YEAR 2010 NEWS

Polish youth community abroad meeting took place between 3rd-13th of September in European Meeting Centre in Nasutów, near Lublin. More than 30 young leaders, representing Polish institutions, organizations, associations from Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine took part in this project.

First four days youth spent in Lublin Region, having the possibility to meet with: Mr. Krzysztof Łątka – representing Development Departure of Lublin City Office, who shared with participants his knowledge and experience in field of international cooperation and European projects. Moreover, young people participate in very informative meeting with professor Grzegorz Janusz, the Dean of Political Science Department from Maria Curie Skłodowska University, who they were discussing with about minorities in Europe. During next days participants did sightseeing in Kazimierz Dolny and during a city game they had the opportunity to reveal some mysteries of Lublin. Also they took part in training course about "Youth in action" programme.

On the 7th of September youth traveled to Nowy Sącz to participate in the 5th Economic Forum of Young Leaders. Together with more than 150 participants, representing about 32 countries from European Union, Central-East Europe and Caucasus they took part in panel discussions, conferences and lectures, where guests were famous politicians, economists and businessmen from Poland and entire world such as: Janusz Lewandowski – European Commissioner for Budget and Financial Programming, Richard Pipes – former aide of president Ronald Regan, Veira Vike Freiberga – former President of Latvia, Luc Frieden – Minister of Finance, Luxembourg, Maros Sefcovic – European Commissioner for Inter-Institutional Relations and Administration.

Last two days of the project youth spent visiting Kraków and Sandomierz.

The projects has been realized in frame of charging by Polish Senate Office
tasks in field of protection over Poles and Polish minor communities abroad in 2010.