EuroMediterranean Voluntary work as a tool for the human development :

Presentation

International seminar on EuroMediterranean Voluntary work.

It is organised in cooperation with the French National Agency, the Cypriot National Agencyfor the Youth in Action programme and Salto-Youth EuroMed Resource Centre.

Aims and objectives

The aim of this Training seminar is to:

• Introduce the specificities of the EuroMediterranean Voluntary service and its impacts,
• Stress the positive effects from each side of the Mediterranean sea, through the EuroMediterranean voluntary service study - to be released by SALTO EUROMED-and exchanges of practices in the frame of the voluntary work and EVS especially,
• Encourage new initiatives in the Euromed Region.

Different elements will be presented :

• Inputs about international voluntary work;
• Exchange of ideas, definitions and practices within the experiences of voluntary work and especially in the frame of EVS;
• Encourage new partnerships and strengthen existing networks;
• Presentation of the EUROMED Voluntary Service Study (courtesy of Euromed SALTO - study to be released in 2009 -) presentation, evaluation, recommendations to optimize initiatives, partnership, impacts.
  

During the seminar will be tackled as horizontal topics concerning EuroMediterranean Voluntary:

• Active participation of young people of both gender in society
• Environmental issues and the role of young people
• Intercultural dialogue
• Innovative and creative projects

Target group

We wish to have participants with a clear mandate and possibility to comit their NGO: Promoters, members of NGO's, representative of institutes, public bodies who are already experienced in the voluntary work and/or EVS and wishing to testifyto share their experiences and to exchange practises on the EuroMediterranean voluntary work. It would be suitable that Institutions and NGO's could involve young people in the participation of this event.

Working Language

English

Venue place and dates

Roubaix, France 2 - 6 December 2009

 

Programme

Here is the programme of the seminar.