European Youth Press

The Youth Press Germany cooperating with the peace activists from "Peace Now" in Israel is organizing an international youth exchange program that will take place during the summer of this year and spring of 2011. Two groups of young people from both countries (Germany and Israel) will visit each other for 15 days each spending time working and learning together.

Nantes Creative Generations is a forum where we discuss innovative experiences among young people in different European countries, all of whom are involved in original projects that help strengthen the notion of citizenship, of “living together”. These discussions will allow us to gather good practices (success stories and/or obstacles).

Deadline: 14 May 2010

2ANNAS International Short Film Festival in Riga, Latvia is accepting feature short films, animation, experimental shorts, documentaries, graphics etc. The festival is open for submission of works to it's 2010 competition programs:

The Europe is MORE than you think Award, organised jointly by the Council of Europe and the European Youth Press, invited young journalists from all over the continent to look beyond the headlines and capture the Europe which, all too often, goes unnoticed. The four main winners have been invited to attend the January 2010 session of the Parliamentary Assembly to see the workings of Europe’s oldest intergovernmental organisation and report on the event.

You can see the outcome of this event in the latest orangelog issue.

Building on the success of last year’s launch of PLURAL+, the youth-produced video festival on migration, diversity and social inclusion, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) are again inviting the world’s youth to create and submit dynamic and forward thinking videos focusing on the issues of PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival.

PLURAL + 2009 festival proved to be a successful platform for young people to express themselves on key migration and diversity issues and reinforced the UNAOC and IOM’s belief that youth are powerful and creative agents of social change in the world.

Hate crimes and hate motivated incidents are one of the issues the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is working on through various programmes and activities. In order to explore challenges, good practices and the relationship between on-line hate and hate crimes, ODIHR is organising a meeting on Challenges of combating hate crimes motivated by hate on the Internet.

Internationally renowned blogging competition seeks enthusiastic journalists, bloggers, students and experts! TH!NK3: Developing World is the latest in the European Journalism Centre's TH!NK ABOUT IT blogging series.

European e-Skills Week highlights the growing demand for skilled ICT users and professionals to drive a competitive and innovative Europe. This campaign seeks to inform students, young professionals and SMEs about the vast range of opportunities that ICT-related jobs present. The European e-Skills Week 2010 is expected to involve 300,000 participants in more than 100 activities.

The European Youth Forum is currently looking for a Visual Communications Co-ordinator. He/she will work in the Secretary General's Office and will be responsible for the development of European Youth Forum visuals and graphic communication and support internal and external communication within the communication team.

It is time to be Active and to Believe in your abilities in this European landscape. From A to B contest is about YOU – your world and your decisions! Where do you come from and where are you going, and why? What moves you? What wide changes and developments are moving around you? What about your friends and family? How are they moving? A and B are variables, and it's up to the young journalists to fill them in with life.