European conferences

These conferences have been the occasion for iriv to present its works towards Academic colleagues, associative managers and public servants (Ministeries , public agencies and local authorities)

2010

Université de Durham

International Conference internationale "University -Community Collaboration"

Durham, UK, 9th and 10th of September 2010

2009

Hellenic Open University,

International Conference "The role and prospects of Cultural Mediation"

Patras, Greece, 9th of October 2009

IMS Luxembourg,

Conference "Valoriser les acquis de l'expérience bénévole

Luxembourg, 30th of April 2009

Croix Rouge de Belgique,

Conference "Volontaires et salariés du non-marchand "

Brusells, Belgium, 6th of March 2009

2008

Cermes et Institut ethnologique (Université de Sofia),

European conference, "Migration in and from South Eastern Europe"

Sofia , Bulgaria, 2nd and 3rd of June 2008

Association des femmes cap-verdiennes

Symposyum "Associazionismo capoverdiano in Italia e nel mondo : bilancio e prospettive"

Rome, Italy, 30 th of March 2008

 
2007

Han Université,

Final Conference , European Ldv project "VPL 2"

Nijmegen, Netherlands, 11th to 14th of September 2007

Université de Vienne,

European seminar "Citizenship, participation and Volunteering in Europe"

Vienna, Austria, 16th to 20th of April 2007.

2006

CIMO - Agence Socrates - Leonardo da Vinci

Informal Conference of European Ministries for Education

Helsinki , Finland, 5th of December 2006

Agence du bénévolat du Luxembourg

European seminar, "La politique du bénévolat au sein des associations"

Luxembourg, 6 th of October 2006

2005

Agence Socrates - Leonardo da Vinci

European conference for launching the Europass, France

Paris, France, 16 th of December 2005

2004

Agence Socrates - Leonardo da Vinci

European conference "The Europe of Leonardo - contribution of the Leonardo da Vinci programme "

Bordeaux , France, 18th and 19 th of March 2004


2001

NPOE

International perspectives on Innovation in Senior Volunteerism

Utrecht , Netherlands, 22-23 March 2001

XVIth World Volunteer Conference

International conference, Workshop "Youth volunteering : issues & propopals"

Amsterdam , Netherlands, 16th of January 2001

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2010
Durham University, International conference "Community-University Collaborations: Exploring Models, Sharing Good Practice", Durham (UK), 9t and 10th of September 2009
The Durham University has organised an international conference proposed by Durham Phoenix, the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action and the Community and Academic Action Panel (CAAP) de BeaconNE.
The president of iriv proposed a contribution on the VAB project together with an article : VAB- Community University Collaboration
For futher information : flyer ou programme final
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2009

Hellenic Open University, International conference "The role and prospects of Cultural Mediation", Patras (Greece), 9th of October 2009
The Hellenic Open University (HOU) , has organised an international conference to present the results of the Leonardo da Vinci project TIPS initiated by the Italian University of Stidies Guglielmo Marconi together with Auxilium (Austria), Iriv (France), HOU (Greece) and the Tischner University (Poland). Academic participants came from Germany, Austria, France,Greece, Italy, Poland and Portugal.
The president of iriv delivered a speech on the future of migration in Europa and wrote an article Migration-Mediation in Europe
For futher information : http://tips.eap.gr/
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IMS Luxembourg, Conference "Valoriser les acquis de l'expérience bénévole ", Luxembourg (Luxembourg), 30th of April 2009
The Institute for Social Responsibility (IMS), created in 2006 , gathers firms in Luxembourg (such as Dexia, Bank of Luxembourg...) willing to enhance the social role of private sector in the siciety.
The IMS asked the president of iriv to present the issues of a volunteeing and the dimensions of assessing a voluntary experience (AVE) both on a personal and collective level. AVE is part of the social responsibility of firms that would accept to take into account knowledge, know how and skills/competences acquired outside the firm that might be used and valued in the yearly evaluation of their employees.
For any further information on the conference: : http://www.imslux.lu/fr/Agenda
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Red Cross from Belgium, Conference "Volunteers and paid-staff in the non profit sector ", Brussels (Belgium), 6th of March 2009
The belgian Red cross has been working with the University of Liège (South of Belgium) on the relationship between volunteers and paid staff among their teams. Experts of volunteering and representatives of the national societies of the Red Cross (in Europe and Africa) were invited to deliver a speech.
The president of iriv has presented the relation ship between volunteers and paid staff focussing on either complementarity or competition between both of them.
For any further information on the conference: leaflet together with the proceedings : actes

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2008
Cermes (New Bulgarian University) and Ethnographic Institute and Museum (Bulgarian Academy of Science), European Conference, "Migration in and from South Eastern Europe", Sofia (Bulgaria), 2nd and 3 rd June 2008
This conference was organised both by Cermes (New Bulgarian University) and the Ethnographic Institute and Museum (Bulgarian Academy of Science). It gathered representatives of European countries (from European Union : Austria, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Czeck Republic and Slovenia) and Balkanic countries willing to enter the European Union (Albania and former Yougoslavian countries such as Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia). It has been supported by the Federal Ministry of Science and Research of the Republic of Austria in the framework of its SEE science cooperation initiative. The Austrian partners were the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office (ASO) and the Asutrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BM.W_F).
The president of iriv presented the TIPS project focussing on the Lifelong Learning approach in the migration issues. This project will propose a training course for intercultural mediators , professionals working with migrants. She insisted on the innovative aspect of the project linked to the brand new profession and the new technology of infomation and communication it is using (TV-learning, mobile-learning and Internet learning). It should better answer the needs expressed by migrants.
For further information on the conference: programme , conference. For further information on the president of iriv's presentation: article TIPS Sofia 2008
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Association for women from Capo-Verde, Conference "Associazionismo capoverdiano in Italia e nel mondo : bilancio e prospettive", Rome (Italy), 30th of March 2008
This conference was organised for the XXth birthday of the Association for women from Capo-Verde in Italy. It has gathered reprentatives from the community of Capo-Verde in Italy, the Ambassador from Capo-Verde in Italy, the president from the institute for communities and all Capo-Verde associations settled in Italy (Rome, Firenze, Napoli, Genova...), the secretary for solidarity in Italy, Dr Cristina de Luca, Dr Renato Fricanco (Feo-Fivol), and the president of IRIV.
The president of iriv presented the results of two previous Europeen projects, Mem-Vol et Involve, dedicated to volunteering as a social and cultural way of integration for migrants and ethnics minorities together with the first national report for the Tips Project, on policies in the field of immigration and integration in France and Europe, focussing on the main issues for the future.
For further information: programme of the conference
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2007
Han Université , final conference Project "VPL 2", Nijmegen, 12th and 14 th of September 2007
This conference organised by the Han University (Netherlands) presented the results of the Leonardo da Vinci project VPL2 which gathered 11 countries : Netherlands (leader), Germany, Cyprus, France, Irland, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Czech Republic and UK.
Here is the final publication of the Vpl 2: publication finale together with the president of iriv's cntribution : VPL2
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University of Vienna, seminar "Citizenship, participation and Volunteering ", 16th to 20th of April 2007
This European seminar addressed students from Austria, Sweden, Czech Republic in Master 1, 2 and Doctorats at the University of Vienna (Austria)
The president of iriv proposed a Seminar " Citizenship, social involvement and volunteering" divided in 5 sessions : one on Civil society, session on Third Sector, session on Volunteering, session on Migrants volunteering, session on Assessing a Voluntary Experience, University of Vienna (www.univie.ac.at), Summer Semester
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2006

Cimo - Agence Socrates-Leonardo, "Projects enhancing the Copenhagen process - From policy to practice", Helsinki, 5 December 2006
The Socrates - Leonardo da Vinci Agency of Finland together with the Center for International Mobility (CIMO) have organised a conference to make a statement and prepare the future of the European cooperation in the field of Vocational Education and Training (VET). On this occasion, 10 European projects, selected among 157 Leonardo da Vinci projects (2000-2006), in 31 countries, were awarded.
Dr France Huntzinger, professor at the University of the Maine, partner of the AVE project , delivered a speech on behalf of the president of iriv when receiving the award for excellent practice in addressing the priorities of the Copenhagen process and promoting and enhanced European cooperation in VET ( www.eEuropeassociations.net.)
For further information : invitation ou programme

Sélection of the AVE project - leaflet of first selection - 50 examples of best practice in Europe - 10 awarded projects - Helsinki awards 2006
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Agence du bénévolat du Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 6 th of October 2006
The national Agency for Volunteering organised a conference on the strategy in matter of volunteering .
The president of iriv proposed an analysis on different topics : definition of volunyeering, framework for volunteers, 3 crucial issues : recruitment, training, assessing....
For further information http://www.benevolat.lu
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2005
 
Socrates-Leonardo Agency , "Europass - National Conference ", Paris, 16 th of December 2005
The Socrates - Leonardo da Vinci agency in France and the National Centre Europass have organised the launching conference for Europass..
Presentation byt he president of Iriv at the Workshop "Perspectives of development of thePortfolio Europass". She presented the portfolio developed through the AVE project (see AVE in a professional perspective)
For further information on Europass http://europass.cedefop.eu.int and on the conference : www.socrates-leonardo.fr
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2004
Socrates -Leonardo da Vinci agency, " Leonardo's Europe ", University of Victor Segalen , Bordeaux, 18th and 19th of March 2004.
European conference on transparency and validation of skills in Europe - the contribution of the Leonardo da Vinci programme.
Presentation by the president of iriv of the AVE in a professional perspective project (cf AVE ) in the Workshop 3 "Make competences visible in the enterprises, chaiiman : Jos Noesen, (Ministry for Education, Luxembourg), with Claudia Desnos (Mobilux, Romania), Torbjorn Bergane (Vox, Norway), Francis Minet (Didaction Conseil, France), Carlo Parietti (Agenquadri, CGIL, Italy). The president of iriv insisted on the suspicion of incomptency towards voluntary experiences and developped the goals and further developments of her project in 7 European countries (France, Austria, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Poland , United Kingdom)
For further information see programme and the website of the Socrates Leonardo da Vinci agency
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2001
Npoe , "International perspectives on Innovation in Senior Volunteerism, Utrecht, 22-23 mars 2001 
A European seminar proposed by NPOE- Netherlands Platform Older People and Europe. The aim was to think of the European and international perspectives of Senior volunteering. Attended the seminar Ger Tielen and Fritz Bösenberg (NPOE), Bénédicte Halba (iriv), Jürgen Schumacher (Isis), Laura Wilson and Jack Steele (University of Maryland, Etats-Unis)
The president of iriv proposed a paper on "Senior Volunteering : a European and innovative approach to Ageing and Ability". The main aim of the seminar was to present the background and on going projects, key issues for proposing a European project on Senior Volunteering in the framawork of the fifth Framework Programme for Research, Technological, Development and Demonstration (1998-2002) promoted by teh European Commission, Key Action 6 "The ageing population and disabilities" which adopts a problem-solving approach in which it aims to put research to work to meet the challenges posed by both the ageing of individuals and the ageing of society.
For further information on the topic Senior Volunteering
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XVIth World Volunteer Conference , "Youth volunteering", Amsterdam, 16 th of January 2001 
The XVIth World Conference on Volunteering was organised by the IAVE and the Dutch Center for Volunteering in Amsterdam with the Dutch Minister Wim Kok and the president of IAVE, Kenn Allen, with an opening speech of Kofi Annan. More than 100 countries attended the confrence.
The president of iriv delivered a speech together with her German colleague Juergen Schumacher (ISIS), Italian colleague Tiziana Cruziani (FIVOL) and Spanish colleague Kristin Sverdrup (AEVOL) on Youth volunteering. The workshop was meatn to present the results of the European project initiated and directed by iriv : Youth volunteering
For further information on the conference : programme and workshop Youth Volunteering
For further information on the project Youth volunteering and the publication : Volunteering : an opportunity for youngsters in Europe
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