October in EJB

Mediterranean Neighbourhood

Mediterraneans are working hard on the Med Nights, the resurrection of a neighbourhood work-

shop that will take place in Koprivnica, Croatia from 27th to 30th December. Med Nights face-

book group Things are going great, there are already participants from 10 different countries,

mostly from the region. The workshop will focus on the transition between two educational con-

tent areas: human rights and diversity and will contain some elements of JB Training. It doesn’t

really matter if you are an experienced JBer or CISV is something totally new to you- you should

definitely join the crew!

Wild West Neighbourhood

In wild west we have finally launched the long awaited Wild West Weekend

2014. We have released the first information pack and you can read more

about it later in this publication. We have been in constant contact for the

last month over whatsapp and we said goodbye and welcome to new and

old NJRs. BeNeLux has happened and everything was great, also Italy sent

some trainers to Greece to run training at IONICO.

Central Eastern Neighbourhood

Central Eastern people are trying to make Go East! 2014 awe-

some. Content staff applications closed, and we will announce the

team very soon. International participant applications are coming

even if the deadline is still far ahead us. So internationals: apply,

don’t wait and don’t hesitate. From the information got from

some of the beautiful CEE NJRs, it seems we’ll have a big and

awesome group of participants. Just to remind you, all infor-

mations about Go East! can be found here (https://

www.facebook.com/events/123799611123694/?ref=br_tf).

Northern Neighbourhood

Second skype meeting: more focused on projects and working groups and the future

possible cooperation in our neighbourhood. Where are we looking for volunteers to

participate in all the projects and workshops to bring the ideas alive. Baltic searching

for participants. Apply here: http://bit.ly/1gR6LOJ, help us spread the news: SPOTS

ARE STILL available! NICE still looking for participants and content staff and volun-

teers in general to help working on promo material. The time for the NJR generation

to change is about to come as well. A lot of countries are having elections.

EJB Team Update

October was an exciting time with some new and old workshops and training happening, we

have IONICO happening in Greece, and BeNeLux in Belgium

We are still working towards the rest of the projects happening in 2013/14 and we are well

underway with all our preparations

Thank you to all who applied for funding in 2013, we will be in contact this weekend

Planned our agenda for MWM

blog link:http://europeanjb.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/30082013/

EJB Team Mid Way Meeting

From November 14—18 the EJB Team are go-

ing to be having our Mid Way Meeting. We will

use this time to discuss any important matters

that have arisen over the past 6 months, and we

will be planning for the future 6 months.

Agenda items will include: Evaluation of our

year plan, EJBM planning, Project planning,

and a lot of Skype meetings.

If you want to be involved you can follow our

Live minutes here: EJB Team Mid Way Meet-

ing live Minutes

Ola (EJB Team) and Matteo (RDT) at RTF

Slovenia

Wild West Weekend 2014

So Wild West Weekend 2014 is back for its

fifth edition. In 2014 WWW’14 will be hosted

by the beautiful country The Netherlands. It will

take place from the 6-9th March and will be

packed full of training, educational content, but

most importantly LOADS OF FUN!

You can join the facebook event here: Wild

West Weekend 2014, and you can see the pre-

info 1 here: WWW’14 precamp 1.

Wild Westerners apply through your NJRs, In-

ternationals join the facebook group and wait for

the application link. If you are interested in

helping with the facilitation of WWW’14, you

can apply to be a facilitator here: WWW’14 fa-

cilitator application.

Regional Training Forum

Regional Training Forums are an excellent opportunity to get

trained in a specific area of interest relevant to what you are doing

in CISV. Chapter Development Training is a fairly new one, but

since the beginning it started as a cooperation of Resources, Devel-

opment and Training Committee and Junior Branch by having

trainers deriving from both groups. This year it wasn’t any differ-

ent. Mateo (RDT) and Ola (EJBTeam) delivered a training to 14

participants, from which 11 were JBers. What has JB to do with

chapter development you may ask. Well, a lot. A good symbiosis

between chapter boards and JB is beneficial for both sides, chapter

goals and JB goals are not that different and we are all chapter

members after all. Also, during the training the participants had an

opportunity to evaluate their chapter, work on recruitment, fund-

raising and share best practises. All in friendly environment and

hospitality of the Slovenians. So, do not hesitate and send someone

from your chapter to the next RTF

IONICO

The participants were quite young and had different expectations. They expected something like their step

up, or youth meeting (flag time, more fun activities & energizers). We had a small delegation time each day.

On the second day of the camp they had already realized what the camp was all about and how important

was for them but they felt a little bored sometimes. On the third day everyone was very excited with some of

the cool activities and with all the things that they learned about JB. Nobody really knew what JB actually is

and it was a big revelation for them. Now, in their future goals being NJR is one of the biggest achievements.

How cool is that!! Everyone left the camp crying by the way…

The sessions were very informative, interesting and fun. The trainers were great and all the participants loved

them. They did a very good job preparing every detail of the programme and making it as interesting as pos-

sible.

To sum up, Ionico was awesome, it was definitely worth it and we want to do it again next year!

- Petros (JB Greece)

If you have any news you would like to share with us, or if you

have any questions please do not hesitate to email us at:

ejbteam@ijb.cisv.org

IONICO participants working hard…...on the beach.

Past months in EJB

Do you want to see what European Junior

Branch has been working on for the year 2012-

13. Then you can find all of our Previous

months in EJB on our blog! http://

europeanjb.wordpress.com/ejb-teams-work/ All the participants and staff at IONICO

New NJRs

Within the month of October we have said ‘goodbye’ to

some amazing people we have worked with for the past

two years, but we do say ‘hello’ to some new faces to join

the amazing work of EJB.

Thank you to Anjo Peez-Zvetina and welcome to Jule

Wallau (GER)

Thank you to Natalie Schinkova and welcome to Kris-

tyna Schinkova (CZE)

Thank you to Roxana Grisard and welcome to Juliette

Dupuis (FRA)

I hope you all join us in making our new NJRs feel wel-

come and apart of our amazing community.