Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Dear participants,


I am Katarina and I come from Slovakia. Some short description of my town, my job and youth projects is in the attached presentation.

I am looking forward to our training.

Katarina

Monday, September 22, 2008

Headliners , Belfast - Northern Ireland

Hey

My name is Lisa and I am one of the lucky participants from Germany. I am twenty one and currently studying media and communication in a big city in the east of Germany, Leipzig.
I spend the last year doing an European Voluntary Service in Belfast. I was working at a youthmedia project called Headliners. Headliners is a UK-wide news agency producing news, features and comment by young people.Through a unique learning through journalism programme, young people aged 8 to 19 research and write stories on issues that are important to them for publication in national and local newspapers, magazines, television and radio.
In Belfast we were concentrating on short movies and photography. In the office are working two full-staff members, 2 part-time workers and 2 EVS volunteers. We did a lot of outreach work in schools for pupils with special needs. This wee video is a short film about Headliners and I think the young people creating this did a fairly good job telling you what this project is about. As well you get a little insight of my working place.
I really look forward to get to know all of you soon.
Cheers, Lisa

Monday, September 8, 2008

Youth Center Brežice - Slovenia

Hello everybody,

my name is Nataša and I am coming from small town called Brežic, Slovenia. I work in Youth Center Brežice.
Youth center Brežice is an organization that operates within the local community and aims to ensure young people associative ways of socializing, stimulates participation, volunteer activities and informal education of the youth, contributes to social reciprocity and social integration of the youth, emphasizes mobility and international cooperation of young people, provide information and ensures an autonomous place, where young people can go. Youth center Brežice functions also in fields of communicational education and awareness, multimedia, informal education, ecology and humanity causes. Youth center also provides free public access and free use of technology and equipment, it provides all the necessary infrastructure for creative and innovative work on the fields of e communications, Internet, digital audio and video production. There is also a public access computer Server system for educational, scientific, cultural and artistic contents, together with e communications. Regular activities of our Youth center are: informing and counselling, concert organisation, exhibitions, literary evenings, lectures of travellers travelling around the globe, local youth culture support, children and vacation programmes, international activities (Youth in Action Progamme, Leonardo da Vinci), etc.
In Youth Center Brežice, I am responsible for many activities: promotion of youth programmes in the municipality of Brežice (e-points), preparation and implementation of center's activities in the field of intercultural dialogue, promotion of the Youth in Action Progamme among youth and youth organisations, support of new youth ideas regarding various activities and preparation of the projects. My work includes daily dealing with culturally diverse groups.

You can see some photos of our Youth Center in some projects and activities.

Greetings from Slovenia!

Natasa.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Youth Group “ Novos em Cristo” - Portugal


My name’s Orlando. I’m a teacher and I have 28 years old. I came from a village called Sande São Martinho, near two big cities: Braga and Guimarães – Portugal.
I’m the leader of the Youth Group “Novos em Cristo”.
We are a Christian Catholic group. Our work is in our local area. The members are 15-24 years old. We discuss religion and actual social problems (drugs, aids, sexuality, etc.) at weekly meetings and we also help people with social and economic problems. Sometimes we visit them to keep them company. Another thing we do is visit orphanages or the prison. We organize Youth meetings and we like to walk and pray. We already have made pilgrimages from Braga (north of Portugal) to Fátima (south of Portugal) on foot and from Braga to Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Fátima and Santiago de Cospostela are two big centres for pilgrims. We have already taken part in the International Youth Meetings in Italy and Germany.
This are some photos of our group in some activities.
Hope to see you all soon…
Orlando (from Portugal)


Monday, August 11, 2008

About our participnats

Dear Participants Welcome on the board!
When you have photos and introduce about you and your association or about your country, local community, do not hesitate to put this information on our blog.
For us very important to know each other before our course because our training will be more interesting, than we will use a lot of information about you.
Best regards
Our team
Ewa, Iren, Teresa

Monday, August 4, 2008

Welcome to Hungary, Welcome to Győr

The training takes place in a half hostel, half hotel in the centre of Győr. We will sleep in the new built ensuite hostelrooms, but the workshops will be held on the fourth floor of Famulus Hotel, in a restaurant with terrace and beautiful panorama of Győr. Food will also be served in the hotel.

We hope you will enjoy the training and your stay in Győr.

The OYE Team (Ewa, Teresa, Iren)