“Partnerships for Youth – Getting the Young into Jobs and Business for Successful Working Life”
20-21 March 2012
Berlin, Germany

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and its Local Economic and Employment Development Programme (LEED) will organise the 8thAnnual Meeting of its Forum of Partnerships and Local Governance entitled “Partnerships for Youth – Getting the Young into Jobs and Business for Successful Working Life”. The OECD would like to invite participants from youth organisations to take part at the event.

Climate Farmers is a project about agriculture and climate change promoting case studies of European young farmers who recognise their responsibility to play a part in the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of their farms. Twelve measures from four different countries (Ireland, Spain, The Netherlands, Sweden) have been selected as case studies and analysed in depth by 24 young farmers. They looked at the social and economic context of the measures, and considered whether the measures could be applied in other countries.

A new 7th module is now available on the CAP e-learning course. This module gives a comprehensive but at the same time concise overview of the legislative proposals on the CAP post 2013 that were presented by the European Commission on 12 October 2011. The module also contains an interview with Mr. Tassos Haniotis from the European Commissions' Directorate of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The Organisation for the Development of Rural Areas in Poland (WSnRROW) is looking for partners to join a project planned for June 2012. The project is called "Step by Step Together" and will be devoted exchanging experiences and good practices in the field of execution of activating and integrating projects for rural youth.

We'd like to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!!

A big thank to all the prep teams and participants who joined our activities this year and made them such a success - your time and effort are much appreciated.