while the days are getting longer but the snow is only slowly melting, we are busy in our office with the preparation of wonderful Spring- and Summer-Activites.
In this Courier you can read about our Green Workshops, first news about the Networking Conference/General Assembly and the possibility to get in touch with Algerian Naturefriends.
With summer in our thoughts, we wish you nice reading!
Vanessa
Activities and offers
Apply for our Green Workshops!
The green year of IYNF has just started and we would like to invite you to take part in one of our two Spring activites: The Green Workshops. The first of them about GetGreen Campaigning will be from 20 – 25 April in connection with our General Assembly in Eben am Achensee (Austria). The second one called Green Games will be only one month later from 18 – 23 May in Germany. You can apply for both but also only for one of them. The complete description of the project and the call for participants is now online.
Preparation Networking Conference/GA started
Presidium and Secretariat started preparing the soon upcoming Networking Conference, which will take place together with the General Assembly from 22-25 April 2010 in Eben am Achensee, Austria. The first invitation and mailing with practical infosheet will be sent out in a few days!
Deadline EVS postponed to 24th of February
Since the call for the two new EVS volunteers was opened we received many good applications. Still, we want to give more people the chance to apply and postponed the deadline to 24th of February 2010.
The project will start in September 2010 and the two volunteers will work for one year with our Communication – and Networking Channels in our secretariat in Prague.
Read more and apply.
Visit to Algerian Naturefriends
The Algerian Naturefriends Association A.T.L.D. got in touch with us and invited us and our Members and Partners for a visit in their beautiful Saharian region. After visiting the French Naturefriends in 2009 and receiving a French delegation they are now looking forward to get in touch with more groups of European Friends of Nature. If you are interested in more, please read our website.
News
CAT new partner of IYNF
The Polish organisation CAT (Centre for Creative Activity) is the latest expansion in the network of partner organisations of IYNF. CAT has a strong link to the programme fields of IYNF by promoting international outdoor activities and cultural activities such as workshops, courses and concerts. CAT is a welcome addition to get in contact with Polish youth and CAT is also host organisation of Meet the freak 2010.
Contributions for Calendar
Do you have some exciting news from your organisation? Are there any new offers/activities that could be interesting as well for other Naturefriends in Europe?
You have now the chance, to share all this in our monthly Newsletter Calendar. Please send all your contributions until Wednesday, 17 February 2010, to vanessa [at] iynf.org.
Astrid Van Herpen (1965-2010)
We just received the sad news from the Netherlands that Astrid Desiree van Herpen died last Saturday, the 5th of February at the age of 44. Astrid has been active in our Dutch member organisation Nivon for many years. Besides that she was Secretary General of NFJI in Brussels and she was active in the youth board, also internationally. Our thoughts go to Astrid, her family and friends and we wish them a lot of strength during these hard days.