Event Description

Because you make an extraordinary difference

Everyday throughout the year, many tasks are solved by enthusiastic and committed volunteers, energetic movers and shakers, or enterprising people. They all want to help with tasks both big and small, whether they are vocational, critical, or simply warms the cockles of one’s heart.

It enriches one’s life to give something back to the community, it is valuable to make a difference, and amazing to help create something bigger than oneself. Management and the organization of volunteer tasks is something in which many people involve themselves, and it results a myriad of experiences.

We would like to share our experiences, give inspiration, and hopefully create new networks with you and others at this volunteer conference.

You are first and foremost invited because you are involved with volunteer work. But you are also invited so that you can meet like-minded people. You can meet other that, like you, sometimes find it difficult to create the best possible framework for volunteering.

What you should not miss out on

This day, we will energetically and professionally highlight those mechanisms that can play a part in underpinning a successful volunteer program. We will visit some select places in Aarhus that work with volunteers. Here we hope to give you some insight into their work conditions and contexts, so that you will be better prepared to recruit, keep, and motivate volunteers.

We will commit ourselves to creating a day that will assure that you will meet new people who are as passionate about volunteer involvement as you are.

We will end the day with social dining and networking at Malt, in the basement of the old Ceres brewery.

Registration
You can register for the conference and social dining by either sending an email to rethinker@aarhus2017.dk or by using the menu to the right.

The deadline for registration for the event and dining is January 5^th.

Price
The price for a conference ticket is 250.00 DKK and an additional 250.00 DKK to participate in the social dining.

You must pay at registration, and you freely decide whether you want to participate in just the conference or in the conference and dining. At registration, you can choose to get an invoice sent to your email account.

Place
The conference will take place at the town hall, Aarhus Rådhus, 8000 Aarhus C.

 In the evening, we will ensure a cozy dinner at Restaurant Malt in Ceres Byen (Ceres City).

You must pay for your own drinks at the dinner.

Target group for the conference
National and international volunteer operators, leaders/coordinators of volunteer organizations, institutions and organizations with an interest in engaging volunteers in tasks, as well as municipal employers and employees.

The conference for the international group will be held in English. There will be a keynote speaker which will be translated, and other program features will be in English.