October in EJB Mediterranean Neighbourhood Mediterraneans are working hard on the Med Nights, the resurrection of a neighbourhood workshop that will take place in Koprivnica, Croatia from 27th to 30th December. Med Nights facebook group Things are going great, there are already participants from 10 different countries, mostly from the region. The workshop will focus on the transition between two educational content areas: human rights and diversity and will contain some elements of JB Training. It doesn’t really matter if you are an experienced JBer or CISV is something totally new to you- you should definitely join the crew! Central Eastern Neighbourhood Central Eastern people are trying to make Go East! 2014 awesome. Content staff applications closed, and we will announce the team very soon. International participant applications are coming even if the deadline is still far ahead us. So internationals: apply, don’t wait and don’t hesitate. From the information got from some of the beautiful CEE NJRs, it seems we’ll have a big and awesome group of participants. Just to remind you, all informations about Go East! can be found here (https:// www.facebook.com/events/123799611123694/?ref=br_tf).
Northern Neighbourhood Wild West Neighbourhood In wild west we have finally launched the long awaited Wild West Weekend 2014. We have released the first information pack and you can read more about it later in this publication. We have been in constant contact for the last month over whatsapp and we said goodbye and welcome to new and old NJRs. BeNeLux has happened and everything was great, also Italy sent some trainers to Greece to run training at IONICO.
Second skype meeting: more focused on projects and working groups and the future possible cooperation in our neighbourhood. Where are we looking for volunteers to participate in all the projects and workshops to bring the ideas alive. Baltic searching for participants. Apply here: http://bit.ly/1gR6LOJ, help us spread the news: SPOTS ARE STILL available! NICE still looking for participants and content staff and volunteers in general to help working on promo material. The time for the NJR generation to change is about to come as well. A lot of countries are having elections.
EJB Team Update
October was an exciting time with some new and old workshops and training happening, we have IONICO happening in Greece, and BeNeLux in Belgium
We are still working towards the rest of the projects happening in 2013/14 and we are well underway with all our preparations
Thank you to all who applied for funding in 2013, we will be in contact this weekend
Planned our agenda for MWM
blog link:http://europeanjb.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/30082013/
Wild West Weekend 2014 So Wild West Weekend 2014 is back for its fifth edition. In 2014 WWW’14 will be hosted by the beautiful country The Netherlands. It will take place from the 6-9th March and will be packed full of training, educational content, but most importantly LOADS OF FUN! You can join the facebook event here: Wild West Weekend 2014, and you can see the preinfo 1 here: WWW’14 precamp 1.
Regional Training Forum Regional Training Forums are an excellent opportunity to get trained in a specific area of interest relevant to what you are doing in CISV. Chapter Development Training is a fairly new one, but since the beginning it started as a cooperation of Resources, Development and Training Committee and Junior Branch by having trainers deriving from both groups. This year it wasn’t any different. Mateo (RDT) and Ola (EJBTeam) delivered a training to 14 participants, from which 11 were JBers. What has JB to do with chapter development you may ask. Well, a lot. A good symbiosis between chapter boards and JB is beneficial for both sides, chapter goals and JB goals are not that different and we are all chapter members after all. Also, during the training the participants had an opportunity to evaluate their chapter, work on recruitment, fundraising and share best practises. All in friendly environment and hospitality of the Slovenians. So, do not hesitate and send someone from your chapter to the next RTF
EJB Team Mid Way Meeting
From November 14—18 the EJB Team are going to be having our Mid Way Meeting. We will use this time to discuss any important matters that have arisen over the past 6 months, and we will be planning for the future 6 months.
Wild Westerners apply through your NJRs, Internationals join the facebook group and wait for the application link. If you are interested in helping with the facilitation of WWW’14, you can apply to be a facilitator here: WWW’14 facilitator application.
Agenda items will include: Evaluation of our year plan, EJBM planning, Project planning, and a lot of Skype meetings.
Ola (EJB Team) and Matteo (RDT) at RTF Slovenia
If you want to be involved you can follow our Live minutes here: EJB Team Mid Way Meeting live Minutes
New NJRs IONICO
Within the month of October we have said ‘goodbye’ to some amazing people we have worked with for the past two years, but we do say ‘hello’ to some new faces to join the amazing work of EJB.
The participants were quite young and had different expectations. They expected something like their step up, or youth meeting (flag time, more fun activities & energizers). We had a small delegation time each day. On the second day of the camp they had already realized what the camp was all about and how important was for them but they felt a little bored sometimes. On the third day everyone was very excited with some of the cool activities and with all the things that they learned about JB. Nobody really knew what JB actually is and it was a big revelation for them. Now, in their future goals being NJR is one of the biggest achievements. How cool is that!! Everyone left the camp crying by the way…
Thank you to Anjo Peez-Zvetina and welcome to Jule Wallau (GER) Thank you to Natalie Schinkova and welcome to Kristyna Schinkova (CZE)
The sessions were very informative, interesting and fun. The trainers were great and all the participants loved them. They did a very good job preparing every detail of the programme and making it as interesting as possible.
Thank you to Roxana Grisard and welcome to Juliette Dupuis (FRA)
To sum up, Ionico was awesome, it was definitely worth it and we want to do it again next year! - Petros (JB Greece)
I hope you all join us in making our new NJRs feel welcome and apart of our amazing community.
Past months in EJB Do you want to see what European Junior Branch has been working on for the year 201213. Then you can find all of our Previous months in EJB on our blog! http:// europeanjb.wordpress.com/ejb-teams-work/
IONICO participants working hard…...on the beach.
All the participants and staff at IONICO
If you have any news you would like to share with us, or if you have any questions please do not hesitate to email us at:
ejbteam@ijb.cisv.org