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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 …
Tori Ward is involved in the team for this years Rally in England “Sharing and Caring in a Democratic and Inclusive European Community”, here she shares some of her insight in the process of the arrangements! Has your organisation already registered your team? Deadline on the 28th of June 2019. The picture above shows the passing of the Rally Bell from previous …
Over the past few years the board of Rural Youth Europe has been working towards continuous strategic development of the organisation. Along side this process our Secretary General Jenni Heinonen has been collecting the process into a workbook which can be used to develop other organisations strategic direction. We are now very proud to launch the final result, a book that not only aims to support our member organisations in their work, but also others interested in developing their organisations, through simple methods that guide a process that clarifiers the goals and direction of NGOs. Click here to get your own copy of the Strategy Workbook
A couple of weeks ago we had our second international activity of 2019 in England. The Grand Prep brought together the preparatory teams of the 2019 events to discuss democracy and practical planning of international events. The teams are made up of representatives of previous year’s activities, the hosts for this year and representatives of next year’s events. Here you …
With Rally fever rising it is time to have flashback to last years rally and the campaigns that the teams created within their national teams. Here’s Emma Ilmonen, who was team leader in 2018 for the Finnish team, sharing their campaign with us. In the RYEurope’s Rally 2018 in Scotland, we got a task to come up with a campaign to …
Job Vacancy Administrator Rural Youth Europe is recruiting a new part time Administrator to join our motivated team starting as soon as possible from 5thof August 2019. 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 office. Rural …
CEJA, Rural Youth Europe and MIJARC Europe, the three main European organisations representing rural youth and young farmers, launched their 2019 EU elections manifesto today. The document, titled “Empowering Young Farmers and Rural Youth”, was released on the occasion of the “EU Young Farmer Speed Dating” event hosted by CEJA in Brussels. The event brought young farmers, rural youth and …
The first event of 2019 was the Study Session organised in collaboration with the European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA) and the European Youth Centre Budapest, in Hungary. Almost 40 people, with participants and team included met 25th of February to the 6th of March at the youth centre to discuss rural youth’s participation in democratic processes and learn how …
Emma Hansson reports on the Swedish 4H National Conference. In the end of January the Swedish 4H National conference was held in Norrköping.An excellent way to kick off the new year, get new energy and of course network. Meeting old friends and making new ones in the organisation, exchanging ideas and getting inspiration is one of the ways to develop …
