Research seminar "How does the voluntary engagement of young people enhance their active citizenship and solidarity?"

European Youth Centre, Budapest

Monday, 5 July  2004

Morning

• Opening of the Research Seminar by Peter Lauritzen, Head of Department for Education, Training, Research and Communication, Directorate of Youth and Sport, Council of Europe and Karin Lopatta-Loibl, Youth Unit, European Commission
• Context of the Seminar  by Bryony Hoskins, Youth Research Officer, Directorate for Youth and Sports, Council of Europe
• Keynote by Kate Stanley (Institute for Public Policy Research) - A UK perspective on youth volunteering and active citizenship
• Keynote by Regine Schroer (AVSO) -  Development of International Youth Voluntary Service in the EU Comparison of programme and policy development in Germany, Italy, France, Czech Republic and Poland

Afternoon

Panel 1 –Exploring the links between volunteering and citizenship chaired by Roisin McCabe (Youth Forum)

• Voluntary activities and Civil Learning – Findings of a Preparatory Survey for a European Case Study by Gerd Mutz (Munich Institut for Social Science)
• Youth and voluntary services sector in the context of the Spanish Welfare State by Almudena Morena Minguez (University of Valladolid )
• Volunteering development in Birmingham by Davina Goodchild (Birmingham Volunteer Action)

Tuesday, 6 July  2004

Morning

Panel 2 – Better understanding and knowledge of voluntary activities chaired by Bryony Hoskins (Youth Research Officer, Directorate for Youth and Sports, Council of Europe)

• Case study on “who is volunteering in Scotland” by Diane Machin (Youth Link Scotland)
• An inventory of Youth Voluntary Service possibilities and their impact by Maria-Magdalena Cretu (CCIVS)
• Analysis of the Questionnaires from the Open Method of coordination by Karin Lopatta-Loibl (European Commission)

Panel 3 – Facilitating voluntary activities - exploring the obstacles to young people’s participation in voluntary activities (mobility/visa issues, gender stereotypes or young/single families, economic conditions, etc...) chaired by Helen Colley - (Leeds University)

• Public-Private Obstacles to Voluntary Service and Citizenhip by Brian Gran (Case Western Reserve University)
• Facilitate voluntary activities – exploring the obstacles to young people’s participation in voluntary activities (mobility / visa issues, gender stereotypes or young / single families, economic conditions) by Anna Musiala
• Recruiting minority volunteers by Vincent Guibert

Afternoon

Panel 4 – Recognising voluntary activities chaired byLinds Pexton (SCI )

• Recreational Activity Study Book system as a tool for Certification of youth non-formal and informal learning in Finland by Kirsi Airaksinen – (YOUTH ACADEMY)
• Volunteering and Benefits for Youth Employment by Risto Karajkov (Balkan Children and Youth Foundation)
• Recognition of voluntary activities – focusing on what young people learn from voluntary activities and how this can be recognised by Agnieszka Moskwiak

Panel 5 – Development and promotion of voluntary activities chaired by Anthony Azzopardi (University of Malta)

• New methods to evaluate voluntary experiences by Kateryna Shalayeva (Kyiv University)
• Learning by leaving: the notion of quality in placements abroad by Soren Kristensen
• Impact study on Action 2 (European Voluntary Service) of the Youth Programme in Poland by Dominik Mytkowski

Wednesday, 7 July 2004 

Morning

Working groups on recommendations of seminar participants

• Working group 1: Citizenship
• Working group 2: Obstacles
• Working group 3: Recognition and promotion

Afternoon

• Recommendations and Conclusions
• Presentation of recommendations by working group leaders
• Closing of the Seminar by Peter Lauritzen Head of Department for Education, Training, Research and Communication, Directorate of Youth and Sport, Council of Europe and Karin Lopatta-Loibl, Youth Unit, European Commission

Booklet of papers presented during the seminar