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Courses of the Buryat language start in Ulan-Ude on 4 April 2008. The organizers – the Regional Union of Young Scholars, Human Rights movement “Erkhe” and Social Inclusion PMT – have decided to join their efforts in the cause of revival of the Buryat language while preparing for the events to commemorate the International Mother Tongue Day. The organizers have an experience of conducting such language courses. Thus Siberian Creative Group used to conduct Buryat courses for its members in 2004-2006, and the RUYS started Buryat courses in Ulan-Ude and Novosibirsk last year. The instructor of Buryat – Jargal Badagarov of RUYS is a talented young linguist working as a lecturer of Mongolian and Buryat at the Oriental Department of the Buryat State University. He is also known for his activities aimed at revitalization and promotion of the Buryat language, such as participation in the creation of the electronic manual of Buryat, editing of Bi-lingual children books “Magic Buryatia” (Project by RUYS, 2004, 2006), translation into Buryat and dubbing of a Mongolian film “A Wise Queen Mandukhay” and so on. It is planned to further disseminate such courses via instruction of instructors in innovative methods of teaching Buryat used by Mr Badagarov.

Dear friends, We are looking for participants for the Multiplier Training Course, which is organized in the framework of “Youth Transcending New Frontiers” project (YTNF, www.ytnf.org ). The latter is an exciting project aimed to promote innovative activities of young volunteers at grass-root level in three main fields:  human rights education  the struggle against racism and xenophobia  social inclusion of minorities and youth from disadvantaged backgrounds The project, which is supported financially by the Youth Program of the European Union, will last for three years, started in January 2006. Details...

Searching for 600 years old oak-tree We did not find it. We tried, but did not know the way (there even was a map), and we were close. But our other searches resulted with bigger success. We were searching for fresh ideas, experiences and inspiration how to improve long-term volunteer (LTV) and EVS (European Voluntary Service) exchanges in SCI through better prepared hosting projects for LTV during international training “Hosting projects – what we can do”, organized by LTEG working group of SCI and SVIT-Ukraine. The training gathered SCI activists and volunteers from Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Sweden, Moldova, Russia, Finland and Belarus in a small town of Svyatogorsk, Ukraine, March 17-23, 2008. Details...