Thursday, 23 April 2009 / Olympos Karpathos / Greece

2nd workshop “The Karpathos – Saria protected area and the significance of the Management Agency*”, where MEDITERRANEAN SOS Network was invited to present last year’s volunteer work program.

The volunteer work program of summer 2008 at local newspaper:


* of the Northern Karpathos, Saria and the surrounding marine area / NATURA 2000 Network – code GR4210003

Friday, 13th March to Sunday, 15th March 2009 / Amsterdam (NL)

The makeITfair campaign (info: http://makeitfair.org/) is a European awareness raising project that focuses on the social and environmental problems that arise within the electronic products cycle.

On 13th to 15th of March a Youth Round Table was successfully organized!

Friday 13 March 2009 at Heineken Brewery

Opening

- Theatrical sketch by Waterlanders - (info: http://www.myspace.com/waterlanders)

- MakeITfair song by Emiel Jurjens aka rapper El D - (listen live: http://www.myspace.com/alecjweatherwood)

- First hand experiences shared by:

Juna Yimprasert - Thai Labour Campaign (TLC) - Thailand (info: http://www.thailabour.org/)

Cecilia V. Tuico - Workers Assistance Centre (WAC) – Philippines (info: http://www.wacphilippines.com/)
- Documentary on Congo’s tin mines

Journeyman Pictures - DRC - Grand Theft Congo - 15min 40sec - 4 July 2005 (Ref: 2705) (info: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=18683) or: ‘Grand Theft Congo – DRC’ at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1FQmUQ1-mM

Saturday 14 March at Art A08 (info: http://www.A08.nl)

- Workshops

Cornelia Heydenreich & Esther De Haan ‘Shareholder activism’

Tim Steinweg ‘ProcureITfair’ (info: http://procureitfair.org/)
Juna Yimprasert ‘Empowering workers in the South’

Tom Dowdall ‘Greenpeace International’ (info: http://www.greenpeace.org/electronics & http://www.greenpeace.org/climateleaders)

- Examples from Dutch Youth Organizations:

1) Time to Turn organization (info: http://www.timetoturn.nl/) - a freeze action, to ask attention for injustice in the production chain of cellphones / watch it live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87dWx6DXrwg

2) KrachtvanCongo organization (info: www.KrachtvanCongo.nl) – watch live the Clean Call for Congo project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJMtYGgL-lw

- MakeITfair campaign in Finland by Repu - Pro Fair Trade Finland (info: http://www.repu.fi/en / http://www.makeitfair.fi / http://reilukauppa.fi / http://www.fairtradeaction.net) & Changemaker Youth network Finland (info: http://www.changemaker.fi/)

- Stijn Otten ‘How to get funding for your make IT fair project’ (Vice-president/International Affairs Dutch National Youth Council

- Discussion with Mike Loch

Director EHS Strategic Initiatives of Motorola &
Vice President of Global e-Sustainability Initiative - GeSI (info: http://www.gesi.org)
interesting: Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) group of companies (info: http://www.eicc.info/) & Electronic Industry Code of Conduct - (info: http://www.eicc.info/code.html)

- Brainstorming (or else more correctly Thought-showering) with Ronald van Es & Maia Wouterse from the Dutch National Youth Council

Sunday 15 March 2009 at Filmmuseum (info: http://www.filmmuseum.nl)

THE AIM: TO RAISE AWARENESS ON SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

THAT ARISE WITHIN THE ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS CYCLE

The whole weekend live from Matthijs de Raad (GGTV):

makeITfair Youth Round Table 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onIoMlZX66k

& in short: makeITfair Youth Round Table 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKuxUYzY-g0

Many thanks to Ginney (Programme Officer makeITfair Youth Round Table), All the Youth from Morgen - www.studentenvoormorgen.nl & the Dutch National Youth Council - http://www.jeugdraad.nl/, Esther De Haan & Irene Schipper (SOMO - http://somo.nl/), Cornelia Heydenreich (Germanwatch – http://www.germanwatch.org), Monika Matus (KARAT – http://www.karat.org), Annika Torstensson (Fair Trade Center Sweden - http://www.fairtradecenter.se/), Päivi Pöyhönen (FinnWatch - http://www.finnwatch.org/) Pauline Overeem (GoodElectronics - http://goodelectronics.org/) and last but not least Gerry our Inspiratrice (http://www.metgerry.nl)

Organizations participated:

Vlaamse Jeugdraad - http://www.vlaamsejeugdraad.be/

INEX- Association for Voluntary Activities (SDA) - http://www.inexsda.cz/

Together Czech Republic - http://www.together.cz/

MS Action Aid - http://www.ms.dk/

Federation of Young European Greens - http://www.fyeg.org/

Aegee Europe - http://www.karl.aegee.org/

Global Education Network of Young Europeans (GLEN) http://www.glen-europe.org

Janun e.V. http://www.janun.de / (Projekt: Konsum Global – http://www.Konsum-Global.de)

Mediterranean SOS Network – MedSOS – http://www.medsos.gr

International Cultural Youth Exchange Germany - http://www.icye.org/

Move Your World - http://www.moveyourworld.nl/

Amavet – http://www.amavet.sk

Swedish Red Cross Youth - http://www.rkuf.se/

Chalmers Students for Sustainability - http://css.chs.chalmers.se/

Rättviseakademin (Swedish Cooperative Centre, SCC) - http://www.rattviseakademin.se/

Funky Dragon - http://www.funkydragon.org/

Support worker UK / Zwiazek / Club "The House" / German Greens / UK Youth Ambassadors

Sunday, 8th March 2009 Bicycle rally for Şeyh su

Bicycle rally against road works at ‘Şeyh su (Sheikh’s water)’ or ‘1000 trees’ forest of the city of thessaloniki – video posted by bikerespect (best of): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5jY_3GFI1Q. Everything about the road works and the people involved @ (in Greek): http://forestsos.wordpress.com/

More videos on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrEU6krvhD0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nf1jK1zenE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPekYd3L4sk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3zvBLur6GY&feature=related

Articles (in Greek):

Various Movements in Thessaloniki:

http://thesskinisis.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/ποδηλατοπορεία-και-πεζοπορεία-για-το/

GreenAttack: http://green-attack.blogspot.com/2009/03/blog-post.html

Ecogreens: http://ecogreensalonika.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/seixsou-podhlatoporeia/

Ecology – salonika: http://ecology-salonika.org/lib/?p=3258

Saturday, 21st February / Thessaloniki

SMSofYOUTH 2009 for environment

SMSofYOUTH 2009 for environment is a new initiative of the Hellenic Youth Council (known in Greece with the acronym ESYN). Playing with the words, SMS stands for Important Messages – Targets in Greek and this year is focused on environment and especially on recycling and water saving. The campaign is taking place almost every week in a different town of Greece and wants to bring together all youth from the local youth councils and all the grown ups from the public sector working in environmental sectors. Yesterday it was held in Thessaloniki!

Watch live: http://www.smsofyouth.gr/

Saturday, 7th February 2009 / Thessaloniki

A day for ‘Protected areas of Greek nature as an opportunity developing a new prototype – institutional requirements, social significance, economical prospects areas of high ecological value'. Mediterranean SOS Network (MedSOS) accepted the invitation and made a presentation on ‘MedSOS and the actions taken in protected areas’

My presentation SEE BELOW

or at: http://ecogreensnatura2000.blogspot.com/2009/02/med-sos-op-07022009.html

More about that day: http://ecogreensnatura2000.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean SOS Network: http://www.medsos.gr

Med Sos Op 07022009

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Med Sos Op 07022009

View more presentations from aigaiopelagitis.

Saturday, 15th November to Sunday, 23 rd November 2008 / Olympiada - Chalkidiki

“Balkanvision” - a training course on Intercultural Dialogue (Action 3 - Youth in the world / 3.1 - Cooperation with Neighbouring Partner Countries / Training and Networking / GR-31-38-2008-R3 & 3.1.2/R3/2008/7)

Participants

Ivana Vitovskiv & Matija Polančec / Croatia - Croatian Youth Hostel Association (info: http://www.hfhs.hr/)

Dejan Neshevski & Zoran Dimitrovski / F.Y.R.O.M. - Intercultural Dialogue Center (info: http://www.cid-mk.org/)

Irina Janevska & Nenad Velkovski / F.Y.R.O.M. (info: http://www.youthpeer.org.mk/)

Natalia Todorova Bojanova, Lora Liudmilova Georgieva & Viktoria Milenova Mihova / Bulgaria - International Initiatives for Cooperation (info: http://www.iic-bg.org/)
Jelena Cebic & Vildana Devic, Bosnia & Herzegovina - SPOT

Paunescu Beatrice-Roxana & Tomoescu Ion Alin / Romania - Youth of XXI-th Century

Aleksandar Banjanac / Serbia – Balkan IDEA Novi Sad

Marina Stojadinovic / Serbia - Young Researchers of Serbia (info: http://www.mis.org.yu/)

Olga Fylaktaki, Anestis Kariofilidis & Giorgos Koutsokostas / Greece – United Societies of Balkan (info: http://usbngo.wordpress.com/)

Trainers
Daniela lovric / Croatia - Youth Centre for non-formal education (info: http://www.cnc.hr/)
Jelena Mocevic / Bosnia & Herzegovina - SPOT

Nevena Gojkovic / Serbia - Ethnicity Research Center

United Societies of Balkan staff

Aristodimos Paraschou, Efi Simiakaki, Giorgos Lambrakis & Christina Kontaxi (info: http://usbngo.wordpress.com/)

more info: http://usbngo.wordpress.com/