The Patterns and Values of Volunteering in the Czech and Norwegian Societies ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** 2009–2010 Principal Investigator: Pavol Frič The project was supported within the framework of Norway Grants and EEA Grants and impleme collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, and Institute Research, Oslo. Its objective was to identify the diversity of volunteering patterns in th including their institutional settings, and constitutive social interactions in different Czech and Norwegian societies. The project compared the different parameters of volunteeri motivation, values, type of organisational setting etc.) and their institutional mechanism social contexts and parts of society.