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.
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Volunteers for Europe seminar 2012
Date: 1st November 2012 – 5th November 2012″] Place : Görlitz, Germany 6th Volunteers for Europe seminar Invited are key persons from host and sender organisations involved in voluntary services. The seminar will have a pan European approach, especially including YMCA movements from east and southeast Europe. Attached files Draft Programme Registration form Invitation letter
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Division of roles new Executive Committee
In its first meeting, the new Executive Committee has divided roles related to the different programme fields.
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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”.
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WHERE WEST MEETS EAST
Istanbul situated both in Europe and Asia, is a city where one can witness the heritage of 8 thousand years of human civilisation, where the Oriental and European cultures infiltrate each other and major religions meet. Istanbul is also a place where the YMCA started to work back in 1914.
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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.
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European YMCA/YWCA Staff Conference 2012
Date: 1st October 2012 – 6th October 2012″] Place : Bernhauser Forst Centre, Stuttgart, Germany Dear Friends, you are warmly invited to register to the 13th European YMCA/YWCA Staff Conference in Stuttgart, Germany. The international planning group just held a second preparatory meeting at the venue of the Conference, part of which is freshly renovated…
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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.
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