CONTENTS
THANK YOU
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EMA | AFET
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EMA | ECON
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UNDERSTANDING AND MINIMIZING PED
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EMA | EMPL
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EMA | REGI I
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EMA | REGI II
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WOULD YOU RATHER?
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EMA | AFET II
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EMA | AGRI
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EMA | TRAN
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EMA | LIBE I
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RETHINKING INNOVATION
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EMA | AFCO
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EMA | CULT
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EMA | LIBE II
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THANK YOU
Hello! Lausanne 2017 was something truly special. It taught us all to go after our dreams and to discover new things about ourselves and the world around us. The session has now been over for 2 weeks but we hope that the memories and moments of happiness,excitement and sheer joy that you experienced at Lausanne 2017 will stay with you throughout your lives. Through this issue we want you to REMEMBER. To think about the friendships you made, the challenges you overcame and the smiles that you created. REMEMBER how it felt to be with all of the amazing people in a place like no other. REMEMBER Lausanne 2017, every single moment of it. We would like to thank you all for engaging with the media throughout out the session. Without you none of this would be worthwhile. Thank you to our amazing team, the chairs team, the organisers, the jury team and of course the delegates. You are all legends. So, for one final time, thank you for reading and remembering Lausanne 2017. With love, Amber & Rose
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EMA | EYP MUSIC AWARDS
AFET I
Guillermo Escuder (ES)
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EMA | EYP MUSIC AWARDS
ECON
Guillermo Escuder (ES)
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Jarne van der Poel (NE)
UNDERSTANDING AND MINIMIZING PED
It is a well-known and often discussed phenomenon in the EYP-community: the Post-EYP Depression (PED). You arrive home after a tiring session, expecting to feel fulfilled and looking forward to some well-deserved sleep. Instead, you often find yourself browsing through the pictures and videos of the past session, feeling nostalgic and melancholic. Although everyone experiences PED differently, it’s safe to say that, sooner or later, every EYP’er will encounter it in some shape or form. With Lausanne 2017 behind us, this seems like a good moment to take a look at the causes, and more importantly, the remedies of Post-EYP Depression! What are the causes of PED?
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WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF PED? You might as well face it – you’re addicted to stress Fulfilling any role at an EYP session can be an intensive and sustained effort. We push ourselves further and further every day – and then it suddenly stops. During this time, we experience high levels of stress hormone (cortisol) and adrenaline in our blood. As soon as the pressure and stress abruptly end, our cortisol and adrenaline levels plummet. This can make you feel empty or a bit lost. It may sound far-fetched, but we are basically adrenaline-addicts going through a mild withdrawal. I’d walk a 1000 miles… Missing our international friends is perhaps the biggest part of PED. In the days leading up to and during the session, we meet many new people from all over Europe. The bond we have with them is intensified by the experiences and long days we share together. After the session, everyone returns to different corners of the continent. This makes catching up over a cup of tea very difficult, to say the least. Missing a sense of purpose Something else we miss after a session, is the thrill of working on something we love. During EYP sessions we push ourselves past our own limits to create something extraordinary. Upon returning home to our normal lives, our everyday activities may not seem appealing anymore. We feel like we lost a sense of purpose, since something that has been the focus of our life for several weeks or months, is now past. 12
HOW TO SHOW YOUR PED THE DOOR So… what do we do now? Here are 5 steps to eliminating or minimizing feelings of PED: 1. Rest and celebrate First of all, acknowledge that all that adrenaline and stress resulted in a successful session. It is time to celebrate and be proud of yourself! Afterwards, sleep and rest as much as you need to. Lie in bed and binge-watch your favourite show on Netflix, or go for a walk outside. 2. Reorganize Get yourself reorganized. Unpack your suitcases; clean up all those post-its; throw out all the pieces of paper in your bag; frame your EYP certificate and put it up on the wall. Don’t forget to wrap up your work for this session! This can mean finishing one last project or, for feedbacking officials, writing evaluations. Finally, find other activities or projects to focus on, and learn to enjoy your daily activities again. 3. See your friends and family Your friends and family at home might not fully understand what EYP means to you (“Isn’t that your little debate club?”) but you should still talk to them about it. Share your thoughts and experiences. For some of us Lausanne 2017 meant being in another city or another country for several days or even weeks, so family and friends might not have heard from us in a while. 4. Reconnect with your EYP friends International friends that live a considerable amount of kilometres away, are hard to maintain. You will have to put in some effort. Plan a Skype or Facetime session or just have a conversation through Facebook. Whichever it is, make sure you keep in touch with the people you shared this experience with. And fear not, the world isn’t as big as you think – you can always score a cheap flight with EasyJet and Ryanair!
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5. Apply, apply, apply! Inspire, from Latin “inspirare”, means to breathe. Allow yourself time to get inspired and excited again about a new project. Is EYP something you want to continue doing? Then it’s time to sit down and get to work! Write applications to the events that inspire and excite you. Don’t be afraid to try new things and apply for roles you haven’t fulfilled before. Then, hopefully, we’ll see each other at another session soon!
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EMPL EMA | EYP MUSIC AWARDS Guillermo Escuder (ES)
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EMA | EYP MUSIC AWARDS
REGI I
Guillermo Escuder (ES)
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REGI II EMA | EYP MUSIC AWARDS Guillermo Escuder (ES)
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WOULD YOU RATHER? Sara Kalli (CY)
Give up showering for a month: 15.7%
Always tell the truth:77.2%
Give up the internet for a month: 84.3%
Always have to lie: 22.8%
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Have photographic memory: 80.4% Be able to forget anything you want: 19.6%
Never lose your reusable cup: 18.4% Always have wifi access: 81.6%
Die next month: 31.4% Live for the next 20 000 years: 68.6%
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WOULD YOU RATHER?
Be sticky for the rest of your life: 90%
Be on the Orga team: 40.6%
Be itchy for the rest of your life: 10%
Chairs team: 59.4%
Be able to fly: 55.9%
Get the urge to vomit every time you hear the word ‘innovation’`: 12.9% Have to pee every time the hostel staff ‘SHHHH’ you: 87.1%
Be able to become invisible: 44.1%
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EMA | EYP MUSIC AWARDS
AFET II
Guillermo Escuder (ES)
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AGRI EMA | EYP MUSIC AWARDS Guillermo Escuder (ES)
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EMA | EYP MUSIC AWARDS
TRAN
Guillermo Escuder (ES)
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LIBE I EMA | EYP MUSIC AWARDS Guillermo Escuder (ES)
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RETHINKING INNOVATION Morgan Bardent (UK)
Today, they’re seems to be a widely-held consensus that innovation is overwhelmingly a positive thing. How many times have we heard ‘think outside the box’? Undoubtably approaching problems in new and different methods with alternative mindsets is a creative and helpful process which has brought about tangible change in the world countless times. Indeed, the vast majority of humanity’s most used inventions came about through innovation. However, nowadays, more or less every product or idea has the meaningless marketing buzzword that innovation has become lazily thrown in to its description without any real thought. Politicians, CEOs, schools, artists, charities, writers, the list goes on, all of them are obsessed with being innovative. This overuse of the word has led to a blurring of the actual definition of innovation to the point where many of us, myself included, are clueless at to what makes something innovative. What is at risk of happening as we become increasingly more infatuated with the idea of innovation is every innovator’s worst nightmare, innovation for the sake of innovation, whereby it becomes an end in itself. Perhaps the best starting place is to reflect on the fact that innovation is an ongoing process in which creativity plays a central role; it’s not simply the creation of an idea but also its successful implementation. A good way to define innovation is to look at similar concepts and distinguish between them:
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Novelty: Something new. For example, the removal of the iPhone headphones jack. Creation: Something both new and valuable. For example, the new House of Card series. Invention: Something unique, having potential value through utility. For example, KFC’s secret recipe. Innovation: Something new and uniquely useful and successfully implemented. For example, Henry Ford’s moving production line or Dyson’s bagless vacuum. Going forward it is important to remember that innovation is a means to an end. All innovation should be focused at its core on a purpose at the end of the day, and with this purpose comes the value that distinguishes innovation, from simply being an invention, creation or a novelty.
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EMA | EYP MUSIC AWARDS
AFCO
Guillermo Escuder (ES)
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EMA | EYP MUSIC AWARDS
CULT
Guillermo Escuder (ES)
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LIBE II EMA | EYP MUSIC AWARDS Guillermo Escuder (ES)
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