Center's Activities
- Preparation, implementation, and evaluation of volunteer projects and activities at the local, national, and international levels,
- Organization and implementation of volunteer education,
- Encouraging and involving students in volunteer projects and activities to develop competencies for the labor market,
- Promoting volunteerism and raising awareness of the needs of individuals and groups at risk of social exclusion at the Faculty and in the local community,
- Establishing a network of volunteers at the local and international levels,
- Incorporating scientific methods in the evaluation of volunteer activities.
Center Members
- Prof. dr. sc. Sandra Lovrenčić - Head of the Center
- Prof. dr. sc. Violeta Vidaček Hainš - Volunteer Activities Coordinator
- Lorna Zbodulja - Student Coordinator (lzbodulja23@student.foi.hr)
Procedure for applying to volunteer actions within CZVHR FOI
Since 2015, the Center for Volunteering and Humanitarian Work has used its own visual identity, linked to the visual identity of the Faculty of Organization and Informatics under whose auspices it operates.
The Center's visual identity can be downloaded below:
The 12th Student's Symposium on Research and Intercultural learning was held from July 10 to July 21th, 2024 at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, Indiana State University in Terre Haute, IN and DePaul University Chicago, USA.
The 11th Student Research Symposium „Research Topics and Intercultural Learning in the International Context“ is organized at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin on May 21 - 29, 2023.
The 9th Student Symposium: Research Topics and Intercultural Learning, traditionally organized by FOI in collaboration with United States Universities was held from June 14th to 25th at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin.
Procedure for applying to volunteer actions within CZVHR FOI:
Volunteering is conducted in accordance with the legal framework:
-Volunteer Act:
https://www.zakon.hr/z/258/Zakon-o-volonterstvu
-Volunteer Code of Ethics:
https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2008_05_55_1915.html
Organizers of volunteering (institutions, associations, etc.) who wish to involve volunteers in volunteer actions in cooperation with the Center for Volunteering and Humanitarian Work FOI must submit a written request to the Center, signed by the head of the organization and bearing its stamp/logo, which includes:
- Exact name of the volunteering organizer
- Person responsible for volunteers
- List and description of volunteer tasks
- Planned duration of volunteering (date from - to)
- Planned number of volunteer hours per day
- Number of volunteers needed
- Location of volunteering
- Whether accommodation, meals, drinks, and transportation will be provided for volunteers
- Whether training will be organized for volunteers who have not yet undergone it
- Who will record volunteer hours in volunteer booklets/issue volunteer contracts (contracts must be signed in advance, not retroactively)
- Organizers must ensure that volunteers do not perform tasks for which someone else is simultaneously being paid
- In case of volunteering with children/minors, persons with disabilities, elderly and vulnerable persons, etc., the organizer must ensure constant supervision of volunteering and sign a volunteer agreement, which includes a statement confirming the absence of circumstances specified in the Volunteer Act, Art. 10. For long-term volunteering, volunteers must provide a certificate of no criminal record.
- The Center for Volunteering and Humanitarian Work FOI will announce calls for volunteers through official volunteer channels, and volunteers will independently choose the actions they wish to participate in.
Prof.dr.sc. Sandra Lovrenčić
Head of CZVHR FOI
Prof.dr.sc. Violeta Vidaček Hainš
Volunteer Activities Coordinator
