Mobility of young people – Opportunities and obstacles for cross-border volunteering for young people, particularly with fewer opportunities
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Mobility of young people – Opportunities and obstacles for cross-border volunteering for young people, particularly with fewer opportunities
European Youth Centre, Strasbourg, 11-13 December 2011
The seminar was organized by the EU-CoE youth partnership with the aim to contribute to the work of both institutions in the field of cross-border voluntary activities of young people. Furthermore, it should serve to increase the understanding and constructive dialogue among researchers, policy-makers and practitioners on this topic, and it should have a particular focus on the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities in these activities.
The objectives of the seminar were:
- To collect and present new research available on the topic of the cross-border mobility of young volunteers;
- To entice exchange between researchers, practitioners and policy-makers
- To produce recommendations that can feed into the EU and CoE discussions, whilst taking stock of previous events and their recommendations on this topic.
Presentations
- Karin Lopatta-Loibl, Youth Policy Unit, Directorate-General for Education and Culture, European Commission presentation
- Maria-Carmen Pantea, Convener presentation
* Panel I: Obstacles and opportunities. Incentives and Disincentives
Panellists:
- Anisa Ymeri (Forum for Free Thought/Albanian Corpus of Volunteers) presentation
- Nelli Gishyan (Federation of Youth Clubs of Armenia) presentation
- Jutta Koenig-Georgiades, European Year of Volunteering 2011 Task Force, European Commission, Overview of the activities of the European Year of Volunteering presentation
Panel II: Learning opportunities and pedagogical challenges
Panellists:
- Soren Kristensen (Free-lance researcher and reporter) presentation
- Adélaide Trousselard (Dynamo International) presentation
Panel III: Rights and responsibilities
- Ana Condrat (National Youth Council of Moldova, CNTM)
- Nicolae Procopie ("Youth for the Right to Life" Association, Moldova) presentation
- Esther Maestro (Cibervoluntarios) presentation
Presentation of activities of participating volunteers organisations
- Fostering mobility of students with disabilities - Marco La Rosa - ESN presentation
- LCEducational "Challenging Youth Society through volunteerism" Fiorentina Poulli presentation
Panel IV: Proposals for future developments in cross-border volunteering
Panellists:
- Kateryna Shalayeva (PEYR) presentation
- Jo Deman (European Youth Forum)
- Celine Barlet (EYV2011 Alliance) presentation
Documentation