YEN has started the year of 2016 with the amazing Kick-Off Training “Opening Doors. It took place in Belgrade, Serbia from 16-21th of February. For the first time in history a YEN event was hosted by our member organization “Lunjina” – the Aromanian Youth Council of Serbia.
In December 2015, a group of YENies met for the final YEN event of the year, the “Newbie Meeting”, in Berlin in order to meet different minorities from all over Europe, to get to know the basics of minority youth politics and exchange about current issues.
This summer we followed the invitation of the Youth Council of the Germans in Russia (JdR), to participate in their summer camp. Roman Roblek (Chair of the YLC) and Paul Preisig joined the event from 16.-24.
YEN started its first Training for Trainers from the 22nd – 28th of June 2015, in Berlin-Grünau, which is outside of the city centre and surrounded by a forest and the Long Lake. This venue was perfect to give a lot of space to the 10 motivated participants.
This year’s YEN Easter Seminar 2015 with the headline “Awakening the Identity” took place from the 28th March until the 3rd April in Tulcea, Romania.
The member organizations of YEN met this fall, from the 7. – 12. of October at the Giuventetgna Rumantscha (GiuRu) in the Romansh La Punt Charmues – ch (CH). During these days approximately 70 participants stayed in the local pathfinder home.
From the 29th September to the 1st of October 2014 three YEN Board members, Matic Germovšek Ž.
From the 5th- 7th of September 2014 we held our Board Meeting in Koljnof/ Kópháza (Hungary). Following the invitation of Hak – Hrvatski akademski klub (Kroatischer Akademikerklub) we combined it with the annual festival Dan Mladine, the Burgenland- Croatian youth organizes.
This summer we had the pleasure to organize an event, which consisted of 2 parts. Some of you may know the popular “Voices of Europe” from the past already. This year it was linked to the “30 years of Roma Rights”. On tour with us to Macedonia was also our Minority Flag.
On the 9th, 12th and 13th of July 2014, YEN- President Matic Germovšek and Vice President Stere Stamule went on a study visit to our Aromanian/ Vlach member organization “Lunjina” in Belgrade/SR.
