Green Piece - issue 4

Issue 4 - Online VersionAugust 19th, 2011

Green Piece - Official Magazine of Lake Constance 2011 -

Editorial

2 Green Piece - Official Magazine of Lake Constance 2011

Lucky holder of this magazine,

Departure time, hard time. Now that the session is about to end, it is time for a little flashback.

Five days ago we saw you arriving with your suitcases filled with energy, smiles and expectations. Every day you embraced a different challenge, sometimes easy to overcome such as Teambuilding games and sometimes slightly more complex as during Committee Work.We witnessed you giving a lot to this session and you are the only ones being able to judge whether it was worth it or not. I am convinced that every single one of you is leaving this session a little more tired than before, but what you have to ask yourself now is “Did I make the right choice spending a week at Lake Constance ?”The media team’s answer is “Yes”. We provided you with entertaining, informative and overall fun videos and magazines.

It has been a great pleasure and an honour to edit this summer session. But I wouldn’t be sitting in this press room in Friedrichshafen now, without some people I would now like to personally thank in this editorial.Starting with the ones we would have been dead bored this summer, if they wouldn’t have had this crazy idea of bringing 100 young Europeans together. Dear Franzi and Benny, you and your entire organisers’ team have been so kind and fulfilled every crazy wish I had, even at 3 in the morning. It would be way too long to express how grateful I am, you were there when I needed you and always remained friendly and approachable - Thank you.Moving on to the next group people, the ones you actually spent more time with than I did. Dear Mark, the chairs team made it possible to realise my plans and was of great support – Thank you.Finally, the ones I am extremely proud of, my very own team – the media team. It is not common to have such a dynamic, dedicated and enthusiastic team. I saw you having fun, being serious, working hard and spreading positive energy to the session’s participants. You invested a massive amount of energy to “Green Piece”. Now that the session is over, I believe that you can look back with pride. You made it possible to produce 3 high quality videos and 4 magazines. Dear Eoin, Monica, Nicole, Noura, Saga, Sebastian, Timm and Veronika, I Thank You for your unconditional dedication to this media team.

Alex Narayanin- Editor -

CONTENT This Magazine was brought to you by 2. Editorial

4. Feeling ENVIous ?

5. Dare to care

8. Dreamteam

9. The Sacrificers

10. I shall find a Title during Coffee Break

11. The Musicians

12. Having a TRANtastic time

13. What will be, We will be

16. Post - EYP State of Mind

17. Friedrichshafen Nightlife

18. Organisation - 10 Minutes

19. Farewell - Things to sit on

22. Were you really Here ?

23. The Social Network

24. Adventures of Zucchini duck

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This week has seen the phenomenal develop-ment of the committee that they call ENVI. Six delegates from across the continent gathered to-gether here in Friedrichshafen linked only by their shared desire to address Europe’s response to the increasing threat of natural disaster resulting from climate change.

They began as six young strangers in a room. Under the guidance of their amiable chair Annika, they have become much more. They are now a team. Their closeness is notable inside the com-mittee room with breaks in their discussion often comprising of mutual hugging sessions. They have bonded and are jointly committed to solving the pressing issue with which they were faced.This team spirit is paying great dividends now that Committee Work is coming to a close. They have been able to effectively cooperate and jointly tackle the issue. In fact, ENVI tend to treat any problems with which they are faced in the same manner that other, lesser, committees would treat bananas.ENVI has recognised that there has been a stag-gering increase in the occurrence of extreme wea-ther related natural disasters globally and within Europe, this increase being the result of climate change. They have realised that they must not only set up protective measures to reduce the effects of natural disasters when they happen but must also take prevention measures to tackle cli-mate change and thereby reduce the likelihood of further natural disasters.

Their skills of communication being far superior to many in decision making positions, they have credited poor communication and information sharing frameworks as central issues in tackling the problem of increased occurrences of natural disasters. They have also taken a broad look at the problem and steered away from a Eurocentric approach to the issue. They have taken note that the effects of natural disasters unequally affect the more vulnerable, developing world and realise the imperative in Europe assisting these countries.

They have come up with numerous solutions ran-ging from promoting investment in the develop-ment of protective technologies to promoting the education of relevant stakeholders on the issue. They have learned a lot from this experience, not least regarding the complexities of setting up organs of European administration to carry out their initiatives. Dealing on a Europe wide basis is horribly complex. To quote a delegate from ENVI, summing this up perfectly “It is the logical thing to do but it may not work”.

Despite this, they also learned that these difficul-ties could be overcome with sustained effort and teamwork. By working together, no problem could prove insurmountable. The result is a strong, in-novative and effective resolution that envisions a future of a Europe capable of dealing with natural disasters as they occur and working to ensure that they are affected by as few as possible.

Feeling ENVIous ?By Eoin O’Driscoll

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Dare to care

They say that the power in a relationship lies with the person who cares less. The person who cares more, who is more invested in the relationship doesn’t only get hurt but devastated when the relationship ends. Now I’ve of course automati-cally assumed that the relationship will end, and therefore the more you detach yourself the more you protect yourself. You don’t get to choose the people you fall in love with thus you don’t get to choose the people who hurt you.

Relationships, much like working in a committee, shouldn’t necessarily revolve around the notion of who cares more or less. It’s about working with what you have. The way I see it there are two types of relationships in this world, constructive and destructive. Relationships either move you forward, develop you, teach you something new about life and yourself, or then they break you down. The inevitable truth however is that even-tually you are going to have to either find a way to turn that destructive relationship into a construc-tive one or then let it go.

Most committees start out as destructive rela-tionships. Unfortunately EYP ends up bringing out the worst in you. You’re nervous, tired, cranky, demanding and sometimes selfish. The challenge of Teambuilding and Committee Work is turning that potential destructive pattern into a construc-tive one.

Ironically for a committee named Development, there wasn’t much development to be seen. This was only due to the fact that their relationship star-ted out as a constructive one. Sometimes you just come across a group that works very smoothly

together from the beginning. Not that disagreeing is always a bad thing; regardless it was great to see DEVE agree on the fundamental principles of the resolution. Most of the time their conversa-tions seem to flow as smoothly as a gentle river. While recapping Abigail’s tale a consensus is easi-ly found as to who is to blame. When it comes down to questions of morality the discussion is wisely summarised as understanding each other’s arguments but realising that there is a disagree-ment that cannot be abolished by further debate.

In honesty’s name I wouldn’t feel qualified to ac-curately evaluate the development of the com-mittee on Development. From what I can see, it seems that the personalities of the members of this committee complement each other. But as we all know perfect relationships don’t just fly from the sky on the wings of a dove. Even if the rela-tionship is constructive you need to work on it. Taking an interactive approach during Committee Work by switching between table groups kept the discussions alive and all the members efficient. I was impressed by how sophisticated and res-pectful the committee was toward each other from the beginning.

You may think that the power in a relationship lies with the person who cares less, but the power of DEVE definitely lies in the fact that everyone cares about putting his or her best foot forward. They are not afraid to put themselves out there and they refuse to hold back. Valentina, Julia, Katarzyna, Lara, Alex, Lukas, Anton, Klara and Wojciech all care about the relationship they’ve built and what they have and can achieve due to that.

By Saga Eriksson


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Don’t Forget.


By Noura BerroubaDreamteamThe purpose of a committee is to discover a mu-tual consensus and to learn and contribute with thoughts and ideas. From the first glance at the committee on Agricultural and Rural Develop-ment, it was obvious that the committee was a fusion of different people. However, I have never seen such cooperation, agreement and unders-tanding before.

It all started on the first day of Teambuilding. As expected, everyone was rather intimidated by not knowing the people in the committee. This fear quickly turned into excitement and later into understanding and respect for each other. As the only male delegate in the group, Robin from Swe-den was exceptionally popular when the delegates played schedule dates.

The group later on moved to the last part of Team-building and got to experience the difficulty of coming to a common consensus. Even though the group at times had completely opposite opi-nions, they always chose a middle way. “It is not about the result, it is about the process. You really find out how the group works” Liv from Germany commented after playing Abigail’s Tale. The group having this view on decision-making made me confident that the group would perform well du-ring Committee Work.

My expectation of a well functioning Committee Work and great discussions within the group see-med to be met. Using the “Walt Disney method”, the group completed tasks one by one, finishing the resolution far before the deadline. “Everything is going so well that I am just waiting for something

to go wrong! They are such a dreamteam!” com-mented the chair Sini Ventelä. “I feel like we’ve be-come very “routined” at the process of resolution making” Moira from Netherlands pointed out.

Apart from the official parts of the session, the group also experienced a nice evening together at a restaurant in town. This event certainly made everyone feel more comfortable with each other. “At first we had no idea about each other. Now we are cool enough to play the Zulu at the top of the Friedrichshafen’s tower. We are getting closer every day and it helps the discussions too. I wish we had more time here” Olcay from Turkey said after the Committee Dinner.

When the group was asked what they thought about the development of the group they all agreed that they could do both serious and crazy things together. They all also agreed that they felt like an important part of the group and felt really comfortable together. “I feel comfortable to be a member of this committee” Mai said. “I am glad to be a part of this committee” Iowana from Romania expressed. Furthermore, they all felt that they had a say in the discussions.

“We are a great team. All of us are different and very interesting as individuals resulting in the group being very productive” Tamuna from Georgia com-mented. This sums up AGRI very well. They are a group of very different people who respect each other and each other’s opinions. One of the things I’ve learnt from AGRI is the importance of mutual respect and compromises.

The Sacrificers

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By Timm Brünjes

Lovely, interesting, productive, epic, closely, cool, agreeing, fierce. That is how you described the time you had in your team. I think you hit the nail right on the head. Here is how I saw your commit-tee from Teambuilding to GA.

ITRE’s first challenges were the name games with Pontus, Taona and Tamara setting high standards. I was astonished when you managed to keep people in the circle during the newspaper game for quite some time. You were all pretty quiet at first but after a couple of hours of Teambuilding you were all starting to warm up quite quickly. Your committee move shows an assembly line moving and an assembly line worker working on it. It per-fectly represents your committee: Not only the to-pic of your committee, since you are the commit-tee on “Industry, Research and Energy” but also how you work together. Everyone of your commit-tee members represents one cogwheel and one of you represents the worker working on something innovative. Of course the worker rotates because you treat everyone equally and everyone gets a chance to express his or her thoughts.

You already competed with other committees du-

ring Teambuilding and although DEVE was quicker finding the right path through the lava you didn’t give up. You came up with completely new ways when playing the monster game; not being afraid to lie on top of each other to come to the right number of ground touches. This was the first time I saw the great strength that makes your team so unique and you were to show that strength during Committee Work as well. After almost two days of working on your topic you realised you completely misinterpreted the question but instead of giving up, again, you came up with a way to solve the problem: you sacrificed free time for the team and continued your work at the youth hostel, during and after dinner. That way you easily caught up with all the other committees.

You have always been treating each other with great respect when working but still managed to pass enough criticism on each other to filter the best ideas to put them in your resolution and while several other committees had moments of silence that caused their chairs to intervene you were always able to discuss and work on your own even if Zahra wasn’t in the room.

You sacrificed free time for the team and continued your work at

the youth hostel

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At the beginning of this session the organisers told the officials that there would be no first time dele-gates at this session. Therefore Andrea, the chair of AFET committee, had a big surprise that there were three delegates in his committee that didn’t have any EYP experience whatsoever.

Nevertheless Teambuilding was very successful and the new delegates didn’t seem to have any problems with the sometimes slightly awkward or embarrassing games.AFET’s topic dealt with the increasing competition about resources and water in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries due to climate change. Since it is a fairly hard topic to come up with real working solutions for Andrea already saw challenging hours of Committee Work ahead.

Now the start of AFET’s Committee Work was ra-ther enjoyable. I entered the committee room sud-denly facing a television team preparing to film the committee doing a somewhat staged discussion about the committee topic.As there was no official Opening Ceremony to open the session itself, Andrea decided to do a private little Opening Ceremony for Committee Work with his delegates. They parted into two groups; the first consisted of the already expe-rienced delegates and the other of the three first time delegates. They all had to prepare a speech, including what they want to get out of this ses-sion and what expectations they have. They also had to make up a special way of presenting their speech, since every group member took over one part of the speech.

After their ceremony and thus the opening of Committee Work they started with the real work. Andrea chaired in the Walt Disney style that means that the delegates had four different corners of the room for the different actions brainstorming, choice, discussion and phrasing. The first brains-torming was not as successful as it maybe could have been. The topic is very complex, covering very different countries, regions and laws. Gene-rally they first had to warm up to the topic. They had to define what the MENA countries were and which of the related countries have what kind of resources.

After having gotten a little acquainted to the topic, the atmosphere started to ease up a bit again. There were jokes made during work. Some were better, some were funny simply because they were very lame. I may quote Urban who tried to be par-ticularly funny after someone said “nice”: “ Do you know what I find nice? Nice! Like the city in France. Nice?”. Unfortunately there are many other quotes I am not allowed to cite here but I can promise you writing in the committee room was rather hard at some point because of the laughter!

I am sitting behind this committee right at this mo-ment. They are very concentrated, discussing the solutions thoroughly, very eager to create a brilliant resolution. Observing this committee, seeing how they became a team, developed, how they be-came little experts in their topic was a real plea-sure.

By Nicole Goetz

I shall find a Title during Coffee Break

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8 people, 7 days, 6 nights, 5 parties, 4 girls, 4 boys, 3 attempts to get through spider’s web, 2 chairs, 1 committee. Shortly, the magnificent ECON.

It is almost impossible to believe, but it’s only a few days ago that Theresa, Tuna, Zeynep, Zuzana, Cristian, Jonny, Levani and Tom started to form a group, let’s call it a musical band for the purposes of this article.When they met for their first rehearsal, they were quite nervous and shy. They were aware of their abilities and potential, but at the beginning, even the best performers feel insecure within a group of strangers. Especially since they arrived from dif-ferent corners of Europe. Having musicians from the Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Poland, Romania and Turkey promised being interesting.All our talented artists have a different style of playing. It was clear that harmonisation was vital. The rhythm and the tone of the songs were po-lished during a process, which is for some mys-terious reason called Teambuilding. From time to time, other musical bands were challenged in activities such as Giants, Wizards and Dwarfs. As well, cooperation and trust with ENVI, for instance, was cemented thanks to Sheep and Shepherd.

In order to be aware of the future, which is actually the core of finding solutions for the climate change as well, our artists produced several pieces of art, meaning pictures of their fellow musicians in their future. But don’t be mistaken, it was not a five-year fixed plan, we’re talking about ECON, they know very well how obsolete that would have been.Once the important lessons had been learnt, ECON proceeded to the creative part. They had to compose many songs and discuss their relevan-cy thoroughly. Unfortunately, some of the weaker ones won’t make it for the final product - the CD. On the other hand, the selection process ensures that only the best of the best is included. There-fore, it is really worth it to buy the CD and listen carefully to every single song.

After a few days of hard work, the CD was ready. Their first presentation was about to take place soon. Among the audience, 6 other musical bands arrived to review the CD. This promising gig is definitely going to be one of the peak concerts of this year. All the other musical bands are strongly encouraged to pay very close attention because ECON will rock the stage !

The MusiciansBy Veronika Drzková

“You should say your name and then pass the ball to another person, who will do the same. Let’s start!”. This is what Niall told to the delegates of the committee on Transport and Tourism with his funny Irish accent at the beginning of the activities.

As you can see, the session for TRAN committee started with a rather simple name games, which caught everyone’s attention right away, and went on in a typical EYP way with games like “Two truths and a lie”, “Cross a river” and the “Human corridor”.As soon as the initial shy¬ness was overcome, the seven members could be found chat¬ting during Coffee Break and they soon became a dynamic group. During the second part of Teambuilding the games were a bit more challenging like “Plane wreck” and “Abigail”. The TRANStastic delegates always managed to find common ground quite quickly and they created a strong group ready to face the rest anyone and beat another committee in a cool “Skin the snake” game. The debriefing of the games were quite useful. The delegates shared their feelings about their activi¬ties during the course of the day and it came to the surface that only through team discussion they could work as a real team. Surely, it is a fair conclusion, but also a good lesson to remember for Committee Work.

After having fun, the last step was Committee Work. A great way to start Com¬mittee Work is

to find out the “Golden rules”, to remind that we could be respected by respecting others. Soon, the committee theme became present in the dis-cussion. Every delegate was fast covered in post-its that they shortly shared with the whole team. The next step was dividing the post-its in different topics to organise the facts well. In a very short amount of time, the grouping was replaced by the actual debate in which they were all very eager to participate. Little by little all the members expressed their opinions. This is hard work and some of them seemed a little bit tired from time to time. Don’t worry, they only needed one of Niall’s fun energizers and the discussion could start again better than before.

The committee discussed about the ways to de-velop metropolitans with greener means of trans-port. There would be many solutions, but the team spent Committee Work’s time discussing about the possibility to create a Euro card, useful to tra-vel in every country, the improvement of the public transport and the possibility to allow private com-panies to manage transport. The discussions were dynamic and Niall says that he’s satisfied with the good job of his delegates. Personally, during Committee Work you have gi-ven me high expectations for your resolution with your great communication skills and quick way of working, so I can say that I am satisfied with your job too. Just do not forget that with great potential comes great responsibility.

Having a TRANtastic timeBy Monica Mantovani


By Saga Eriksson

It’s the year 2010. As a location serves the library at Zeppelin University. Two people meet; perhaps share a socially unacceptably long look in the otherwise silent room. And then something hap-pens. They recognise each other.

If Benny and Franzi, the head-organisers of the session had not crossed paths that day, we wouldn’t be here. There would be no session, no Zucchini duck, Lake Constance would have dried over and some of you may never have been born. Well, not quite. Nevertheless it would have been a tragedy. One spontaneous application made at the very last day of the application period by two people who had happened to meet through EYP.

Three sessions spent together brought them close enough together to realise the shared vision of a session and to trust each other enough to shoulder the burden of building something of this proportion from scratch. They work efficiently as a team even so much so that they spent almost all of their pre-session time together moving back and forth to one or the others apartment. Dinner meetings were had over fast food or whomever’s roommate happened to be available to cook.

Even though the zucchini, and the planning din-ners that evolved around it, is an important sym-bol of the session it also reminds us of the larger, green eco-focused theme - the one of fighting cli-mate change. Benny and Franzi shared with me how a contributor to how the theme came to be is the very environment we are at.

To them Friedrichshafen is a multi-faceted area on one hand being surrounded by nature; the alps, the lake and forest, and on the other being a very industrial region producing more than its fair share of pollution. However as Franzi points out the area

being so contradictory also brings out the aspect of needing many different areas of expertise and research to work together to solve this problem. She says that the biggest problem with climate change isn’t just one specific source of pollution or inaction on the part of certain stakeholders but rather the difficulty to grasp the problem in the first place.

Even though the session theme reflects one of the most pressing problems of our generation, the session isn’t all about problems and struggle. Ben-ny was especially delighted by the good weather that has continued to grace us with its presence throughout the session. He was also surprised by how well the city has played its role in facilitating a great summer session atmosphere.

When asked who else’s life they would want to experience for one day Benny would like to have a sneak peek at the new generation of Apple pro-ducts by stepping into the shoes of Steve Jobbs. And also give the man’s wardrobe a complete makeover. Franzi‘s list of people whose lives she would want to experience kept going on and on, maybe most interestingly she would like to expe-rience the life of both a homeless person and a world leader back to back to compare which is more stressful. These answers not only show their adventurous nature, but also their willingness to see the world through someone else’s eyes.

People often ask you the question of if there were one thing in the world you could change, what would it be. Most people would answer poverty, hunger, disease, maybe war. I would change at-titude. If most people were more like Franzi and Benny, and cared as much as these to do, I think we would find ourselves living in a much better place.

What will be, We will be

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Thank You.

It happened one night. You were leaving the ses-sion and it just happened. At first you couldn’t really put a finger on what it was. It started out as this simple feeling that you vaguely recognised from another context. This feeling that at first you could ignore. But then it grew. It grew like the annoying itch on your nose when you’re in a crowded line at the supermarket with your hands full of groceries. You watched the session videos again, read the news-papers again in the hopes of feeling better, but it only made you feel worse. So you started to ask yourself why.

Some people like to call it post-EYP depression, which to me is a rather misguided characterisa-tion. Depression to me isn’t sadness or the fee-ling of missing someone, but rather feeling inca-pable of feeling anything, like you’re empty. And of course, undeniably, empty is a word that could be used to describe how you feel after a session. The crucial difference being that it isn’t an emp-tiness that sucks you in and makes you feel like life isn’t worth all this. Au contraire, it’s an emptiness that makes you feel like a small part of you would be missing, which is all the more reason to go on

in hopes of finding that piece again. Up until one day you realise you don’t own it anymore. You’ve given away a part of yourself, but that doesn’t di-minish you, it makes you better.

Still that doesn’t make the feeling of longing any less painful. I wouldn’t know how you’re sup-posed to fight it. Some people say you should just go to another session, but eventually that session will end as well and then you’re stuck with double the amount of emotional baggage.

What I find most useful is to remind myself that the end of a session is never The End. It is wha-tever you choose it to be. A beginning, a quarter, or a middle. Maybe it’s a journey or an experience, maybe even a frustrating one at that. Perhaps to you it is all of the above. Some believe in love at first sight, but personally I don’t. I don’t think you can fall head over heels in love with the mere sight of someone or something. I rather believe that you fall in love at first departure and that’s where the feeling comes from. The thing with a post-EYP state of mind is, it’s not so much about the fear of letting go of the session, but rather stems from the painful knowledge that you already did.

Post-EYP State of MindBy Saga Eriksson


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We are no robots, we can’t work 24/7. Moreover, after the whole day of discussions and demanding tasks, everyone deserves to relax and have fun. EYP sessions are known for the balance between serious and less-serious activities. The evening programme provides the latter.

We’ve visited different local venues, offering nu-merous ways of chilling out. If you’re not too loud, you can socialise outside. In case you’re thirsty, lemonade or a cup of tea can be purchased at the bar. And for those of us who still have some energy left, the dance floor is always open.

On Sunday, we enjoyed the Eurovillage delights. Afterwards, DJ Riaan entered the place and roc-ked the party. Interesting dance styles were obser-ved for the first time. Admirable endurance of most of the delegates was stunning. Moreover, the jour-nalists introduced the session dance, which you are all hopefully already familiar with. Feel free to perform it at every possible occasion.

Monday night was spent in the city centre. A cosy tiny place served as a perfect venue for chatting and sharing first impressions. The dance floor was almost never empty - you people are dancing ma-niacs! We even tried real problem solving. Certain strangers were trying to take over the place, but

they obviously didn’t realise who they dealt with. We won and partied even harder.

Tuesday has been the most awkward, weird and random night so far. The theme “Slumber party” has turned out to be very wisely chosen. Basically everyone showed up in an interesting nightdress. Generally, we went for comfortable and colourful outfits. Creativity was all around. Someone might have felt a little bit inappropriate in the beginning but once we arrived at the bar, such feeling was easily forgotten. We started to take advantage of the benefits wearing a pyjama has. Many people confirmed that they finally had freedom of move-ment, speaking of dancing of course. For those of you who agree with that, I suggest from now on, we follow this new fashion.

For Wednesday, beach party was originally plan-ned. However, different arrangements had to be done in the end. It didn’t cause any problems since EYPers are flexible and used to quick alterations. Chilling out in the park was perfectly fine with us.

The newspaper deadline doesn’t allow me to write anything specific about the farewell karaoke party. Nevertheless, I think we all know it will be a huge party. Simply a legendary banter.

Friedrichshafen Nightlife By Veronika Drzková

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A big event such as an EYP session has to be planned in advance very thoroughly. For the ses-sion we are currently taking part at, the organi-sers started their work more than a year ago. This article is therefore dedicated to Benny, Franzi and their wonderful fellow organisers that made our meeting possible in the first place.

Compared to other sessions that I’ve been to, this one runs particularly smooth. Up until now there have been no major incidences - except maybe for the screwed up vampire game, although I do not believe that this was entirely the organisers’ fault - lowering the quality of the session.Even though they still have much to look after and give information to clueless delegates and officials they are still having their fun, when there’s not much to do or during the night it’s a real plea-sure hanging around in the organisers’ room. They have their very own inside jokes and a flipchart full of quotes and sayings. Moreover they created a

“score chart” where they keep track of what na-tion scored at the many session parties.

I can honestly say that being around our organisers is always fun since they are all simply a bunch of crazy people. While keeping each other updated via mail prior to the session they even pretended to be a duck family. While Franzi and Benny were the family’s parents all the other organisers had special duck names like designer-duck, promo-duck or SM-duck. Accordingly, the entire major inside jokes of the session have their origins in the organisers’ meetings and emails. In one meeting that was combined with dinner they made all the dishes out of zucchini!

Nevertheless in spite of the craziness all of the organisers, namely Franzi, Benny, Sandra, Jacky, Florian, Valerie, Cora, Charly, Leo, Lorenz, Riaan, Kerstin, Giada, Moobak and Franzi did a remar-kable job in making this session happen for us.

Organisation By Nicole Goetz

“Fatigue is considered as an internal precondition for unsafe acts because it negatively affects the human operator’s internal state. It can be a symp-tom of a medical problem, but more commonly it is a normal physiological reaction to extortion, lack of sleep, changes to sleep-wake schedules, boredom or stress.”

While being a journalist it might happen that extor-tion, lack of sleep, boredom, changes to sleep-wake schedules and stress will interfere all at once. To start an article at 1:30 in the morning that needs to be done by 1:40 seems to need a won-der of the world at first sight but on second thought it’s doable. If you go to the organisers’ room and get a bottle of “pink moment”, slap yourself in the face a couple of times and start writing about your fatigue.

I personally am extorted from extra long walks from the youth hostel to the bus station while I’m already taking the shortcut through the night exit, I have a lack of sleep from starting articles way too late and getting up too early in the morning, which is a pretty rough change in my sleep-wake sche-dule after six weeks of summer holidays. Bore-dom comes in when you’re too excited to sleep but not excited enough to be motivated to do anything while waiting for the new “Green Piece” issue to arrive. Writing an article in 10 minutes is stressful enough when you know the rest of your media team has finished their work and is already enjoying themselves without you.

Wikipedia just told me I fulfill all criteria for fatigue so pray for me that it’s not the medical problem and I will be cured after the session.

In 10 minutes By Timm Brünjes

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According to Wikipedia, a chair is a stable, raised surface used to sit on, commonly for use by one person. Chairs are most often supported by four legs and have a back; however, a chair can have three legs (in a triangle shape) or could have a dif-ferent shape depending on the criteria of its spe-cifications. A chair without a back or arm rests is a stool.

A few of those criteria might actually apply to some of our dear chairs but generally I’d like to say that chairs, at least the EYP ones, are way more than that. For the delegates, chairs are the ones they can look up to and that lead them to resolu-tions they never would have dreamed of creating. Besides their fellow committee members they are the people the delegates remember the best long after the session has ended.

At this session we have a rather small but very experienced chairs team. Anar, Andrea, Annika, Zahra, Niall, Sini, Yunus and Mark seem to be an

especially comical combination. One does not believe in climate change, another is in love with his Homer Simpson socks, a third does not be-lieve in the zucchini, the list of hilarious random facts goes on and on! They entertain us by singing beautiful songs like “Friday” by Rebecca Black or “Baby” by Justin Bieber in the bus. Moments of failure from any kind of participant of the ses-sion are traditionally commented on with a unique sound produced by pressing your lips to the arm and exhalation. For further instructions please ask either Niall or Zahra.

Naturally the quality of the resolution should be the top priority for the committees and the chairs during Committee Work, however, having a humo-rous chairs team is vital for the success of every EYP session as well. This chairs’ team certainly has humour in abundance and it is thanks to them that this session has been such an amazing expe-rience that it has been for all of us.

Things to sit on

Alas, the time has nearly come. This European Youth Summit on Climate Change, here in Frie-drichshafen, is soon to come to an end. It’s okay to cry.

I think that it’s fair to say that all involved have had an unforgettable experience. We have made frien-ds, been forged into teams, heard from leading experts on Climate Change and we have grappled with one of the most pressing issues of our gene-ration.Here, on the banks of the Bodensee, we have seen something remarkable take place. Young people from all over Europe have come together for one purpose. We envision a sustainable future for our continent, a future unshackled by the damage of climate change and we have come to articulate our visions as to how this future can come about.Climate Change is an issue of drastic conse-quence that affects, chiefly, the future. At this session, young people of Europe, its future, have

decided that it’s time to tackle this issue head on and send a message to the aged leaders of the world that solutions can and must be found and agreed upon. At this session we have let the world know that the youth of Europe is ready and wil-ling to lead the way in the struggle against climate change.

Soon we will say our goodbyes but that is not the end. The message of this session will not end with the session but must live on through all of us. We must bring back what we have learned this week, what we have discussed and the solutions that we have come up with, to our own communities. We must bring back the spirit of cooperation, in the knowledge that it is possible. We must do this and continue on with what we have done here and, like the Zucchini duck, travel back to our homes around the globe and bring the fight to climate change.

Farewell By Eoin O’Driscoll

By Nicole Goetz


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WERE YOU REALLY HERE ?

By Monica Mantovani

* Zucchini is more than a vegetable to you. You can use zucchini as a microphone, as an ashtray, as a telephone or as a smile.* You find yourself playing the train of love in front a hundred of strangers, on the very first day.* You know the EYSCA song and you love the organisers who created it.* You start making random facts with your arms producing strange noises.* You know that the 16th august is Eoin’s birthday, you sang happy birthday to him and you saw the organisers presenting him with green jelly.* You learnt words in various different lan-guages, thanks to your new friends from all around Europe.* You discussed for 3 days about climate change problems with people you knew for 2 days before.* You wrote a resolution that reflects your thoughts and that you defend in all the possible ways.* You want to stop climate change to help

your dear Zucchini duck.* Walking to the Zeppelin University, you are always afraid of trains coming on the rails.* You went for a swim in the lake during lunch or coffee break.* You slept only a few hours in five nights and when you go home you will stay in bed for at least 24 hours.* You learnt that you could save ener-gy, food, water and emissions with a few simple steps.* You went to the best pyjama party ever and you didn’t care showing everyone your teddy bear.* You learnt how to sleep in random places thanks to “Green Piece TV”.* At home, during the night, you will try to open your house’s door using a Night Pass, as in the hostel.* At home, you will drink lots of coffee just to save water.* You have been to the greenest session ever.

As the session is finishing, you can say you have been to Lake Constance when

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The social network facebook, has since its crea-tion gathered billions of users. However, there are discussions as to whether or not facebook has the right conditions. Facebook has been criticised in many aspects. Some experts affirm that it is time wasting, has troubled privacy settings and causes physical and psychological health problems such as anxiety, sleep problems, depression and stress. All this might seem extremely shocking. Although, people are still coming back to facebook and new members sign up every day. This shows that fa-cebook is not all bad. Following here are some examples of some of the advantages of facebook.

One of the things facebook does is create a connection between your everyday life and scho-ol. For example, a lot of teachers have created separate facebook accounts where they publish results, give feedback, let the students ask ques-tions and provide them with information. Further-more, students are also creating groups for each class to discuss, share opinions and information as well as organising group activities in school.

Family and friends are two of the most important things in life. Facebook is a helpful tool to keep in contact with them. Let’s say that you have many friends, family members and relatives that live far away from you. Facebook helps you to keep your friendships and relationships alive. Additionally, facebook also provides an opportunity to get to

know new people. As well facebook has facilitated the events, parties and activities you organise with your friends. With the ‘create event’ function, you can easily invite and well organise your events. Marketing yourself and your products has been very common on facebook. For companies, the pages function where it is possible to like the page has been shown to be very useful. Companies reach out to a larger group of people, which bene-fits them vastly. Many people, such as musicians, actors, singers and dancers also use facebook to market themselves. It could be with pictures, videos and groups where they update with new material.

As this session is ending, you will come home with new contracted friendships and memories. Facebook is the perfect arena to share photos, experiences and thoughts about the session. A common phenomenon is that a facebook group is created for each session, making it easy to stay up to date with the post EYP information. Facebook has become the place to get information about future EYP events and to tackle your PED.As you may have noticed, there are two sides of Facebook. If you are able to use it properly, regu-lating your privacy settings, you will be able to fully enjoy the many and diverse advantages with this social network.

The Social NetworkBy Monica Mantovani and Noura Berrouba


Now committed to fighting climate change wherever it may lurk, the Zucchini duck soared high above Earth with his good friend Baron von Zeppelin seeking out climate change wherever it may lurk.

He had mended holes in the ozone layer over Mexico with Zuc-chini paste. He had, with the kindly baron’s help, used the zeppelin to fight back hurricanes on America’s East coast. He had fought back the tide and won, from rising over the river delta in Bangladesh. He had come far for just a small vege-table but it wasn’t enough. Climate change was still carrying out nefa-rious plots the world over.This made the Zucchini duck sad. He had done so much work, fought so many battles, but still climate

change was out there causing pro-blems for everyone. The Zucchini duck began to cry like he hadn’t done in a long time. What hope could there be now! How could he ever defeat climate change, it was just a too strong opponent!

But Baron von Zeppelin just twir-led his beard and smiled. “I have a plan”, he said, pulling a massive map out of his sturdy backpack, “let’s find climate change’s lair!”. And so, for days and days on end the little Zucchini duck and the boisterous Baron marked on the map every single instance of pro-blems caused by climate change over the past few weeks. There were so many and the Zucchini duck was so tired but they kept at it and eventually the Baron shou-

ted “Eureka! I have it!”

Twirling his beard so fast that the Zucchini duck couldn’t watch wit-hout his head spinning, the Baron grabbed a pen and started joi-ning all the dots on the map. He drew circles spiralling around and around the world like a hurricane with its centre focused on one very specific place: The North Pole.Landing on top of the world, right beside the high rising North Pole that scraped the clouds, the Zuc-chini duck, wearing his coat and woolly hat, waddled out into the cold to seek out climate change with the boisterous Baron close behind. They searched for hours and hours but couldn’t find anything. Climate change was nowhere to be found!

Adventures of the Zucchini Duck

Part Three: A heroic End

By Eoin O’Driscoll

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But just as tears of despair began to well up in what passed for the Zucchini duck’s eyes, the ground around them began to rumble. Out of the ice a massive machine was rising, spreading fire all around the North Pole and melting the ice! Fi-nally, the Zucchini duck had trac-ked down the epicentre of climate change’s plot! Now he finally had the opportunity to take down cli-mate change for once and for all.So the Zucchini duck quacked and quacked with all his might! He even tried pecking at the machine with his beak but it was all no use. Climate change was just too big, too powerful. The Zucchini duck began to cry again. He had come so close but still could do nothing to stop climate change.

The beloved Baron, however, had an idea. “If we block up his flame pipes, he’ll blow himself up!”. The Zucchini duck quacked in appre-ciation but looked around for so-mething to throw into the pipe. He looked around, there was no-thing. He needed something large enough to block the pipe and cool enough not to melt. Only one thing came to his mind.The Zucchini duck did not cry but the browbeaten Baron did. At first the Baron refused but the Zucchini duck’s quacking convinced him that it had to be done. He gently lifted the Zucchini duck with his large and stroked him once behind his wing before tossing him with all his might into climate change’s flame pipe.

Time passed slowly for the Zuc-chini duck as he hurtled headlong across the ice. As his life flashed before his eyes, he recalled what he had achieved and smiled. No other duck or even vegetable that the Zucchini duck had ever heard of had lived such an exciting life. Now in a victorious explosion of dirty metal and other cruel machi-nations of climate change, it was coming to an end.

The Zucchini duck had died but in his death he had brought an end to climate change’s reign of terror. No more would the world need to fear its ugly spectre. In our memo-ries, the Zucchini duck lives on.

Zucchini duck RIP.

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