Forum president visits Trialog

On 3 March, Cliff Allum was invited to work with Austrian Agency Horizont3000 and German Agency AGEH through the Trialog project to act as a resource person for organisations in the New Member States of the EU who are interested in establishing international volunteer programs. Cliff made a presentation at day one of the week long study tour at AGEH’s headquarters in Koln, Germany. He focused on models of international volunteering across the world, identifying the different ways in which a programme could be established.

Cliff commented: “It is really important, in the spirit of international volunteering, that we share our experience of working in this area for many years in the hope that it will assist these emergent programmes, while also learning about the challenges they face in strating a programme from scratch with little or no resources.”

Those on the study tour included people involved with governmental and non-governmental organisations from countries such as Poland, Lativa, Lithuania, Cyprus, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Click here to view an article on the visit.

Click here to view presentations from the visit.