Global Society
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Youth for environment (Czech Republic/Malgorzata from Poland; Beatrise from Latvia) Malgorzata spent a year (2008/2009) as a volunteer at the Youth for Environment (YEE) headquarters in Toulcuv Dvur, Czech Republic, with another volunteer Beatrise. |
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Foundations for the next generation (Germany/Marisa from Portugal) Marisa, a law graduate, spent 10 months in 2009 as a volunteer in Oberursel, Germany, working on global responsibilities towards the next generation. |
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WINNER: Vulture monitoring (Greece/Luisa from Spain; Emeline from France; Zoe from the UK) Luisa had already experienced working with eagles and other raptors in her home country before she decided to work as a volunteer looking after black vultures in the Dadia Forest, Greece, with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). |
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Promoting a solidarity-based economy (Luxembourg/Agnes from Hungary) Agnes’s combined interests in multiculturalism and alternative ways of running the world’s economy prompted her to apply to spend a year (2008/2009) working on an international conference in Schifflange on this theme. |
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Fighting climate change (Hungary/Pablo from Spain) Pablo worked as a volunteer in Budapest, Hungary, promoting work to combat climate change and highlighting ways to protect the natural environment. |
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Caring for turtles (Malta/Karin from Finland; Angela from Italy) Karin and Angela spent a year (2009/2010) as volunteers in San Lucjan, Malta, helping to rehabilitate turtles that are caught in fishermen’s nets. |
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Combating racism and discrimination (Netherlands/Sergey from Ukraine) Sergey, a researcher with the Jewish Foundation of Ukraine, spent a year (2008/2009) as a volunteer organising exhibitions at the Anne Frank House (AFH) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. |
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Working with refugees (Austria/Andrei from Moldova) Andrei had never been involved in social work before spending 12 months (2009/2010) as a volunteer in the Caritas Home for Refugees in Salzburg, Austria, helping asylum-seekers. |
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Protecting nature (Portugal/Katharina from Germany) In 2009, Katharina spent six months as a volunteer working in nature preservation and fieldwork on the Alvor estuary in Portugal. |
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Mending nature trails (Iceland/Reg from Belgium; Alexandre from France, Marta from Spain; Nicola from Italy; Alistair, Carmel, Rachel and Margaret from the UK) Reg, an artist from Belgium, spent eight months (2008/2009) as a volunteer carrying out conservation work in Iceland with seven other volunteers. |
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Empowering underprivileged youngsters (EACEA/Petra, Masa and Maja from Slovenia; Ulrike, Cassandra and Stephany from Germany; Ashleigh and Stacey from Wales (UK); Paula, Gabriela and Martin from the Czech Republic)Petra, spent almost seven months (2009/2010) with 10 other volunteers working with disadvantaged children in Ghana. |
Innovative Society
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Fostering a democratic society (Bulgaria/Rebekka from Germany) Rebekka spent 11 months as a volunteer with the Association for Democratic Education (FAR) in Burgas, Bulgaria, contributing to the development of stable democracies in South-Eastern Europe.
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Kindergarten work with disadvantaged children (Denmark/Anne, Camilla, Lina and Thomas from Denmark) Anne and three other volunteers spent seven months (2009/2010) working in a kindergarten in Berlin. |
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The power of theatre (Estonia/Irina, Maria, Vadim and Andrei from Estonia)Irina and three others volunteered for two months in 2010 in the Alternative Theatre Festival, Faces without Masks, in Skopje, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. |
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Young workers on stage (France/Elisa from Italy) Elisa had already been on a youth exchange to Ireland before starting her year (2009/2010) as a volunteer in Redon, France, where she staged a play with young people. |
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Promoting volunteering (Italy/Sofia from Spain; Lara from Germany, Natasha from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) Lara and spent 11 months (2008/2009) in Varese, Italy, promoting volunteering and the areas where it operates: support for health and social care, people’s rights, cultural and environmental heritage and the fight against xenophobia. |
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Street theatre for social change (Romania/Andreea from Romania) Andreea spent a year (2009/2010) as a volunteer in Istanbul, Turkey, using the participative arts – theatre, street animation, music and dance – to promote the principles of global responsibility and active citizenship. |
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Art and the environment (Slovakia/Ints from Latvia) Ints spent 11 months (2008) working on a theatre project in Zilina-Zariecie, Slovakia, where he volunteered alongside professionals on the construction of a new theatre made entirely from natural and recycled materials. |
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WINNER: Healing sectarian wounds (UK/Sabrina from Spain; José Miguel from Italy) Sabrina and Jose worked for a year (2009/2010) with young people in Northern Ireland, building democratic communities there by working with young people and adults to encourage active citizenship. |
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Working with the unemployed (Liechtenstein/Inga from Latvia) Inga wanted to gain experience in social work and chose to spend six months in 2008 as a volunteer working with the unemployed in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. |
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Helping the needy (Turkey/James and Elisabeth from Denmark; Angelika from Austria; Leilani from the Netherlands; Christina from Germany; Samuel from the UK) Six volunteers spent 6 months (2009/2010) helping with the work of the Aile Eğitim Derneği (AED), an educational organisation established in 2006 with the aim of helping anyone in need, in Istanbul, Turkey. |
Inclusive Society
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Bringing together multicultural neighbourhoods (Belgium FR/Clara from Germany) Clara spent a year (2009/2010) as a volunteer at the Jozef Swinnen community centre, located in a fairly run-down neighbourhood to the north of Brussels, Belgium, with a large immigrant population. |
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Helping unemployed youngsters to integrate (Belgium FL/Alessandro from Italy) Alessandro, who lives in a community centre for young people whose social problems prevent them from easily finding regular employment, found an organisation in Kortessem, Belgium, where he spent seven months (2008/2009) working as a volunteer on a farm. |
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Enriching the lives of the disabled (Belgium DE/Barbara from Austria; Jurgita from Lithuania) Barbara and Jurgita spent a year (2007/2008) helping to enrich the lives of physically and mentally disabled young people in Eupen, the capital city of the German-speaking community of Belgium. |
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Teaching the disadvantaged (Ireland/Jamie from Ireland) Jamie, who had grown up in care in her native land, spent six months in 2009 as a volunteer working in a community for the disadvantaged in Cesis, Latvia. |
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Disabled people’s contribution to society (Spain/Jairo from Spain) In spite of his cerebral palsy, Jairo travelled to Germany from his centre for the disabled in Spain and spent a month as a volunteer at the Senator Neumann Heim (home for the disabled) in Hamburg in 2010. |
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Caring for the blind (Cyprus/Judith from Germany) Judith, a student of ethnology in the university of Leipzig in Germany, spent nine months in 2009 as a volunteer in Nicosia, Cyprus, working in the Pancyprian Organisation of the Blind. |
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WINNER: Challenging young people (Latvia/Andrea, Megan and Sam from Ireland; Kadri and Lina from Estonia; Hanna and Miika from Finland; Stefano from Italy) Eight volunteers, each with social and economic obstacles, learning difficulties and behavioural problems, took part in a project in Cesis, Latvia, to support young people who have experienced hardship in integrating into adult and working life. |
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The University of Life (Lithuania/Isa Dorothea from Germany; Patricia and Inger from Estonia; Pierre from France; Annunziata from Italy; Pablo from Spain; Anna from Armenia; Diana from Belarus; Ninu from Georgia; Julia and Tatiana from Moldova; Jevgeniia from Ukraine) A dozen young people spent a year (2008/2009) working as a volunteer Kaunus and Jonava, Lithuania, catering for refugees, children and young people with physical and mental disabilities, and old people. |
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Improving life for the disabled (Poland/Maria from Armenia) Maria had previously visited the centre for disabled children and young people in Ustroń, Poland, before she started her year-long service there as a volunteer in 2009/2010. |
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Learning through play (Slovenia/Timotheos from Greece; Aldin from Bosnia and Herzegovina) Timotheos and Aldin spent almost six months in 2010 working as volunteers in the Janez Levec Special Education Centre in Ljubljana, Slovenia, caring for for children and young people with mental disabilities, learning or behavioural problems. |
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Working with disabled people (Finland/Zrinko from Croatia; Bianca from Germany; Zsurzsa from Hungary; Firat from Turkey) Zrinko spent a year (2008/2009) in Lyhty, Finland, working alongside other volunteers from around Europe at a centre caring for the disabled in a creative learning environment. |
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Cheering the lives of young people (Sweden/Neslin from Turkey) Neslin volunteered for a year (2009/2010) with disabled young people in Sundsval, Sweden. |
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Helping disabled students integrate (Norway/Marcel and Lydia from Germany; Carollen from the Netherlands; Joseba from Spain; Lena from Austria) These five young people spent a year (2008/2009) as volunteers in Selbustrand, Norway, working at a boarding school for over 18-year-olds, most of whom have some form of mental disability. |
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Working for peaceful co-existence (Croatia/Krzysztof from Poland) Krzysztof chose to spend two months in 2009 as a volunteer with the Youth Peace Group’Danube’ in Vukovar, Croatia, an ancient city on the border with Serbia which was devastated during the war in 1990 and still faces tensions between the two communities making up the majority of its population. |
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Supporting the visually impaired (EACEA/Costica from Romania) Costica, who is blind, spent four months (2009/2010) as a volunteer in Liege, Belgium, helping in a school for deaf and visually impaired children and youngsters, aged 3-21. |
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