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As the number of people affected by floods in Pakistan continues to rise, the country’s young people are stepping up to help those in need. Watch this video and see how these young people making a difference!

Also wants to make a difference and help Pakistan? It is very strongly recommended that donations and contributions are only made to or through accredited and authorised organizations and NGO’s. Now is the time to be generous!

Derry (UK), Maribor (Slovenia), Goes (Netherlands) and Karlstad (Sweden) are the 4 shortisted cities for the title of European Youth Capital 2013. The four shortlisted cities will have until October the possibility to provide additional information to convince the jury to select them and to award them the title. More details about the programme, planned activities, events and policy development will complement the applications and will lead to the final selection of the European Youth Capital 2013.

The award ceremony will take place during the YFJ General Assembly in Kiev, on November 18-20. The European Youth Capital is an initiative facilitated by the European Youth Forum and will arrived at its 5th edition. Since the first European Youth Capital 2009, Rotterdam (The Netherlands) it has been growing in attention and outreach ever since. In the past years, the European Youth Forum has awarded the title EYC 2010 to Torino (Italy), 2011 to Antwerp (Belgium) and recently 2012 to Braga (Portugal).

Check our the brand new website of European Youth Capital

On12 August, the 3 Belgian Youth councils will organize a giant sustainable picnic in the Royal Parc in Brussels, to celebrate the International Youth Day. With the support of the Belgian EU Presidency Youth we invite all young people to share the lunch during ‘Picnic Eurotastic’ in the Royal Parc in Brussels. Everybody is welcome between 12 and 4 pm to enjoy sustainable drinks, music and youthful energy. Because the 12th of August 2010 is also the start of the International Year of Youth, as declared by the United Nations, they invite all youth councils and youth platforms to organize similar youth minded picnics in their (capital) cities.

The purpose of the World Online Survey is to be a participation space, a platform to identify the opinions and suggestions of young people worldwide regarding the challenges and actions that governments, Civil Society Organizations, international cooperations, the private sector and society as a whole can undertake to change the current situation faced by youth in the areas of poverty, education, information and communication technologies, health, gender equality, human security, human rights, sustainable development, international migration, citizens’ participation and advocacy, and global partnership and cooperation.The results of this global survey will serve to orientate and to support the discussions of the meeting of NGO’s and of the Forum of Governments of the World Conference of the Youth, Mexico 2010. Join the survey!

The 2010 Mexico World Youth Conference is a meeting point for representatives of governments, legislators and Civil Society Organizations with the purpose of identify actions priorities set for 2015 to address needs of young people and opportunities beyond the Millennium Development Goals.

Yesterday, on 1 July 2010, Belgium takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union from Spain for the next 6 months. The Belgian Presidency has prioritised the theme of youth work on the institutional agenda, with two related conferences. The European Youth Work Convention will take place from 7 to 10 July in Ghent, Belgium. Hundreds of youth work experts from 50 European countries will prepare a declaration on youth work, which will be presented at the European Council of Ministers for Youth in November. At the Conference on the history of youth work and youth policy that will take place from 5 to 7 July 2010 (also in Ghent) European policy makers, researchers and youth workers will draw lessons from the history and European diversity of youth work and youth policy.

More detailed information:

• The Belgium EU-Presidency program for Youth
• Newsletter: Presidency Youth Flash

SALTO is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2010 and you are invited! Participate in any of their 2010 events and get a piece of SALTO birthday cake. You can for example participate in the Youth in Action Network training courses or other thematic activities.

About SALTO-YOUTH:
The SALTO (Support, Advanced Learning and Training Opportunities) is a network of 8 Resource Centres working on European priority areas within the youth field. It provides youth work and training resources and organises training and contact-making activities to support organisations and National Agencies within the frame of the European Commission’s Youth in Action programme and beyond. SALTO-YOUTH’s history started in 2000 and is part of the European Commission’s Training Strategy within the Youth in Action programme and works in synergy and complimentarity with other partners in the field.

More information:

• SALTO flyer
• About SALTO participation
• SALTO participation training calendar
• Get involved!

Congratulations, Lena!

Last month the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) announced the 4 winners of the FRA International Video Competition 2010. The winning videos’ selection criteria were originality, message clarity and relevance to the EU fundamental rights themes. One of the winning videos:

European Alternatives, Youth Press Italia, and Youth Media announced the winners of the Transeuropa Journalism Award “From A to B”. The winners of the Award, divided in three section, text, photo, audio/video, are: Hanna Svantesson (photo) with a series of intense portraits of the Rom children, Marco Riciputi (text) with the article Europa 2009 D.C and Valentina Cala with a the video ‘This is Europe’, which you can watch below.

Valentina Cala: ‘From A my life started, new friends, new cultures, new realities. Nothing could have me stopped to go ahead. Now I am in Cologne, Germany doing my European Volunteer Service. Searching to reach that B! In March 2010 all volunteers from Germany met in Heidelberg for a ten days on arrival Seminar. During those days I have filmed the activities and did some interviews, inquiring WHY those people are NOW here, what has brought them here, where they want to go, what they try to reach.’

Next monday it will be International Day Against Homophobia. Parliament’s President Jerzy Buzek will deliver a video message on combating discrimination of sexual minorities. Attention focuses on what can be done to end discrimination and stigmatisation of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) people within and outside EU borders. The International Day Against Homophobia is the perfect opportunity to make concrete effort to counter homophobia. It is an event that gathers people to fight homophobia. Organisations, institutions, and individuals have set up events in their communities. How to get involved? Raise the Rainbow Flag, wherever there’s a flagpole. Read the rest of this entry »