Tell me about your commitment

The Centre for Lifelong Learning at Strathclyde University, Glasgow, invited people to attend a volunteer workshop in Vienna and consequently, I was able to join a group of people there for a ‘Tell Me about your Commitment’ Conference. We flew out on Wednesday 18 May and returned on Saturday 21st. It was great fun! When […]

  On the 22nd of June 20111, the ViLE e.V. group in Ulm, Germany, organised the third story-telling café in cooperation with the Generationentreff Ulm/Neu-Ulm. The guests were Mr. Johann Kerner, the Chairman of the Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn, Kreisverband Alb-Donau/Ulm and Mrs Elsa Koch, Treasurer of this association. Both reported about the highlights […]

Meeting Vienna 18-21st May 2011 Buffet of the nations After a long journey and very little to eat from BA, we were glad to enjoy a wonderful selection of food at the international buffet in the Volkshochschule in Vienna. There was a variety of meats, cheese and fish with tortilla from Spain. We enjoyed delicious […]

Notes from Volunteering Conference in Vienna 18 – 21 May 2011 Wednesday evening – “Getting to know you” supper. Delegates brought food from their respective countries. We had a good tuck in to some of the dishes as we were pretty peckish by the time we got there! It was a lovely informal evening and […]

Yet another e-net meeting with Spaniards. On 9th of May the volunteers from  SUTW, have enjoyed another meeting with their partners to the TELL ME ABOUT YOUR COMMITMENT Project from Barcelona on the Skype –net. The leading theme of the meeting was double. First to present thelatest activities in the way of voluntarian work “in the […]

The project participants will meet for the second time, this time in Vienna, Austria, from the 18th to the 21st of May 2011.The agenda will include presentations of the work done in the project up to now as well as exchanges about voluntary work that the participants in each of the groups are involved in.  […]

On the 30th of April 2011, the second Erzählcafe (Story-telling Café) conducted in the frame of “Tell me about your commitment” took place in the Generationstreff Ulm & Neu-Ulm.  The guests were seniors from Slovakia and Finland who take part in the Senior Volunteer Exchange Program of the European Commission. The guests presented to around […]

Skype Meeting With Young Volunteers From Barcelona. March 2011. On 29th of March 2011, thanks to the SKYPE technology in place, we got acquainted with The Grundtvig Project partners from Barcelona. Mr Gianni Orsini has lead the team of young if not very young persons from Barcelona, 6 of them, enthusiastically engaged in the voluntary […]

The Literary Section of SUTW in commemoration of Fryderyk Chopin 200th birth anniversary. All trough the year 2010 we have been celebrating and commemorating the 200th birth anniversary  of the greatest polish composer and pianist- FRYDERYK CHOPIN. The 12 member team of our volunteers from the Literary Section of our University got onto the project to prepare the verbal-musical […]

Centre for Lifelong Learning within the School of Education in Glasgow recently held a workshop at the University which 19 volunteers attended.  The aim of the workshop was to bring together a variety of volunteers so that they could share their experiences of volunteering.  The morning session consisted of a range of group activities where […]