Calendar - August 09

Dear reader,
the 4th issue of Calendar is here in order to bring you some tips for summer activities and let you know what’s up in the Naturefriends' world. We are currently in the mid-summer period for most of the European countries' students and members so the issue is not so extended. We have here some really breaking news from IYNF Secretariat and couple of invitations: for seminar In Touch, Planning weekend of IYNF, workcamps in Austria and the very last call to join the Meet the freak project. For those who are thinking of experiencing European voluntary service we have an offer from Duha Czech Republic.

From the Secretariat of IYNF I wish you a very nice summer!

Lucie, Calendar editor

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IYNF activities

Last call for Meet the freak participants

• Are you German, Slovak, Austrian, Portuguese, Romanian or Hungarian?
• Still don't have fixed plans for August?
• Would you or someone from your local group be interested in taking part in one of the most fabulous amateur art projects ever?
  

Than read further and use your unique chance to come to this year's Meet the freak. From 11th till 26th August, about 60 people from all around Europe will meet in southern Hungary. Juggling, painting, theatre, dance and music are some of the art fields that are going to be explored by the participants. If you still want to be one of them check out the Meet the freak call and registration to read more about the project and apply!
Please forward this call to those, who might be interested in participating and experiencing this extraordinary international activity!

InTouch – training workshop on youth exchange project management

3-8 November 2009, Germany

My impressions from InTouch in one word: great. I think it was a very good opportunity for people who want to start their own international youthwork projects. Hynek Pecinka, Czech Republic, participant to InTouch 2008

• Do you want to learn more about international youth exchanges?
• Are you interested how to bring them to success and use them for development of your own group?
• Do you want to find potential partners for your project?
• Do you want to use the IYNF support framework for youth exchanges?
  

Then join InTouch 2009 - a training on youth exchanges organised by IYNF within its networking programm. InTouch will offer programme focused on:

• what exactly is a youth exchange – why is it more than just a youth camp
• grant application writing: what are the most important things you have to take care of, if you want to write a successful application
• intercultural cooperation: how can the differences of participants coming from different countries be used as a great learning opportunity
  

During the workshop you can also meet and make friends with people from other countries, get new contacts, possible partners for future cooperation, and simply experience a nice intercultural activity. IYNF website is the place to read more and apply, if you do it before 7 September 2009, you will get an early-bird discount!

Registration to Planning weekend is open - join IYNF at its core

Planning weekend will be a meeting of the people from member organisations and their local groups, Presidium, staff and volunteers. It will be a working and planning meeting and in the same time also a place of formal decisions (statutory Council). Our main aim for the meeting is to prepare common plans for the year 2010 following IYNF long-term strategy.
If you have organised something with IYNF in the past season or want to get involved in the next one, please come to Planning weekend! It will take place 24 – 27 September 2009 in the Czech Republic. Deadline for registration is 1 September 2009.
Registration and more information to Planning weekend is again on IYNF website.

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Activities and offers of member organisations

International Environmental Workcamps of Young Naturefriends Austria 2009

As every year, Austria’s Young Naturefriends organise Environmental Workcamps (international camps including voluntary work in their programmes) in different locations across Austria. We welcome open -minded people from 16 to 30 to spend one week in summer working in and for nature on a volunteer basis (free food and accommodation). More concrete information on all the workcamps are available in German language at the NFJO website and in English under Open activities at our website.
“Around the Lainzer Tiergarten” workcamp

• Where: Vienna, Austria
• When: 2-8 August 2009
• Work: Improving and marking parts of the hiking trail around this traditional Viennese game reserve and recreation area.
  

“Dachsteincamp 2009”

• Where: Wiesberghaus, Dachstein, Upper Austria
• When: 16-22 August 2009
• Work: Protection measures for alpine nature, improving eco-touristic infrastructure around the Wiesberghaus alpine center.
  

IV International Seminar on Mountain Tourism

Seminar will be held in Kudowa Zdrój (Poland) on 22-25 October.
The topic of the seminar is MOUNTAIN TOURISM IN NATURA 2000 AREAS - Conflict or Opportunity? Seminar is organised by International Friends of Nature, Polish Tourist Country Lovers’ Society (PTTK) – Cracow Academic Section, Institute of Tourism and Recreation, Academy of Physical Education in Cracow, in co-operation with Góry Stołowe National Park (The Sudetes). Participants will focus on the use of Natura 2000 areas for tourism and recreation and the role of NGOs and local communities in preparing management plans for them.
For more information please contact Piotr Dabrowski ( dabrowski[at]eko-tourist.krakow.pl)

EVS in Duha

Duha is looking for EVS volunteer for the period from February 2010 to January 2011, who would be interested in getting to know Czech NGO reality and work on national and international level. Here you can find further information about the project. In case you are interest contact Marta at marta.skolka[at]trochujinak.cz

ATB International Alpine Training for youngsters (16-25) in 2010

ATB - Belgium Naturefriends encourage you to already think one year ahead about…one whole week camping amidst towering mountains, sleeping in huts above vast glaciers, getting an through-out initiation in high-alpine techniques such as glacier-walking, orienteering, scrambling on high rocks and touch the clouds at almost 4000 m ! Go climb that mountain! Apply now!
Dates:10-18 July 2010
Place: Les Ecrins(French Alps), Base-camp (tents): Ailefroide (F)
Conditions for participation:

• be between 16 and 25 years old
• be member of one of the IYNF MOs
• love the outdoors and be in good physical condition
• like international encounters and speak good English
• lack of vertigo and have basic skills in rock-climbing (no alpine experience required)
• pay participation fee (´full board´) according to IYNF standards (Belgians pay 500 Euro, others pay less - or more - according to IYNF scales)
  

For more information + application please contact directly Wilfried Meulenbergs (wilfried.meulenbergs[at]nfi.at)

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IYNF News

More people in IYNF Secretariat

It is happening! We are happy to announce that we will be able to expand IYNF office team by more people. Already in one week, the office will get fuller with Joris Taanman (NL), who will become on 1 February 2010 the IYNF Secretary General. Until then, Joris will coordinate preparation of the projects in the first half of 2010.
From September, we will have Vanessa Hofeditz (DE) coming as an EVS volunteer to be joined from October by Anna Swetnik (PL). They both will be working in a small Networking Team, together with Martijn Van Den Berg (NL), who will be its leader from September on. This team will be in charge of all IYNF magazines and newsletters and take care for the starting Networking programmes.
These changes really allow IYNF to boost its support to member organisations and their local groups for mutual coopeation and learning.

Variety magazine turns to IYNF Yearbook

For many year we kept on producing our magazine Variety, both, in printed as well as online version. After a couple of meetings and hours of discussions we decided to cancel production of Variety as a magazine. We will turn into a yearbook! We hope this way we will find more interested readers and contributors and as well safe some costs on its production. For those who are looking for something easy and juicy to read by the lake we would recommend our other publications, for example Tube.
For all the old issues of Variety you can always visit IYNF website and download it in PDF or read it online. In case you would like to receive a printed copy of Yearbook, please contact its editor – Lucie (lucie[at]iynf.org).
We will advertise orders of Yearbook in the autumn.

www.iynf.org under construction

For all Calendar readers which are visiting our website we would like to present a current changes which are going on. We are sligtly changing the system of up-dating the website to make it more userfriedly to those who are working on its up-dates in the Secretariat. The interface and design will be changed as well. At the moment this works can cause that some of the parts of the website are not visible or doesn't look properly. If this occure it is a matter of days, sometimes just hours when it is fixed again. Please don't give up with visiting our website!

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News from member organisations

Hmmm... lecker! NFJD launched a website for cooking

For those who are often travelling or running activities outdoors with a big groups this can become a very usefull website. You can find there:

• different kind of meals including some exotic cuisines;
• advices on how much amount of ingrediences you might need for different groups;
• hints and tips fo cooking;
• pictograms for easy orientation at the website.
  

Website is in German, still developing its content, for further exploration visit it yourself.

Do Duhy/Reach the Rainbow

Next week, Duha team will make a tour around local groups which are hosting EVS volunteers in the project Reach the Rainbow. They take a car and in 6 days they will visit 5 groups, where they will help with daily activities of group and evaluate how is the project going so far. Pictures from the tour will be published on facebook, in case you are interested just find Do Duhy and add it as a friend.