The results are in: Statistics Portugal’s Survey on Volunteer Work for 2012

On 3 May, 2013 · Leave a Comment

 
More than one in 10 adults in Portugal gives their time to volunteer activities,
Statistics Portugal reports.
 
The volunteer rate of people that participated in a volunteer activity either through an organization or directly for other individuals is estimated to be 11.5% of residents [...]

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Mesv: il progetto entra nel vivo!

On 15 April, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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Circolare n. 6 del 28 marzo 2013
 
Da pochi giorni Istat ha avviato le interviste per la rilevazione “Aspetti della Vita Quotidiana 2013″ che interesserà 24 mila famiglie di tutto il territorio nazionale. Come sapete, nell’ambito dell’indagine, s’inserisce il progetto [...]

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MESV – The project comes alive!

On 15 April, 2013 · Leave a Comment

 
Circular n.6 of 28 March 2013
 
The Italian National Statistics Institute (ISTAT) has begun conducting interviews for the “2013 Daily Life Aspects” survey, involving 24,000 families across the Italy. The Measuring Economic and Social Value of Volunteer work (MESV) project is inserted within this [...]

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Technical workshop on volunteer measurement | 21 Februrary 2013

On 12 March, 2013 · Leave a Comment

On 21 February 2013, CEV and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) hosted, in Brussels, Belgium a technical workshop on volunteer measurement. The objective of the event was to gather input for a European Parliament pilot project proposal for the systematic collection of comparable data on volunteering across Europe.
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EVMP partners present a paper at the 10th ISTR Conference | Siena, Italy | 11 July 2012

On 10 August, 2012 · Leave a Comment

EVMP partners presented a paper at the 10th edition of the biennial International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR) Conference, which took place in Siena, Italy, from 10-13 July 2012. The paper “Institutionalising the measurement of volunteering: Insights from the European Volunteer Measurement Project,” (English and

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Phase 1 Wrap-up Conference: ILO Manual Implementers Discuss the State of the Art | Rome | 19 April 2012

On 26 June, 2012 · Leave a Comment

 
Representatives of 6 European national statistical institutes and EVMP partners discussed progress in measuring volunteering through the implementation of the ILO Manual at a Technical Workshop in Rome on 19 April 2012. The workshop took place within the framework of the EVMP Phase 1 Wrap-up Conference entitled “Value and [...]

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Phase 1 Wrap-up Conference: ISTAT announces implementation in 2013 | Rome | 19 April 2012

On 26 June, 2012 · Leave a Comment

 
Over 100 people participated in the EVMP Phase 1 Wrap-up Conference held in Rome on 19 April 2012. The conference gave EVMP partners the opportunity to thank the funders and report on the Project’s progress in completing, disseminating, and encouraging adoption of the ILO Manual in Europe. The event, [...]

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CEV Director brings volunteer measurement to the attention of European Commission Vice-President Rehn

On 15 June, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Together with a delegation from the Social Platform, CEV Director, Gabriella Civico, met Vice-President Olli Rehn, European Commissioner of Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro on 5 June 2012. The topics of discussion were the inclusion of social objectives in European economic governance, the sustainability of public [...]

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MEPs continue their support for the measurement of volunteering

On 14 June, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Following the recommendations to implement the ILO Manual issued by the European Commission in its September 2011 Communication on volunteering and by and the Council of the European Union in its October 2011 Conclusions the European Parliament adopted on 12 June 2012 a Report on recognising and [...]

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Prince of Spain Endorses EVMP at Workshop in Madrid

On 26 April, 2012 · Leave a Comment

The EVMP and the Plataforma del Voluntariado de Espana hosted a workshop on March 28 in Madrid that brought the leadership of the volunteering community in Spain together with government and Statistics officials from Spain’s National Institute for Statistics (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, INE) to discuss the measurement of volunteering, [...]

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