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Youth and Environment Europe, known as YEE, is a network that unites 46 youth environmental organisations in Europe. These member organisations cooperate and make common international projects to raise awareness about environment and appreciation for nature. YEE-ers are young, enthusiastic and they want to make a change!

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After more than one year of dedicated and hard working we are proud to announce the launch of the new version of YouthNetworks! YouthNetworks 3.0 is more efficient, effective and has many new options to communicate between each other. What has been improved? For example the possibility to add more information to promote your vacancies and events, the search functionality is improved, the user interface is much easier and much more improvements! Here you can see it for yourself. If you have any questions and/or comments about the launch YouthNetworks 3.0, you can reply to robert@noborders.eu or join us on the Skype question hour every friday from 1pm to 2 pm.

We are very pleased to announce that the release date of YouthNetworks 3 will be on the 12^th November 2010. The new version of YouthNetworks will be more efficient, effective and has many new options to communicate between each other. It will be a big step forward. In order to have a swift launch, please read the following information very carefully:

The new version will be launched on the 12th of November 2010, on this day the community website will be down for maintenance. In the meantime you can continue using YouthNetworks as usual, because we will transfer all your data to the new version, except: the applications, the profile photos and the cv of a volunteer. On the 12th of November you will receive a re-activation email, which will allow you to create a new password within less than 30 seconds. So please make sure to backup the above points (cv and/or applications) before the 12th of November 2010.

If you have any questions, comments and/or concerns about the launch YouthNetworks 3.0, you can reply to robert@noborders.eu or call +31-(0)628421079 or join us on the Skype question hour every friday from 1pm to 2 pm.

The YouthNetworks team

Are you struggeling with some of our options at YouthNetworks? Do you want advice about how to write and upload your CV online? Or do you have a quick technical or even a general question about YouthNetworks? From next week, and on,there will be the possibility to have online contact with one of our employees and get your answers about YouthNetworks directly. You can consult us by skype-chat or skypephone every friday (starting at the 1st of october) from 1 pm till 2 pm on the following skype address: questionyouthnetworks. So add us to your skypecontacts! Of course when your question is urgent you are always welcome to email your question(s) to: bregje@noborders.eu.

We are looking forward to help you and we hope to see you online!

How would it be,
a place to feel free?

Where energy flows, in the middle of nature,
so humankind grows, to finally be mature..

There is a place on earth, that is looking like that.
I want to create it, it’s all in my head.

First thing we need, is a steady organization,
where young people go, and find inspiration.

(Idea 1.a inspiration factory)

When this is launched, we can talk one on one,
then we start to get serious things done.

Let’s get back to that place where we feel free to live,
to experience, to learn to create and to give.

(Idea1.b. sustainable energy park)

A place where we live and invite life to us,
we see how it goes, we experiment, plus…

we create an environment to get us on top,
on top of the world, the future nonstop.

How is the future? No person knows,
the future is us, the youth is who knows.

I have NoBorders, and together with youth,
we don’t follow orders, we inspire the good.

So let us all unleash our light,
and fight for the things that we think are right.

Since 2004 YouthNetworks provides services to make international youth work and communication easier and more efficient. The number of users of YouthNetworks has increased over the years. These users requested a more effective and modern community in order to keep the services up-to-date. After one year of dedicated and hard working we are proud to announce a new version of YouthNetworks! The new version will be launched at the end of the summer 2010.

What has been improved?

• Possibility to add more information to promote your vacancies and events (photos/videos)
• Available EVS-vacancies are shown on Google Maps
• Efficient and effective communication between users (filter by country/type of organisation etc.)
• Improved search functionality
• Easy user interface
• Integration of social community tools like Twitter/blogs/YouTube
• Option to translate into your own language

The effectiveness of YouthNetworks largely depends on the quantity of users and the quality of their input. It would be great if you can help us test our new version of YouthNetworks. Are you interested? Please contact Robert Smit (robert@noborders.eu) for more information.

Also read: YouthNetworks 3.0 will be launched on 12 Nobember 2010.

Do you want to share your experiences with us on our blog? YouthNetworks is looking for European youngsters who want to report about their EVS experiences or about their participation in a youth- related project, such as youth exchanges, training courses or other interesting youth projects! If you are interested to become a voluntary ’YouthNetworks reporter’, please contact us and we’ll set up an interview. Or write an experience report by yourself and sent it to anita@noborders.eu. Pictures and videos are also more than welcome!

Many people travel to London to do their Christmas shopping. They go to Harrods to buy toys, to Oxford Street for Christmas stockings and to Hyde Park for toffee apples. Not me. I travel to London to give trainings about YouthNetworks!

As I was walking towards the conference hotel, I saw the first snow of the winter falling upon the fashionable people that roam the streets of London, and thought about how happy I was with this job. Life’s good when you’re abroad and it’s snowing. I felt all Christmassy, and a bit lost, as I didn’t exactly know where the hotel was. But a few phone calls further I found it. Lights and trees and mistletoes guided me along the majestic stairway, as I was taking of my hat and gloves. I was right on time, grabbed some coffee and took a seat.
I have to say the crowd was a bit tough, and the presentation didn’t go exactly as planned, but luckily some people attending came up to me in the break to tell me they liked it. Thank God for confirmation!
I couldn’t beat the presentation of one of the others though. A woman from Liverpool told a very interesting story about her project: Merseyside Polonia. She did her best to show the good side of the Polish immigrants in her city, by organizing food festivals, get-togethers and talking to media. She really made a lot of effort, and put her heart into it, and all the participants loved her story. More information about her project can be found on http://merseysidepolonia.com.
When the training was over, I walked to Hyde Park, to the Winter Wonder Land. There was a Christmas market, an ice rink, some carnival rides and a singing moose with a German accent (see picture). Excellent!
Before I left for home in the night, I was invited to a Christmas Party by one of the participants. It was very nice: the British like to meet up with their friends and eat a lot of food before they go home to their parents to celebrate the holidays. The play weird games, put on festive slingers and have a laugh. It was very nice. But I had to go home at some point, so I said goodbye to the snow in London and went back to my own country, which ironically, was in total chaos from the big amount of snow there. Oh well, life is never as usual as you think it is. Now let’s go out and have a snowfight! Merry Christmas everyone!

Last week, YouthNetworks gave it’s first presentation in it’s home country, and it happened to take place in the city where our headquarters are located: Utrecht! There was a training by the NJI,  (Dutch Youth Institute) and people from all over the country came there to share information, network with each other and offcourse to learn from several workshops, where YouthNetworks was also represented in the workshop about Youth in Action & New Media.
If you would also like to implement the eMatchmaking training in your training or seminar, feel free to ask us any time!