Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2019
Picture above: Geoff Thompson with his wife and parents at the BEM awards ceremony Next summer RYEurope will have a big turn over of board members as several positions open for our member representation to be elected. The position of special interest board member is still a new one, currently in the second mandate with Anja Mager from ZSPM. The position …
„Members are searching for Rural Youth – Rural Youth [reloaded]”, this is the motto of the project from the Rural Youth Austria. The aim of this project is to share the sense of community of a rural youth group with members which are working or studying in Vienna. A team of six members is currently working on this to organise …
Polona Globočnik representing ZSPM in the prep team for the Rally 2019 shares her experiences from the Rally this summer in Cirencester, England. Sitting in front of the computer and thinking about all the amazing things that happened at the RYEurope Rally 2019 in England – my head is full of hilarious moments and unforgettable experiences with new friends I have …
Mid-September Wales Federation of Young Farmers Clubs held their Annual General Meeting at the Old College, Aberystwyth. Dafydd Jones from Meirionnydd YFC stepped down from the position of Chairman after a busy and successful term. During his term Daf raised funds for Air Ambulance Wales which included many activities such as a Skydive and finished off with a tour of …
Since the last European Rally and the General Assembly from 18 – 25 August, we have welcomed three new member organisations, and we will in the upcoming weeks present them to you. First is the Young Farmers’ Union of South Tyrol. Their chairman Evi will here below present their organisation in a brief statement We are the largest independent youth …
150 competitors from twenty-five teams, 21 teams from Rural Youth Clubs from nine regions of Slovenia, 2 teams from Switzerland and one team with Dr. Aleksandra Pivec, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, at the helm, and the Agricultural chamber team competed in the Farming Games on July 6th in Carinthia, Slovenia. The highly anticipated event, that attracted a great …
The following article is written by Abby Forsyth who represented the Scottish Association of Young Farmer’s Clubs at our Rally in Cirencester. Before I left for Cirencester on Sunday 18thAugust, I was very apprehensive with regards to what the trip involved and to what Rural Youth Europe was. Fellow members who had attended the rally in previous years, tried to …
The current board consists of (from left) Birgit Kauslap group IV, Daniela Allram group II, Nicolai Olsen group III, Sebastian Lassnig chairman, Linzi Stewart vice-chair, Anja Mager special interest board member, Niall Evans group I At the GA in Gloucestershire 23rd of August 2019 The RYEurope board said goodbye to Aris Brencis, representative of group IV and Hannah Kirkpartick, representative …
We are starting off this autumn with new power and an updated staff, where we welcome our new Administrator Trang V. Phi, and seeing Pia’s role reduced to advisor, only working on an hourly basis in some consultancy tasks, from now on. Jenni, who has been back since the beginning of the year, is now moving into the position of …
Being part of the Rural Youth Europe family makes it almost compulsory to show up at your friends’ national events and celebrations! Here’s an article by this years Autumn Seminar Chair, Andreas Gschwend, about his participation at the Slovenian Rural Youth farming games in 2017. What are two Swiss guys doing far away from home? Thomas and I started our trip …
