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EYV 2011 Alliance- Membership Profile
 The European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation (ENGSO) is the umbrella organisation of National Sport Confederations and National Olympic Committees. Members of ENGSO represent sport in its broadest sense across Europe, from children and youth sport to sport activities for senior citizens, from sport for all to elite sports.
Volunteering is one of ENGSO's priorities. ENGSO adopted a position paper on volunteering which underlines that the European Union should develop European cooperation to promote volunteering through recommendations, relevant EU programmes and enabling visa practices.
In the context of the 14th ENGSO Forum which will be held in Brussels on 13-14 October, ENGSO will organise a hearing "Sport Volunteers: Promoting an Active Europe" at the European Parliament on 13 October. Read more.
 ENGSO Youth is is the non-profit youth organisation of ENGSO (European Non-Governmental Sport Organisation) with 41 members, national umbrella organisations for sport from across Europe. ENGSO Youth focuses on the European youth sport for all sectors.
ENGSO Youth aims to represent the interest of people under the age of 35, and to promote sport and health, inclusion, communication, prevention, equal opportunities, international cooperation and volunteering opportunities for young people.
The objectives of ENGSO Youth are focused on tools that advocate for and raise awareness of sport volunteering, ranging from contribution in creation of national guidelines for "rights" and "duties" of volunteers and promoting non-formal educational dimension of volunteering to ENGSO Youth Best Volunteer award. Read more.
EYV 2011 "City Focus" - Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Volunteering in the spotlight in Cluj-Napoca
The tenth edition of the National Volunteer Week was organized between the 9th and 15th of May 2011 by the Cluj-Napoca Volunteer Centre. It was the perfect opportunity to promote 2011  as the European Year of Volunteering and at the same time to thank the local volunteers for their work and involvement in the community. During 7 days, 14 different events and concrete volunteering activities in Cluj-Napoca have managed to draw the attention on the impact of volunteering in the local community.
More than 30 NGOs, 2 public institutions working with volunteers (General Direction for Social Assistance and Child Protection, Cluj-Napoca City Council), 153 local volunteers and 12 international volunteers participated. Over 2000 people (including 500 children) were beneficiaries of all the events and activities organized. National Volunteer Week 2011 was an effervescent and enthusiastic week that managed to put volunteers and volunteering in the spotlight in Cluj-Napoca. Read full-article.
Announcements
Upcoming events:
September 3-5: 64th Annual United Nations DPI/NGO conference "Sustainable Societies; Responsive Citizens" Bonn, Germany.
September 8-9: Spanish Platform of Volunteering (PVE), XVI School of Volunteering (Autumn School) - International Meeting, Madrid. Download program. Read more.
September 6-10: European Youth Forum (YFJ) 2nd Youth Convention on Volunteering, Brussels, Belgium.
September 13-14: From volunteering to leadership in sport expert's conference, Ministry of Sport and Tourism of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw, Poland.
September 21: "Enhancing the participation of older volunteers through the EYV 2011" meeting, European Parliament, co-organised by AGE and Jean Lambert MEP, Brussels, Belgium.
September 21: United Network Of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY) International Day of Peace and Photo competition "Youth and Volunteering for Peace", The Hague, the Netherlands.
September 22-23: EUCLID Annual Conference, Naples, Italy
September 27: EESC Public Hearing on Legal Framework for volunteering, 9:30 AM, Brussels, Belgium
September 29 – October 1: The Council of European Municipalities and Regions is co-organising the European Congress on Citizenship and Twinning with the Association of Polish Cities and the city of Rybnik, Poland.
October 10-13: Open Days 2011, CoR 9th European Week of Regions and Cities, Brussels, Belgium.
October 13-14: Council of Europe Forum for the Future of Democracy, Limassol, Cyprus, Read more.
October 13-14: 14th ENGSO Forum with a hearing "Sport Volunteers: Promoting an Active Europe", European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium.
October 17-19: Africa Conference on Volunteer Action for Development, Johannesburg. Registration begins on 14 July.
October 19-21: CEV Symposium - "Volunteering and Active Citizenship - two sides of the same coin?" Berlin, Germany
October 20-23: 20th annual Volonteurope Conference, "Make a difference by volunteering", Edinburgh, UK. Register here
October 23-30: UNOY "PAVE your way! Peace and Volunteering in Europe", Budapest, Hungary. Deadline: 15 July 2011. Download Call for Participants. Apply here.
November 7-8: EDYN and Eurodiaconia Conference: "Volunteering as a means to fight social exclusion in Europe today", Brussels, Belgium. Read more.
European Commission:
 EbS, the Audio Visual team at the EC, have made available the second volunteering stockshots featuring volunteers from the EYV 2011 Alliance to be used free of charge by anyone during 2011 and beyond. Watch the stockshots.
There is still time to host Relay Reporter ! The 27 EYV 2011 Volunteer Journalist will visit each member state in turn, check the deadline in your country and appy here.
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 Commit ! say thank you to a volunteer by registering their hours here as part of the EYV 2011 Volunteer Commitments Total.
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European Anti Poverty Network's Position Paper on Volunteering and the Fight against Poverty (EAPN), 2011. 
