Board Report 10

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Happy Birthday, ESN (Marketa)

• Slogan has been chosen

  • Happy Birthday, ESN - Together Twentyear

• ESN Train (Matthias)

  • Request to make a presentation about ESN Train at YFJ – General Assembly accepted

  • Find National Coordinators

  • Encourage your sections to participate in the ESN Train. Everything organised is something good. It doesn't need to be for free!

  • Promote http://esntrain.org

• Give 20 (Marketa)

  • Brainstorming on conducts, tasks, actions

• Birthday Book (Marketa)

  • Base-design of the pages

• Logo

  • Voting held on facebook

  • Logo release very soon ;-)

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Conferences

• AEGEE Agora (Dussia)

  • Presentation about Happy Birthday, ESN

  • Networking

• Youth Event + Conference of the Ministers responsible for Youth of the CoE (Matthias)

  • Participation in workshops to identify how to implement the Declaration “The Future of the Council of Europe Youth Policy: Agenda 2020”

  • Promotion of ESN among YFJ member organisations

  • Contact established to the European Youth Card Association

• Conference on Citizenship in Bordeaux (Marketa)

  • Invitation received by the French National Agency

  • Panel discussion about Citizenship

  • Promotion of ESN and the ESNSurvey

Regional Platforms (Everybody)

• Preparation of workshops and plenary sessions

  • All files to be found in the Info-Center (Start / New Year / Board / Regional Platforms 2008)

• Piotr and Erdeniz participation at SEEP

  • No report yet, cause the guys are travelling while this report is written

Corporate Partners (Matthias)

• BNP Paribas

  • Contract of EUR 3800 signed to promote the ACE-Manager (an online game) until January

• Henkel

  • Meeting in Brussels

  • Good understanding for future cooperation

  • Request to support Happy Birthday, ESN will be forwarded to key people in the international headquarters

European Youth Forum – YFJ (Jelena / Matthias)

• GA

  • Nomination of delegates: Jelena, Madara and Dominika (no notification of acceptance received yet)

  • Dominika from Slovakia as candidate for the Advisory Council on Youth for the Council of Europe accepted – let's cross our fingers for her.

Grants (Matthias)

• Council of Europe – Youth Foundation; 4 grants submitted

  • Summer Training in Sofia / Bulgaria

    • 1 week training for ESNers about internal and external (e.g. Active participation) topics

    • To be held end of July (dates not 100% specified)

  • ESNSurvey 2009

    • Money to print and send booklets

    • 1 team meeting forseen

  • Postcard campaign

    • To produce postcards

    • To make a final report about xenophobia and how travelling / exchanges can break down prejudice

  • Information brochure about Galaxy

    • Dissemination of a report to other NGOs how the Galaxy can be beneficial

• Grant to develop the Galaxy received!!!

  • Main contractor: UNICA (Network of all universities in capital cities)

  • Other partners:

    • ESN International

    • ESN Tallinn

    • Youth Agora

    • University Paris 6

    • Brussels Education Services

    • University of Tallinn

    • Asociacion Orion (Latin American University Network)

  • 2 year grant

  • total about EUR 320'000

  • Role of ESN: 1 member in the steering committee, testing + evaluation

  • Benefits: Development of the Galaxy + project together with an important university network