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About Youth Camps
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When mothers and fathers lookup for youth camps for their kids, they ought to first of all validate the accreditation of your camp. Lots of people mistake licensing for accreditation, but the two are not one as well as the very same point. Licensing...
Volunteering – it’s not as hard as you think
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The European Year of Volunteering tour came to the UK last week, and took up residence in the Coin Street Community Centre. While there I spoke to Stephen Crocker, who ran the Leeds City Council initiative to have a Leeds … Continue reading ...
I Want my Future Back
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I am angry. I am angry because the current generation of politicians is betraying my generation. How do I arrive at this conclusion? Let me go back a bit in history before I address the current situation. Two Generations of Great Leadership I was bor...
A word by the Editor in Chief…
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There is Greece, whose position is insecure. There is the common currency, which is on the borderline. There are waves going high with discussions about Eurobonds and a European Economic Government. There is no common European voice in the current Pa...
Call for: Freelance bloggers (text, audio, video)
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Do you shake your head about the latest decision in EU politics? Are you itching to tell the part of a story that was not told so far? Do you want to make a valuable contribution to our website but do you lack the time to write blogs regularly? EST o...
The intern experience
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We sometimes have work experience interns working in the office here. I know there is a lot of talk about interns, but I think that the European Commission manages it quite well. Outside the graduate intern scheme, which is open … Continue read...
Our society's glue – volunteering
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About a thousand young volunteers brought a breath of fresh air to the EU institutions' headquarters during the second half of last week. They pumped in some fresh, young and optimistic European oxygen at this time when we're feeling almost suffocate...
Call for: Ambassadors
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Are you a European student, interested in European news and policy-making and would you like to contribute to a freshly established youth organisation as a representative in your country? The organisation: The European Student Think Tank (EST) is...
Youth Participation in Human Rights Education as a Means for Enhancing Social Inclusion - Study Session, Budapest, 30 October-6 November 2011)
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONSYouth Participation in Human Rights Education as a Means for Enhancing Social InclusionStudy SessionOctober 30 – November 6, 2011Budapest, HungaryINTRODUCTIONThe Human RightS Initiative (HRSI) at Central European University (CE...
Young, bright…unemployed?
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Young, strong, smart, but without job. It is the radiography of thousands of young Europeans. The worst case is Spain where in some counties the unemployment rate is about or more than 50% of the active population. Solutions? The European … Con...
Call for: Strategy Group chairpersons
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The European Student Think Tank is looking for Strategy Group chairpersons. Are you a European student, with fresh ideas and a strong background and interest in European policy-making? Would you like to lead a qualitative Strategy Group that will foc...
Call for: Strategy Group members
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The European Student Think Tank is looking for Strategy Group members. Are you a European student, with fresh ideas and a strong background or interest in European policy-making? Would you like to be part of a qualitative Strategy Group that will foc...
EU Consultation on the Future of Lifelong learning and Youth in Action programmes
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Make your voice be heard!The European Commission is currently running the consultations for the Future Youth in Action Program as well as for the Future lifelong learning program. Both are of vital interest for organizations active ine EDC/HRE. To p...
Transeuropa Youth Think-tank for Democracy
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Starting in September 2010, TransEuropa Youth Think-tank for Democracy brings together 20 young people from four countries (UK, France, Italy, Romania) to discuss various aspects of European policy in dialogue with European Parliamentarians, and othe...
Emilie Turunen on unpaid interns: ‘we risk losing our generation’
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In her soon-to-be-adopted youth unemployment rapport, the 26-year-old Dane has surely rewritten the tune of an infernal chorus. At 26, who better than the youngest member of the current European parliament to discuss a disenchanted population?
Youth Without Work
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Among the many devastating effects of the current global financial crisis, one of the most pernicious in the developed world is the upward trajectory of the unemployment rate for youth, which rose by six percentage points in the OECD area from 2007 t...
Youth work and EU 2020 flagship initiative Youth on the move
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Yesterday we witnessed the deplorable state of the EU Commission’s central website for the Europe 2020 strategy, in the blog entry EU 2020 website and Youth on the move: Nul points ! Luckily, the picture is not all black. The Belgian presidency of...
EU 2020 website and Youth on the move: Nul points !
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The Europe 2020 strategy is the raison d’être of the Barroso II Commission, so preparation and communication of the seven flagship initiatives must be highly visible, and they have to go hand in hand. Is this theory or practice? Youth and educatio...
Europe 2020 flagship initiative Youth on the move (EU Commission Work Programme 2010)
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Can anything be done to reduce idleness and frustration, improve the functioning of jobs markets, and to give young people better skills to start an independent life and a productive career? According to Eurostat, the statistical office of the Europ...
Europe 2020 strategy: Flagship initiative Youth on the move
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Education is at the heart of the Europe 2020 flagship initiative Youth on the move, which aims at improved employability and employment for young EU citizens. Context The Europe 2020 strategy puts forward three priorities for growth (smart, sustaina...
TAKING ACTION WITH YOUTH AND BUSINESS LEADERS
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It’s always exciting to meet the people who are shaping today’s digital world. There are so many new ideas out there, it’s good the share and learn from others as I did at the European Business Summit this week in Brussels. I wa...
How creative are you?
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If you’re an existing or aspiring journalist, there are two pretty cool competitions going on at the moment which you might be interested in. The first is the Enlargement Young Journalist award, open to journalists and journalism students aged...
Stoyan Baltov and the Hopelessness of Bulgarian Youth
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Stoyan Baltov is dead. He was beaten to death on this day, December 5th, 2008 in front of a disco club in Sofia. His death prompted a series of protests that climaxed on January, 14th 2009. On this date police dispersed the protestеrs in front of th...
An Intergroup on Youth Issues in the European Parliament?
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European Parliament intergroups are a rather unknown but still interesting subject for non-insiders to the European Parliament or the Brussels bubble, which for me is proved by the interest my article on intergroups (covering the last European Parlia...
Educating Children and Youth in their Rights to Prevent Trafficking and Unsafe Migration
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Every year, thousands of juveniles and minors from Southeast Europe are moving to West European countries. Some of them become part of the circle of trafficking and get involved in different forms of exploitation, begging and committing of pocket-pic...
Online consultation on learning mobility of young people
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A couple of days ago the Commission launched an online consultation for young people on learning mobility. Interested by the topic, enthusiastic that the Commission cared about my view and even more enthusiastic that this message actually succeeded i...
European Parliament elections 2009 (104): Youth against youth - FYEG and EFAy attack YEPP, ECOSY, and LYMEC
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Huuh, the political youth organisations are getting active.Now FYEG (the Young European Greens) and EFAy (the youth of the European Free Alliance) attack the youth organisations of the three major European Parties (YEPP, ECOSY, LYMEC) following their...
European Parliament elections 2009 (102): Youth candidates running for the European Parliament - LYMEC
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Last week, I have been asking four European party youth organisations - YEPP, ECOSY, LYMEC (who have been issuing a joint statement against youth abstention yesterday) and FYEG (the Green youth) - about "their" candidates for the EP elections.Here ar...
Cultural Diplomacy in the Mediterranean: A Young Leaders Forum
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Seminary on Cultural Diplomacy in the Mediterranean Cultural Diplomacy in the Mediterranean: A Forum for Young Leaders Weeklong Seminar: 9th – 13th June, 2009, Berlin Now Accepting Applications The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy is delighted...
Is the European Youth Forum in bad shape?
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Nonformality, a former board member of the European Youth Forum (YFJ), has blogged a long article on his view on the current situation in the YFJ, and it is very negative.An extract:[T]here is, regrettably, no open discourse on the situation of the Y...
European Youth and Mobility… or busy MEP’s on vote mission. [Veerle VRINDTS]
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I didn’t even get close to them. They ran away as soon as I took my voicerecorder and paper with questions. MEPs on vote-mission, hurry, hurry, still 5 more meetings to attend. “Goodbye! Vote for me, please! Of course we will enlarge the...
Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG) with new leadership
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Last week, the Young European Greens (FYEG) have elected a new leadership team at their General Assembly in Maastricht.The new team includes:Eline van Nistelrooij (The Netherlands) - female spokespersonGordan Isabegovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - mal...
PES Activist is the new National Chair of Young Labour!
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On Saturday 18th April, PES activist Sam Tarry was elected National Chair of Young Labour in the UK. Campaigning with his manifesto, ‘Organising to win', Sam has promised bi-monthly campaign training seminars, a national full time officer for Young...
What was going on at the ECOSY Congress?
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Last weekend, the Young European Socialists (ECOSY) gathered for their congress in Brussels, where a new leadership was about to be elected.Looking on Twitter, I found the following messages:Ilia Markov (Bulgaria): "Back home from Brussels after a de...
European Young Journalist Award
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I’ve been asked to give this a plug - the deadline’s 31st May, the age limit is 17-35, and the prize (of which there is one for every EU member state) is a trip to Berlin in August/September (just in time for the 20th anniversary of the f...
One and a half hours flying time and yet light-years apart: Vienna – Brussels
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Youngsters and political experts discussed the future of the European Union By Verena Schiefer. Translated by Stefan Fersterer and Alexandra Skwara. The Austrian Euro-scepticism cannot be considered a well-kept secret. A person transforms into...
Could you wait while I look for my hearing aid?
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Can you Hear Me Europe? Really? That is the best name that MTV could come up with for their European Elections project? As I noted last week, the campaign is initiated by European Commissioner for Communication Margot Wallström and MTV, who met earl...
Laurent Schouteten new president of the EPP Youth
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The 28-years old French UMP member Laurent Schouteten (photo) has been elected new president of the Youth of the European People's Party (YEPP) on Friday.Schouteten has been a vice president of YEPP in the previous term and replaces the Greek Ioannis...
What would you call ‘Rock the Vote’ in Europe?
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The Weekly Calendar of Commissioners tells us that European Commissioner for Communication Margot Wallström is meeting with MTV Southern Europe to announce a campaign by MTV to raise awareness of the European Parliament elections among young people.
European Parliament elections 2009 (64): Main European youth organisations call for a true European debate during the EP election campaign
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All major European youth organisations, including theEuropean Youth Forum (YFA), the (party) political youth organisationsYouth of the European People’s Party (YEPP),Young European Socialists (ECOSY),European Liberal Youth (LYMEC),Federation of Yo...
