Follow up mailing of the documents from the Networking Conference / General Assembly is online here!


We would like to invite you to the IYNF General Assembly, this time designed as the Networking Conference.

Who is invited:

• IYNF member organisations and their representatives (one from each organisation, more guests are possible too, on own expense or costs of MOs, IYNF will contribute to the travel)
  
• People from local groups cooperating, or wishing to cooperate on the Networking projects
  
• IYNF volunteers: MTF Heart core team, Ambassadors, Born To Be Wild team, volunteers involved in representation/delegation, those whishing to be involved in the upcoming projects
  
• IYNF Presidium and staff

The main aims for the meeting are:

• Continue with the implementation of the Workplan 2010, evaluate how things are going and where we need to focus on in order to make it happen (better)
  
• Elect a (partly) new Presidium
  
• Move forward especially with the networking programmes
  
• Learn and get inspired
  
• Evaluate and take lessons from the past
  
• Integrate us as the stakeholders together

In May 2006 IYNF started a great adventure of organisational development, so called ‘Pimp my IYNF’. We worked hard and passionately for three years together with you on that process and came to a milestone agreement at the last Extraordinary General Assembly (EGA) in December 2008 in Olomouc. During this meeting we set up as top priority establishing and improving our network, consisting of you as our member organisations and your local groups. Since that time we not only work with our new Core Purpose, Core Products and Core Principles, we also are very active in keeping this IYNF network alive. And we feel that this is the right way to go!

Come and share with others, what moves you!
We have decided to combine our networking meetings with our statutory meetings to have all stake holders cooperating with each other on the planning and discussion for those topics they are keen for. Therefore this General Assembly will also to a big extent be a Networking Conference – very likely the biggest one IYNF has conducted so far! We invite you to be part of it and bring your ideas and interests for international cooperation and become active.

To make this event a successful Networking Conference, we think it is essential that there are sufficient peer groups present at such meetings: Board members, local group representatives, project coordinators, volunteers, finance experts and so on. We invite you not only to give it a good thought about what you want to discuss, but also with whom you would like to discuss during the conference! Therefore we ask you to invite your personal international peer group, to this General Assembly, so that your delegation also meets the people they would like to cooperate with. We think that this Networking Conference is a great chance for you to establish new partnerships and cooperation, to share and get inspired.

Programme description

To get enough time and space for the needed agenda, the programme is planned into two and half meeting days, with arrival on Thursday afternoon / evening and departure after Sunday lunch.

What can you expect?

Thursday:

• Welcome and opening
  
• Getting to know each other
  
• Informal evening

Friday:

• Green Market (examples of best practise in the environmental field)
  
• Presentation of the method of Open space.
  
• Start of the Open space and planning of the sessions
  
• Open space sessions: presentations, trainings, evaluation, discussion and planning of everything that matters to the participants

Saturday:

• Open spaces continue
  
• Action planning and concrete tasks
  
• Start of the GA
  
• Evening: party

Sunday:

• Council with transforming the practical outcomes of the Open spaces into plans and decisions
  
• Departure after lunch

Procedure

Each delegate has to register through the registration form at IYNF website. The deadline for registration is 21 March 2010. After this deadline, we cannot guarantee accommodation for you and so you or your organisation may need to find it on your own or pay the costs.

Each member organisation also needs to nominate their delegates on a nomination form of delegates (bellow in the documents for download) by fax by the same deadline (handwriting is possible). The number of delegates for each organisation is in the Key of delegates.

Motions submitted by the deadline for submission of motions will be included in the mailing. After the deadline only initiative motions can be submitted with the needed support of at least 25 % of delegates with voting right.

The deadline for submitting nominations to the Presidium is on Saturday evening. However, nominations sent by the deadline for submission of motions will be added to the mailing to all members.

The official mailing will include practical information, draft agenda of the meeting, all motions, nominations, Budget and Workplan 2010 and other documents for the meeting.


Summary of important deadlines and dates

• Submission of motions by member organisations and nominations of Presidium members: 15 March 2010 to iynf@iynf.org
  
• Registration of the delegates through the web form bellow: 21 March 2010
  
• Mailing of Assembly documents: 25 March 2010
  
• Booking tickets and informing the secretariat about exact arrival and departure times – as soon as possible but latest on 21 March.

Come to move IYNF forward and see what you(r organisation) can get from the IYNF Network!