18-01-2008 Notice the new YiA programme guide 2008 - click here to download it
20-12-2007 Our latest NEWSletter is out (4th edition 2007) - click here to download it
13-11-2007 Training and information session on European programmes funds for social inclusion and active citizenship activities. The training will be from the 13th to the 17th of December in Madrid - click here
30-10-2007 EYP offers internships
25-09-2007 Our latest NEWSletter is out (3rd edition 2007) - click here to download it
25-09-2007 For information on a job vacancy at Youth Forum on Human Rights, Equality and Training Policy Officer click here
11-09-2007 The result of the vote below is that Ragnhildur Einarsdottir has been elected as the new ICYE EA ExCom chair person. See result and letter from Ragnhildur here
11-09-2007 As Jakob Paaske Jensen decided to resign as Chair Person of the ExCom as of September 1st 2007, all ICYE EA members have been asked to nominate potential candidates. This has resulted in an application for the post from Ragnhildur Einarsdottir, from ICYE Iceland (AUS). We therefore ask all members to vote on her application as new chair person by email to admin@icyeeurope.org. Application CV Motivation
11-09-2007 AVSO has open positions for interns
11-09-2007 CANCELLATION OF OFFICE HOURS week 41. Due to vacation, the ICYE EA office will be closed in week 41; October 8-13. In case of emergency, please call +45 86 18 07 15
11-09-2007 At the September 1st deadline, ICYE EA submitted to applications to EACEA; Learning to create changes (Spain) and EVS and YiA evaluation meeting (Austria). For further information, see "home" or "calendar"
05-06-2007 ICYE NEWSletter - 2nd edition 2007. You can download the NEWSletter here.
25-04-2007 AVSO is involved with the organising of a conference on the "Mutual recognition of skills and competences learned through volunteering: Towards a European Debate" in Brussels on the 22- 24th May 2007. The MOVE project focuses on mutual recognition of skills and competences learned through volunteering amongst different stakeholders from the voluntary sector, business, formal education and government as well as accreditation bodies . It brings together various stakeholders with their tools and experiences in the field of identifying, assessing and recognizing skills gained through volunteering. The main objective is to create a space for the exchange of approaches, needs and knowledge between these actors. The core of MOVE will be a three day conference in Brussels in May 2007 bringing together 60 experts and practitioners in the field and providing a space for presentation of good practices, identification of barriers that hinder collaboration of the different stakeholders and discussion on common standards. The participants will debate the possibility to develop a “ European Volunteer Pass ” , a portfolio of skills and competences learned through volunteering that could contribute to the current work of the European institutions on the recognition on non-formal learning and the European Qualification Framework. The results and the experience of the seminar will establish a European Thematic Network that will take further the debate and work on implementation of the results. We are still looking for best practices and sharing of information - as well as experts who can facilitate workshops. If you find this relevant and interesting, please fill out the template of good practice (if you want to present your experience in a workshop) and the expert template (if you want to sit on the panel as an expert) and send it back to me. The project can finance the travel of 45 delegates from outside Brussels - and can invite another 15 from Brussels . The other 40 persons that can come to the conference will have to pay a registration fee and their travel and accommodation. (the 60 get all free, hotel included). If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us (AVSO), and if you are interested in participating, please get back at the latest on Friday 27 th April. AVSO, 174, Rue Joseph II, B-1000, Brussels, Tel: 0032 2 230 68 13, Fax: 0032 2 231 14 13, Web: www.avso.org, Skype: avso-office
MOVE Invitation
MOVE Conference draft programme
MOVE template good practice
MOVE template Expert
25-04-2007 This information is for attended INGYOs members of the European Youth Forum. The World Bank is organising a conference on “Young people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: >From policy to Action”, which will take place on 21-25 May in Rome , Italy. The European Youth Forum is cooperating in the organisation of this event. You will therefore find enclosed a call for participants, the application form, as well as the concept of the event and the draft agenda. 5 representatives of International Non-Governmental Youth Organisations, coming from ECA countries, will be selected for this conference. Please send your nominations by email to Luiza Bara (luiza.bara@youthforum.org) or by fax at +32 2 230 21 23 before Saturday, April 28 th.
Conference call for participants
Conference draft concept note
Conference draft agenda
25-04-2007 The ICYE Federation has sent out a Call for Trainers for the Training for Trainers in the Philippines, 25th - 31st May 2007. Although the main Call has been sent to the European Youth Forum, the 'Alliance of Voluntary Service Organisations' and NVDA in Asia, we have agreed with ASEF to consider also applications for trainers from CCIVS, ICYE and the National Youth Council in the Philippines.
The idea is to have 3 European and 3 Asians Trainers, who have proven expertise in ToT in the area of Intercultural Learning and possibly some esperience of youth training in Asia (for the Europeans) and in Europe (for the Asian). All ICYE candidate Trainers should fill in the attached Trainer's Application Form and send it by email to the ICYE International Office, before and no later than 30 April 2007. The selection of Trainers should be finalised by the 4th of May.
Please note that travel and food and lodging costs for trainers will be covered by ASEF.
Looking forward to hearing from you, should you need any clarification or additional information, do not hesitate to contact Salvatore at the IO (www.icye.org).
Call for trainers
Trainer application form
Programme of Activities
15-04-2007 NISA summer session 2007 will be held on 9-14 July 2007 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Please find below the announcement and application form for the session.
Call for participants
10-04-2007 The Youth Development Public Union is organizing an International Seminar on "Promotion of global solidarity and inter-religious co-operation by young people" , that will take place in Baku from 11-17 May 2007. You will find more information about the seminar and application form below. Please note that the deadline for submitting applications is 15th April 2007 . Thanks for forwarding this call to any people who might be interested in this activity and might fulfill the participants' profile.
Call for participants
NEWSletter 1st edition 2007 (click here to read our newsletter)
25-01-2007 ICYE Europe in co-operation with AFSAI is planning on applying for a Euro Mediterranean Partnership Building activity with deadline February 1st.
Call for participants
PART III
The aim of the activity is to gather organizations from EU and MEDA countries to get to know each other, to exchange best practices, to discuss specificities of their regions and of implementing international volunteering activities there, to find partners for international volunteering and exchange activities, mainly to be implemented in the frame of the YiA programme, and to give support in making the envisaged projects feasible and concrete. One of the expected outcomes is the development of a Euro Mediterranean multilateral EVS project.
The training is scheduled for summer or fall 2007 and will be hosted in Italy by AFSAI. If approved by the European Commission, all costs will be covered except for 30% of travel costs and a participation fee of EUR 30. Organizations from all YiA programme countries and from the MEDA region are eligible to take part.
20-01-2007 Youth in Action Programme 2007-2013 – Adoption of the legal basis and conditional publication of the Programme Guide.
As earlier noted; the European Commission's proposal relating to the Youth in Action programme for the period 2007-2013 was adopted by the European Parliament and Council on 15 November 2006. To enable prompt implementation of this programme and to enable potential beneficiaries of Community grants to prepare their proposals the Commission has decided to publish the provisional version of the Programme Guide including detailed information on the implementation of the programme. http://ec.europa.eu/youth/yia/index_en.html
20-01-2007 Learning deluxe - Training of trainers and facilitators, Sweden, 10-18 February 2007 (Deadline 20th of December 2006) Introduction: This training is arrange by ICYE European Association and aims at increasing the competences of trainers and facilitators in youth organisations. During the training you will be trained in advanced facilitation and training- skills and will increase your competences to deal with group dynamics. Specific attention will be given to facilitating intercultural learning experiences and on stimulating learning among new groups of young people.
Call for Participants (click here)
Application form (click here)
20-01-2007 Cosmos of Culture, cultural non profit organization is organizing a cultural seminar of acquaintance with modern Athens; with the title "CULTURAL WALK IN ATHENS" The seminar reflects a general viewpoint of the major cultural aspects of the city of Athens . The seminar will take place from Wednesday 14/2/2007 until Sunday 18/2/2007 . See the invitation letter and application form here. www.cosmosofculture.org
17-01-2007 The Crisis center for youngsters -
"Kresnicka" of Lesce-Radovljica in Slovenia is looking for partners for a training project in the youth in action programm (action 4).
The topic is about volunteer management, especially focussed on volunteerism in the social sector.
How to recruit and manage volunteers for young people facing social exclusion, and how to activate these young people do step into volunteerism , to create a bigger benefecit for their situation. See the invitation letter and part III for the application here.
15-12-2006 Briefing on the EVS programme by AVSO. Agnes Uhereczky,
Director of AVSO has been so kind to send ICYE EA a short briefing on the new EVS programme based on the
minutes she took at the Celebration of the 10 Years of EVS in the end of
November. The new YOUTH IN ACTION Programme Guide has been published the Executive Agency's webpages - click here! Please also note that the Programme Guide will be published in all the official EU languages at
the beginning of 2007; the application forms for projects submitted at centralised level to the
Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency will be available soon
on this website. (To visit AVSO's website go to www.avso.org).
- See the briefing here!
NEWSletter Fall 2006 (click here to read our newsletter)
14-11-2006 The Fundamentals of Fundraising - a seminar by Tony Elischer. November 2006 AVSO (Association of Voluntary Service Organisations) hosted a fundraising seminar, where Tony Elischer gave some input on the “Fundamentals on Fundraising”. Sarah Gram attended the seminar as representative of ICYE European Association. If you are interested in fundraising and wish to find out more about fundraising you can download a summary of the seminar here: The fundamentals of fundraising: a summary by Sarah Gram.
03-11-2006 The Spanish Youth Council wants to invite you to participate in the III European Seminar " "Is this the Europe that we are looking for? A contribution made by young people 20 years after the entrance of Spain in the European Union " , organised by CJE and European Institutions in A Coruña, Galicia, (Spain) from de 1st to the 3rd December 2006. See the invitation letter and the application form. The deadline to apply is the 15th November 2006.
20-10-2006 Research seminar Young People and Active European Citizenship. Some places are available to participate at a research seminar on young people and active European citizenship organized in the framework on the Partnership on Research in the Youth Field between the Council of Europe and the European Commission. The seminar will take place at the European Youth Centre, Budapest , Hungary from 23-25 November, 2006. The aim of the seminar is not only to deal more deeply with the meanings of citizenship and their contemporary applications, but also into the impact of the work of the European youth field in this domain. It will be attended mostly by researchers specialized in the field, Member Organisations of the European Youth Forum and policy makers. For background information about the seminar click here. Deadline: 1 November 2006.
22-08-2006 The UNITED Conference, " All Different - All UNITED", will take place in Neuchatel from 14-19 November 2006 and the topic will be: What is diversity? How is it related to you? Is Europe a house of diversity? Does Europe equally welcome anyone who wants to become a European citizen? Click here to read more as well as on http://www.unitedagainstracism.org under 'upcoming conferences' and under 'new'. Programme: http://www.united.non-profit.nl/pdfs/ProCH.pdf (pdf, 432 KB) Registration Form: http://www.united.non-profit.nl/docs/regCH.rtf (rtf, 12 KB)
03-08-2006 European, Educational Exchanges - Youth For Understanding with the co-operation of YFU Belgium (Vlaanderen) is looking for an intern for a period of 3 months, from September to December 2006 , to be based in EEE-YFU's new office premises in Brussels, Belgium. Click here to read more or go to www.eee-yfu.org
27-07-2006 AVSO has just informed us, that they still have space at a study visit to Poland for organisations working with voluntary service, EVS and youth mobility. The four day visit will take place in Warsaw from 19th to the 22nd of September 2006 and the program has been specifically designed to offer practical knowledge for organizations working with youth mobility and voluntary service. Click here to read more or go to AVSO's website: http://www.avso.org/
NEWSletter Spring 2005 (click here to read our newsletter)
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