Summary and aims of the project:
 
The “Mobility project” is supported by the European Union, to encourage cross-border mobility and international cooperation by volunteers aged 50 and over in the countries of the European Union
 
The three main objectives are: to create a network for exchanging good practice among volunteers, to develop and extend training work, to promote new voluntary initiatives through international exchanges.
 
‘Project Mobility’ is open to everyone! All Councils, Conferences and Vincentian volunteers from member countries of the European Union are invited to take part. Non-Vincentians are also invited to take advantage of this project.

In 2006, the Italian National Council decided to provide a few days’ training every year around 1st May, with the help of some SVP members, in order to share their experience as Vincentian family Conferences.
These are a new type of Conference, whose members are parents with young families. They organise the work of the Conference to suit their families, including the children in their activities, along with the parents, such as making home visits. This was an opportunity to organise the first of the study visits for the Mobility Project. Two couples, aged around sixty, one Belgian, one Hungarian, visited Marina di Massa from 30 April to 4 May this year.

Where are we with this project?

	Project Summary
	Summary Meeting in Salamanca - June 2008
	Summary Meeting in Paris - November 2008
	Summary Meeting in Paris - March 2009
	Summary Meeting in Paris - October 2009
	Minutes of meeting of Volunteers network for “Mobility Project – Golden Age” - Wednesday 12 May 2010 Paris, France

Be inspired by the work of your fellow volunteers!  
You will find below a list of projects to consider. There are of course many more to choose from, with a wide range of topics from one country or town to another. You can choose a study visits that matches your own interests.

Be inspired by the work of your fellow volunteers. Choose, check out, offer your services.... !

The reports of exchange trips

Read the reports of study trips of your fellow volunteers and discover how the European cross-border exchanges have them motivated more in their future actions of social voluntary work! Henceforth, of return in their countries, they want to realize new projects in their district, to build a sustainable cooperation with Italian, French, Rumanian or Irish fellow volunteers, but also to make sensitive new old persons in the voluntary work and to give them a real envy to act with the poorest..

	“Visits to Local Projects” England & Wales – Italy
	“Hostel for homeless women” Austria – Germany
	Concert by Children Living with Disabilities - Miskolc - Hungary
	Family Confrence - Marina di Massa - Italy
	Organisation of Volunteer Work at Regional Level - Northern Ireland - France
	Creation of an exchange network among volunteers - Romania - Austria
	To strengthen existing collaboration & integration of young roma - France - Romania
	Visit to local projects of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Scotland - Hungary - Scotland
	Centre for the Profoundly Deaf - England – Romania
	Prison Visiting - Austria – Scotland

	National Contacts
	Registration form

	Marina Kadner - Project manager, General Council
	Marie Grosjean - Assistant project manager, General Council

This project is supported by the European Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity (2007-2013).
The information contained in this publication does not necessarily reflect the position or opinion of the European Commission