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On invitation of its leadership, YMCA Europe was present at the beginning of a week full of celebrations on the occasion of the 125th. birthday of YMCA/YWCA Zürich (Switzerland).

From the 6th to the 8th of November 33 participants took part at the first National General Secretaries Forum organized by YMCA Europe in Brussels, Blegium.

Join YMCA Europe´s 2nd Fundraising Conference. Experts from our European movement together with representatives from other private and public organizations will share best practices and opportunities in different fields.

A visit to Karabakh in August 2012 was one of those life-changing experiences which happen when you expect it least of all.

Every second year YMCA Europe holds its Catch the Vision conferences in places, where exposure to the context becomes an important part of these events’ logic – Balkans, Caucasus, Middle East.

The Executive Committee has established a Youth Policy group and has taken a decision about the composition.

In its first meeting, the new Executive Committee has divided roles related to the different programme fields.

The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2012. Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee lauded “six decades of work in advancing peace across Europe”.

From 28th until 29th September the Field Group Belarus met in Vitebsk, the birth city of the famous painter Marc Chagall (1887 – 1985) in the Northeast of Belarus.

Field Group Ukraine met in Kirovograd 24 September. Fourteen people from seven countries took part in the meeting. Before the meeting the representatives in the Field Group participated in YMCA Ukraine’s Conference (Annual General Assembly) in Kiev 22-23 September.