4^th Global Conference on National Youth Service - National Youth Service into the 21^st Century

18^th - 21^st June 1998, Windsor Castle

Thursday 18 June - Setting the Scene
12.00pm Arrival, Registration and Lunch
2.00pm Welcome to the 4^th Global Conference - Elisabeth Hoodless, Executive Director of CSV and Host of the Conference
2.20pm Welcome to Windsor Castle - Dominick Harrod, Programme Director, St.George's House, Windsor Castle
2.30pm Keynote speech by The Rt. Hon. David Blunkett MP, Secretary of State for Education and Employment in the British Government
3.15pm Tea
3.45pm UK Millennium Volunteers - National Youth Service? - Elisabeth Hoodless
4.15pm Background to the Global Conferences and the International Association for National Youth Service (IANYS)
Donald Eberly, Founding Director of the National Service Secretariat, USA
4.35pm Country updates on NYS - presentation panels, questions and plenary discussion
7.30pm Conference Opening Dinner at the Windsor Guildhall
- including a talk/discussion led by: Dr. James C. Kielsmeier, President and CEO of the National Youth Leadership Council in the USA, and The Rt. Hon. Andrew Rowe, MP
Friday 19 June - Emerging NYS Issues
9.00am National Youth Service: Emerging Issues in the 21^st Century - Donald J. Eberly
9.30am Future Perspectives of Youth Policy in Europe - Alexandros Tsolakis, Head of Unit C2, DG22, Education, Training and Youth, The European Commission
10.00am Presentations followed by discussion groups and plenary feedback:
National Service and Service-Learning: Partnership for Education Reform - Dr. James C. Kielsmeier
10.25am Coffee (in discussion rooms)
10.55am Service-Learning: Education to Prosociality - Dr. Roberto Roche-Olivar, Professor of Psychology, Department of Educational Psychology, Universitat Autonoma Barcelona, Spain
11.15am Monitoring and Evaluation of National Youth Service Programmes - the Case of the Citizen's Service Pilot Schemes in the UK - Luc Moens, Price Waterhouse, UK
11.35am Discussion groups on:
(i) Service-Learning
(ii) Monitoring and Evaluation of NYS Programmes
(iii) NYS and Military Service
12.30pm Plenary: Discussion groups report back
1.00pm Conference group photo, St. George's Chapel - followed by Lunch
2.25pm The NYS Situation in Germany - Peter Kupferschmid, Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, the Government of Germany
2.50pm Transnational Partnership for Youth Volunteering: Italy and the UK in the European Voluntary Service (EVS) - Sergio Andreis, National Co-ordinator, Associazione per la pace, Italy, and Sue Katz, UK Assistant Director, CSV Volunteering Partners, and Marina DeBartolo, EVS Volunteer
3.15pm Rural Youth Development: A Learning Experience from the Indian Perspective
- P.C. Misra, Director, Indian Institute of Youth & Development (subsequently unable to attend)
3.40pm Introduction to China's Youth Voluntary Services - Wang Shihong, Deputy Director, International Department, All-China Youth Federation
3.55pm Break
4.10pm International linkages between NYS programmes - Nigel Watt, Director of the CCIVS (Co-ordinating Committee on International Voluntary Service), UNESCO
4.25pm Green Corps - Young Australians for the Environment - the Australian Trust for Conservation Volunteers (now known as Conservation Volunteers Australia)
4.45pm National Youth Project in India - Dr. Subba Rao, Director, National Youth Project, India
5.00pm Evensong in St. George's Chapel
6.30pm Evening meal
7.30pm Workshop: Is National Youth Service a Rite of Passage? - Dr. Nancy Geyer Christopher & Mr. Lawrence Christopher, Heroic Journey/Rite of Passage Project, USA
9.00pm Presentation and discussion group on NYS in China led by Cong Feijun, Programme Official, International Co-operation Department, Ministry of Civil Affairs and Zhu Qian, Research Fellow, Chinese Juvenile & Youth Research Centre
10.00pm Twilight Guided Tour of St. George's Chapel
Saturday 20 June - Emerging NYS Initiatives
8.00am (Opportunity to attend the Eucharist Service at St. George's Chapel - open to the delegates resident in
St. George's House)
9.00am Coffee
9.15am On Making National Youth Service A Major Policy: Building The Knowledge Foundation
Dr. Michael Sherraden, Benjamin E Youngdahl Professor of Social Development, and Director of the Centre for Social Development, Washington University, USA
Followed by the introduction of NYS - practical experiences/plans from Israel, Argentina and Russia:
10.00am Regional & Inter-State Youth Service in the Middle East - Dr. Reuven Gal, Director, Carmel Institute for Social Studies, Israel
10.30am National Service and Service-Learning in Argentina - Professor Maria Nieves Tapia Basílico, Head of Service-Learning Project, Ministry of Education, Argentina
11.00am Break
11.25am Youth Service and Alternative Civilian Service in Russia - Elena Zakharova,
Programme Co-ordinator, Moscow Regional Charitable Fund `Social Partnership'
12.00pm Lunch
1.00pm Young peoples' experiences and views:
The Gambia National Youth Service Scheme: A Policy to the Rescue
- Isatou Baldeh, Service Member, Gambia National Youth Service Scheme
1.15pm National Youth Service - What Is There For The Youth?
- Oliver Sepiso Shalala, Publicity Secretary, University of Zambia Students' Union (UNZASU)
1.30pm The Association of Young Leaders (AYL), Moscow - Elena Panova, Co-ordinator of Volunteer Programmes, AYL
1.40pm India - National Youth Project: Youth Activists' Views - Madhusudan Das and Debajani Das,
National Youth Project; Rajeev Bukralia, The Inspiration Courses
1.50pm NYS Experiences In Ghana - Clement Totimeh, President, National Service Personnel Association
(NASPA)
2.00pm Nigeria - Garba Sani Alhaji, Serving Corps Member, National Youth Service Corps
2.10pm UK - CSV's Citizens' Service: Young Participants' Views
2.40pm Plenary discussion with young people
3.30pm Delegates' own free time in Windsor/Eton/London
Guided Open-top bus Tour of Windsor and Eton
6.30pm Evening meal
7.30pm Rooms and tea available for delegates' informal discussion groups
Sunday 21 June - The Way Forward
8.30am (Opportunity to attend the Eucharist Service at St. George's Chapel - open to the delegates resident in St. George's House)
10.00am Plenary - introducing the discussion groups
10.15am Discussion groups, each group covering both of the following areas:
(i) The International Association for NYS (IANYS) - its Charter, invitation for new members, future
plans/priorities and ways forward for the 21^st century
(ii) NYS literature/research - current sources, new sources (the possibility of an annual IANYS
newsletter, permanent Secretariat, and discussion list-serve on the Internet)
11.30am Plenary: Discussion groups report back, and 4^th Global Conference conclusions
12.30pm Lunch
2.00pm Plans for the 5^th Global Conference
3.00pm Close of conference: Planting of commemorative tree in the grounds of Windsor Castle.