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The role of volunteering: lessons learned from the VOLPOWER experience
At the beginning of November, shortly before the introduction of soft lockdown measures, the Croatian Volpower team (IRMO) organized Volhub in Zagreb for volunteers and other amateur actors from the Forum Theater. Zagreb Volhub consisted of two parts: socializing, discussing ...
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VOLPOWER Second Volhub in Zagreb
At the beginning of November, shortly before the introduction of soft lockdown measures, the Croatian Volpower team (IRMO) organized Volhub in Zagreb for volunteers and other amateur actors from the Forum Theater. Zagreb Volhub consisted of two parts: socializing, discussing ...
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VOLPOWER Podcast Workshop
In early November 2020, Dr. Maggie Laidlaw and Marcus Nicolson organised 3 podcast workshops for our VOLPOWER volunteers from across Europe.
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Volunteering and Coronavirus; Volpower Volunteers Helping Their Communities
"The poetry collection" started at the beginning of the year and is an initiative by Maggie, my project partner in Scotland, who is in charge of conceptualising and assisting the content preparation for the Volpower art’s exhibition.
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Collage workshop: Using Collage as a storytelling process
One of the research methodologies that VOLPOWER applies is creative methods. This is designed to assist volunteers to document their volunteering journeys.
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Becoming a poet with Volpower
"The poetry collection" started at the beginning of the year and is an initiative by Maggie, my project partner in Scotland, who is in charge of conceptualising and assisting the content preparation for the Volpower art’s exhibition.
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Re-discovering traditions in a new setting – Turkish dinner in Volpower Slovenia
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of Sundays? To Serena it is a table. Like the big wooden one around which she gathered during those big family dinners with lots of food.
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Volunteering to be a Neighbour
As the daughter of immigrants, I’ve experienced first-hand the reality of learning a new language and culture.
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Lessons learned from volunteering
What is really volunteering? For me it is kind of helping and learning how to help.
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Volpower 2020 activities
In November 2019 the VOLPOWER research consortium met in Bolzano, South Tyrol to discuss developments in the project and plan our activities for the year ahead.
Funding
Awarding body:
European Commission AMIF
(Asylum Migration and Integration Fund)
Project end: June 2021
Project Team
Prof. Umut Korkut (Principal Investigator)
Dr. Maggie Laidlaw (Researcher and Lead Curator)
Marcus Nicolson (Project Manager)
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