September in EJB

Mediterranean Neighbourhood

Habibis together with Ola were working busy as bees. They met in the beginning of September for a chat on Skype, to

update each other on IJBC/AIM and what was going on in the region. The number of participants and countries attend-

ing the meeting was the highest since EJBM (absence makes the heart grow fonder?). Content staff application for Med

Nights followed and a team was selected: Adam (EGY), Nour (LEB), Marija (CRO), Marvin (GER) and Ola (POL) al-

ready started to work on the content of the meeting. Expect Infopack 2 around 15th of October and if you haven’t

signed up yet, do dis! Check out the facebook event for Med Nights: on.fb.me/15Nikgs

Wild West Neighbourhood

Wild West now have a WhatsApp group for NJRs. We are sharing a lot more

ideas and making bigger and better plans. The first info pack for Wild West

Weekend 2014 will be released in the middle of October. Watch this

space:https://www.facebook.com/events/309804709156738/?fref=ts. We will be

opening applications for wild west participants (you will have to apply to your

NJRs), international participants, and facilitator applications. BeNeLux is also

happening from 18 - 20th October in Belgium. Sign up here: http://bit.ly/

BNL2013.

Central Eastern Neighbourhood

September in Central Eastern was Go East! 2014

based. As you already might now, next year’s Go East!

will happen from March 13th to 16th, in Kierling

(really close to Vienna), Austria. This, and more info

can be found in Go East! first Info-pack: http://

tinyurl.com/nocyklj. Also, few days after Info-pack re-

lease and application opening, we also opened applica-

tions for content staff. Content staff application is open

to everyone and it’s simple, just fill in this short form:

http://tinyurl.com/pk2rjsv.

Northern Neighbourhood

Almost the last day of the month Northern Neighbourhood had their first meeting

with legendary number of participants. It is always nice to be able to discuss a certain

topics and we had a chance to cover everything including our workshops NICE and

Baltic. We have a FB events for both, NICE even has a page. We also discussed

some issues out hood is facing and tried to come up with a new strategy. We also do

have a FB thread with all the NJRs to insure a better flow of updates. We are also

working on training sharing platform so we could effectively share documents, train-

ers, participants and tools. We also have a calendar to be aware about all meetings

and trainings in our hood.

New NJRs

Within the month of September we have said ‘goodbye’ to some

amazing people we have worked with for the past two year, but we

do say ‘hello’ to some new faces to join the amazing work of EJB.

Thank you to William Montefiore and welcome to Freya

Caudwell (GBR)

Thank you to Kristina Moshuus and welcome to Idunn Aamnes

Mostue (NOR)

Thank you Odie Magnúsdóttir and welcome to Gunndis

Gísladóttir (ICE)

Thank you Hila Goldberg and Welcome to Roza Schnitzer and

Yoav Rom (ISR)

I hope you all join us in making our new NJRs feel welcome and

apart of our amazing community.

EJB Team Update

We have finished collecting information from NJRs about cooperating with trustees, we are

beginning our dialogue by opening up a platform with the Regional Coordinator to see where

this can go.

We have been re-assessing our budget to see if what possibilities we still have this month.

We have arranged the dates and place for MWM

We met with the IJRs to discuss strategy and ideas for the remainder of the year

Summary of meeting minutes from the month: 17/9/13 and 26/9/13

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

EJB Team Mid Way Meeting

We have set the dates for our Mid Way Meet-

ing!! It will take place in Kiki’s home town of

Brno (CZE) from 14.11.13—18.11.13. The pur-

pose of our mid way meeting is to evaluate our

work and the work of EJB since EJBM, and

then start to plan how we will work for the re-

maining half of the year and start planning the

European Junior Branch Meeting.

For us to use our MWM to full effect, we would

love to know what you would like us to talk

about also. We have started a Google Doc

which you can add your ideas to. Please make

sure you write your name because if we are dis-

cussing your topic, we may want to talk to you

about it! Mid Way Meeting Ideas

Kristina Moshuus saying goodbye to her

JB team and welcoming Idunn to NJR.

JB Lisboa shows their support for Peace One Day

Funding for Projects

We have recently been working over our budget from the

year 2012-13 and we still have some money that we have set

aside to fund some events and projects happening in Euro-

pean Junior Branch. We have created an application form

which you must fill in if you would like to apply for some

funding for your project. The project or event can be any-

thing as long as it is happening within European Junior

Branch. Follow the link below to the form. Funding form

Right on #4

If you haven’t heard of Right On, you should definitely

go to their facebook page! (https://www.facebook.com/

righton2013?fref=ts). Right On Step #4 was briefly men-

tioned in CISV International's IO Update for this week.

'Digging Deeper' - An activity to get to know internation-

al Human Rights instruments beyond the Universal

Declaration of Human Rights and identify their impact

on world events.

◆ Dropbox link: http://bit.ly/1aBIUAL

◆ Issuu link: http://bit.ly/18TGLta

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

Peace One Day

The European Junior Branch Blog is

back and we are looking for some

amazing articles to publish on it. On

September 21st we all took part in ac-

tivities to raise awereness and support

Peace One Day. (For more infor-

mation check out the website:

www.peaceoneday.org.

We would love to hear how you cele-

brated Peace One Day within your

Junior Branch. If you would like you

can send a short article and some pic-

tures to ejbteam@ijb.cisv.org and we

will publish your article on our blog.

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/

6 generations of NJR at Great Britain’s NJBM

JB Cairo celebrates Peace One Day