September in EJB Wild West Neighbourhood Wild West now have a WhatsApp group for NJRs. We are sharing a lot more ideas and making bigger and better plans. The first info pack for Wild West Weekend 2014 will be released in the middle of October. Watch this space:https://www.facebook.com/events/309804709156738/?fref=ts. We will be opening applications for wild west participants (you will have to apply to your NJRs), international participants, and facilitator applications. BeNeLux is also happening from 18 - 20th October in Belgium. Sign up here: http://bit.ly/ BNL2013.
Central Eastern Neighbourhood September in Central Eastern was Go East! 2014 based. As you already might now, next year’s Go East! will happen from March 13th to 16th, in Kierling (really close to Vienna), Austria. This, and more info can be found in Go East! first Info-pack: http:// tinyurl.com/nocyklj. Also, few days after Info-pack release and application opening, we also opened applications for content staff. Content staff application is open to everyone and it’s simple, just fill in this short form: http://tinyurl.com/pk2rjsv.
Northern Neighbourhood Almost the last day of the month Northern Neighbourhood had their first meeting with legendary number of participants. It is always nice to be able to discuss a certain topics and we had a chance to cover everything including our workshops NICE and Baltic. We have a FB events for both, NICE even has a page. We also discussed some issues out hood is facing and tried to come up with a new strategy. We also do have a FB thread with all the NJRs to insure a better flow of updates. We are also working on training sharing platform so we could effectively share documents, trainers, participants and tools. We also have a calendar to be aware about all meetings and trainings in our hood. Mediterranean Neighbourhood
Habibis together with Ola were working busy as bees. They met in the beginning of September for a chat on Skype, to update each other on IJBC/AIM and what was going on in the region. The number of participants and countries attending the meeting was the highest since EJBM (absence makes the heart grow fonder?). Content staff application for Med Nights followed and a team was selected: Adam (EGY), Nour (LEB), Marija (CRO), Marvin (GER) and Ola (POL) already started to work on the content of the meeting. Expect Infopack 2 around 15th of October and if you haven’t signed up yet, do dis! Check out the facebook event for Med Nights: on.fb.me/15Nikgs
EJB Team Update
We have finished collecting information from NJRs about cooperating with trustees, we are beginning our dialogue by opening up a platform with the Regional Coordinator to see where this can go.
We have been re-assessing our budget to see if what possibilities we still have this month.
We have arranged the dates and place for MWM
We met with the IJRs to discuss strategy and ideas for the remainder of the year
Summary of meeting minutes from the month: 17/9/13 and 26/9/13
blog link:http://europeanjb.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/30082013/
New NJRs Within the month of September we have said ‘goodbye’ to some amazing people we have worked with for the past two year, but we do say ‘hello’ to some new faces to join the amazing work of EJB. Thank you to William Montefiore and welcome to Freya Caudwell (GBR) Thank you to Kristina Moshuus and welcome to Idunn Aamnes Mostue (NOR)
Thank you Odie Magnúsdóttir and welcome to Gunndis Gísladóttir (ICE) Thank you Hila Goldberg and Welcome to Roza Schnitzer and Yoav Rom (ISR) I hope you all join us in making our new NJRs feel welcome and apart of our amazing community.
EJB Team Mid Way Meeting We have set the dates for our Mid Way Meeting!! It will take place in Kiki’s home town of Brno (CZE) from 14.11.13—18.11.13. The purpose of our mid way meeting is to evaluate our work and the work of EJB since EJBM, and then start to plan how we will work for the remaining half of the year and start planning the European Junior Branch Meeting.
Kristina Moshuus saying goodbye to her JB team and welcoming Idunn to NJR.
For us to use our MWM to full effect, we would love to know what you would like us to talk about also. We have started a Google Doc which you can add your ideas to. Please make sure you write your name because if we are discussing your topic, we may want to talk to you about it! Mid Way Meeting Ideas JB Lisboa shows their support for Peace One Day
Peace One Day
Right on #4
The European Junior Branch Blog is back and we are looking for some amazing articles to publish on it. On September 21st we all took part in activities to raise awereness and support Peace One Day. (For more information check out the website: www.peaceoneday.org.
If you haven’t heard of Right On, you should definitely go to their facebook page! (https://www.facebook.com/ righton2013?fref=ts). Right On Step #4 was briefly mentioned in CISV International's IO Update for this week. 'Digging Deeper' - An activity to get to know international Human Rights instruments beyond the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and identify their impact on world events.
We would love to hear how you celebrated Peace One Day within your Junior Branch. If you would like you can send a short article and some pictures to ejbteam@ijb.cisv.org and we will publish your article on our blog.
◆ Dropbox link: http://bit.ly/1aBIUAL ◆ Issuu link: http://bit.ly/18TGLta
6 generations of NJR at Great Britain’s NJBM
Funding for Projects We have recently been working over our budget from the year 2012-13 and we still have some money that we have set aside to fund some events and projects happening in European Junior Branch. We have created an application form which you must fill in if you would like to apply for some funding for your project. The project or event can be anything as long as it is happening within European Junior Branch. Follow the link below to the form. Funding form
Past months in EJB
JB Cairo celebrates Peace One Day
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/
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