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Volunteering

Many people choose to get involved in a variety of voluntary activities in an effort to play an active role in our social fabric. Volunteering, unpaid engagement, civic engagement – these are some of the names given to this phenomenon. Across Europe, there are different approaches to measuring volunteering and thus making it susceptible to statistical analysis. Also the legal environment for volunteering varies considerably between individual EU member states. Some countries have a concrete legal framework applying to volunteering. In others, it is regulated under general laws. Some member states are currently in the process of developing their own legal framework.

Volunteering in Hospice and Palliative Care

Demographic developments in Europe pose challenges to hospice and palliative care, especially with regards to an increasing number of people to be accompanied. Volunteering therefore plays an important role in hospice and palliative care. Against this background, a working paper discusses i.a. the following questions: What does the organisation and coordination of volunteering in hospice and palliative care in France and Poland look like? What are the tasks of volunteers? How are they trained? And how can volunteers be recruited and tied to their volunteering work in the future?

  • Merkle, Maike
    2018
    Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in France and in Poland
    PDF-Dokument
    Working Paper No. 19

Volunteering in Europe

What strategies do European countries apply to promote volunteering? How can volunteering be measured? How to achieve a better recognition of volunteer work? And what impulses to social innovation can be given by volunteering? These questions were addressed in the European Expert Meeting “Volunteering in Europe”.

  • Hoyer, Sören
    2014
    Volunteering in Europe – International Exchange About Concepts and Benefits to Society
    PDF-Dokument
    Documentation of the expert discussion on 13 and 14 January 2014 in Berlin.
  • Böckenhoff, Anke / Sittermann-Brandsen, Birgit
    2013
    Civic Commitment: Measuring, Assessing and Acknowledging the Value of Volunteer Work
    PDF-Dokument (accessible)
    Newsletter No. 2/2013
  • Angermann, Annette
    2011
    Senior Citizens and Volunteering in the European Union
    PDF-Dokument
    Background Paper of the Observatory for Sociopolitical Developments in Europe.
  • Sittermann, Birgit
    2011
    Volunteering in the European Union: An Overview of National Differences in the EU Member States
    PDF-Dokument
    In: Farrer, Linden und William Lay (Hrsg.): Spotlights on Contemporary Family Life. Families in Europe, Volume 2, p. 169-175.
  • Angermann, Annette / Sittermann, Birgit
    2010
    Volunteering in the Member States of the European Union – Evaluation and Summary of Current Studies
    PDF-Dokument
    Working Paper no. 5
  • Angermann, Annette / Sittermann, Birgit
    2010
    Volunteering in the European Union – An Overview
    PDF-Dokument
    Working Paper no. 2
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