European Partner Finding Seminar “Volunteering and voluntary services in Europe – creating more opportunities for cross-border volunteering for young people”

Dear partners in the field of volunteering, we would like to invite you on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth for the European Partner Finding Seminar “Volunteering and voluntary services in Europe – creating more opportunities for cross-border volunteering for young people”. Target group are volunteering organisations which would like to start or to increase the hosting/sending of volunteers across the border. This does not at the first place refer to European Voluntary Service (EVS), but rather to national services which are open to volunteers from other EU countries or to any other volunteer scheme or activity which could be opened or is open for volunteers from other countries. See more details in the attached programme. Due to financial restrictions we would like to address the invitation to a number of selected organisations from Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Russian Federation, Spain and United Kingdom. This Partner Finding Seminar is the follow up of the international high-level seminar “Creation of new opportunities for cross-border mobility of young volunteers in Europe”, held 22./23. September 2011 in Berlin. It aims to contribute to create more possibilities for volunteers to do cross-border voluntary services or activities. Organisations need to fill attached pre-questionnaire for a successful application. For registration for the seminar please use the online-application on: http://www.jugendfuereuropa.de/fortbildung/fortbildungskalender/874 The application will be open until 30th of October; all applicants will be informed directly after. Feel free to forward this invitation to voluntary organisations or your partners from the participating countries.