Back Keep up with EYF during October - December

Strasbourg, 15 October 2014

The European Youth Foundation (EYF) would like to wish a warm welcome to the newly appointed Head of the Youth Department, Antje Rothemund.

The EYF team has been involved in developing and planning various cooperation projects to be implemented with other Council of Europe departments during October and the months to come.

Have a look below at our busy schedule!

 

8 – 10 October, Koksijde, Belgium
Theme: “Respect – Responsible Attitudes and Behaviour in the Online Social Space” (Module B)

 

14 – 16 October, Strasbourg, France
Theme: “Empowering youth: a shared responsibility for cities and regions”
36 young people jointly selected and financed by the Congress and the EYF, will join the Congress delegations in their work during the session, notably a debate on youth participation at local and regional level.

 

3-5 November, Strasbourg, France
Theme: “From participation to influence: can youth revitalise democracy?”
EYF is highly involved in the Forum, from participant selection (230 young participants from all over the world), logistics, organisation of labs and unconferences topics, online platform work, presentation of new prototypes of democracy(ies) to youth visibility item design (hats, t-shirts etc.) and free time programme ideas! Every effort is being put in to make this event a success story.

 

  • Joint Council on youth meeting

12-14 November, Strasbourg, France
Main aim: to work on the 2016 - 2017 priorities of the youth sector.

 

The Foundation team is also continuing with usual work commitments and demands:

  • 1 October EYF Deadline

The EYF team is evaluating the applications received on the last deadline of the year and preparing the recommendations to be given to the Programming Committee for each application. 39 work plan applications and 46 international activity applications were submitted.

The unique approach of the Foundation means that applications will be seen by 3 different people, each one of them looking at different aspects. If necessary (in order to ask for clarifications, improve the quality of the application or simply make a suggestion) one of the staff members will get in touch directly through the online system of EYF, with the NGO concerned/person in charge of the project. The Programming Committee will take the final decision.

 

  • Programming Committee meeting December (2 annual meetings)

4 – 5 December, Budapest, Hungary
The EYF is Secretariat to the Programming Committee, preparing all meeting documents, taking note of the Committee’s comments, organising logistics and other demands.

 

  • Pilot Activity applications and decision

All year round – no fixed deadline
The EYF team is evaluating applications, giving recommendations and discussing online with Programming Committee members. NGOs will be informed as soon as possible.

 

  • Other

EYF has received a voluntary contribution from Finland (€ 15,000) to support the work of youth NGOs on capacity building and conflict transformation in Ukraine in 2014 - 2015.