On December 5th 2023, Slovenska filantropija - Association for Promotion of Volunteering organized its 14th Slovenian Congress of Volunteering, with over a hundred participants from mostly the volunteering sector in Slovenia. December 5th is the International Volunteer Day mandated by United Nations. The central topic of the congress was the strategy and vision of development of volunteering in Slovenia. At the congress, representatives of our team presented the Evi-Dems project that is developing the standards and higher education master program for volunteer managers, to present these project results to the volunteer sector and to contribute with them to the upcoming Strategy of development of Volunteering for the period 2024 – 2029, regarding the inclusion of volunteer managers education and training into the strategy.

From 11th till 15th of December 2023 a group of different experts on education and volunteer management, from the higher education sector and civil society sector, participated a training in Kaunas, Lithuania. The five-day program was focused on comprehending and further enhancing the full curricula for a master program for volunteer manager qualification. This pre-experience master program for volunteer managers was developed in Evi-Dems project, alongside other project results, to support development of common professional standards for volunteer managers. Beside improving the developed master program curricula, participants from more than ten countries also worked together to create a shared vision for the future of the volunteer management profession in Europe. Our team actively participated in the training and working process, as well as in the very pleasant and enriching networking.

Strokovni odbor za izobraževanje FLECSLAB se je 27. in 28. oktobra 2022 udeležil delavnic, na katerih je razpravljal z vodji prvih štirih opredeljenih tem in posledično učnih skupnosti EUTOPIA v projektu:

During EUTOPIA week hosted by University of Ljubljana, FLECSLAB partners finally met face to face in Ljubljana and the project officer Milena Sitar Matelič from Slovene National Agency had an opportunity to witness the work done under less than a year under the project. Tomaž Deželan briefly summarised the activities in the project from July 2022 to October 2022. As part of the UL work, the FLECSLAB website was set and updated. In WP1 - Toolbox for Lifelong Learning - semi-structured interviews were conducted with the leaders of the four learning communities and the expert panel was involved in a workshop held in Brussels 28-29 October 2022.