European Centre of Youth Co-operation
International TC “Acting Youth” came to an end with a huge success!

Between 3rd – 10th November in European Meeting Centre in Nasutów we hosted about 20 young leaders and volunteers from Poland, Greece, Romania, Italy, Latvia, Portugal and Estonia on international training course “Acting Youth”.
Training course for youth leaders is a second action taken in frame of multimeasure project “Toward acting participation”, realized within action 4.3 Youth in Action Program. This time our target group were young leaders and volunteers committed works of their organizations.
Training course started with session devoted to getting to know each other and integration. Next workshops, concerning group dynamics, were to show to participants, how group processes in a new group are going and what roles do people take in different situations.

Project is cofounded by Youth in Action Program

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RCIE Lublin
Students Debate on Presidency

Unflagging interest in the Polish presidency in the council of the European Union among young people. The debate on Polish Presidency took place on 22th of November 2011 in School No. 1 in Krasnystaw.
During the debate the students presented the presidency objectives, priorities and the main problems that Poland would like to resolve during the Polish presidency in the Council of the European Union. According to students the main objectives connected with the presidency are: education, travel, youth exchanges, budget and economy, ecology, agriculture, European integration and the issue of a common currency - the euro.
The debate was also attended by a representative of the Regional Centre for European Information in Lublin, who presented an interesting multimedia presentation about the presidency and answered questions raised by the participants in the debate. The debate was a valuable educational and social endeavour. Students enriched their knowledge of the European Union, Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, as well as test their skills in public speaking, presenting their own points of views and listen to the right of others.
The organizer of the debate was the School European Club "Copernicus" and Junior High School student government, and teachers: Andrzej Cabanek, Marian Oszajca.

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Andrzej Skórski: a.skorski@eds-fundacja.pl
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RCIE Gdańsk
Inauguration of the Regional Centre for European Information in Gdansk

The Regional Centre for European Information will officially openen on December 9, 2011. The Regional Centre for European Information is located in Gdansk at Szeroka Street 80/81, occupying the ground floor of Old Town building.
After a few weeks since the launch of the Regional Centre for European Information, an opening ceremony took place on December 9, 2011. This is the second Regional Centre for European Information (apart for Lublin), conducted by the European Meeting Centre - Nowy Staw Foundation.
On 9th December 2011, at 13.00, the official opening ceremony of this institution took place. The inaugural meeting was attended by Agnieszka Kudlińska Director of Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iwona Guzowska Member of Parliament, Edmund Wittbrot Member of Senat, Elżbieta Wasilenko Pomeranian School Superintendent, Michalina Krzysztoforska Pomeranian Governor representative, Andrzej Kowalczys Pomorskie Marshal Representative for Cooperation with nongovernmental organizations, Maciej Buczkowski, assistant director in Office of the Mayor of Gdansk and Beata Krawczyk from Gdańsk University of Technology. Invited guests congratulated, expressed their willingness to cooperate with the newly opened center.
The Regional Centre for European Information was established thanks to a competition announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs “European Information - 2011”. It works within the nationwide network of RCIE, having their branches in most provincial cities.

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Agata Birecka: a.birecka@rcie.gdansk.pl
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European Meeting Centre Nowy Staw Foundation
International Youth conference „Young workers participation – young European generation on the labour market, in trade unions and education”

This was already the III conference of the Platform of Young Workers functioning in the frames of EZA (European Centre for Workers` Questions). Conferences are held every two years, this year for the first time in Poland (before: in Brussels and Porto). Young representatives of trade unions, workers` organizations and NGOs exchanged their experiences working in three working groups as well as discussing on forum and listening to speeches of invited guests.
The aim of the project was to analyze the situation of young generation on the labour market. What are the chances of young people on the labour market? Do the young people engage in trade unions` activity? What is the motivation of this activity or its lack? Are the young workers willing to educate? Do they have possibilities to educate? How can they be supported? How to create better possibilities for them?
The conclusions are not very optimistic. Young workers rarely engage in trade unions, often don`t understand their role and don’t see practical profits of being a member of a trade union. Young Poles see even trade unions as a relic of communism. It shows the need of modernization of trade unions and of change of the way the young workers think. The situation of youth on the labour market is particularly difficult, the crisis makes it much worse. Optimistic are new educational solutions generating better chances for young adults on the labour market as f. e. modernization of vocational training in Poland.

The project was organized in cooperation with European Centre for Workers` Questions (EZA) and was co-financed by the European Union.

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Marta Jedrych: m.jedrych@eds-fundacja.pl
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