{"id":3101,"date":"2011-08-24T19:03:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2011-08-24T19:03:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T19:03:07","slug":"europa-nostra-highlights-heritage-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=3101","title":{"rendered":"Europa Nostra highlights heritage volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_5_1314200223353453\"><strong id=\"yui_3_2_0_5_1314200223353447\"><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Europa Nostra members adopted the \u2018Amsterdam Declaration on Volunteers as added-value for Europe\u2019s cultural and natural heritage\u2019 during their 2011 General Assembly (11 June, Hermitage Amsterdam). <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Declaration states that EU institutions &#8211; and national, regional and local governments \u2013 should recognise the central value of volunteers for Europe\u2019s heritage through a range of initiatives, such as investing in more comprehensive studies on volunteering (including an economic and social study of the impact of volunteering for cultural and natural heritage in Europe), and creating more funding opportunities for the education, engagement and management of volunteers and professionals working with them in the heritage field.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2011 is the EU Year of Volunteering, celebrated by Europa Nostra via a Forum on volunteering.\u00a0 More than 200 participants attended the Forum, which included keynote speakers who gave an overview of the \u2018state of the art\u2019 regarding valuing and managing volunteers in the heritage sector.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.europanostra.org\/amsterdam\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.europanostra.org\/amsterdam<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europa Nostra members adopted the \u2018Amsterdam Declaration on Volunteers as added-value for Europe\u2019s cultural and natural heritage\u2019 during their 2011 General Assembly (11 June, Hermitage Amsterdam). &nbsp; The Declaration states that EU institutions &#8211; and national, regional and local governments &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=3101\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3102,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions\/3102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}