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Pool of Representatives

EEE-YFU has established a Pool of Representatives to represent the voice of its members at a European and international level.

The Pool is made up of 22 people from across Europe, all of whom are members of their national YFU organisations and are interesetd or experienced in representing youth issues at European or international level.  It was created to provide EEE-YFU, and therefore its members, with an easily accessible group of motivated people who can participate in working groups, seminars, meetings, conferences, and other events and structures on its behalf.  The partcipants have a wide range of experiences and areas of interest, which will allow for EEE-YFU to co-ordinate its representation efforts better and get in touch with more volunteers.

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Creation of a European Trainer Network

EEE-YFU has recently created its European Trainer Network (ETN).  In order to address the great need for an increase in quality trainers within the European YFU community, EEE-YFU has established a network of trainers who are available to them and their member organisations to organise trainings for trainers, staff and volunteers.  It is composed of 21 trainers from 9 different countries who have a wide range of backgrounds and experience.

It is hoped that this new opportunity will be widely used and will subsequently help to foster a stronger relationship and closer co-operation between EEE-YFU, trainers and the European YFU network, and will provide an easily accessible pool of human resources for trainings and seminars for national members.  It will help to increase the capacity for multiplication of competences and knowledge within the international YFU network.

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EEE-YFU General Meeting 2009

EEE-YFU held its' General Meeting 2009 in Brussels on 19-21 June.

Some of the topics that were discussed by the 30 participants were the Individual Pupil Mobility programme, European Voluntary Service accreditations, how to find host families and integrate them in YFU and volunteer development schemes. 

The EEE-YFU Annual Report 2008, which was adopted at the General Meeting can be downloaded from here .

Young Europeans' Seminar 2009

Yet another succesful Young Europeans' Seminar (YES) was held from 26-30 June in Werbellinsee near Berlin in Germany. The logistics were well taken care of by YFU Germany and the content on the topic of "Freedom of Expression" was organised by YFU Sweden and YFU the Netherlands.

456 exchange students attended the seminar, all of whom are from one European country and have just finalised a year-long exchange programme in another European country. The YES was their final step before their return to natural families and friends at home. The YES was carried out by around 100 volunteers from throughout Europe, facilitating workshops, working as group leaders and taking care of logistics, counselling and much more.

Find more information about the YES here or on the YES website .