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ANNUAL REPORT 2017
AnnuAl report 2017
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial 3
YES Forum Objectives 4
YES Forum in Figures 6
15 Years Already! 9
Activities 14
Projects 16
Advocacy 20
Annual Budget 22
Structure 24
Our Network 26
Our Members 27
„Our Life. Our Voice“ Project‘s Results at the DJHT2017 Summit in Düsseldorf, 28-30 May.
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EDITORIAL
In many aspects, 2017 was a crucial year for the YES Forum and its whole network.
15th Year Anniversary! YES Forum, founded in 2002, be-gan as a follow up to a European project; its main goal was, at this time, to create a virtual connection between young people and social workers before Social networks and smartphones appeared. Since then, we have not only emerged from many sudden transitions but also expanded our activites in regards to their themes, approaches and geographical areas. Today, YES Forum is represented in 18 countries around Europe, as well as in multiple European programmes. New Board Elections (2017-2019). The Board consists of 4 individuals from members across Europe, representing the diversity of the youth field. Ronald de Haan from Jonge-renwerk (NL) was re-elected, as well as Mirco Trielli from Zefiro (IT). Two new candidates were elected: Maria Peter-son, from the Municipality of Skellefteå (SE) and Alexander Hauser, from BAG KJS (DE). The new Chair of the Board is Mirco Trielli, who took up the baton from Sterren Coudray. The strength of the YES Forum is to create room for true di-alogue between young people, practitioners, policy makers and other stakeholders. YES Forum’s members themselves make it possible: they are all nationally and locally rooted institutions with vital expertise in the interpersonal and caring relationships to support young people with diver-se needs. They are connected to young people’s everyday lives and help to find new ways for young people to com-municate their views.
This is fundamental for our projects and activities, as exem-plified by “Our Life. Our Voice”. In May 2018, we celebrated the young peoples’ involvement in this Erasmus+ project: young participants from five European countries presented their work and results, and stressed the need to be more ambitious to tackle youth poverty across Europe. More than a hundred participants from the youth and social field, the civil society as a whole, as well as local, national and Eu-ropean public authorities discussed these results with the
young participants in a very engaging way.
With this and many other European projects and activi-ties we try to make significant differences in how young people’s voices are heard in policy making. We give voice to the unrepresented and marginalised youngsters and help decision makers to understand the so iverse youth culture. At the same time we offer opportunities to the youngsters to learn through new experiences, understand and become actors of the world they live in. The Strategic Partnership YourEP is a perfect illustration, developing and implemen-ting a political simulation of the European Parliament spe-cifically designed for youngsters with fewer opportunities. YES Forum’s presence on the European stage is also conti-nually increasing, not only thanks to its Policy Event orga-nised in Brussels, but also through multiple contributions to conferences. In 2017, other prominent events included the European event „Creating a social and fair Europe for all young people“ during the German Child and Youth Wel-fare Congress in Düsseldorf, the Symposium on “Youth Policy Responses to the Contemporary Challenges Faced by Young People” in Prague, the Stakeholder Event on the European Solidarity Corps … Over the last years YES Forum has been demonstrating what can be accomplished when trusting and lasting rela-tionships are built with young people. We still have much more work to do. The upcoming years will prove crucial. On the one hand, the youth field is still facing many challenges, both at national and European levels. On the other hand, the road ahead still looks bumpy for European youth hem-selves … and the European Union as a whole. YES Forum’s dynamics and creativity will be an important resource to contribute to new positive developments in Europe.
Mirco Trielli, Ronald de Haan, Maria Petersson, Alexander Hauser | YES Forum Board Members
Annett Wiedermann | Director of the YES Forum
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YES FORUM OBJECTIVES
IMPROVEfuture prospects of vulnerable young people
INCREASEpolitical and social recognition of youth issues BOOST
participation of marginalizedyoung people in the democratic decision-making process
STRENGTHENprofessional approaches inyouth work across Europe
YES FORUM Strategy 2020
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1. Improve future prospects of vulnerable young people
Leader in 6 Erasmus+ projects for young people and practitioners:• EVS4All: A Real European Experience & EVS4All: Young People for Europe• Our Life. Our Voice. Young People and Poverty• Youth for Europe• YourEP• YES Forum’s Network Structural Support
Partner in 3 additional projects for young people and practitioners:• EVS4All• H2020 PROMISE• DIVE – Diversity in Pan-European Networks
2. Strengthen professional approaches in youth work across Europe
• 4 Members Events (“Our Life. Our Voice” Conference, General Assembly, PP, Policy Event).• 5 Mobility Projects for young people involving more than 120 participants. • 7 Partner Meetings and Planning Visits related to projects (Preparatory Meetings, Partner exchanges ...).• 5 Newsletter Issues, Weekly update of our Website and Social Media.
3. Boost participation of marginalized young people in the democratic decision-making process
5 Erasmus+ projects specifically aimed at boosting participation of marginalized young people:• Our Life. Our Voice. Young People and Poverty• YourEP• EVS4All, including YES Forum’s own 2 EVS projects• H2020 PROMISE• DIVE – Diversity in Pan-European Networks
4. Increasing political and social recognition of youth issues
Contribution to 8 Events related to Youth Policies, including:• DJHT2017 Summit „Creating a Social and Fair Europe for all Young People“, 28-30 March, Düsseldorf.• Solidarity Corps Stakeholders Forum, 12 April, Brussels.• IJAB 50th Anniversary, “Challenges and opportunities for international youth work”, 18 May, Berlin.• Symposium, “Youth Policy Responses to the Contemporary Challenges Faced by Young People”, 12-14 June, Prague.
Organisation of 3 Events related to Youth Policies:• “Our Life. Our Voice. Young People and Poverty”, Final Conference on 4 May, Brussels.• “PROMISE European Policy Network” Meeting on 4 July, Brussels.• “Reconciling the European project with youth – An open dialogue”, Policy Event on 23 November, Brussels.
ACHIEVEMENTS 2017
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YES Forum gathers very diverse youth & social organisations across Europe, all committed to help vulnerable young people. Here are some figures to understand the network!
YES FORUM IN FIGURES
World Café with young participants from the YourEP project, Brussels, 20-24 November.
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f 36 Member Organisations in 19 European countries
25.000+ Staff hired by YES Forum Members
750.000+ Young People reached through YES Forum‘s Network
320 Combined Active Years in European cooperation
1949 First European project by a YES Forum Member
19 Members currently involved in European projects
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YES FORUM‘S KEY FIGURES
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Youth Work
Main Areas of Activity
Participation in European Programmes
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Vocational Training of Young People
Work with Minority Groups
Youth Welfare Services
Community Work
Training for Professionals
Work with Homeless Young People
Street Work
Others (Education, School of Social Work, Re-search and Advice on Social Welfare, Labour Issu-es, Social care and specialist education for children, young people, adults and families with complex needs including disabilities, Campaign and Policy Work)
Erasmus+
Structural Funds (ESF, EFRE)
AMIF
Interreg
Justice Programme
UNHCR
Horizon 2020
EHAP
Cooperation with Belarus
22+17+14+12+9+8+5+5+822%
17%
14%12%
9%
8%
5%
5%8%
48+26+5+6+3+3+3+3+348%
26%
5%
6%
3%3%
3%3% 3%
YES FORUM‘S KEY FIGURES
15 YEARS ALREADY!
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In 2017, the YES Forum celebrated its 15th Anniversary. Here are some extracts from the many wishes and testimonials we received on that occasion! You can also find the full texts here: bit.ly/2HLb4w
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“I was the first European Volunteer (EVS) in the YES Fo-rum Secretariat.[…] My time with YES Forum was a learning experience in the purest sense. I had the good fortune of learning from professionals how to tackle policy issues with potentially far-ranging consequences without succumbing to the pitfalls of bureaucratic thinking. […]
But most importantly, I learned to always keep in mind the interplay between the different levels of policy, the local as well as the European. YES Forum bridges the gap between the two by bringing together young people, youth work practitioners and decision-makers from all over Europe. In a time when politics seem at most removed from ordinary citizens, we urgently need to politically involve young peo-ple in the decisions which affect their lives.
I commend YES Forum on its invaluable work with disad-vantaged young people. Here‘s to the next 15 years!”
“I´m Karen and when I´m writing this I’m in Sweden for a meeting from the “YourEP” project. [...] This project gave me more information about the European Parliament, so now I better understand what it is and what the different roles are in the parliament.
In these kinds of project you learn to discuss on a political level with others from different countries. Besides that it´s a good way to learn how it works to prepare an exchange /European project. Also you learn how to give your opinion and whether it´s understandable for all participants from this project.
You learn so much more because you have so many diffe-rent countries and they all have other rules and cultures.”
Cătălin Buzoianu
European Voluntary Service (2014-2015)
Karen
Young Participant in the project „YourEP“
15 YEARS ALREADY!
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15 YEARS ALREADY!
“It has been a pleasure for me, as a Member of the European Parliament and particularly as Co-Chair of the Youth Inter-group, to work in cooperation with YES Forum throughout three and a half years since the beginning of my mandate, therefore I am particularly glad to send today my warmest congratulations for its 15th birthday. […]
Although all EU programmes have had a very positive im-pact, a large part of young people is not attracted by our initiatives and does not feel “involved” at any level. […] We must invert this dramatic trend; and this is exactly where youth organizations such as the YES Forum have a funda-mental role to play.
Its core values, namely solidarity, equality, dignity, social justice, overlap with the ones we once chose as basis on which to build our European Union
Its attention to the most vulnerable young people allows exactly those individuals that we fail to connect with to ac-quire new skills and at the same time to stay connected to and integrated in society, thus actively participating to the construction of cohesive, peaceful communities.
YES Forum directly engages with young people with fewer opportunities, contributes to share positive values and im-proves their understanding of an evolving society […] provi-ding young people with new skills and boosting their ability to influence policy-makers and build their own future. […]
Congratulating the YES Forum for the anniversary, I look forward to a successful new year of activities!”
“YES Forum gave me the opportunity to believe in myself, to travel, to learn, to fight for my ideas, to be a better per-son.
Society tends to exclude people which are not perfect, YES Forum listens to this people and show them that there nothing‘s wrong with them, but with their standards.
So if I hadn‘t participated to any youth exchange probably I was still thinking „I am a loser“ but now I know that I can be everything I want. That‘s the impact of YES Forum in my life.”
Brando Benifei
Member of the European Paliament (S&D, IT), Co-Chair of the Youth Inter-group
Giulia Bechelli
Young Participant in the project „Level Up!“
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“After diverse changes [...] in the last 5 years YES Forum is now a professional European network with democratic governance. Through our active engagement in the net-work, we could develop our European cooperation, expe-riences and competences, i.e., European identity, active citizenship, new methods and approaches.
The challenges are the recognition of the benefits of the international youth work and the financing of the projects. Lobby and innovative projects in cooperation with diverse actors (i.e. politic, civil society, university and private sec-tor) are important.”
Sterenn Coudray
Chair of the YES Forum Board (2015-2017)
“Ruhama Foundation and YES Forum provided a space where I applied my academic knowledge and the insights gained in my PhD research in a practical way. I am interes-ted in the interactions between Romas and non Romas and how people formulate policy solutions for poverty, discri-mination and inequality.
Through the OLOV project, I had the opportunity to colla-borate with and learn from young people and professionals from multiple European countries. It was inspiring to work with people who shared a passion for empowering commu-nities and achieve positive social changes.
In the future, I hope to see further opportunities for multi-cultural dialogue in an open and safe environment and col-laborations between academics and professionals interes-ted in social issues affecting young people.”
Salomea Popoviciu
University Reader, Social Worker, and Social Psychology Researcher
15 YEARS ALREADY!
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“In a nutshell, here are my key messages to you:
1) Our freedom should not be taken for granted, we need to fight to conserve and protect it.
2) We ourselves are the actors of our own lives, we are the vectors of change. Think about the Legend of the Hum-mingbird: we all have a role to play, big or small, poor or rich.
3) Dare to be who you are. Each of us is perfect in his or her own way.
4) Don‘t make it cheap! Set your goals and objectives high. You can mostly always do better than you think.
Remember to enjoy life and have fun that has to be my final message!”
15 YEARS ALREADY!
“From our national umbrella “BAG Jugendsozialarbeit” I had been given the task to find a European umbrella for youth social work in 2001 […] and we founded the YES Forum.
[…] We wanted to create and promote curiosity, knowledge and understanding for other cultures. And especially for the young boys and girls who usually didn´t […]have the possibility to go abroad.
[…] The indirect goal of YES Forum was the qualification of youth workers.[…] Youth workers from different countries should […] exchange experiences on how to reach, [work and offer] the “unreachable” young people. […]
A third task [was] political lobbying, representing the inte-rests of young people in Europe. […] [Then,] there were more members, more projects, more tasks in the head office, more womanpower and nowa-days the YES Forum is a well-known […] player in European youth politics.
I wish the YES FORUM good luck for coming years and thank everybody for helping in all these years! And if there will be difficult times for the YES Forum again, “don´t for-get to sing in the lifeboats” (Voltaire)!”
Martine Reicherts
European Commission, Director-General of DG EAC (until 2017)
Michael Fähndrich
Managing Director of BAG EJSA, Founding Member
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YES FORUM‘S ACTIVITIES
28-30 March, Düsseldorf (DE): DJHT2017 Summit „Creating a Social and Fair Europe for all Young People“ – Contribution with a youth-led “Our Life. Our Voice” Workshop
2 April, Online:“Public consultation on the European Solidarity Corps” – Contribution with YES Forum’s Position “Feedback from the field”
12 April, Brussels (BE): “Solidarity Corps Stakeholders Forum” – Participation in the consultative event organised by the European Commission
21 February, Bonn (DE):Project Workshop on the new Strategic EVS Call
22-24 February, Rome (IT):“H2020 PROMISE” 2nd Partners Meeting
3 May, Brussels (BE):YES Forum‘s General Assembly
5 May, Brussels (BE):“Our Life. Our Voice. Young People and Poverty”, Partners Meeting
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4 May, Brussels (BE):“Our Life. Our Voice. Young People and Poverty” – Final Conference with discussions and work-shops led by young participants
18 May, Berlin (DE):IJAB 50th Anniversary – Pre-sentation during the Workshop “Challenges and opportunities for international youth work”
20-21 March, Berlin (DE): “EVS4All” – Final Conference “Volunteering for Social Change”
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14-15 September, Stuttgart (DE): YES Forum’s Project Planning Meeting
20-24 November, Brussels (BE):“YourEP” Blended Learning Mobility – Meeting with 38 young participants and youth workers
25-26 November, Lyon (FR):“DIVE” (Diversity in Pan-European Networks) 1st Partner Meeting
30-31 May, Stuttgart (DE):“YourEP” Preparatory Meeting – Involving both youth workers & young participants themselves
12-14 June, Prague (CZ):“Youth Policy Responses to the Contemporary Challenges Faced by Young People” – Contributi-on to the EU/CoE Youth Partnership Symposium with an “Our Life. Our Voice” Workshop
23 November, Brussels (BE):YES Forum’s Policy Event - “Reconciling the Eu-ropean project with youth – An open dialogue”
24 November, Brussels (BE): “YES Re-search and Innovation” – Official founding of the YES Forum’s new legal entity
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4 July, Brussels (BE):“PROMISE European Policy Network” – Meeting with public and private stakeholders in the field of youth
PROJECTS
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YES Forum and its members support vulnerable young people to turn their lives around. We work with them to create a culture of participation to make sure their voices are heard.
Young participants at the „Our Life. Our Voice“ Final Conference, Brussels, 4 May.
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Our Life. Our Voice. Young people and poverty
Concluded in 2017, this Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership led by the YES Forum explored young people’s attitudes to poverty and what it means for them to live in families struggling to make ends meet day to day. By listening to young people themselves, the project contributed to the gap between policy and practice being bridged.
The project set up 5 groups of young people experiencing poverty in different countries. The interactive and partici-patory methods used by the groups resulted in the pub-lication of their investigations („Our Life. Our Voice - An Investigation into Youth Poverty”), their own Policy Recom-mendations („Ending Poverty and Social exclusion - Young People’s Key Messages“) and a Toolkit („How to engage young disadvantaged people“).
These results were presented and discussed by the part-ners and the young participants themselves during a Final Conference in May 2017 in Brussels.
http://ourlifeourvoice.eu/
PROJECTS
Young participants from the YourEP project, Brussels, 20-24 November
EVS4All and our 9 short-term EVS Experiments
Completed with a Final Conference in March 2017 in Ber-lin, the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership EVS4ALL focused on the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities in European Voluntary Service projects.
Besides the policy recommendations “Towards a More In-clusive European Voluntary Service”, the consortium also produced a presentation on “Blended Mobilities: Disco-vering Digital Learning” based on the experiments conduc-ted during the project.
Moreover, in the framework of EVS4All, 9 young disadvan-taged Romanians experienced a short-term EVS in 2016-2017 thanks to the YES Forum, its members and partners.
http://evs4all.eu/
„When I gave a speech in Parliament. That was, yes, genuinely one of, like one of the most, proudest moments for me actually.”
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PROMISE
Launched in 2016, the H2020 research project will inves-tigate how young people’s, often negative, responses to societal challenges create conflict and how their responses can instead provide opportunities for positive social en-gagement. By addressing the experiences, values and atti-tudes of European youth perceived as being in conflict with older generations, authorities and social norms, PROMISE will get to the heart of barriers and opportunities for social engagement.
Together with the University of Manchester and other aca-demic partners, the YES Forum will produce a comparati-ve enthnographic study of young people in 10 European countries by 2019. This will include a comparative analyis of attitudes, values and control in addition to policy papers and positive engagement strategies.
In 2017, the YES Forum coordinated the dissemination ef-forts of the partners and organised its own “European Po-licy Network” Meeting to involve public and private stake-holders in the field of youth to contribute to the research.
http://www.promise.manchester.ac.uk
PROJECTS
„I enjoyed talking with the MEPs, for the opportunity. “
Young participants uring the Kick-Off Meeting of the YourEP project, Stuttgart, 30-31 May.
YourEP
The Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership YourEP, coordinated by the YES Forum, aims at at developing and implementing a political simulation of the European Parliament specifi-cally designed to be inclusive for all youth. To better suit their needs, the simulation method will be designed with the active involvement of 24 disadvantaged youngsters from 7 different EU countries.
In 2017, the project completed its first phase. The young participants were recruited and prepared for the project, met in Brussels to learn about the European Union and the European Parliament in particular, and started brainstor-ming about the design of their future political simulation of the European Parliament. The simulation will be implemen-ted in Strasbourg in May 2018.
https://bit.ly/2Gl0vzn
„The way we have been working have been fun and learnful because we are not just sitting and googling.”
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www.yes-forum.eu/projects
“This project offered me an opportunity to express my opinions and share my ideas without judgement.
It also gave me an opportunity to interact and become friends with young people of different ethnicities, religions
and nationality, happy and proud of who they are.”
“Obviously, the best way to learn how to tackle chal-lenges is … simply trying. An EVS is absolutely perfect for that: full of challenges, so full of learning opportunities. ”
Young participants meet MEP Julie Ward (S&D, UK) at the „Our Life. Our Voice“ Final Conference, Brussels, 4 May.
DIVE - Diversity in Pan-European Networks
Started in 2017 and coordinated by JEF Europe , this Eras-mus+ Strategic Partnership aims at improving the inclu-siveness of three major European Youth Networks – JEF Europe (Young European Federalists), ESN (Erasmus Stu-dents Network) and AEGEE (European Students‘ Forum) – in order to help them reach and involve a more diverse audience.
With the support of the YES Forum, contributing with its experience and expertise on inclusion and diversity, the project will identify the barriers explaining the lack of di-versity of these networks and develop adapted tools to take them down.
https://bit.ly/2HDajry
Youth for Europe
In 2016-2017, the YES Forum hosted a French EVS volun-teer in its Secretariat in Stuttgart.
This mobility experience provided this volunteer – now employed! – with a unique opportunity to have a positive societal impact thanks to his involvement, while learning about youth and social work at the European Union level and its many, many different aspects.
To ensure that all young people are given the opportunity for a brighter future, YES Forum builds bridges between European Youth, youth practitioners and policy makers at EU and national levels.
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ADVOCACY
Young participants during the 2017 Policy Event, Brussels, 23 November.
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ADVOCACY
Through lobbying work the YES Forum seeks to influence policy and perceptions in order to create better life op-portunities for young people.
This work was manifold in 2017 including participation in events and bringing in the extensive knowledge provided by YES Forum’s members to include the needs and views of young people with fewer opportunities. The YES Fo-rum participated actively in the consultation process on the European Solidarity Corps by sharing its own position and contributing to the European Commission’s events.
Our lobbying culminated in the Policy Event in Brussels in November. Young people, youth practitioners, MEPs and top level EU officials participated in several panel discus-sions concerning European youth policies, with a focus on two key aspects: “How to reconcile the European pro-ject with youth” and the European Solidarity Corps. The Policy Event registered a large youth participation, reflec-ting the YES Forum’s objective of working WITH young people, and not just FOR them.
- YES Forum contributed to the Public Consultation on the European Solidarity Corps with its Position “Feedback from the field”, and its participation in the “Solidarity Corps Stake-holders Forum” in Brussels.
- YES Forum published the Policy Recommendations „En-ding Poverty and Social exclusion” based on the “Our Life. Our Voice” young participants’ work. Young participants themselves presented these results during 3 events:
o A Workshop during the DJHT2017 Summit „Creating a Social and Fair Europe for all Young People“ in Düsseldorf.
o The “Our Life. Our Voice” Final Conference in Brussels, orga- nised by YES Forum and attended by 100 participants.
o A Workshop during the EU/CoE Youth Partnership Sympo- sium “Youth Policy Responses to the Contemporary Challen- ges Faced by Young People” in Prague.
- YES Forum organised its 2017 Policy Event “Reconciling the European project with youth” in Brussels, attended by 70 participants, including 30 young people.
Young speakers during the „Our Life. Our Voice“ Final Conference, Brussels, 4 May.
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YES Forum creates impact by its effective and efficient use of resources. With tight budgets, we deliver significant results. Imagine what we can do with more!
BUDGET
YourEP Kick-Off Meeting. Stuttgart, 20-31 May
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YES FORUM‘S BUDGET 2017
Grants222.768 EUR
Project expenses138.716 EUR
Membership fees24.500 EUR
Staff117.625 EUR
Services, conference fees, etc40.515 EUR
Operating expenses24.962 EUR
Meetings & travel4.380 EUR
Experts1.900 EUR
Income
Expenses
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8,5%
77+9+1477,5%
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14%
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YES Forum is a membership driven organisation, with multiple ways of engaging within the net-work.
STRUCTURE
YES Forum General Assembly, Brussels, 3 May.
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YES FORUM‘S STRUCTRE
The YES Forum, founded as EEIG is a membership driven organisation. Aims are achieved through our democratic structure with full participation of members. Elected by the members, the Board of Directors represents and protects the member’s interest in the network, and supervises the budget and activities. The appointed Managing Director is responsible for running the business of the EEIG and internal organisation.
To manage the activities and to support effective internal and external communication, the YES Forum is supported by the Secretariat in Stuttgart. In the Secretariat experienced staff work together with young people in training as apprentices and EVS-volunteers in a dynamic environment.
Do you want to become a member? Then please check here!https://goo.gl/kUOGKs
Board
Ronald de Haan, Jongerenwerk Barkema en de Haan, The NetherlandsMaria Peterson, Municipality of Skellefteå, SwedenAlexander Hauser, BAG KJS, GermanyMirco Trielli, Zefiro, Italy
YES Forum Secretariat
Annett Wiedermann, Director and Project ManagerDiana Neugebauer, Finance and Administration OfficerElie Demerseman, Communication & Project OfficerFabian Besche, Assistant Research and ProjectsKaterina Konecna, Office Assistant, until June 2017Elias Hartacis, Support Youth ActivitiesVerena Lemnitzer, Support Youth Activities
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OUR NETWORK
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Cover page: A young participant discusses with Martine Reicherts, then Director-General of DG Education and Culture in the European Commission, during the „Our Life. Our Voice. Young People and Poverty“ Final Conference, Brussels, 4 May.
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