Governing Board Meeting in Oulu 3-6 November 2011Dear Member and Partner Organisations
The ERYICA Governing Board had its last meeting for this year 3-6 November in City of Oulu, Finland. All the board members were present. The meeting was hosted by Koordinaatti - Development Centre of Youth Information and Counselling Work.
We hope you forward this bulletin around your national network. We wish as many of the local youth information workers as possible would have the chance to get the information about the topics discussed and decisions taken in the board meeting.
In the photo you can see that there was the Red Nose Day in Finland during the meeting. In the photo from left: Marc, Imre, Claire, Sanja, Tanja, Jorge, Davide, Mika, Julie and Alexandra.
ACTIVITIES, EVENTS, PROJECTS AND SERVICES
State of the Art in Youth Information
The text of the State of the Art in Youth Information -report has been finalised and it is soon ready to be spread among the members. An abridged version of the survey’s results will be assembled. This abridged version can be spread widely for example among stakeholders of the member organisations. The board also decided to collect annually quantitative data, such as the number of YICs, the top 5 priority topics, the age of users, the applied methods and the percentage of centres using quality standards.
Campaign on Youths’ Right to Information
The preparatory meeting for this campaign, that will be run in the framework of the cooperation between the Council of Europe and ERYICA, took place in Strasbourg on the days 2-5.10.2011. The results from the meeting were presented to the board during the meeting. The main target group of the campaign are young people, hopefully also reaching the political level. The campaign will be coordinated by the Secretariat offering a toolkit and a website for members who will run the campaign at a national and local level. The official launch of the campaign will take place on 17 April 2012 and the climax is the Council of Europe Youth Ministers’ Conference in St. Petersburg in autumn. There will also be a pan-European campaign day in May (exact date to be communicated). The Secretariat will inform members more into detail about the next steps for the campaign.
Corporate Identity
In the last General Assembly (Opatija 2011) it was discussed that a better visual identity and consistent design and appearance are needed. The new visual identity of ERYICA will be presented in the next General Assembly and the launch of the Campaign, on 17.04.2012. The board decided to outsource this work to Evert Ypma who is also working as a strategist with the Campaign visual design.
Country Development Fund
The board decided to rename the Country Development Fund to Country Development Service (CDS). Tanja (responsible in the board for Country Development Service) and Davide will work on establishing procedures about accessing support from the CDS. The issue will also be on the agenda of next GA for feedback from member organizations.
SHEryica (www.sheryica.org)
During the last 12 months SHEryica had 100 new members and 58 new stories were published on this European platform for youth information workers. Also the number of users of the Facebook fan page doubled since its re-launch.
Infomobil
Current situation of the Infomobil service was discussed during the board meeting in Oulu. Julie as responsible person for this service in the board presented the messages and ideas that she had got from the Infomobil editors. Infomobil will be maintained in a less ambitious way in future, with the proposed structure of must-have and nice-to-have topics. Also the promotion of the service should be more active. The service has surprising many visitors even there is not so much promotion of it. A detailed plan for the promotion of the service and future plans will be prepared for discussion before the next board meeting.
JIMMY project
The JIMMY training module is almost completely prepared. A Traing to Trainers (TTT) will take place in Vicenza, Italy on the dates 18-21 December 2011. After the TTT the manual for the JIMMY course can be finished, taking in consideration the comments from the participants and the experiences from the trainers in Vicenza. After the JIMMY module is ready, the Training Task Force will start the work with the Advanced Course. One part of the whole project is the focus group interviews which will be delivered in 12 countries according to members’ engagements. The results of the focus groups will be summarized by the end of January.
Digital YIntro
The first national Digital YIntro course took place in Turku, Finland in September. The first international Digital YIntro training was organized in Croatia with participants from four countries. The experiences from these two courses will be handled in the Training Task Force for possibly develop the module for future use.
YIntro
An international YIntro took place in Cyprus in the end of November. YIntro Training for Trainers will was organized in Finland in November with 19 participants from nine countries. A German speaking YIntro was organized this autumn in co-operation by Austria and Germany - participants were from those two countries plus Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
Summer University 2012
Based on the successful Summer University held in 1995, such event is planned to be organised in September 2012. More information will be sent later when more details will be clear, for example the dates, costs and place.
PARTNERSHIPS
Council of Europe CDEJ had its last meeting in Budapest in October. Davide from ERYICA presented the ideas for the CoE and ERYICA common campaign and also gave overview of ERYICA for the participants.
THREE Networks will meet in Paris in the beginning of December to discuss about future cooperation. The planned main points are the future horizons after the Lyon conference and the possible Summer University in 2012.
ERYICA was again invited to European Union - Youth Conference which took place this time in Warsaw, being a sign that the reputation of the Agency on the EU level has increased. ERYICA was also mentioned in the final declaration as a good practice for the dissemination of information.
FINANCES
The current and forward budgets for the years 2011 were handled. The board will in its meetings revise the budget to meet the needs and current situation if needed. The board also decided to put more focus on lobbying and advocacy in countries where the effects of financial crisis might influence the membership. This way ERYICA is showing the value of the membership in these countries.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2012, MALTA
Our Maltese colleagues have worked hard on preparing the GA for 2012. The registration form is available online: http://intranet.sheryica.org/events/node/1820
NEXT GOVERNING BOARD MEETING
The Board will have the next meeting in Slovenia, February 2012. If you or your organization have suggestions or questions that should be dealt with by the Governing Board, please feel free to contact any of us before the meetings.
ERYICA asbl - 26, Place de la Gare L-1616 Luxembourg
Tel.: +352 24873992 - Fax: +352 26293215 - Skype: eryica
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