This is a short report about the 2nd meeting within the CU in 10 years project, which was hold, to great fanfare of all, not far from the most beautiful city in the world on island of Texel.

 

19 June 2009. Twenty fresh participants landed at the most beautiful airport at the world and a fast Dutch bus took them all the way to the most beautiful island of the world called: Texel. First evening we were having rest after a long journey and starting to get to know each other in the relaxing atmosphere of the bar in our hostel.

 

20 June 2009 work was started. In the morning we did some games to learn each other names, dates of birth, favorite food and some more personal information like color underwear each of liked and the size of your penis. Then those who were participated in APV in Heemskerk, (6-10 March 2009) made a small overview for all participants on how the project was started, what was discussed there, what topics where selected and why. Participants had chance to give their own opinions on selected topics and add new ones after discussion in country group.

 

After lunch we all went to the most beautiful city in the world to take part in the opening of new exhibition in Richter gallery, called “Moving machines”, Remco poured out the wine, while all the others were tangent to contemporary art. Two hours later boat brought us back to Texel and to presentations of work which was done by participants in their countries before coming to 2d meeting. This day, like all the others, finished with reflection in country groups, meeting of leaders and having fun together while discovering the sorts of local beer.

 

21 June 2009 was started with the games, where we were normal rabbits, king-rabbits and oranges hunters. Later during the work participants experienced different group role, like chairperson, observer and timekeeper, their discussion were focused on main topics, they shared with each other their opinions as well as the opinions of policy makers in their country. As the result they created mottos and definitions, which expressed their point of view and general vision of the issue of people from 5 different European countries. In the evening we still had energy to show people in the local bar, what it means to party and have fun.

 

In the morning on 22d of June 2009 we were playing with Bulgarian girl’s pillows, killing each other with the counting till 11 and for the first time singing a song, which later stacked into our minds till the end (na, na ….na,na Everybody, Bonchance! Success! Powadzenia! Sekmes!). After games participants went back to the discussions around main topics, challenging themselves with taking new roles in the group.

 

23 June 2009 after final evaluation in the morning each participants got the most ecological mean of transport and we went to bicycle-tour around Texel, friendly people were greeting us with a smiles, black and white sheep with glad be-be-e-e and little seals were clapping with their flappers. Happy and tired after trip we were invited by Peter and Remco to visit nice refreshing place, which was Texel brewery.

 

24 June 2009, you can get impression about this day if you will imagine how it is to leave the most beautiful island and city in the world.

More about the results of group work during the second meeting you can found out following the link: http://docs.google.com/Doc?

 

MTÜ Islander from Estonia, U-GO from Scotland and Richter from the Netherlands want to invite you to participate in the training “Activating the Inactive Young Person’. The training is organized in the context of the EU and it will take place on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia from 07 to 13 January 2010.

In organizing this training, MTÜ Islander, U-GO and Richter wish to give opportunities to organizations from Europe to share their experiences and to gain knowledge and new skills in the fields of youth work and youth arts, as well as establishing new contacts and developing common project ideas.

The project will bring together a maximum of 20 youth work professionals to work together to explore concepts of European citizenship and to learn skills which they can use with their own target groups to support them in becoming active and creative as responsible European citizens within the world economy and environment. The project will focus on target groups which are particularly inactive at a European level, such as young people who are isolated e.g. through living in a rural area, or who are disengaged, disinterested or disadvantaged e.g. through unemployment. The impact of the training will thus be not only on participants, who will have the opportunity to develop themselves, but also on the target groups of the organizations that they represent.

To enter the training we kindly ask you to fill in the application form and the partIII and send this before 19 August to richtereu@hotmail.com

Download Documents:

• 01_-_invitation_letter.doc – This is .doc file, please use MSWord or OpenOffice to open the file
• 02_-_Participant_application_form.doc – This is .doc file, please use MSWord or OpenOffice to open the file
• 03_-_Estonia_Part_III.doc – This is .doc file, please use MSWord or OpenOffice to open the file

Proud as we are, we proudly present to you the final pictures of the final North East Westival. Similar project next year. That’s the question. But thanks god we have a brand new caravan !!!, Hurrah.

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