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| | Two Minds Project
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The project focuses on family mediation seen as a tool to prevent and manage family conflicts, in which children, minors and other vulnerable groups can become the primary victims of violence. In Europe today there is on average one divorce every three marriages celebrated; and the average duration of a marriage is 12 years. It is estimated that there are over a million children involved in families which have broken up. Thus, the ultimate beneficiaries of the project are the children of families which are at risk because of high conflictual levels in the couple, including cases of separation and divorce. The project intends to build a network of people involved in family mediation - mediators, represenattives of the public auhthorities and voluntary organisations as well as judges, lawyers, social workers to share experiences encouraging nonviolent relationships in the family and promote positive parental skills. The project also intends to develop and adapt a training package created in a previous Daphne projects which was coordinated by CNV together with 3 partners. The training package is mainly for family mediators, it will also address public employees (teachers, social workers, and representatives of institutions) and the third sector (all of whom deal with the family, and violence on minors - also volunteers and voluntary organizations), in order for them to promote specific initiatives for parents of families experiencing a crisis caused by internal conflict or “external” reasons, such as separations due to migration processes especially from Eastern European countries.
Volunteers and volunteer centres can play an important role in the family mediation. Both volunteers and voluntary organizations work with the most vulnerable groups and in deprived areas so they identify the problems and conflicts at an early stage and direct families towards mediators (mediations centers and crisis centers) and vice versa by informing mediators, judges, courts, social services about a need for meditation in families at risk.
Detailed information about the project (information on family mediation in Europe, objectives, partners, phases and other supporting documents) you can find here: http://www.centrovolontariato.net/daphne/index.htm
 | LACE Project |
LACE focused on the transition of senior citizens of the so-called baby boomer generation from work life to retirement with the need to define a new role for themselves. LACE compared existing programmes in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany aiming at volunteer involvement of older citizens and explored the transferability of these initiatives to other countries such as Ireland, Slovenia and Italy. This project started in October 2005 and was funded through the GRUNDTVIG programme of the European Commission. CEV was part of the advisory committee to this project. For further information please check LACE website.
 | ENGAGE campaign |
Key Aims:
- To raise awareness of the benefits of employee engagement to business and communities
- Inspire international companies, wherever they operate, to increase the quality and extent of their employee engagement
- Build the capacity of business and civil society to make their employee engagement effective and impactful
To learn more about ENGAGE campaign please click here.
In September 2004, CEV members participated in a seminar on effective employee engagement and partnership of volunteer organisations with corporates. Trainers from "Business in the Community", CIVIQ Netherlands and IBM reflected on different ways of collaboration between volunteer centers and the corporate sector providing tools and advice based on their professional experience.
For the Survey on the Attitudes and Priorities of Volunteer Organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations vis-à-vis Employee Engagement in Europe, Conclusions and Final Remarks, click here.
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 | cevYOUTH |
The three days event took place in Freiburg, Germany in September 2005 and gathered 22 participants from 11 different countries. Three types of activities were proposed to the participants:
- contact making and cross-cultural learning
- theoretical training on Youth Programme
- project development.
Two projects were further developed in 2006 as a result of this seminar: a training course on EVS in Dublin (Ireland), and an experts seminar on the promotion of Youth Volunteering in Scotland.
