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<\/p>\nFrom 5th to 7th December 2011 the Polish National Agency of the Youth in Action Programme\u00a0together with the\u00a0SALTO Eastern Europe and Caucasus Resource Centre\u00a0invited stakeholders of international volunteering in\u00a0Eastern Europe and Caucaus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russian Federation and Ukraine) to \u201eEastern Dimension of Volunteering\u201d Forum in Warsaw to share their experience and to discuss together their challenges and opportunities.<\/p>\n
Analysing\u00a0current practice and resources\u00a0of different programmes of international volunteering\u00a0available for beneficiaries from Eastern Europe and Caucasus, the topic of the Forum and its programme were mainly dedicated to the International Volunteer Day and as a result they were focused on the following issues:<\/p>\n
–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reflecting and discussing different\u00a0understandings of the international volunteering<\/p>\n
–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Exploring the\u00a0impact of the international volunteering\u00a0on the different stakeholders involved<\/p>\n
–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Highlighting challenges for international volunteering specific\u00a0for the region of\u00a0the Eastern Europe and Caucasus<\/p>\n
–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Defining the\u00a0opportunities of development\u00a0of international volunteering in Eastern Europe and Caucasus region<\/p>\n
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Participants discussed the reasons for becoming a volunteer, differences between international and national volunteering, local impact of these programmes and criteria of successful projects. There was also a very fruitful discussion about international professional volunteering during which participants tried to determine who can be a professional volunteer, which experiences and practice he\/she has to pass on to future generations of volunteers.<\/p>\n
It was agreed that nowadays many young people search for personal development through volunteering as main opportunities, possible to get by being a volunteer, are positive experiences, networking, teamwork and new knowledge.<\/p>\n
Eastern Partnership Project was presented to participants during the panel discussion devoted to Eastern Partnership and Youth. General impression from the project was positive, supported by representatives from European Commission and other European NGOs.<\/p>\n
Representative from EU-CoE youth partnership programme Marta M\u0119dlinska<\/strong> presented report on research of youth volunteering and youth work in Eastern Europe and Caucasus countries. She concluded that youth work is largely unrecognized and undefined in these countries, and that there is an essential lack of youth research and great variation between countries in terms of legislation on youth.<\/p>\n Sophie Lemel<\/strong> and Rita Mockute<\/strong> from EACEA (European Commission) provided a lot of information about Eastern Partnership Youth Window and claimed for more applications, since in 2012 the European Commission is going to distribute unprecedented amount of money to finance exchanges with Eastern Europe and the Caucasus (EEAC) countries, which will be allocated from the European Neighbourhood Policy Instrument (ENPI).<\/p>\n Final word and official closure of the forum was given by Tomasz Bratek<\/strong>, Head of the Polish National Agency of the Youth in Action Programme, with hope that results of the forum will inspire the participants to take up new challenges and work for the sake of young people.<\/p>\n Interested in our topic? Find out more in the Eastern Partnership Project Newsletter: http:\/\/www.intranet.aegee.org\/group_file\/view\/18158\/2938<\/a><\/p>\n Written by Daryna Skryl, Eastern Partnership Project<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From 5th to 7th December 2011 the Polish National Agency of the Youth in Action Programme\u00a0together with the\u00a0SALTO Eastern Europe and Caucasus Resource Centre\u00a0invited stakeholders of international volunteering in\u00a0Eastern Europe and Caucaus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russian Federation and Ukraine) to \u201eEastern Dimension of Volunteering\u201d Forum in Warsaw to share their experience and to discuss together their challenges and… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[298],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2809,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions\/2809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}