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During the digital era, many industries have gone through significant changes. The previous year proved that digital tools could change face-to-face communication efficiently, and one of the affected spheres during the last decade and especially last year was volunteering. The years 2020 -2021 gave different organizations or individuals the possibility to discover the types of volunteering that could be done from the comfort of home while still being influential and life-changing.

Volunteering is becoming more and more popular amongst young people. Some of them volunteer to help the cause and become part of a movement. Some want to put down volunteering experience in their application for the university, and others might volunteer internationally and get to know the culture and people of foreign countries. There are many reasons why young people become a part of civil society and proudly mention that they are volunteers. While living in the digital era, they are also familiar with the tools that could help them find opportunities that would be interesting and beneficial.

From May 18 to May 21, an online conference on volunteering and solidarity as the social capital of the city was jointly organized by 8 National Agencies of the European Solidarity Corps, Erasmus+ Youth program, and European Solidarity Corps Resource Centre. The conference brought together the representatives of municipalities and organizations to promote Volunteering and Solidarity Projects as tools to support solidarity in action. During these four days, the participants had a chance to hear the presentations, be a part of discussions, share their practices, and, of course, network with each other.

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Those of you picturing a dystopian scenario with destructive bee drones from the series Black Mirror when hearing about bees and digitalisation, should have a conversation with Melanie von Orlow. In her role as first chairperson in the Beekeepers’ Association Reinickendorf-Mitte she leads one of the largest and oldest beekeepers’ associations in Berlin. She is long aware of the advantages of digital tools in beekeeping. But, this has not always been the case.