August in EJB

Mediterranean Neighbourhood

IONICO- cooperation between JB Greece and JB Ita-

ly, 25-28th October, Greece: https://

www.facebook.com/ionico2013?fref=ts

Med Nights, 27th-30th December 2013, Croatia

Wild West Neighbourhood

Wild West Weekend, 6-9 March

2014, join the facebook group!

https://www.facebook.com/

events/309804709156738/?fref=ts

Central Eastern Neighbourhood

Go East will happen in Austria (Vienna),

13th to the 16th of March.

Northern Neighbourhood

NICE - Lithuania, 13-16.2. 2014 https://

www.facebook.com/niceweekendnorthern?fref=ts

BALTIC workshop, 22—24th November.

COOPERATION project between Faroe Islands,

Greenland and Iceland is being worked on, more

info soon

EJB Team Update

We are now starting to summarise the minutes of our EJB Team meetings to

make them accessible and easy for you to read, you can find the last meet-

ings minutes here: https://docs.google.com/document/

d/1Mj4oznqs8rTJ2juiEWWNZT95pyNK4PifnT3Wff65vnk/edit?usp=drive_web

As you can see ‘Months in EJB’ are back by popular demand! We want to

make sure that we reach as many people as we can with all the news from

the region, so if you do have anything you would like to share at anytime

please let us know!

The blog will be getting a new design: Get excited

Feel free to contact us with any problem: ejbteam@ijb.cisv.org

New IJR- Anjo (GER)

One of the key points of every International Jun-

ior Branch Conference is election of the new

International Junior Representative, who will

commit for the next to years to work for IJB.

This year James (GB) finished his term and Anjo

(GER) joined Cande for the next year! Thank you

James for your hard work in the times of

change, a good word for everyone and couple of

‘laughs and jokes around’. We wish Cande and

Anjo a fruitful cooperation and internet access

wherever they are!

You can always check Anjo’s Q&A (Question

and Answers session)

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

HQ&list=UUJoYGX1mVUOCmMC0mZLQFlw

Right on #4

If you haven’t heard of Right On, you should definitely go to

their facebook page! (https://www.facebook.com/

righton2013?fref=ts). It is a set of ready-to-run activities re-

leased every two months that are focusing on this year’s edu-

cational content area- Human Rights. During IJBC 80 JBers

from 31 countries participated in Step #4 of Right On. It was

an unofficial release of the activity, we can just give you hints

that it dealt with different specific human rights violations

and the roots of the problem. Stay tuned for an official publi-

cation!

J-01 and J-02 passed!

The last AIM in the history was supposed to be full of (e)motions

and it definitely was. The number of motions discussed was

substantial. One of the motions was specifically tackling with JB

matters, so it brought attention of all the JBers present in Brazil.

The documents J-01 and J-02 proposed by IJRs, discussed wide-

ly by IJB Team and NJRs, passed almost in the same state. J-01

is a basic document about Junior Branch, stating what is is,

what are its essentials and goals. It basically gathers infor-

mation about JB that were in different CISV documents. J-02 on

the other hand describes what an IJB Event is and gives the def-

inition of workshop and training. It also constitutes the rule of

sending the IJB Event Form to the IJRs prior to any IJB Event.

Thanks to that it form both local/national and international lev-

el is informed about what is happening in Junior Branch and

helps any risk management issues that may occur. So get your-

self acquainted with both of these documents! Find them under

Resources with this names:

Mtn06-AIM13-IJB Adopting Info-File Documents J-01 - Attach-

ment (Amended) PASSED

Mtn06-AIM13-IJB Adopting Info-File Documents J-02 - Attach-

ment (Amended) PASSED

Projects and Working Groups

International Junior Branch Confer-

ence is a platform of exchanging ide-

as, working on a theme, but also for

developing different projects. This

year it wasn’t any different. Some old

projects got new design and fresh

look (JB CPR, MInicampguide), some

new projects came up (Branch Out!,

Communication Guide). If you are

interested in joining any of the IJB

Working Groups, check them out and

write to the contact people or drop us

a line! (https://docs.google.com/

document/

d/1_PUSNPcHKmjXVnh6Z0QUpriKfLx

68crXcQq7L6hLAxI/edit)

Future Cooperation with our trustees.

For the past few months we have been discussing how we can cooperate more with our trustees. Not just by combin-

ing our regional meetings, but in general how we can work closer with the trustees. We have prepared a document

that anyone can edit and would love to hear your opinions on this matter. Here is the link, please just take 5

minutes to answer the questions.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HHO-ztk_34w4uuiNUg4SGEZo7GsBHGvYhZkTQmbHhCI/edit

If you have any news you would like to share with us, or if you

have any questions please do not hesitate to email us at:

ejbteam@ijb.cisv.org

JB SET (new evaluation tool)

Exciting times are ahead for JB, not

because of the structural changes,

but because of our brand new evalu-

ation tool called JB SET. An IJB work-

ing group from IJBC 2012 created

this new tool for both local and na-

tional Junior Branches. It consists of

simple questions that will help your

JB see how well you are working to-

wards the new JB goals. The results

for now are general, but wait for it,

in the future you will be able to mon-

itor them from cisv.org website.

Regional Training Forum: Slovenia

From the 30/10—3/11, there will be a Region-

al Training Forum hosted in Slovenia. Junior

Branch will be taking part in this RTF by help-

ing chapter development run their training. Our

very own Ola might even be the lucky person to

go run the training.

Other trainings that are taking place are:

Chapter Development Training

Education & Evaluation Training

Interchange Training

Mosaic Training

Train The Trainers (TTT)

For more information send us an email!

EJB Blog

The European Junior Branch Blog is back

in business. We are really trying to use

this as a platform to share best practices

and success stories from EJB. It has been

revamped and looks super sexy now.

Check it out: http://

europeanjb.wordpress.com/

If you have any stories or anything at all

you would like to share, please send us

the story with a few pictures to

ejbteam@ijb.cisv.org and we will upload

and promote the post on our blog.