Coming soon! Find us at Volonteurope's annual conference in Malta! (Nov 12-14)
www.volonteurope.eu/events
we will organise a roundtalbe on volunterring, join us!
we will organise a roundtalbe on volunterring, join us!
Activity #5: Savona, Italy, in July 2014
This was the final visit for the partners but not the last one!
During this visit, a lot was done : many parteners were met and many useful contacts were done and will lead to future cooperations. Also, the subject of disabled adults in volunteering was explored, including the concept of involving disabled adult as volunteers and not as beneficiaries of help provided by volunteers.
Finally, this last visit was also the opportunity to create the future project: the common box 2, it will be applied in April 2015, and until then, it is still in a box!
During this visit, a lot was done : many parteners were met and many useful contacts were done and will lead to future cooperations. Also, the subject of disabled adults in volunteering was explored, including the concept of involving disabled adult as volunteers and not as beneficiaries of help provided by volunteers.
Finally, this last visit was also the opportunity to create the future project: the common box 2, it will be applied in April 2015, and until then, it is still in a box!
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Activity # 3: Grenoble, France, in March 2014
The fourth Common Box visit was hosted by the French organisation Itinéraire International in its Grenoble premises, from the 5th to the 7th of March 2014, to discuss inclusion
of young people by volunteering, transnational
volunteering and the French Civic Service Program.
On the first day, to start with, every attendant to the meeting introduced himself, and each organisation presented how its projects had evolved since the last visit, as well as what were its projects for the future. Then Anaëlle Rollin from Itinéraire International introduced the activities of the host organisation to give everyone a basic knowledge about the aim, the public, the actions and the different projects that Itinéraire International is running. To complete more precisely this presentation, Juliette Bolomier, as an International Mobility Adviser at Itinéraire International, presented her function and her work about guiding and mentoring youngsters through their mobility project. She explained in what cases she advises volunteering as a mobility project: when youngsters don’t have any professional experience and need a first approach of the professional world, without getting too much responsibilities.
On the second day, Clément Bardoux from Itinéraire International presented the Civic Service Program in France, its history, its purposes, principles, pros and cons. Following on from this presentation, Clémentine Laforêt introduced the new program that Itinéraire International is experimenting for a few months: the European Civic Service. It is about adding to the national Civic Service a European dimension, allowing the youngster to do a volunteering for two months abroad in the middle of his 6-month volunteering in France.
In the afternoon, M. Ravier from the Région Rhône-Alpes came to present about a new project they the Region leads about recognition of non-formal learning. The project is to create an E-Portfolio, on one hand to help youngsters who carried out a volunteering to enhance the skills they gained, and on the other hand to give employers the ability to identify these skills on a CV. After the presentation, each partner organisation gathered to write down their projects ideas in the framework of the new Erasmus + program. All the projects were then hung on the wall so everyone could discover them.
On the third day, all the partners gathered in the Région Rhône-Alpes premises in the city centre of Grenoble for the last morning of the visit. The parnters continued what had been started the day before and tried to identify which projects presented enough similarities to be gathered. It appeared than most of the partners wanted to keep the Common Box project going, by submitting a Common Box II about new topics concerning volunteering. A lot of time was dedicated to the design of the project, according to the expertise and interests of each partner organisation. It was quite productive as in the end of the morning, a brand new project was born, dealing with the access to employment with volunteering, business involvement and volunteer management for businesses, disability and mental health.
On the first day, to start with, every attendant to the meeting introduced himself, and each organisation presented how its projects had evolved since the last visit, as well as what were its projects for the future. Then Anaëlle Rollin from Itinéraire International introduced the activities of the host organisation to give everyone a basic knowledge about the aim, the public, the actions and the different projects that Itinéraire International is running. To complete more precisely this presentation, Juliette Bolomier, as an International Mobility Adviser at Itinéraire International, presented her function and her work about guiding and mentoring youngsters through their mobility project. She explained in what cases she advises volunteering as a mobility project: when youngsters don’t have any professional experience and need a first approach of the professional world, without getting too much responsibilities.
On the second day, Clément Bardoux from Itinéraire International presented the Civic Service Program in France, its history, its purposes, principles, pros and cons. Following on from this presentation, Clémentine Laforêt introduced the new program that Itinéraire International is experimenting for a few months: the European Civic Service. It is about adding to the national Civic Service a European dimension, allowing the youngster to do a volunteering for two months abroad in the middle of his 6-month volunteering in France.
In the afternoon, M. Ravier from the Région Rhône-Alpes came to present about a new project they the Region leads about recognition of non-formal learning. The project is to create an E-Portfolio, on one hand to help youngsters who carried out a volunteering to enhance the skills they gained, and on the other hand to give employers the ability to identify these skills on a CV. After the presentation, each partner organisation gathered to write down their projects ideas in the framework of the new Erasmus + program. All the projects were then hung on the wall so everyone could discover them.
On the third day, all the partners gathered in the Région Rhône-Alpes premises in the city centre of Grenoble for the last morning of the visit. The parnters continued what had been started the day before and tried to identify which projects presented enough similarities to be gathered. It appeared than most of the partners wanted to keep the Common Box project going, by submitting a Common Box II about new topics concerning volunteering. A lot of time was dedicated to the design of the project, according to the expertise and interests of each partner organisation. It was quite productive as in the end of the morning, a brand new project was born, dealing with the access to employment with volunteering, business involvement and volunteer management for businesses, disability and mental health.
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Activity #3 : Berlin, DE in July 2013
Volunteer management from a
European perspective –
German Academy for Volunteering hosts third meeting of Common Box project
08th – 10th July 2014
In the context of „The Common Box“ project, the German Academy for Volunteering welcomed their partner organisations from France, Italy and England to take part in a three day seminar in Berlin about volunteer management. The project, funded by GRUNDTVIG, aims to find examples for best-practice, learn from each other, to support European networking and to improve quality in the area of volunteering. GRUNDTVIG is part of the European Union’s program for life long learning.
The visitors from Itinéraire International (France), Centro Savonese die Servizi per il Voluntariato (CESAVO – Italy) and Hammersmith & Fulham Volunteer Centre (England) intensely exchanged their experiences in volunteer management with the host organisation. In doing so the participants discussed the different views on volunteer management as well as its opportunities and limits. Interestingly there were big differences regarding the development of volunteer management within each country. Whilst England has already established a well working volunteer management for years, France is still at the very beginning of this process. Based on these insights, different starting points for new cooperation projects have arisen between the four project partners. On the second day of the network meeting the participants got to know a best practice example at Lebenshilfe Berlin. Volunteer Manager Tanja Weisslein reported on her daily work and initiated several discussions about potential cooperations between Germany and Italy in the work with people with disabilities. Also the idea to motivate people with disabilities to be volunteers themselves was new for many participants and a matter of particular interest to them. On the last seminar day the project partners discussed a concrete method of volunteer management thanks to a Guest Speaker Stefanie Beerbaum. Beerbaum, head of the Volunteer Centre “Sternenfischer”, who presented the so called “Market place method”, with which volunteer organisations can approach companies in order to set up supporting systems for their organisations. The participants from Hammersmith & Fulham Volunteer Centre reported on their experiences as they have already established similar methods in London. As a result of this, a discussion ensued on how these methods could be applied in France and Italy.
The visit in Berlin was one of four meetings among the Common Box partners. A reunion is planned in winter in Grenoble, France and later in Italy in 2014, where the Project will conclude. All four partners are members of Volonteurope, a network which supports voluntary action across the European Union.
German Academy for Volunteering hosts third meeting of Common Box project
08th – 10th July 2014
In the context of „The Common Box“ project, the German Academy for Volunteering welcomed their partner organisations from France, Italy and England to take part in a three day seminar in Berlin about volunteer management. The project, funded by GRUNDTVIG, aims to find examples for best-practice, learn from each other, to support European networking and to improve quality in the area of volunteering. GRUNDTVIG is part of the European Union’s program for life long learning.
The visitors from Itinéraire International (France), Centro Savonese die Servizi per il Voluntariato (CESAVO – Italy) and Hammersmith & Fulham Volunteer Centre (England) intensely exchanged their experiences in volunteer management with the host organisation. In doing so the participants discussed the different views on volunteer management as well as its opportunities and limits. Interestingly there were big differences regarding the development of volunteer management within each country. Whilst England has already established a well working volunteer management for years, France is still at the very beginning of this process. Based on these insights, different starting points for new cooperation projects have arisen between the four project partners. On the second day of the network meeting the participants got to know a best practice example at Lebenshilfe Berlin. Volunteer Manager Tanja Weisslein reported on her daily work and initiated several discussions about potential cooperations between Germany and Italy in the work with people with disabilities. Also the idea to motivate people with disabilities to be volunteers themselves was new for many participants and a matter of particular interest to them. On the last seminar day the project partners discussed a concrete method of volunteer management thanks to a Guest Speaker Stefanie Beerbaum. Beerbaum, head of the Volunteer Centre “Sternenfischer”, who presented the so called “Market place method”, with which volunteer organisations can approach companies in order to set up supporting systems for their organisations. The participants from Hammersmith & Fulham Volunteer Centre reported on their experiences as they have already established similar methods in London. As a result of this, a discussion ensued on how these methods could be applied in France and Italy.
The visit in Berlin was one of four meetings among the Common Box partners. A reunion is planned in winter in Grenoble, France and later in Italy in 2014, where the Project will conclude. All four partners are members of Volonteurope, a network which supports voluntary action across the European Union.
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Activity #2 : London, UK on March 25-27th
The second event was the
first actual project visit of the “The Common Box”. The group of partners met
in London and visited Hammesmith and Fulham Volunteer Center. The first day of the
visit was dedicated to the Center, its activities around volunteering and specific
projects, such as Works4U, which are about employee volunteering.
The second day of the visit was about the other countries: how is employee volunteering organised in the other countries of the project. Then the participants asked themselves what was transferable from one country to another in terms of promoting employee volunteering.
The last day of the visit dealt with to the ‘Common Box’: participants identified ideas of future projects they could implement in their countries, and activities that could be developed together in the future.
In terms of results the group of partners can already identify some new knowledge, which still need to be enriched, as anticipated in the project description:
The second day of the visit was about the other countries: how is employee volunteering organised in the other countries of the project. Then the participants asked themselves what was transferable from one country to another in terms of promoting employee volunteering.
The last day of the visit dealt with to the ‘Common Box’: participants identified ideas of future projects they could implement in their countries, and activities that could be developed together in the future.
In terms of results the group of partners can already identify some new knowledge, which still need to be enriched, as anticipated in the project description:
- For the voluntary sector in general: a greater sharing of ideas and good practice on volunteering; the development of new, sustainable volunteering opportunities via the mobilities (especially during the Volonteurope Conferences).
- For the learners, trainees and staff: a greater capacity to create, participate and learn from each other via the mobilities in the hope of fostering better relationships among EU peoples, and ensuring good practice is implemented and adhered to.
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Activity #1 Launch Conference
The project was launched at Volonteurope's annual conference
The CommonBox Group had the opportunity to present the project during the 2012 Volonteurope's annual conference that took place in Florence, Italy, from the 18th to the 21st of October. It was the occasion to exchange with the public and with another project presenter on the differences and interests around volunteering in Europe.
In the framework of the theme of the annual conference, “Active Citizens Connecting Europe”, the CommonBox Group offered to the participants to be a part of a one hour and half 'Masterclass' called Exchanges around volunteering in Europe. The public of approximately 30 participants had the opportunity to debate (sometimes very lively!) on what is, or is not, or should be, volunteering.
Some 'statements' specifically chosen to raise the debate were projected on screen and participants were asked to place themselves in the room in a side showing if they would agree or disagree... This was a way to have every body awake and concerned !
The project was closely related to the concept of Active Citizenship in 2 ways:
First, volunteering is a very meaningful and efficient way to be an active citizen, developing volunteering is a way to enhance active citizenship. So as this project was about developing and enhancing volunteering, it contributed to the theme of the year.
And secondly, the participants to the project and to the workshop were learners and individually developed their “citizenship skills” and raised their conscience about this.
You will find here the presentation used for the Masterclass with the debatable statements (we don't always agree to these!)
In the framework of the theme of the annual conference, “Active Citizens Connecting Europe”, the CommonBox Group offered to the participants to be a part of a one hour and half 'Masterclass' called Exchanges around volunteering in Europe. The public of approximately 30 participants had the opportunity to debate (sometimes very lively!) on what is, or is not, or should be, volunteering.
Some 'statements' specifically chosen to raise the debate were projected on screen and participants were asked to place themselves in the room in a side showing if they would agree or disagree... This was a way to have every body awake and concerned !
The project was closely related to the concept of Active Citizenship in 2 ways:
First, volunteering is a very meaningful and efficient way to be an active citizen, developing volunteering is a way to enhance active citizenship. So as this project was about developing and enhancing volunteering, it contributed to the theme of the year.
And secondly, the participants to the project and to the workshop were learners and individually developed their “citizenship skills” and raised their conscience about this.
You will find here the presentation used for the Masterclass with the debatable statements (we don't always agree to these!)