7. SLOVENE CONGRESS OF VOLUNTEERS

»The role of Volunteers in Alleviating the Impact of Poverty«

Thursday, February 4, 2010

9:00 – 9:30Registration and coffee

9:30 – 10:00Opening and welcomes

prim. Anica Mikuš Kos, the President of Slovene Philanthropy

Barbara Miklič Türk, the Ambasador of Voluntary work

10:00 – 10:15Achievements between two Congresses – report of the Slovene Philanthropy and Non-governmental working group for system regulation of Voluntary work

10:15 – 12:00Introductory reports: “The role of Volunteers in Alleviating the Impact

of Poverty”

Anja Kopač Mrak, State secretary of Ministry of Labor, Family and Social

Affairs;

Janez Matoh, the Head of projects of Voluntarily Sports’ Organizations in

Slovenia;

Discussion

12:00 – 13:30Lunch break

13:30 – 15:30Group work, Part 1.

  • YOUTH VOLUNTEERING
  • VOLUNTEERING OF ELDERLY
  • VOLUNTEERING FOR VOULNARABLE GROUPS
  • HUMAN RIGHTS AND VOLUNTEERING
  • INTERGENERATIONAL VOLUNTEERING

13:30 – 18:30Programs of volunteering on Territories of Western Balkans – part 1

(Part 2, with the break)

Representatives of partner organizations from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Monte Negro, Kosovo and Serbia

15:30 – 16:00Break

16:00 – 16:45Voluntary work today

Activities in the field of development and promotion of voluntary work

16:45 – 18:30Group work, Part 2.

We will try to seek for possible solutions to system regulation of Voluntary work

  • REVIEW OF VOLUNTARY WORK
  • REAWARDS FOR VOLUNTEERS
  • EVALUATION AND THE VALUE OF VOLUNTARY WORK
  • REGULATION OF VOLUNTARY WORK IN HOSPITALS
  • EXPANSION OF PROFESSIONAL VOLUNTARY WORK

19:00Dinner and get together

Social evening, presentation of the movie “To be a woman in Uganda” and exhibition in the frame of Millennium development goals “Stand up and take action!”

Friday,February 5, 2010

9:00 – 9:30Review of the first day of the Congress

9:30 – 11:30Round table »The role of the State and Voluntary organizations in

Development of Voluntarism«

Invited: Irma Pavlinčič – Krebs, Ministry of Public Administration, Jožef Školč,

Secretary of the Government,, Mateja Ušlakar, the representative of the

Ministry of Labor, Family and Social Affairs, Tereza Novak, the Slovene

Philanthropy, Senka Vrbica, PIC, Helena Zevnik, Slovene Caritas, Goran Forbici,

Center of Non – Governmental Organizations - CNVOS

11:30 – 11:45Break

11:45 – 13:00Theme »How to evaluate the power of volunteering?«

Discussion

13:00 – 14:00Conclusions of the Congress

The Congress will be moderated by Boštjan Klun,the Ambasador of Voluntary work.

Obisk udeležencev iz Zahodnega Balkana je omogočil: East East:Partnership Beyond Borders Program, local foundation and/ or Open Society Institute