We are pleased to announce that the EYF of the Council of Europe has today decided to award a grant to the Siberian Creative Group to implement their project "Nukher gathers Friends - promotion of human rights education among rural youth in Buryatia". Probably it is the first time ever that an NGO in the Republic of Buryatia has received a CoE grant. Details...

Stereotypes & prejudice about people & life in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus & Moldova are abound in our Western media today as ever before.  But who really knows the truth about what is happening? Do the people there share the same values, the same aspirations, the same concerns as their counterparts in the West, or do they look on the world with an entirely different perspective? One great way to find out is to take part in one of this year's international workcamps, and there are plenty of them. Details...

Thanks to the work of Dominika, TWC trainer from Poland, a power point presentation of the Travelling Workcamp on Human Rights is now available here (Download might take up to 3-5 minutes!). Details...

Within the frame of YTNF a second international training on project management will take place in Ukraine from 7th - 13th July 2008 hosted by SVIT. Detailed infos will be published on the ytnf site & a call for trainers & prepteam will be announced in due course. Details...

For further Info about this upcoming event, please refer to the Belarus page (under "future activities)!. Details...

Towards the end of 2007, the YTNF steering group created two new funds (Category A: small-scale grassroot projects and Category B: promoting international cooperation among PMTs) & subsequently launched a first call for project applications. Altogether a total of 8 applications were received by the deadline. Of those submitted, 2 were approved for funding, 3 were rejected and a further 3 were given the opportunity to be revised and resubmitted by the end of December, taking into account the critical remarks of the Jury. Details...

It was on January 5th 1968 that the election of Alexander Dubcek heralded the dawn of the famous “Prague Spring”, when - in the face of Soviet tanks - thousands of Czech working class people took to the streets under banners demanding “socialism with a human face”… Today, exactly 40 years on, looking at the global world around us, I begin to wonder if this slogan could be equally applied to the system that has since replaced socialism in virtually all former socialist countries of the world. Details...

SCI Germany is looking for2 LTVs to assist in our office. Both LTV posts will start March 1, 2008 with a common introdution/orientation. 1 LTV posts will end August 31, 2008, the other LTV posts will end September 2008. The main tasks of the volunteers will be: LTV I: Placing foreign and German volunteers to workcamps in Germany (incoming) LTV II: Placing German volunteers to workcamps abroad in Western and Eastern Europe and Overseas (outgoing) · Helping to prepare the routine jobs, such as answering the phone & e-mails, sending faxes. So an important part during the placement is reliable communication with other SCI-Branches, partners and volunteers. Details...

· Social inclusion project (stage 1) , camp at the lake Baikal from August 1rst till August 15th. This camp we organized for Association of youth organisations. There were 35 participants, from different villages of Buryatia. During the week from August 1st till August 8th we prepared a program about Human Rights and related subjects for each day in the camp. First, we wanted to give an overview about the subject. The second day contained a training about civil courage; the third day was about mass media. · Social Inclusion project (stage 2), campaign on healthy life style. District of Buryat Autonomous Aginsk region of Chita region from October 22 till 28 th October. Details...

Towards the end of October and beginning of November a series of strategic planning workshops have been taking place in all ytnf partner countries, the results of which will be published in the very near future. Excellent reports from the Peer Motivation Training in Ulan Ude and from the Group Leadership Training in Moldova are now available in PDF-Format and copies can be obtained by writing to the organizations who hosted them. Details...

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