Voluntaris

Digital messenger-based communication has become central to how families with children coordinate everyday care. Group and direct messaging spaces are used to organize homework support, supervision and situational assistance, linking parents,...

In recent years, not only has the number of people working in educational institutions increased, but professional backgrounds and forms of collaboration have also changed fundamentally. In light of a shortage of skilled professionals, however,...

Career orientation and interest in recruitment have historically been inextricably linked to voluntary services. Due to the acute shortage of personnel in the social and care professions, voluntary services are increasingly seen as tools for...

Civic engagement actors are challenged to reduce racism in their own contexts because it restricts the participation of racialized persons. This article focuses on Fridays for Future. The social movement, especially the German section, is criticised...

This essay examines the shift from object to subject in the context of early childhood education. Children are understood as independent actors with rights and agency, whose participation is legitimised by the UN Convention on the Rights of the...

Non-Profit-Organisationen (NPOs) stehen oft vor der Herausforderung, junge Menschen für ehrenamtliches Engagement zu gewinnen. Aufbauend auf dem Modell von Kals et al. (2021) identifiziert diese Studie organisationale Merkmale, Merkmale der...

Democracy as a form of society and government is under pressure. In our studies on the rela-tionship between democracy, civil society, and trust in the system, we start from the interrela-tionships between the three dimensions of democratic...

Using the case of a male choir in rural Austria, the article develops the concept of in/formal engagement. Contributing to the debate on the relationship between formality and informality, it shows how formally organised activity, informal support...