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Voluntary Engagement
The social cohesion of a society is fundamentally based on a developed and safe social welfare system with legal entitlements for its citizens. If there is a need to obtain help, voluntary work is a meaningful supplement to paid work involving compulsory social insurance contributions. This culture of voluntary engagement, solidarity and mutual support is an important part of our social capital.Voluntary engagement in indispensable for Austria - but not taken for granted. To make sure that as many people as possible carry out voluntary work in future, the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection ensures that the basic conditions are attractive. Innovative projects and measures to promote voluntary engagement are developed and implemented together with representatives of voluntary organisations.
Volunteers and voluntary organisations benefit from the national and international transfer of know-how and from the motivation of companies and institutions to support voluntary engagement.
The aim of all this is to ensure that invaluable voluntary engagement remains affordable for those carrying it out.
Further information on voluntary engagement and on voluntary work organisations is available from our website at http://www.freiwilligenweb.at/.
