In 2010, MIJARC Europe is supported by:
the operative grant of the "Youth in action Programme"
and the administrative grant of the European Youth Foundation
On this website you can find more about MIJARC Europe, news, adresses, publications and the latest information about the next activities.
This year the Annual Summer camp of MIJAR Europe on the topic of “How can we give a better image to our rural village?” was hosted by EiR Poland from the 16th to the 22nd of August and brought together youngsters from six different European countries.
During one week-long the participants from our member movements from Belgium (KLJ), Bulgaria (YMDRAB), France (MRJC), Germany (KLJB), Poland (EiR) and Portugal (JARC) had the pleasure and the opportunity to talk with special guests, as the Stronie Mayor and a polish candidate to the European Elections in 2009 (Mr. Stanyslaw Longawa), to present the realities of “Rural life in our European villages”, to work in three creative workshops – “Photography”, “Collage” and “Diorama”, to improve their knowledge about Europe and their rights as European citizens, youth migration, sustainable development, biodiversity and climate change.
Field-visits, sports, games and thematic evenings also contributed to make this week a wonderful and fruitful intercultural exchange of realities, thoughts, opinions and ideas for future projects.
We make a very positive balance of this project which, we think, exceeded both preparation team and participants’ expectations!
As a result of this Summer Camp a Solutions Folder will be published, containing the main conclusions (solutions) the participants found together to “give better image to our European villages”.
Have a look on our Facebook page where you can find a small resume of each day and many photos of this event. More details will be found on next information spreading issues of MIJARC Europe.
This European exchange has been organized by MIJARC Europe in cooperation with EiR Poland and supported by the European programme "Youth in Action".
This year's well-attended MIJARC Europe G.A. was held in June, in Brussels.
Some key decisions were taken such as a Carbon Offset fee to be paid by participants in MIJARC Europe activities, amendments on the membership fees for MIJARC Europe full-members, the affiliation of EIR Poland and the election of Damian Longawa as EIR European Coordinator (Welcome!).
The "communication committee", formed by decision on the last GA in Bulgaria, presented new proposals as the renewal of the website and the creation of a Best-Practice handbook with guidelines for project creation, leadership and intercultural exchanges. Also a mission statement and slogan were proposed and will be voted on the next European Coordination Meeting.
Finally, the Action Plan for 2010/2011 was approved unanimously by the General Assembly.
MIJARC Europe wishes very successful year of activities to all member movements and hopes to meet you in the next promoted events.
Food sovereignty Seminar Success! :
(Strabourg: 25/05/10 - 31/05/10)
The recent success of the Food Sovereignty seminar hosted in the European Youth Centre of the Council of Europe brought together eight different nations from all over Europe. France, Germany, Portugal, Bulgaria, Poland and contact movements from Nicaragua, Armenia, Norway were present in during the week-long seminar held during the last week of May 2010. The seminar was voted a unanimous success. It featured regular talks by experts, daily working groups, study-visits, games and many great discussions culminating in the writing of a political paper on Food Sovereignty. The political paper will be debated and voted on during the upcoming GA in Germany. This is the first of many seminars on Food Sovereignty organized by MIJARC Europe and it marks the first big step towards spreading the essential movement of Food Sovereignty.
A letter from the New MIJARC Europe General Secretary :
Ana Silva
Hi there!
I’m Ana Silva from Portugal, and I’m very happy and proud for being chosen to be the next MIJARC Europe Secretary. I’ve been involved in JARC Portugal since 2006 and I worked as part-time secretary in JARC Portugal office for one year (2008-2009).
My first direct contact with MIJARC was in a Summer Camp in Belgium, in 2008. Since then, I had the pleasure to become the Portuguese coordinator for MIJARC Europe and European Women Commissioner for MIJARC World.
From now on, working as European secretary, I hope to contribute significantly to MIJARC Europe’s expansion and spreading out. I hope to meet all the needs and expectations from your movement and, of course, to meet you personally on the next MIJARC Europe activities!
Ana Silva
We are thrilled to announce the new issue of InfoEurope 2010 is now available! This edition features activities and initiatives conducted by MIJARC Europe movements and members in recent months. The official theme explored throughout this edition is : "What do the rural youth think about climate change?". Among the features you can read about we have : The International Green Week in Berlin - KLJB (Germany)
The Copenhagen Conference - MIJARC Europe Tree planting project in Bulgaria - YMDRAB (Bulgaria) The Small-scale Farming Solution - MIJARC (Europe)
Call to all interested parties!
MIJARC Europe is now looking for a new European Secretary! Are you interested in working for an International NGO which supports sustainable agricultural development, youth policy, European awareness and youth empowerment in rural areas and in a context of non-formal learning?
The post facilitates travel, intercultural communication and is a great opporunity to make international contacts.
To read the Job description CLICK HERE
The Copenhagen conference has been presented as a complete failure of politicians to find a solution to global warming. But are politicians the only ones making politics? Hopefully not; many Non-governmental Organizations were also there, able to agree on common objectives in spite on their differences. With 2 main slogans "Climat Justice Now" and "System Change not Climate Change" the civil society proved that the peoples have answers to Climate Change...if only they would be more heard by governments!
To see the Klimaforum people's declaration: http://www.klimaforum09.org/Declaration?lang=en
It was the topic discussed by States during the FAO meeting which took place from the 16th to the 18th of November in Rome.
Because Civil Society had not been officially invited to this forum, she organized her own forum 3 days before the official summit in order to make her voice heard. Three questions structured the forum: Who has access to resources? How to produce? Who decides in food and agriculture policies? Who needs access to food?
Women, Indigenous People and Youth had a particular place in this forum. Claire Quintin, the new President of MIJARC Europe was there as an official delegate for the Youth. It was a great occasion to meet colleagues from MIJARC all over the world, especially our colleague from India who had the chance to read the civil society final declaration inside the official FAO summit!
Read the final declarations
Read the declaration of the Youth Caucus
A couple of days ago our Vice-President, Lyubomir Todorov came back from the COMEM of the European Youth Forum, which took place in Torino, Italy, 12-15.11.2009. This umbrella organization has two types of members INGYO, which is MIJARC Europe and National Youth Councils, the number of them is 99, based in different countries represented by different people. The aim of this meeting was to approve the budget of 2010 and the work plan for 2010. It was also discussed about the evaluation of the statutory bodies. Lyubomir participated in the working groups of E-society and Migration, trying to focus the attention not just on the youth, but especially on the rural youth. Exchanging experience and ideas, he tried to strengthen the relations of our organization with the other ones. As a feedback of the seminar Lyubomir states that the YJF is a very important place, where the people could hear about the needs and wills of the rural youth. So in future we will continue our active participation in the events organized by the European Youth Forum.
Climate change challenge has to tackled in a comprehensive and holistic way!
Farmers are key actors in climate change situation!
Food sovereignty is a solution!
On this World Food Day 2009, MIJARC Europe calls for the implementation of the food sovereignty principle in any European or international policy taken to cope with global warming.
Read our press release.
The working groups meeting organised by MIJARC Europe gathered 20 young people from Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal, Germany, France and Belgium.
During 3 days, they have had the opportunity to exchanges their realities and best practices in the 3 following fields :
1. Agrciculture and Food Sovereignty
2. "Glocal" development
3. Youth participation in rural development
Field visits were organized in Picardie to discover other best pratices: "the House of the solidarity economy" in Lachapelle aux pots, the associative café "L'ecume du Jour" in Beauvais, one AMAP from Oise.....
This working groups meeting was supported by the "Youth in Action" program.
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