Eugénio de Almeida Foundation intends to continue to qualify volunteering in Portugal
The Center for Social Innovation of the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation (FEA), in Évora, promotes on the 6th and 7th of July the eighth edition of the Summer School and Volunteering. In the national total, the initiative to encourage 13 new and lively people of force force initiative to stimulate 13 new people and force force of work force.
During the opening session, Ventura do Executivo, Executive Director of FEA, Eugénio Fonca, President of the Portuguese Confederation, Carla do Sérgio Director for Social Economy, Gabriella do Centro para o Voluntariado Europeo and Sónia Fernandes, representative of the International Association for Volunteer Effort, the Volunteering Projects Exhibition was inaugurated, with the participation of 19 organizations promoting volunteering, from various parts of the country and from different thematic areas.
The interventions had more than one Zena of Speakers from various national organizations with intervention in the field of volunteering and internationally, such as Vitor Ventosa, professor at the University of Salamanca, with a vast research work on Didactics of Intervention and Sociocultural Animation.
With the objective of promoting the meeting, the debate and the action of different spaces, they were shared about the practices of reflection Banco de Voluntariado, which in this initiative shared the diversity, Santarém of its interventions in the municipalities of Lisbon, Santarém and Torres Vedras, having still existed for the presentation of Entrajuda.
The Contorno Volunteering Summer School Still with a collaboration of several Local Organizations such as Refood, the Real Irmandade de Nossa Senhora da Saúde and the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Évora, which will provide the participants, volunteers, with a visit to learn about volunteer projects .
In partnership with the Center for European Volunteering, innovative training on Inclusive Volunteering took place for the first time in Portugal, at a time when we no longer need bridges for the integration of different communities and people in Volunteering.
According to Henrique Sim-Simwas to bring together at the School a group of people in charge of references in Portugal, very important for an identification based on proximity. The pandemic has greatly changed the way we relate to the Volunteering Summer School was the first national face-to-face event on this topic that is so dear to us. About 130 technicians and volunteers participate, and this is very relevant in the current context. Motivated to continue to develop our work towards the qualification of volunteering in Portugal, now with new partnerships and synergies created.”
The 1st Volunteering Summer School took place in 2010, had a few years of interregnum, and a resumption after the pandemic, it was again every year, offering a differentiated program.