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Dates |
Conference Meeting
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Who
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Thursday Afternoon
25.11.2010
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1pm-1.30pm: Registration and drinks
1.30pm-1.35pm: Welcome
1.35pm-1.50pm: Are Faith-based NGOs participating to social innovation?
1.50pm- 2.15pm Introduction and objectives of the conference
2.15pm-2.35pm: The role of faith in combating poverty and social exclusion
2.35pm-2.50pm
2.50pm-3.10pm: Social Exclusion and Segregation in urban areas
3.10pm-3.25pm
3.25pm-3.45pm: Welfare and Urban Governance
3.45pm-4.00pm
4.00pm-4.30pm: Coffee Break
4.30pm-6.00pm: Workshops (Part I)
W1: Voluntary work: benefits and motivations
W2: The role of faith in combating poverty
W3: The Multi-cultural Society
W4: The relation between (local) governments and civil society organisations
W5: The contribution of FBOs in combating poverty and social exclusion
6.00pm: End of first day
7.30pm: Dinner
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Rector UA (to be confirmed)
Pierre Valette, Head of Unit, DG Research, European Commission
Jan Vranken, Project Coordinator, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Danielle Dierckx, Project Manager, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Justin Beaumont, Facit-partner, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Discussion
Jürgen Friedrichs, Facit-partner, University of Cologne, Germany
Discussion
Prof Dr Andrès Walliser (Cirem - Spain)
Discussion
Chair: Prof Dr Jürgen Friedrichs, Rapporteur Jennifer Klöckner
Chair: Prof Dr Justin Beaumont, Rapporteur: Prof Dr Paul Cloke, Andrew Williams
Chair: Dr Charlotte Fridolfsson, Rapporteur: Prof Dr Hugo Swinnen, Prof Dr Mustafa Sen
Chair: Prof Dr Ingemar Elander, Rapporteur: Prof Dr Andrès Walliser
Chair: Prof Dr Maarten Davelaar, Rapporteur: Wendy Kerstens |
Friday Morning
26.11.2010
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9.30am-11.00am: Workshops (Part II)
W1: Voluntary work: benefits and motivations
W2: The role of faith in combating poverty
W3: The Multi-cultural Society
W4: The relation between (local) governments and civil society organisations
W5: The contribution of FBOs in combating poverty and social exclusion
11.00am-11.30am: Coffee Break
11.30am-12.15pm: Feedback session + Discussion
12.15pm-12.30pm: Final remarks
12.30pm: End of Conference + Reception
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Chair: Prof Dr Jürgen Friedrichs, Rapporteur Jennifer Klöckner
Chair: Prof Dr Justin Beaumont, Rapporteur: Prof Dr Paul Cloke, Andrew Williams
Chair: Dr Charlotte Fridolfsson, Rapporteur: Prof Dr Hugo Swinnen, Prof Dr Mustafa Sen
Chair: Prof Dr Ingemar Elander, Rapporteur: Prof Dr Andrès Walliser
Chair: Prof Dr Maarten Davelaar, Rapporteur: Wendy Kersten
Chairs of the workshops
Danielle Dierckx, Project Coordinator, University of Antwerp
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Friday Afternoon
26.11.2010
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14.00pm-16.00pm: Guided walking tour in a particular neighbourhood in Antwerp (optional)
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Workshops (the 1.5 hours workshops will run simultaneously)
Workshops are the same during the two days, so participants are able to attend two different workshops.
1. Voluntary work: benefits and motivations
The workshop will concern two issues: organisational change of FBOs on the one hand and the position of professionals and volunteers in FBOs on the other. We discuss which benefits persons receive from doing voluntary work. We will examine the proposition that voluntary work is driven by the satisfaction of social context with persons of similar interests and becoming a member of a social network. Recent data of a study on volunteers and professionals in social work in two German cities will be presented. The empirical part is a survey of volunteers and professional employees of Catholic, Protestant, Muslim and not-religious-based welfare organisations. The study assesses which impact or contribution faith, prestige and collective norms have in performing voluntary and social work. The three most important questions we will discuss are:
- Which benefits do volunteers derive from volunteering and to what extent does voluntary work function as an individual resource?
- Are there differences in the motivation for voluntary work between locals and migrants, between Christians and Muslims or persons without confession or faith?
- What role does religiosity play in volunteering in general?
2. The role of faith in combating poverty
This workshop concerns the role of faith in tackling poverty and social exclusion. It presents examples of best practice of faith-groups involved in public service delivery and deals with the thorny issues of contracts, discrimination and proselytisation. It also addresses emergent forms of faith-inspired political action, in particular, collaborations between different faith and secular interests seeking progressive social change in cities.
3. The multi-cultural society
With the growing importance and diversity of migrant communities during the last decades, the diversity of faith-based organisations rapidly increased in most European countries, and even more so in urban contexts. Moreover, the debate about cultural identities and their relation with religion has become more and more important. In this workshop we would like to discuss:
- How faith-based organisations relate to the members of specific (migrant) communities; is faith transforming the identity of (migrant) communities?
- How new faith-based organisations are seen by and relate to local authorities (visibility, formal and informal networks…);
- If and how new forms of faith-based engagement in combating poverty and social exclusion find their place in European cities, and how they relate to more established forms of engagement (e.g. Protestant diakonia and Catholic caritas);
- How the established faith-based organisations deal with the multi-cultural society.
4. The relation between (local) governments and civil society organisations
This workshop will focus on the collaboration between state and society. To what degree governance is shaping the relations between local governments and non-governmental organizations? Central questions are referring to the division of tasks: what does government and what is delegated to civil society organizations, including faith-based organizations? Do NGOs have any influence on local and/or national policies for combating poverty and social exclusion? To what degree is coproduction a realistic strategy?
5. The contribution of FBOs in combating poverty and social exclusion
The issue of poverty and social exclusion is close to the reality of FBOs. On a day-to-day basis, FBOs try to help people at the margins of society. Because of their work with marginalised groups, they are in a good position to discover new trends. FBOs indeed claim to contribute to local social welfare policies by detecting new needs. The workshop will focus on this contribution of FBOs. What are the new needs and the new challenges discovered by FBOs? Can society (public administrations, private companies, NGOs) handle them? How do FBOs respond? What makes FBOs effective in detecting new needs? Are public authorities responsive to their signals?
Publications 3 publications will be available as results of the FACIT-project. First, the country specific cahiers. In these reports, research questions are answered per country. Secondly, a handbook reflecting the implications of the research results for policies and practice. Thirdly, an academic publication (Policy Press Publishing) tackling the research questions in a transversal approach.
The Country Reports
1 or more cahiers: 15€ per cahier + 6% tax Cahiers numbers 8, 9 and 10 contain each two or three countries, which are only described by using secondary literature resources. No new original empirical research is done for these countries. Please sign which cahier you want to order: …..ex Cahier 1 : Belgium
…..ex Cahier 2 : Germany
…..ex Cahier 3 : The Netherlands
…..ex Cahier 4 : Spain
…..ex Cahier 5 : Sweden
…..ex Cahier 6 : Turkey
…..ex Cahier 7 : United Kingdom
…..ex Cahier 8 : Ireland & Denmark
…..ex Cahier 9 : Greece & France & Portugal
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I want to be kept informed about the academic book, published by Policy Press (date of release to be announced) YES / NO Publications will be sent to you after receiving the amount on our account number: Universiteit Antwerpen
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BIC KREDBEBB With the following reference on your banktransfer: FACIT – Publication order – Final Conference 2010 Publications can also be bought at the conference! Practicals
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