Date : 23rd ~ 24th Oct.
Venue : 5F, BPEX, Busan
| Day 2 : 23rd Oct. | |
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| Welcome & Opening Plenary Ⅰ | People Power : Creating a Sustainable Future through Volunteering This plenary will enable the conference hosts Busan Metropolitan City Volunteer Center and IAVE to welcome participants and open the conference. The welcome will highlight that the City of Busan aspires to be a centre of excellence and a hub city for volunteerism. Invited keynote speakers will focus on the broad theme of the conference. Reflecting on the importance and value of volunteer involvement to deliver on the SDGs and sustainability for people and planet. |
| Plenary Ⅱ | Responding to the Sustainability Challenge: The Role of Corporate Volunteering This plenary will focus on presentations from key global and Korean companies outlining the challenges and highlighting the role and impact of corporate volunteering on delivering the SDGs |
| Day 3 : 24th Oct. | |
| Plenary Ⅲ | Into the Future, the Next Generation of Volunteers This plenary will focus on youth volunteering, showcasing global trends and enabling youth volunteer voices to highlight the contribution of young people and what motivates and sustains them to actively engage. |
| Plenary Ⅳ | Imminent & Imperative: Tackling Climate Change This plenary will focus on climate change and how volunteers are involved in delivering positive interventions. The roundtable discussion will enable participants to engage in considering the challenge of making it everyone’s issue to make a difference Providing ideas on how volunteering organizations and volunteers can be even more involved in climate action. |
| Closing Plenary Ⅴ | People Power: The Future We Want to Make This plenary will reflect on the themes and content of the conference, showcasing a conference video and providing the opportunity for the conference hosts the Busan Metropolitan City Volunteer Center and IAVE to say a word of thanks to stakeholders, participants and sponsors.The focus will also be the launch of IAVE’s new Universal Declaration for Volunteering. |
Date : 23rd Oct.
Venue : 5F, BPEX, Busan
| Day 2 : 23rd Oct. | |
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| Delivering a Sustainable Future | Transforming Volunteering in Response to Technological Innovations This Forum will focus on how we respond to the increasing role of technology in supporting and developing volunteer involvement. Technology has become invaluable in every aspect of volunteering from enhancing volunteer recruitment and management to creating new ways and opportunities to volunteer. Presenters will explore the challenges and enablers of using technology to innovate and enhance volunteer involvement, providing insight into how we can maximise its potential. |
| Delivering a Sustainable Future | Volunteering and Place-based Change This Forum will focus on place-based change as a longer-term approach to identifying, understanding and addressing issues. Presenters will showcase examples of frameworks for place-based approaches, where local people have been engaged as active participants through volunteering in the development and implementation of solutions to meet identified needs. |
| Delivering a Sustainable Future | Collaboration and Collective Action through Volunteering to Deliver Greater Impact This Forum will focus on how organizations (government; non-governmental; private) have worked together to involve/support/develop volunteering to affect change. Presenters will showcase the challenges and success of working collaboratively to deliver a positive impact on issues associated with either economic viability, environmental protection or social equity. |
| Delivering a Sustainable Future | Enabling Self-orientated Volunteering and Civic Activism This Forum will focus on the importance of building community leadership through volunteering to address issues of public concern. Presenters will explore the meaning and examples associated with both self-orientated volunteering and civic activism. Including the importance of understanding people’s motivations to volunteer, giving recognition to a growing trend for volunteering to take place outside formal structures. Highlighting the importance of engaging individuals in ways that meet their expectations and needs to bring about positive change for people and communities. |
Date : 23rd ~ 24th Oct.
Venue : 5F, BPEX, Busan
| Day 2 : 23rd Oct. | |
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| Seminars 1 | Good Health & Well Being (SDG 3)– Volunteering to Combat Isolation and Create Healthy Communities |
| Seminars 2 | Quality Education (SDG 4) – Volunteering to Enhance Lifelong Learning |
| Seminars 3 | Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10) – Volunteering to Deliver Social Impact |
| Seminars 4 | Sustainable Cities & Communities (SDG 11) – Involving a New Generation of Volunteers and New Models of Volunteering |
| Seminars 5 | Climate Action (SDG 13) – Disaster Response and Volunteering to Combat Climate Change |
| Seminars 6 | Insights into Volunteer Management Practices |
| Seminars 7 | Measuring the Impact of Corporate Volunteering |
Each practice seminar will have a moderator and a maximum of 3 presentations. Each presentation linked to specific SDGs will follow an outcomes-based accountability framework, including setting out the issue or need being addressed; telling how volunteers were involved, what and how much they contributed; indicating how well the volunteers did; and highlighting what changed - the difference the volunteers made. The emphasis will be on sharing the impact of volunteer involvement.
The presentations associated with Volunteer Management and Corporate Volunteering will highlight examples of best practice showcasing helpful tools and resources.
All presenters will also indicate any challenges faced, how these were overcome and the learning they gained from the experience. The practice seminar presentations will cover 60 minutes leaving 30 minutes for Q & A.
Date : 24th Oct.
Venue : 5F, BPEX, Busan
| Day 3 : 24th Oct. | |
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| 1 | Rights, Responsibilities and Safety of Volunteers |
| 2 | Youth Leadership and Youth Led Volunteering - Making it Happen |
| 3 | Recruiting and Retaining Corporate Volunteers |
| 4 | Delivering Successful Micro Volunteering |
| 5 | Volunteering and Active Ageing |
The sessions will host presentations and information sharing on good practice in involving volunteers effectively. Each session will run for 30 minutes, and all will be repeated once to enable conference participants to experience a range of information.
