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Let´s celebrate the International Volunteer Day! 0 Reply

By UNGA mandate, the International Volunteer Day (IVD)[1] is celebrated annually on 5 December with the aim of celebrating volunteers and organisations efforts, promote their values and disseminate their work. The focus of the IVD 2018 is “Volunteers build Resilient Communities” in order to celebrate volunteer effort aimed at strengthening local ownership and community resilience. In the framework of the United Nations, the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is mandated to support and promote IVD celebrations worldwide. Every year, over 6,500 UN Volunteers serve with UN entities in some of the most challenging environments across the world, and 12,000 UN Online Volunteers complete over 20,000 assignments online through the UNV Online Volunteering service.[2] According to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 17 million of volunteers work each year across 189 countries tirelessly to ensure that the most vulnerable people in communities have access to services and support.[3] Volunteering offers vital support to people in need and the community, but benefits can be also greater for the volunteer. There are many types of volunteering: skills-based, in developing countries, virtual, on learning programmes and schools, on environment, in an emergency, corporate and community based.

With the aim of celebrating the International Volunteer Day, Dialogue Café Association and its members in Belgrade, Evora, Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro will organise a session on Volunteering and Community Service with the aim of celebrating volunteer effort and recognising their contribution to communities and the society. With this purpose, projects and volunteers will be invited to participate in this session and share with us their views, motivations and experiences. During the session we will also discover the existing opportunities for volunteering and how beneficial can be also to volunteer. During the discussion some questions will be raised such as How to engage the new generations in long-term volunteering; Education for volunteering, yes or no?; Volunteering is for everyone? The role of Volunteering as an instrument for inclusion; the role of the cultural volunteer as mediator in learning.

Programme

Dialogue Café Évora (Eugênio de Almeida Foundation): 

• Maria João Tomé, Volunteer, Project REVIVE (Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa);
• Anya Pisco, Social Volunteer at Eugenio de Almeida Foundation and other projects
• Dulce Ferreira, International Volunteer Project (financ Grundtvig) in Hungary and Portugal;
• Eden Oliveira, Cultural Volunteer at Eugenio de Almeida Foundation

Dialogue Café Wroclaw (Mediateka)

• Tomasz Grabiński, Mediateka‘s coordinator for DC projects
• Martyna Gontarz, Wrocław Municipal Library’s coordinator for foreign volunteers
• Johanna Cruz, Volunteer from Equador working in Mediateka

Dialogue Café Lisboa (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation):

• Noémia Simões, Bué Fixe

Dialogue Café Rio de Janeiro (UCAM University)

• Eduardo Matos, International Relations, Escoteiros Brasil
• Angélica Nasser, Supervisor, INCAvoluntário
• Bruna Rodrigues, Communication INCAvoluntário
• Ana Luiza Alves, Volunteer, Teto Brasil  
• Aryana Carvalho, Volunteer, Teto Brasil  

For further information, contact us : info@dialoguecafe.org

[1] Resolution A/RES/40/212 on 17 December 1985

[2] UNV

[3] Global Review on Volunteering Report, IFRC, 2015

New Dialogue Café Hub at Social Innovation Centre in Évora 0 Reply

Last Friday 16 November 2018, the Eugenio de Almeida Foundation partner and host of Dialogue Café Evora, inaugurated a new Social Innovation Centre. An area of ​​community – of communities – articulated with regional, national and international institutions, public and private, and aimed at offering a diversified and consistent support and dynamism to innovative social initiatives, based on creativity and co-creation, generating true transformation and social impact. The inauguration was chaired by Minister of the Presidency and Administrative Modernisation, Ms. Maria Manuel Leitão Marques and the EAF, Secretary General, Ms. Maria do Céu Ramos.

The Social Innovation Centre, which is placed at Évora’s Historic Centre of the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation, will develop a strong program of training, promotion, incubation and acceleration of social entrepreneurship initiatives, in parallel with the continuity of the role of facilitator and pollinator of all the ecosystem of social innovation in the Alentejo.

A new room of Dialogue Café Evora has been opened at the Social Innovation Centre thanks to the partnership established with Eugenio de Almeida Foundation and ADRAL Regional Agency for the Alentejo region.

In this framework activities, we aim at providing more support to social entrepreneurs and sharing more knowledge on social innovation.

Know more about the amazing Social Innovation Centre at EAF website.

Social Innovation Initiatives Supporting NEETs 0 Reply

BACKGROUND

Engaging Europe’s young people as possible in the world of work, is one of the major challenges the European Union, and other regions of the world, face nowadays. High levels of youth unemployment and thus disengagement among young people are direct consequences of the global economic crisis suffered in the latest years, but are not the only factors.

Since 2010, the term NEET has been used at the policy level to describe young people not in employment, education or training. At the EU level a percentage of 14.2% of the population aged 15–29[1]. While at the global level NEETs varies widely according to both location and sex. According to the ILO Global Employment Trends for Youth 2017 report[2], young women are over three times more likely to be NEET than young men (34% of young women against 10% of young man are NEETs). Indeed, the proportion of youth NEET global estimation is 28.1%, 76.9 per cent of which are female.

AIM

In this context, Dialogue Café Association and its network members would like to analyse how social innovation can support NEET´ social inclusion and present initiatives community initiatives helping young people to change depressed NEET situations. Initiatives targeting and providing individualized and tailored attention and service to young people at risk of exclusion will be shared in this international session.

This session will allow us to debate on issues concerning prevention of this situation, the resources that need to be mobilised at the local level, as well as the mechanisms that must be promoted to offer better opportunities and solutions to young people.

The session will take place on 29 November 2018 from 15h to 17h London time and will join participants based in different cities such as Évora, Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro!

Provisional Programme

Dialogue Café Lisbon (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian):

• Vanda Vieira, CECOA – Project Neets at Risk and Neets in Action
• Tatiana Gomes, Escolhas Programme
• Margarida Jalles, Gebalis

Dialogue Café Évora (Eugênio de Almeida Foundation): 

• António Vieira, Academic Association of Evora University
• Magda Camacho, Humanitarian Centre of Evora Red Cross (Escolhas Project)
• Susana Silva, APPACDM

 Dialogue Café Rio de Janeiro (UCAM Universidade):

• João Felipe Brito, Researcher, Observatório das Favelas
• Wagner da Silva, Manager of Basquete Cruzada 

Contact us for further information at info@dialoguecafe.org

 [1] European Commission Reference

[2] ILO Global Employment Trends for Youth 2017 Report: “Paths to a better working future” – https://www.ilo.org/global/publications/books/global-employment-trends/WCMS_598669/lang–en/index.htm

Online Platforms & Marketplaces for Crafts Makers 0 Reply

In the framework of Dialogue Café Global Exchange of Crafts Makers, we are organising a session on marketplaces and online platforms where crafts makers can sell their products and goods such as Tictail, Etsy, and other such as Dawanda, Artesanum, Amazon Handmade, Ezebee. Makers invited will also exchange experiences and share their testimonials on online business.

The session will take place on 27 November from 15h to 17h London time.

Programme

Promoting Makers´ work and enhancing cultural heritage:

Dialogue Café Belgrade:

• Balsa Djukovic, Project Coordinator at Nova Iskra, FOLKK project

Dialogue Café Rio de Janeiro:

• Alice Freitas, Founder and Executive Director, Rede Asta
• Betty Prado, Director, Bemglo
• Camila Frois, Communication Coordinator, Artesol
• Raquel Lara Rezende, Researcher, Artesol

Dialogue Café Évora:

• Ana Lavado, Eugénio de Almeida Foundation

Dialogue Café Lisboa:

• Marta Cunha Ferreira, Fair Bazaar
• Ana Luísa Lavado, The Portuguese Room

Makers´ testimonials:

Dialogue Café Lisboa:

• Diana Pais, Miss Castelinhos
• Rita Costa, Passa a palavra

REGISTRATION & CONTACTS
Dialogue Café Lisbon / Dialogue Café Association – Dalia Sendra (daliasendra@casadoregalo.pt)
Dialogue Café Évora – Ana Lavado (ana.lavado@fea.pt)
Dialogue Café Rio de Janeiro – Mayara Gonçalves (dcafe.rio@gmail.com)
Dialogue Café Belgrade – Biljana Vukosavljevic (unaserbia@gmail.com)

Keep posted or contact us for further information.