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Quality education in youth organisations: a clear engagement towards a European Lifelong Learning environment

April 20th, 2011 | Author: Mihai Floran
Brussels, 19 April 2011 // The European Youth Forum brought together experts in Quality Assurance (QA) from different fields, European and global institutions, education stakeholders (families, teachers, students, youth) in an experts Conference on QA in Lifelong Learning to exchange expertise on the topic and explore the potential of QA to facilitate connection amongst different Lifelong Learning providers.

The European Youth Forum and its Member Organisations have long been engaged in the debate on recognition of Non-Formal Education and have actively contributed to the knowledge and legislative developments in the area of lifelong and life wide learning. In believing that quality and education always go together, and that youth organisations are key providers of quality education, the European Youth Forum organised this Experts Conference to exchange good practises looking beyond Non-Formal Education. By gathering around the table all different stakeholders, the Conference aims at seeing how different providers can work together to develop standards in quality assurance mechanisms for Lifelong Learning.
In this framework, the European Youth Forum launched the first Quality Assurance Network in Non-Formal Education, as a follow-up of the Pilot Project carried out in the past two years. The Network is to be build with a participatory process together with other organisations throughout 2011-2012 and aims at increasing the quality and recognition of Non-Formal Education in Europe.
“Youth organisations today are already quality providers of NFE,” affirms Peter Matjašic, President of the European Youth Forum, “through establishing a mechanism of quality assurance we aim at improving this quality, but also at communicating it effectively to young people and to other stakeholders: parents, institutions, formal education and other lifelong learning providers. Quality education is a right and youth organisations lead the way in ensuring that all education fields offer this.”
The European Youth Forum concluded the event with the launch and presentation of the Non-Formal Education Network website (www.nfenetwork.eu). The online platform is intended of being a space to gather expertise and to facilitate capacity building of youth organisations. The website will also be the place where all stakeholders can find all the information on Non-Formal Education offer provided by youth organisations and on how they guarantee quality to young people.
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European Youth Forum elects a new leadership

November 24th, 2010 | Author: Mihai Floran
More than 250 young delegates participated in the European Youth Forum General Assembly 2010, hosted by the Ukrainian Youth Forum. Elections were held to elect the new leadership for the 2011-2012 mandate. Peter Matjaši? (JEF) was elected President of the platform. Together with the 10 young volunteers appointed by the vote in Kiyv he will take his seat in the Board of the European Youth Forum from January 2011. The European Youth Forum Board 2011-2012 will be formed by: Peter Matjaši?, JEF (President), Katarina Nevedalova, ECOSY and Luca Scarpiello, FNG (Vice-Presidents). Imse Nilsson, LSU; Anemone Birkebæk, DUF; Guoda Lomanaite, LYMEC; Mourad Mahidi, OJV; Falko Mohrs, WOSM; Katrine Korsgaard, EEE-YFU; Lloyd Russell-Moyle, IFM-SEI; Rui Duarte, CNJ (Board Members).

The General Assembly also adopted the European Youth Forum’s Work Plan for the next two years, focusing on Volunteering, Youth Rights and the Building of a Stronger Youth Civil Society. Furthermore, the young delegates discussed and adopted two Policy Papers on Global Governance and on Poverty and Young People as well as a Position Paper on Youth in Action 2.0, describing their views on the new Youth in Action cycle after 2014.

Finally, there was a European Youth Dialogue debate between young people and political representatives focusing on the role of youth in democratic development and the promotion of human rights in Europe. The Minister of Youth of Ukraine, Ambassador Janez Lenar?i?, Director of OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and Ms. Elvira Kovacs, Member of the PACE participated in the debate.

Maribor (Slovenia) will be the next European Youth Capital 2013. The award ceremony took place in Kiev (Ukraine) during the European Youth Forum General Assembly. The city of Maribor stands out for an innovative bottom-up approach in which young people are involved in every step of the planning of activities and policies.

Amongst the four cities shortlisted (Goes/NL, Derry-Londonderry/UK, Karlstad/S), Maribor especially caught the jury’s attention for its cooperation with and strong support of stakeholders from the local to the European level and a very diverse programme including a variety of activities addressing challenges that young people all over Europe face. The application presented the most detailed breakdown of budget provisions, the clearest team and governing structures.

The European Youth Capital 2013 award is an initiative of the European Youth Forum. The title is granted to a European city for a period of one year, during which it is given the chance to showcase its youth-related cultural, social, political and economic life and development. The current European Youth Capital 2010 is Torino (Italy), and Antwerp (Belgium) will be the European Youth Capital 2011.

Further information: youthforum.org

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Major decisions taken at the European Committee 2010

September 24th, 2010 | Author: Mihai Floran

Dear friends,

on the European Committee 2010 (16.-19. September) in Vilnius, Lithuania, the following major decisions were taken:

1) an office will be opened for JECI-MIEC as off 1.1.2012 with a full-time European Coordinator in Brussels, collaborating with 2-3 movements (the Administration Board) and a European Chaplain. All 4-5 of them form the European Team.

2) members of the European Team 2011:
– Administration Board: EKNE Greece, KSJ Germany
– European Coordinator: Mihai Floran (Astru Romania)

3) activities 2011:
a) 9.-13. March, Kaunas, Lithuania: Colloquium / Theological Session
b) 17.-24. July, Cologne, Germany: joint activity with the IMCS World Assembly
c) 12.-18. September, Corfu, Greece: European Committee
d) November/December, Strasbourg, France: Study Session with the Council of Europe

4) update of the statutes (to be finalized this year)

In case you have any questions, please feel free to contact office@jeci-miec.eu. The minutes will be sent to all the movements once they are finalized.

Kind greetings,

Anne-Marie Werner
(For the outgoing European Team)

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New website of the European Coordination

September 24th, 2009 | Author: Mihai Floran

Dear friends,

The European Coordination is very happy to announce that during the European Committee 2009 taking place from 23-27 September 2009 in Bonn, Germany, the new website is launched!

This new way of communication towards members and external partners is created on the web 2.0 platform using WordPress making it very easy to update and maintain. Member movements as well as external partners are invited to send their activities and information that want to share with the European level in order to be published on the Coordination’s website.

One of the new tools we are using is the RSS which will help to keep up with the news that is appearing on the website. We are looking forward to see your comments on our posts and pages.

European Team

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