Skip to main content

Inside the Brussels bubble: Two reviews of the JCI EUKHT

Post a Comment

EDC Positions, Call for Candidates



Dear All,

we are looking for committed and engaged JCI Members who want to create positive change in an international environment. You want to help National and Local Organization all over Europe on Growth & Development strategies and want to create a new JCI movement in countries where we are not represented yet? Then the European Development Council (EDC) is the development opportunity you are looking for!

The new EDC Board will be elected at the National Presidents Meeting at the 2017 JCI World Congress in Amsterdam. Please check with your National President for more information and application documents. 

EDC Positions for election are:
  • EDC Chairperson
  • 4 EDC Councilors
  • EDC/JCI Europe Treasurer

For some insights on the work of the EDC feel free to check out their Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/jcieuropeandevelopmentcouncil/ 
and their website here: https://jciedc.jimdo.com/

Or contact EDC Chairperson Annalisa Schembri (aschembri@jci.cc) or myself (cfurst@jci.cc)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Inside the Brussels bubble: Two reviews of the JCI EUKHT

We asked two participants of the 2018 JCI European Know-How Transfer to tell us about their overall experience. Read their stories here:     "No woman, no panel" “No woman, no panel” took my full attention during my visit of the European Parliament. I was trying to find out what it means in this context. I got my answer when in one of the committee meetings I was visiting, the chair mentioned that at the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality no voting will take place if there is an insufficient number of women participating at the meeting that have a voting right. Now it was getting even more exciting! I was shadowing Ms. Vilija Blinkeviciute, a great leader from my home country Lithuania and chair of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality of the European Parliament. During our open conversations we touched the ground of women’s situation in the EU and discussed topics like domestic violence, economic life standards and life quali...
Post a Comment
Read more

From Reus to Hellas - A European Project that brings Hope for Peace

"From Reus to Hellas" is a project initiated by JCI Reus, and managed by JCI member Jordi Cervera Guasch, 25, from Reus, Catalonia, that aims to help young refugees stranded in refugee camps on Lesbos by providing sport and leisure activities. In this article Jordi shared his fascinating story with us. Along with JCI Reus, Jordi designed a program that could be useful and sustainable in tending to those displaced populations and quickly put into action. After several fund-raising efforts and with the indispensable collaboration of JCI Greece, in August 2016 the first team of 12 lifeguards was sent to the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the Greek island Lesbos, in the framework of a program that was called "From Reus to Hellas". "I have been in contact with the water since I was a child, swimming, training, and working as a lifeguard on the Catalan beaches every single summer since I was seventeen. After I had seen the images of the Syri...
Post a Comment
Read more

Shaping the future of Europe: Young leaders and entrepreneurs present solutions on how to re-engage young people in politics

An international delegation of over 40 JCI members from 10 European countries gathered in Brussels to discuss the inclusion of young people in political decision-making processes with European policy-makers October 11, 2018 – From October 7-11 more than 40 JCI Members from all over Europe met in Brussels for the annual JCI European Know-How Transfer to learn more about the work and functioning of European institutions and share their ideas on how to foster the political participation of young people to create sustainable solutions for the future of Europe. The 2018 edition of the program focused especially on the involvement and representation of young people in political decision-making processes. The first two days included intensive workshops and discussions with representatives from the European Commission and other stakeholders from politics, business and civil society, in which the participants learnt about the European Union’s strategy on youth involvement and the role of...
Post a Comment
Read more