where UNV needs yourassistance in terms of information are:

What are the exact modalities of the schemes that are being implemented by yourorganisation?

How many people have effectively used the schemes?

What are the limits imposed to ensure that staff actually use the time for the intendedpurpose?

What are (if there are any) lessons learned?

If your organisation implements an employee volunteering policy, or if you are aware of anysuch schemes, please inform Mr.Tadiwa Muradzikwa from UNV [email protected] and/or CEV Secretariat on [email protected]. The

information you give will not be used in any public documentation and is purely for UNV internalpurposes.

Eugnio de Almeida Foundation in Portugal received a Prize for itsVolunteering Officebox

During the Powering a new future - Social Innovation International Conference that took placein Lisbon in December 2009 and marked the end of the EQUAL European Community initiativeat national and European level, the Eugnio de Almeida Foundation received a prize from thehands of European Commissioner Spidla for its Volunteering Officebox, which was developedunder EQUAL.

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33http://euobserver.com/883

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The volunteering officebox is a methodological instrument to be used by non for-profitorganisations in the management and coordination of proximity-volunteering structures. TheFoundation supplies the officebox in the form of a cd-rom to all the Portuguese organisationsrequesting it. To get to know more about the Eugnio de Almeida Foundation, visit this page

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Engage: the new Social Platform publication

The Social Platform, the alliance of European social NGOs, has released in December 2008 anew quarterly publication titled Engage

35with information

on the work of the Social Platform and developments at EUlevel in the social field in a short and concise manner.

Social Platform assessed French EU presidency and released Czechpresidency testsThe Social Platform has released a set of tests to benchmark the performance of the six-monthCzech presidency of the EU that started on January 1. Moreover, the Social Platform also

announced its assessment of the French EU presidency. The Social Platform considers that theFrench presidency performed fairly well on social issues - progress was made in several keyareas, e.g. fight against discrimination and the integration of people excluded from the labourmarket, however its action was insufficient to refocus Europe on social rights. To read the socialscoreboards and the full press release, please click here

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Obama celebrates the birthday of Martin Luther King by volunteering

On 19th

of January, Barack Obama paid tribute to the memory ofthe civil rights leader, Martin Luther King by taking part in acommunity renovation project in the Washington area. BarackObama has declared the national holiday celebrating the

birthday of King, as a national day of service, urging USAmericans to honour Martin Luther Kings legacy by volunteeringin community projects. Moreover, the Presidential InauguralCommittee has launched a website, USAService.org

37, to help

people find volunteer opportunities in their own communities. To read the full press release,lick here

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