Video Wir für uns in Europa
In the last six months we have reported repeatedly about the transnational youth initiative “Wir für uns in Europa”, which was initiated by Citizens of Europe member Anni Velkova. During…
Posts by Julia Mattstedt
Francesca @ Europe&Me
The magazine “Europe & Me” published an interview with Francesca La Vigna. Francesca took over responsibility for the office of Citizens of Europe in Berlin with the beginning of the…
Seasonal Greetings / Newsletter
A very lively year is behind us, with many events and projects realised. A new year is ahead. It will bring a lot of changes: Francesca La Vigna will take…
Call for participants Budapest: Changing your life, changing the world?
“Changing your life, changing the world? Motivations for volunteering” – this will be the title of our 11th OpenForum to take place in Budapest on 18-20 February 2011. We are…
ECI Campaign succeeded!
Since 2006, Citizens of Europe has been supporting the campaign for a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI). Together with other organisations, we prepared information material, provided a website in English and in German language and…
Thank you, Gert!
Gert Röhrborn was member of the board of Citizens of Europe from March 2007 until March 2009. Since April 2009 he has been managing our office. During this year’s Christmas…
Faces and Fakings of Volunteering
This event began on Friday evening with a warm welcome coffee with our Belgian hosts and a presentation about the definition of volunteering, held by Agnes Uhereczky (AVSO, Association of…
Motivations for volunteering
During our workshop in Brugges, the 19 participants demonstrated the variety of possibilities to be involved in volunteering such as youth work, women’s NGO, yoga for sick people, music in…
First v11 event completed
The 10th OpenForum, a weekend of debate and discussions, took place in beautiful city of Brugge, Belgium on the 26th-28th of November. The topic was “Faces and Fakings of Volunteering”.…
International Volunteer Day
We at Citizens of Europe believe that volunteering is an essential dimension of civil society and a functional democracy. On the one hand it is of extreme importance for NGOs…