In 2010, MIJARC Europe is supported by:
the operative grant of the "Youth in action Programme"
and the administrative grant of the European Youth Foundation
On this website you can find more about MIJARC Europe, news, adresses, publications and the latest information about the next activities.
Food sovereignty Seminar Success! :
(Strabourg: 25/05/10 - 31/05/10)
The recent success of the Food Sovereignty seminar hosted in the European Youth Centre of the Council of Europe brought together eight different nations from all over Europe. France, Germany, Portugal, Bulgaria, Poland and contact movements from Nicaragua, Armenia, Norway were present in during the week-long seminar held during the last week of May 2010. The seminar was voted a unanimous success. It featured regular talks by experts, daily working groups, study-visits, games and many great discussions culminating in the writing of a political paper on Food Sovereignty. The political paper will be debated and voted on during the upcoming GA in Germany. This is the first of many seminars on Food Sovereignty organized by MIJARC Europe and it marks the first big step towards spreading the essential movement of Food Sovereignty.
A letter from the New MIJARC Europe General Secretary :
Ana Silva
Hi there!
I’m Ana Silva from Portugal, and I’m very happy and proud for being chosen to be the next MIJARC Europe Secretary. I’ve been involved in JARC Portugal since 2006 and I worked as part-time secretary in JARC Portugal office for one year (2008-2009).
My first direct contact with MIJARC was in a Summer Camp in Belgium, in 2008. Since then, I had the pleasure to become the Portuguese coordinator for MIJARC Europe and European Women Commissioner for MIJARC World.
From now on, working as European secretary, I hope to contribute significantly to MIJARC Europe’s expansion and spreading out. I hope to meet all the needs and expectations from your movement and, of course, to meet you personally on the next MIJARC Europe activities!
Ana Silva
We are thrilled to announce the new issue of InfoEurope 2010 is now available! This edition features activities and initiatives conducted by MIJARC Europe movements and members in recent months. The official theme explored throughout this edition is : "What do the rural youth think about climate change?". Among the features you can read about we have : The International Green Week in Berlin - KLJB (Germany)
The Copenhagen Conference - MIJARC Europe Tree planting project in Bulgaria - YMDRAB (Bulgaria) The Small-scale Farming Solution - MIJARC (Europe)
Call to all interested parties!
MIJARC Europe is now looking for a new European Secretary! Are you interested in working for an International NGO which supports sustainable agricultural development, youth policy, European awareness and youth empowerment in rural areas and in a context of non-formal learning?
The post facilitates travel, intercultural communication and is a great opporunity to make international contacts.
To read the Job description CLICK HERE
The Copenhagen conference has been presented as a complete failure of politicians to find a solution to global warming. But are politicians the only ones making politics? Hopefully not; many Non-governmental Organizations were also there, able to agree on common objectives in spite on their differences. With 2 main slogans "Climat Justice Now" and "System Change not Climate Change" the civil society proved that the peoples have answers to Climate Change...if only they would be more heard by governments!
To see the Klimaforum people's declaration: http://www.klimaforum09.org/Declaration?lang=en
It was the topic discussed by States during the FAO meeting which took place from the 16th to the 18th of November in Rome.
Because Civil Society had not been officially invited to this forum, she organized her own forum 3 days before the official summit in order to make her voice heard. Three questions structured the forum: Who has access to resources? How to produce? Who decides in food and agriculture policies? Who needs access to food?
Women, Indigenous People and Youth had a particular place in this forum. Claire Quintin, the new President of MIJARC Europe was there as an official delegate for the Youth. It was a great occasion to meet colleagues from MIJARC all over the world, especially our colleague from India who had the chance to read the civil society final declaration inside the official FAO summit!
Read the final declarations
Read the declaration of the Youth Caucus
A couple of days ago our Vice-President, Lyubomir Todorov came back from the COMEM of the European Youth Forum, which took place in Torino, Italy, 12-15.11.2009. This umbrella organization has two types of members INGYO, which is MIJARC Europe and National Youth Councils, the number of them is 99, based in different countries represented by different people. The aim of this meeting was to approve the budget of 2010 and the work plan for 2010. It was also discussed about the evaluation of the statutory bodies. Lyubomir participated in the working groups of E-society and Migration, trying to focus the attention not just on the youth, but especially on the rural youth. Exchanging experience and ideas, he tried to strengthen the relations of our organization with the other ones. As a feedback of the seminar Lyubomir states that the YJF is a very important place, where the people could hear about the needs and wills of the rural youth. So in future we will continue our active participation in the events organized by the European Youth Forum.
Climate change challenge has to tackled in a comprehensive and holistic way!
Farmers are key actors in climate change situation!
Food sovereignty is a solution!
On this World Food Day 2009, MIJARC Europe calls for the implementation of the food sovereignty principle in any European or international policy taken to cope with global warming.
Read our press release.
 - on the middle of the picture: Svetlana Lomeva (Vice-Minister of Education, Youth and Sciences)
At the occasion of the "Youth Day", MIJARC Europe in cooperation with its Bulgarian partner organized on 12/08/2009 in Etropole (Bulgaria) a roundtable entitled "Youth for a fairer rural world".
This roundtable has gathered many famous guests like:
-Svetlana Lomeva - Vice Minister of Education, Youth and Sciences
-Ivan Modev - Executive director of the national agency "Youth programmes and initiatives"
- Emil Dimitrov - Vice-chairman of the parliamentary commission on agriculture
- Ilko Yordanov - Expert of "Open Society Institute"
- Emil Georgiev - Mayor of the Municipality of Etropole
This roundtable has given the opportunities to the 50 participants to our seminar to share their realities and proposals of alternatives with important decision makers. Read more....
From the 8th to the 14th of August 2009, 47 young participants coming from 10 countries met in Etropole (Bulgaria) to build new partnerships and propose concrete ways for youth participation in Europe!
They worked on 6 topics linked to the development of rural areas in Europe: agriculture, natural ressources, economy, youth migrations, education and youth participation.
Many fields visits in Bulgaria have been organized....read more
 - Artwork on the riverbank of the Danube in Budapest.
Johanna Schiller and Jürgen Westermann started for a short trip to meet the Austrian and Hungarian catholic youth. Read the whole story here...
The working groups meeting organised by MIJARC Europe gathered 20 young people from Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal, Germany, France and Belgium.
During 3 days, they have had the opportunity to exchanges their realities and best practices in the 3 following fields :
1. Agrciculture and Food Sovereignty
2. "Glocal" development
3. Youth participation in rural development
Field visits were organized in Picardie to discover other best pratices: "the House of the solidarity economy" in Lachapelle aux pots, the associative café "L'ecume du Jour" in Beauvais, one AMAP from Oise.....
This working groups meeting was supported by the "Youth in Action" program.
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