YEE Newsletter

As we all know, there's been an economic meltdown recently. Charities have suffered. Many campaigns have become openly desperate as they compete for available funds. Their campaigning style is brutally honest: children are starving; people are dying; rainforests are being cut down. This is reality and they need our money now. These campaigns include depressing pictures and worrying facts. It's the cold hard truth. People are compassionate and many will donate to these campaigns but they don't want to think about it for the rest of the day. People don't want to feel sad.

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Involving young people in protected area management

Connecting youth across Europe is the idea of the EUROPARC International Junior Ranger Programme – a youth environmental education programme that inspires young people con re-connect with nature and learn about the importance of protected areas.

The Junior Ranger Context

Young people are at the heart of the local communities living in and around protected areas. They are also the future advocates, guardians and potential employees of these areas. Our programme aims to provide young people with the opportunity to participate in protected areas with the idea to educate people about nature. At the same time, the programme wants to enhance their understanding about the protection of natural and cultural resources.

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The European Commission invites you to be part of the EU Sustainable Energy Week 2013 (24-28 June 2013)

In the last week of June, the European Commission will put sustainable energy in the spotlights during the EU Sustainable Energy Week 2013 (EUSEW 2013). The Week consists of a conference and an awards ceremony in Brussels while across Europe the local Energy Days will be held. Energy Days are open to anyone who would like to promote sustainable energy. Last year, more than 1.000 events were organised during EUSEW. If you would like to get to know more about the week, please visit the event website.

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On 19 September 2012, Gilles-Eric Séralini and his colleagues published a sensational study that, in their opinion, brought to the fore clear indications that genetically modified crops and Roundup are dangerous to health. Media across the world picked up on this report and published disturbing photos of rats with enormous tumors. As we say today, the story "went viral." Let's look to the cause now, with a few months distance and maybe with a new perspective.

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Annike Abromeit from Germany was awarded a first YEE scholarship in the International Energy Management Program at Karlshochschule International University in September 2012. We concider her a very committed scholar. After this successful experience, YEE and Karlshochschule decided to offer the scholarship for the International Energy Management Program in the 2012/2013 winter semester for the second time.

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Environmental organization - Rhodope started the project 'Rhodope mountains - the Garden of Orpheus', focused mainly on preserving the plant diversity in Rhodope Mountain region, Bulgaria.

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The Botanical garden of the Dnepropetrovsk national university named after Oles Honchar, situated in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, plays an important ecological and social role in society's life, performs the town-planning function in the general infrastructure of the green territories of city. It's a big territory and is a part of the city's system of green plantations of the general use, and it's also recreational zone that executes functions of optimization of ecological conditions of adherent territories.

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The training course "Environmental Watchdog" took place in Pogradec city from April 10th-16th 2012. It was organized by the Environmental Center for Protection, Education and Rehabilitation (EPER Center) under the support of European Commission in the framework of "Youth in Action" Programme.

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Thanks to my year of European Voluntary Service (EVS) in YEE's office in Prague I got to know the "Youth in Action" programme and all its funding opportunities. The Czech Republic gave me as well the chance to get to know and experience a formula that was new to me: volunteering weekends for the protection of the environment and the historical heritage.

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WoesteLand, the Dutch organization who is active in Nature and Environment had a good and active summer.
We did different summer activities, the youth worked on nature restoration and a farm which was a lot of fun.

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From 16-23 September 2012 in Albania,Tirana, Youth and Environment Europe (YEE) and Environmental center for Development Education and Networking (EDEN Center) organized and coordinated the Youth Exchange "Give pedestrians their city back." The event, which took place in the mobility week, brought together 32 young people from 11 different countries of Europe who wish to change their way of living in more ecological and environmental friendly cities.

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