DBYN represented @ Spring COMEM YFJ

From the 21st to the 22nd of April, the European Youth Forum held its spring Council of Members (COMEM) in Brussels. We had Lili Graft (AT) and Joeri Brisaert (BE) participating as youth representatives from our network.

During the COMEM we mostly work together with a set of ENGYOs which all have a faith-basis or another ethical baseline from which is starts its work. Particularly interesting this COMEM was the new room set-up where National Youth Councils and European Youth NGOs were mixed and put around round tables, as a huge world café. 

Value-based Cooperation @ spring COMEM 2017

​As observer members our youth representatives were not involved in the elections of the new Advisory Council of the Council of Europe, nor voting on the resolutions proposed by the membership. We do however consider our membership a benefit for the network as we are able to exchange opinions and ideas a wide variety of youth work organisations in Europe. At this COMEM we for example learned from EEE-YFU about the "Badgecraft initiative" as online tool for working with competences, or about the "I act, for the prevention of sexual violence" of IFM-SEI, which is their newly developed campaign against sexual violence.

IFM-SEI against sexual violence from IFM-SEI on Vimeo.

The next Council of Members' meeting will take place in Cascais on the 24th and 25th of November 2017.