Calendar - September 11

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IYNF activities and offers

Planning Weekend – last chance to apply!

Just around one week is left before this years Planning Weekend will take place in Roznava (Slovakia, close to Hungarian border). Be quick, apply and participate in this meeting Planning Weekend, which this year will happen from 6th till 11th of September, gives time and space for IYNF members, partners, staff and volunteers to come together to evaluate previous year and plan upcoming season, discuss ideas initiated during Networking Conference and plan how to turn them into real projects. Join and have a unique chance to participate also at closing event of the Landscape of the Year which will take place at the same time. Last opportunity to register today!

Call for GetStarted participants

Do you want to learn more about international youth exchanges? Are you interested in how to bring them to success and use them for development of your own group? Do you want to find potential partners for your project? Do you want to use the IYNF networking support framework for your youth exchanges? If your answer is YES, then join the GetStarted – training course on youth exchange project management – taking place in Grindelwald, Switzerland from 15th to 23d of October 2011. Find out more, apply until 16th of September and let’s get started!

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IYNF News

IYNF Secretaries meeting

After Planning Weekend 2011 another annual IYNF meeting will happen – IYNF Secretaries meeting. Managers of IYNF member organizations will meet in Prague on Monday 19th of September to update each other and plan the future cooperation. So far biggest part of our members confirmed their participation and we hope to have even few more coming. The main point of agenda of this meeting will be Naturefriends network and networking process, communication flow, project cooperation and development of common Trainers network. We are looking forward to fruitful meeting!

Changes in IYNF office

As every September, also this year IYNF office team is facing some considerable changes. As our volunteer Zane is finishing her service in the end of August and leaving IYNF office, new fresh forces are joining. Our new EVS volunteer Adela from Romania is starting her service on 1st of September and future IYNF Secretary General Ilze from Latvia is starting her 2 month handover at the same time. Let's wish all of them good luck!

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Activities and offers from and for member organisations

Adventures with Algerian Naturefriends in Sahara!

Recently IYNF has launched a cooperation with the African Naturefriends from 9 different African countries and first results are coming to life. Algerian Naturefriends would like to invite Young and Adult Naturefriends from Europe to participate in two-week long adventures in Sahara. The programs will be run between November and March and are open for adventure lovers of all age. The programs includes crossing the desert on camels, skiing on the sand dunes, learning about environment of Sahara, getting to know local culture (music, dances, pottery workshops) and learning to cook local dishes. Unfortunately the projects are not funded so participants will have to cover costs of their travel. More details, including the costs and dates will follow soon. For now you can fuel your imagination with those beautiful pictures. If you want to express your interest in participating please contact Ewa to ewa[@]iynf.org and she will keep you up to date. Alternatively, you can directly contact Algerian Naturefriend Hedibi Abdellatif to hedibi_abdellatif[@]yahoo.fr, but you will need to write in French.

Tourism - Youth - Future: Sustainable development in the Gömör-Torna region

Naturefriends International is inviting you to the 3rd meeting of the Slovak Naturefriends (10th of September) and Sustainability Conference “Tourism - Youth - Future: Sustainable development in the Gömör-Torna region” (9th of September) happening in the frame of the closing festivities of the “Landscape of the Year 2010/11” in Rožňava and its surrounding area from 9th to 11th of September 2011. For registration and information concerning the closing festivities, please, contact Slovak Naturefriends (KST) Martin Markusovsky to mmarkusovsky[@]sny.sk. English speaking participants should contact Anita Pinter to anita.pinter[@]nf-int.org for the registration form for the closing festivities.

All Natura trails on-line!

NaturFreunde Deutschlands have a wonderful news for all the naturefriends – all Natura trails are on-line and possible to check! It took some longer time to upload all their natura-trail-flyer and to add the naturefriends-houses nearby the trails. But now they are on-line on www.natura-trails.naturfreunde.de and can provide excellent short holidays for members of your organization, especially in Baden & Württemberg, Saarland and Rheinland-Pfalz. There it is mostly possible to hike or cycle from naturefriends-house to naturefriends-house and combine the single trails.

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News and offers from organisations outside the Naturefriends

International Training Camp for Young Speleologists

If you are 16 years old or older, willing to start with caving or already have some experience and want to extend your skills, you understand German or English language, then take a chance and apply to International Training Camp for Young Speleologists on the Schwabian Alb from July 27th, 2012 to August 11th, 2012 . Get to know more on www.juhoefola.de or here (you will find there also the registration form)! Closing date for registration is December, 31st, 2011.
There's still time, but don't miss it!

Young people in Europe: We are EU!

Newspaper Youngstars, a newspaper, which is made by youngsters for youngsters in the whole Europe, is organizing newspaper workshop in Evangelische Jugendbildungsstätte Hackhauser Hof in Solingen, Germany from 3d to 6th of November, 2011 during which you will get chance to get in contact with other youngsters from whole Europe and learn how to write articles for a newspaper. Together, you will discuss topics and ideas for the new edition. In this workshop, you will also get an idea, of what is happening in the EU politics. If you are interested, please send your application up to 17th October, 2011 to jubi[@]hackhauser-hof.de. Here you can find more information and application form!

September – good time for moving the planet!

24th of September all over the world is the Moving Planet day, a worldwide rally to demand solutions to climate crisis, a single day to move away from fossil fuels. During this day in many places, people will ride bicycles, one of the few tools used by both affluent and poor people around the world. Other places people will be marching, dancing, running, or kayaking, or skateboarding. Join and help move this climate message! Come on bike, on skates, on a board, or just on foot, with your neighbors and your friends, your family and your co-workers, as a part of something huge. But it's not all - on 25th of September Youth Climate Summit will take place in Berlin, Germany to provide young people who commit themselves to the climate protection an opportunity to be heard. If you are concerned about the climate changes and its consequences and you want to participate, just send an e-mail to reuter[@]klima-allianz.de. More about Summit read here.