Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2020
At RYEurope’s GA on the 6th of November 2020 the elections for the new board introduced new board members. The new board consists of… Chairperson Linzi Stewart Vice-Chairperson Niall Evans Board Member group I Elen Williams Board Member group II Martin Siemen Board Member group III Iiristiina Heinonen Board Member group IV Birgit Kuslap Special Interest Board Member Siobhan Gallagher Some of …
I live in a small hill village with around 30 inhabitants, I attended primary school in a small town, down the valley, around 10 minutes car ride from my home. A small town by any standards but for me it felt like the nicest city ever. I hated my village and everytime I met someone new I told them I …
Vacancy at Rural Youth Europe COCOREADO project manager Context Rural Youth Europe is recruiting a new part time project manager to join our motivated team starting from January 2021. The position will be based at the organisation’s office in Helsinki, Finland but some of the work can be done remotely and does not necessarily require daily commuting to the …
What a year its turning out to be, 2020 got off to a busy start with prep team meetings and venue viewings, it was full steam ahead for what was to be the Rural Youth Europe Autumn Seminar hosted by Macra na Feirme in November. We had a great team in place, funding secured, ideas were flowing and there was …
The following article describes one of the projects run by the Finnish 4H, called Taimiteko. Emma Ilmonen and Eeli Salmela form the Finnish 4H explain what the project is all about. Karoliina Ilmonen, 16, got a summer job from her local 4H association. Here is her story: “I came across an advertisement on the 4H Finland’s website saying my local …
This year we are exploring the topic of safe spaces and are encouraging our members and friends to think about how we can ensure that our activities create safe spaces for rural youth to be themselves. This blog post is by RYEurope alumni Emma Ilmonen, current summer trainee at the Finnish 4H. Safe space is a concept that I think …
Due to the corona-crisis, our social life has changed from personal contact to social distancing. As well as in rural youth Lower Austria, all events, where people could meet each other and have fun together, have been cancelled. But to still give people this experience, we created the online-go4it. We held the so called “go4it” in the last few years …
Throughout the year the board meet to discuss business matters regarding the running of the organisation. We aim to meet physically around 5 to 6 times a year with shorter, virtual meetings in between. The map above shows the countries where we have held our board meetings since 2010. We try to visit different countries so we can meet with …
Throughout the year Rural Youth Europe hold a number of events to benefit our members. The map above shows the locations that our events have been held since 2011. Our 3 main events are the European Rally, Autumn seminar and the Study session. The European Rally is our flagship event with around 100 participants and usually held in July or …
Our Grand Prep meeting, which takes place in Spring and brings together key people from past and upcoming events teams, was due to take place in Slovenia from 1-6 April. We had planned to have a full programme to prepare for events in 2020. However, due to the ongoing Covid19 situation, we had to adapt accordingly and instead we held …
