Where West Meets East
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.
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YMCA Europe’s Youth Policy group
The Executive Committee has established a Youth Policy group and has taken a decision about the composition.
Division of roles new Executive Committee
In its first meeting, the new Executive Committee has divided roles related to the different programme fields.
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to European Union
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”.
Field Group Belarus Meeting in Vitebsk
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
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.
6th Volunteers for Europe (VfE) Seminar 2012
Dear national VfE-Coordinators, dear colleges,
You are warmly welcomed to the 6th Volunteers for Europe (VfE) Seminar which will take place in Germany this year.
It’s mY story – Roots for Reconciliation Programme Festival
August 23 – 29, in Shushi (Nagorno Karabagh) the first programme festival – ProFest – was held within the YMCA Europe Roots for Reconciliation project. ‘It’s mY story’ was the motto of this ProFest with an overall aim to promote stronger youth activism towards peaceful transformation of conflicts in Europe, the region of South Caucasus especially considered.
YMCA Europe Annual Report 2011
We are delighted to introduce the 2011 YMCA Europe Annual Report.
YMCA World Urban Network meets in Madrid, Spain
More than 70 CEO´s and General Secretaries from YMCAs in North and Latin America, Africa, Asia-Pacific and Europe met in Madrid from July 17th to the 22nd . The YMCA World Urban Network (WUN) is a platform of urban General Secretaries/Chief Executive Officers “dedicated to improving their personal leadership and impact of the YMCA on their communities by sharing knowledge and expertise with their world colleagues”. The conference was led by Peter Burns, Chair of the WUN and CEO Bill Stewart.