englischYouth mentoring is an important instrument in reducing social disadvantages and educational injustice. However, the willingness to volunteer as a mentor, which is necessary for its implementation, has remained largely unexplored. In this study, voluntary work in youth mentoring is examined [...]

englischEvery year, several thousand volunteers from all over the world participate in international voluntary service programmes in Germany. Transcultural encounters are a primary goal of the volunteering programmes. But what are the experiences of volunteers from countries of the Global South in [...]

englischSubstantial processes of demographic and social change are increasingly altering social relations between generations. In volunteer work and paid work, extra-familial contact between generations is taking place and is demanded under the guiding principle of age diversity. In this book, a [...]

englischWhat kind of benefits does volunteering (not) entail from a volunteer’s point of view? What barriers to their involvement do potential volunteers face? The project ‘Ehrenamt der Zukunft’ (Voluntary Work of the Future) explores these questions empirically from the users’ perspective. [...]

englischThis study is the first to place development policy volunteer services in the context of fundamental social theory. Using the theory of reciprocity, it identifies the deeper levels of logic on which development policy volunteer services are based. In doing so, it analyses ambiguous and [...]