Category Archives: News

With the passing away of Egon Slopianka the YMCA movement has lost one of its most dedicated and skilled leaders and a passionate servant of the movement.

Leam Preston (England) will represent YMCA Europe at the Advisory Council on Youth of the Council of Europe for the period 2014-2015.

On 8th. October 2013 our President Ed Eggink had a meeting with His Excellency the President of Malta, George Abela, at his residence San Anton Palace.

Pre-Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece, October 3.-6.2013.

Memories of the days spent in Prague during the Festival are still in our minds.
Hopefully they will stay for a long time and we will continue being inspired by the huge potential that such an event provides to each individual… and to each of our YMCAs.

In one of the summer camps of YMCA YWCA Iceland – Ölver, in autumn (not summer), somewhere remote in the Icelandic nature, a group of youth workers (not youth) came together to train themselves (not to camp). Thus, the atmosphere was full of surprises.

YMCA Europe and its YES group, including Change Agents are kindly inviting everyone in the age 18-30 for a unique seminar, which will take place in Gdynia/Gdansk, Poland, November 25-30, 2013.

From 20th until 22nd September the YMCA Europe Field Group Belarus met in Butuceni, Republic of Moldova. Twelve people from seven countries participated in the meeting.

Field Group Ukraine met 16 September in Odessa. 22 participants from six countries took part in the meeting. The main focus for the meeting was the issue of sustainability.

YMCA Europe´s Festival “LOVE 2 LIVE” had its closing ceremony last Friday August 9th. The participants agreed to spread the unique experience that they had lived in Prague among their YMCA members and friends. The stories that they have lived in Prague will reach thousands more when they return home.