Conferences

International, national and local volunteering: what type of volunteering is most beneficial for students and the community?

Date: Monday 14 February 2011

Time: 3pm - 5pm, followed by a drinks reception until 6pm

Location: Central London

This event launches Student Volunteering Week 2011 (taking place 21 - 27 February). Now in its tenth year, Volunteering England's Student Volunteering Week, sponsored by Santander, brings organisations from all sectors together to celebrate volunteering by students in Further and Higher Education.

2011 is a high profile year for volunteering - with not only the European Year of Volunteering and the tenth anniversary of the UN's International Year of the Volunteer (IYV+10) taking place, but also the recruitment drive and training for thousands of volunteers for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Alongside this, the Coalition government is encouraging people to contribute to their local communities as part of their plans for the ‘Big Society'.

This leaves students with a number of options for volunteering, but which offers the most benefit for the student? This event will raise important questions about students and the community. Should students focus on volunteering abroad, which can require a substantial financial investment, or get involved with their local community in which they live? Is one ‘type' of volunteering more beneficial than another? What role does community play when students make their decision to volunteer? Should the focus of volunteering be on the students' local community or remote communities?

Join us, and a number of leading panellists, to discuss these questions and more as we launch Student Volunteering Week 2011. Places are limited so it will operate on a first come first served basis.

Cost - Free.

Book now!

To book your place, please email events@volunteering.org.uk with your name, job title, organisation and any access requirements by the deadline of Friday 4th February 2011.

The NCCPE are hosting their first national conference in December 2010. The conference will focus on the broad theme of why and how universities should engage the public. Day one will focus on HEI public engagement. Day two will feature student volunteering, informed by our vinspired students project.

The aim of the conference is provide an opportunity for people passionate about university public engagement to come together to share effective practice and to explore how to embed public engagement within HEIs. The conference is for university staff (including senior managers, academics, researchers, teaching staff, support staff), community partners, and students.

Content will include

• Launch of our Public Engagement Manifesto and associated resources - to help inspire universities to embrace engagement as part of their mission, and equip them to do so
• Case studies from the Beacons - focussing on embedding public engagement
• Workshops exploring relevant themes including: evaluation, impact, culture change, effective practice, funding etc
• Launch of our vinspired student manifesto and associated resources
• Case studies from the vinspired students pilot projects, national partnerships and research

The NCCPE would be interested to hear from anyone wanting to contribute a workshop to this event. Workshops should address one of the following themes:

• How universities have approached embedding public engagement (eg: reward and recognistion, support and infrastructure etc)
• Public engagement in practice: examples of effective public engagement projects
• How students have been involved in public engagement projects.

Please fill in the following form if you would like to take part, and send it to Sophie Duncan by 31 March 2010.

Booking for the conference will open in April 2010.

The GUNI 5^th International Barcelona Conference, 23^rd - 26^th November 2010, is designed to deepen the conceptual definition of the lines of change in higher education to respond to the challenges of sustainability, as well as to identify ways for action. Call for proposals of Good Practices to be submitted before Monday 31^st May 2010. Further informaton available at www.guninetwork.org/conference2010.

The 10th International Research Conference on Service Learning and Community Engagement will be held on the 28th October 2010 to the 31st October 2010 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. For more information visit: www.researchslce.org.

Call for Proposals: Friday, January 15th 2010 to March 22nd 2010 For further information please download this pdf.

Conference Location: Crowne Plaza at Historic Union Station, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

9^th Global Conference on National Youth Service

25-28 October 2010

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

(Library of Alexandria)

Alexandria, Egypt

The IANYS Global Conference on National Youth Service is an exciting opportunity for professionals in the field of youth development to come together to share information and current developments in the field. The 9th Global Conference will have tremendous benefits for youth civic engagement in the region and worldwide by providing a great platform for increased networking and collaboration and the opportunity to learn from other policymakers, practitioners and researchers from around the world.

Early registration will start in March and regular registration will open in April. More information will be available soon, including the preliminary conference agenda and online registration, at www.icicp.org/ianys

For more information on the Global Conferences and IANYS, please contact Jean Manney at Innovations in Civic Participation, the IANYS secretariat, at ianys@icicp.org and visit the IANYS website at www.icicp.org/ianys

The 19th Volonteurope Conference & 4th Edition of ACE Awards will take place in Athens, Greece, 21-24 October 2010 in partnership with the Greek NGO Praksis. More details and online registration will be available soon. For more information: www.csv.org.uk / www.volonteurope.org.uk

11th National Outreach Scholarship Conference, Hosted by North Carolina State University, USA

The 2010 Conference will explore authenticity and sustainability as critical components of engaged scholarship. The important questions of what, where, who, how, and why will be the foci of the 2010 Conference reflected in five tracks: Program, Place, People, Process, and Philosophy. These invite a diversity of perspectives and experiences reflecting the academy's authentic and sustained commitment to engaged discovery, learning, application, and integration. For further information: http://www.ncsu.edu/project/OPDWebSpace/2010OSC/index.html

The 8th ALARA (Action Learning & Action Research Association) World Congress will take place in Melbourne from 6^th - 9^th September 2010. It is a spectacular program with great speakers, lots of opportunities for conversations and learning and mutual exchanges of experiences. Please consider registering, presenting, joining in the on-line pre-congress stream discussions, and letting all others who may be interested in these approaches - or who want to learn about them - know about the conference.

www.alara.net.au

Proudly hosted by the University of Tasmania, the AUCEA 2010 Conference will address key challenges faced by universities in increasing community participation and addressing social equity. This is quite a difference focus from previous conferences and is a must attend event for committed higher educators and their community partners. Conference themes and sessions will be designed to facilitate partnership collaborations with community partners having a role in poster presentations, community response panels and in chairing some sessions. Universities are encouraged to co-present with their partners (targeted partners to include local government, not-for-profit organisations, community groups, business, and individual community partners).

For further information please visit 2010 AUCEA National Conference website

The Rethinking Education for a Sustainable Ireland Conference will be held on Monday 31^st May in the Tipperary Institute, Thurles. It will bring together educators, learners, state and civil society organisations to challenge the dominant education paradigm, explore the education needed for developing resilience and sustainability and highlight and promote innovative and successful approaches to learning. It is part of the Convergence: Sustainable Living Festival which runs from Wednesday May 26^th to Tuesday June 1^st 2010.

Further information

The deadline for abstracts in English has been extended to Friday 11 June

About the conference

Education and Citizenship in a Globalising World is the third international education conference convened jointly by the Institute of Education (IOE), London and Beijing Normal University (BNU). The languages of the conference will be English and Mandarin Chinese.

The conference, addressing the challenges of education and citizenship in a globalising world, will be held on the IOE's campus in central London. It is expected to have a worldwide impact and it will be a truly international event, drawing together scholarship and experience, practice and perspective from across the globe.

Participants will have the opportunity to:
- interact with, and learn from, global leaders in the field of citizenship and education
- gain new perspectives in this challenging and important area or work
- network with colleagues from the UK, China and elsewhere
- experience central London.

The Campus Engage International Conference 2009 took place at Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin, Ireland on the 4th and 5th fo June 2009. For further information visit the conference website.