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The EU financed Mobility project ends
November 30, 2010
In order to
assure the sustainability of the project an exchange manual is to ensure that
the results of the project will be shared. The exchange manual provides advice
and best practice and provides stage by stage procedures to follow in order to
organise international volunteer exchanges.
November 30
is not the end of the Mobility project. On the opposite this is the beginning
of the project standing on its own feet and making use of the structures and
networks that have been established in the past years.
Michel
Bouly (Belgium) and Maurizio
Ceste (Italy)
have been nominated as points of reference to steer the future of the Mobility
project.
A project for European volunteers aged 50 plus!
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.
There are 3 possible types of visits:
- “Study visit”: 3 to 5 people go for 3 or 4 days. The participants share in the on-going work of the voluntary groups that they visit. It may also allow volunteers to study particular projects that they would like to implement in their own community when they get home.
- “Older experts programme”: 1 or 2 people, for 1 to 4 weeks. Individual volunteers offer their skills to help a voluntary group with a specific topic. For example, provide administrative training, help to set up a new local project, etc.
- “Short, international visits”: 5 to 20 people go for 1 or 2 days. General visits are organised to meet groups of volunteers in a neighbouring country (several stages, including social events, cooperative visits, etc.)
The groups decide on the type and duration of each trip.
Example of a project which Italy initiated
 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?
Onward the volunteers!
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.
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..
How do I register?
Who do I contact?
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
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