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Dear friends of EYSF2008!

I hope you all are doing good after the Forum and maybe even some vacation.

It's a new year with new opportunities! All ready many of you have "paid it forward" as our Danish friend Morten said. And I hope more people will distribute the Pink Paper!

ISCA, as far as I've understood, is working their asses off, again, in order to make the best out of the new forum which will take place in Czech Republic (please correct me if I'm working anybody...!).

So, in order to keep our memories alive I would like to suggest a little poll, where you could vote which song you associate with the Forum.

I would like to suggest one myself, it's "If You're Out There", by John Legend and can be heard here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbcaZ1Uy0mM

Please share a few songs if you'd like to, till about 15th of Februar, and by the end or February, we'll vote it off and see which song got the most votes. Sounds good?

And of course, if you have any photos you'd like to share too, please do so and tell Jiri in the previous post where we all could find them!

Best of luck with your activities in 2009,
and best regards from Norway

Martin

*** UPDATE ***

After the beautiful video by Anne-Flore (http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#/video/video.php?v=52944629572) I also added "Liberta" by Pep's. Really nice song! Please comment with YOURCE suggestions!

Pictures from EYSF 2008

Hi All!
I hope you had a good time in Paris. If you have some good pictures from the Forum, please upload them here!

Keep well

Jiri / ISCA / Denmark

Pink Paper 2008

Hi All,
the last document we were missing here at YOURCE is available for download now!. Please take it to your clubs, organizations, to local/regional politicians, people you know, to everyone. And of cource, as with the Declaration, send us pictures of you giving the Pink Paper to your local/national government, etc. We are more then curious who will be first!!!
Keep Well
Jiri Panek
ISCA office/Copenhagen

EYSF2008 Declaration

Hey everybody,
After a little moment of recovery and some small adjustments in layout, we are proud to present the EYSF2008 Pink Paper Declaration. Hurray!!!

Feel free to download it and send it to everyone you know that might be interested. Let's start spreading the message.
Thanks again for your brilliant contributions.
Greetings,
Jean-Luc Frast
ISCA office / Copenhagen

Future Workshop

Hi All, did you like the future workshop? If so and you want to use it during your following activities you can download presentation and process pdf here. If you have further comments or questions do not hesitate to ask us. Keep well and good luck with your after-EYSF actions.

Keep in touch!

Hi All, in order to provide you possibility to stay in touch, here is the contact list of all EYSF 2008 participants. Use it well and keep well.

ENGSO Youth Forum

From 23 to 25 April 2009, the ENGSO Youth Forum will take place in Paris. Come, share and learn good practices and experiences on youth participation in sports and extend your network with other youth sports enthusiasts!

More information will become available on the website: http://www.engso.com/youth.htm
You can also send an email to engso-youth@dsj.de

Live streaming the EYSF conference

Hey everyone outthere,
a quick comment letting you know that we are live-broadcasting the EYSF2008 on the net.
The live-stream can be found at :
http://www.franceolympique.com/art/497/le_forum_europeen_de_la_jeunesse_en_direct.html
Greetings from Paris.
Jean-Luc

EU Tube

This morning Andrej Rogulski told us about the youtube channel of the European Union. This is the link http://www.youtube.com/user/eutube

Meeting at the Airport

Hello all!

I hope ,some of you guys will read this post ,because it's about arrival times , and possible meetings at the CDG airport and then going together to our destination place "House of Sport''.

I am going to arrive at 10.25 am. flight number 1825 .from Istambul.30 November .

please , give me a note if someone of you are arriving at the same time as soon as possible.

my skype name is NinaLicci .

e-mail : lolishvili@hotmail.com

Thank you in advance

See you all in Paris

With best regards Nino (Georgia)

How to get to the House of Sport ?

Dear participants of the EYSF 2008 in Paris,

some of you were wondering how to get to the House of Sport from the airport.
There are some useful directions.

Have a nice day

Nela Kralova
Youth Officer
ISCA

Direction from Charles de Gaulle airport :

If you arrive to Roissy Charles de Gaulle (CDG) T2 : walk to the Airport CDG 2 TGV (TGV = is a train station), take the train called RER B (the line is blue if you look at a map) that goes to Massy Palaiseau and then you stop at the station called CITE UNIVERSITAIRE. Once in Cité Universitaire, either you cross the road and take the tramway 3 (the one that goes down/direction Porte d’Ivry) and stop to Stade Charléty (the next station), or you can walk down the road to the House of sport (7 minutes walk)

If you arrive to Roissy CDG T1 : walk to the Airport CDG 1 RER (RER = is the local train station), take take the train called RER B (the line is blue if you look at a map) that goes to Massy Palaiseau and then you stop at the station called CITE UNIVERSITAIRE. Once in Cité Universitaire, either you cross the road and take the tramway 3 (the one that goes down/direction Porte d’Ivry) and stop to Stade Charléty (the next station), or you can walk down the road to the House of sport (7 minutes walk)

Direction from Orly airport :

Arrival at Orly Ouest (west) : take the bus called ORLYVAL, stop at Antony and get the train RER B and stop at Cité Universitaire

Arrival at Orly Sud (south) : take the bus called ORLYBUS, stop at Denfert-Rochereau and either get the bus 216 (direction VAUBAN-SILIC) and stop at Stade Charléty or get the train RER B and stop at Cité Universitaire.

If you are coming from somewhere else, you can use the website www.ratp.fr (there is an English version) and find your directions from there.

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Jiri

How to get to the hostel?

Hi everybody!!! I'm very happy that we'll meet soon. This is my first time in Paris and I know just a few things about the city. Can you suggest me how to get to the House of Sport or to the hostel from the Charled de Gaulle airport?

Regards
Tatevik from Armenia

3rd Info Package

Dear participants,
some of you maybe didn`t get the last info package we sent. In case you didn`t get, please download it here on the blog.
Keep well and we are all looking forward to see you in Paris

Wednesday’s excursions

Dear participants,
we would like to remind you that the deadline for sign-up for the Wednesday’s excursions is tomorrow - Thursday 27th November 2008. In case you will not choose any of offered excursions, we will split you in groups according to the available capacity.

Thanks for understanding

Nela Kralova
nk@isca-web.org, eysf2008@gmail.com

Wednesday – Visit sport activities UNSS

Judo 14h-17h
European Cross 14h-16h
Climbing 14h-17h
Volleyball 14h-17h
Futsal 14h-17h

Arrival times

Hey guys!
How are you? Are you ready to participate in the EYSF2008 and discover Paris? Sure looks like there's a lot of active participants all ready! :-)

I just wanted to check when people are arriving, maybe we could meet up and take the same bus or metro to the House of Sport together? Do you have a list of when people are arriving where and when, Nela? Or maybe people just could add their times and flights here?

I'll be at CDG at 1020 with SK565 from Copenhagen. Anybody else on that flight?

See you in Paris!
Martin

Tickets for the public transportation in Paris

Hi

We have bought you the whole-week tickets for the public transportation valid from Sunday (30.11.2008) to Saturday (6.12.2008). This ticket you will get at the registration desk. You just need to buy one ticket from the airport to the House of Sport.

Looking forward to see you in Paris

Nela Kralova
ISCA

Get ready for the Pink Paper

Hi everybody,
My name is Jean-Luc, I am somehow what you would call an ‘EYSF senior’, part of the organizing team for the EYSF2008 and I’ve got some really really important news for you.

As you might have read in the most recent mail from Nela, we strongly encourage you to submit a brief description of an innovative project or initiative that you or your organisation have implement recently.
The EYSF2008 will provide you with the opportunity to meet other interesting people running exciting projects within the field of youth and sport. During the forum you will be encouraged to share information among each other, inspire and get inspired. But it doesn’t stop there.
The forum will provide the opportunity to get in contact with decision makers both from the GO and NGO sector and you want to use the occasion to communicate what you are doing to a large community.

This year the EYSF will not only make policy recommendations to the decision makers, but we want to display the initiatives and the commitment of young people from all around Europe and show what YOU are doing to positively impact communities.

Therefore it is essential that we receive a brief description of your work and most relevant initiative taken so that we can include it in the PINK PAPER. The PINK PAPER will be a kind of inspirational catalogue for all participants in the forum, for your friends and colleagues, your organisations, policy makers and the large community involved in youth and sports around Europe and above.

We need to make this a strong PINK PAPER and therefore we need you and your experience. Please ready carefully through the document // Info on Pink Paper // and get back to us as soon as possible and latest before the 26/11/2008.

Let’s show Europe how young people CHANGE the world of TODAY.
I am so much looking forward to see you bright people in Paris.

Best regards,
Jean-Luc Frast

suggestion of sport activity

Hi everybody,

In the infomail 2, Nela suggested doing sports activities.

I don't know if somebody is interested, but if you want I can offer to you the possibility to play Kin Ball. This big pink ball comes from Québec and this activity is proposed to children by USEP.

You can see photos and videos of a seesion with primary teacher with this link:

http://www.fol71.org/Module-USEP-PE2-Temps-1.html

To play we have to be more than 12 and to have a gymnasium (is it possible?)

Thanks to say me if you are intersted as soon as possible.

See you later

Pierre-Emmanuel

Adding your person to the map

Hey all!

Jiri told me yesterday a thing that I though would be good to mention.
In order to show your person in the (google)map on the front page, you need to add your personal basic, add a picture, add your location and your contact info.
This is also good info to know if you want anybody to contact you after the Forum. Remember to keep it up-to-date!

And to answer Sorins question about why so few people are in the participant list, is probably because they haven't registrered as Nela recommened us to do in both the first and second info pack e-mail.

Thanks to all who contribute!

See you all in Paris,

Martin

Paris

Hi again! :)

I am really happy , that finaly I've managed to add my post here:) and also excited to meet all of participants in Paris ...Hope I'll spend a great time there) Besides I would like to get more information about transportation ways in the city . Please add here your suggestions and comments...Due to a Draft Programme , we will be quite occupated , and I was wondering about take some promenades into the city , it is so much to look at ...

Anyways ,
Best regards
Nino from Georgia

p.s. thank you for your comments in advance:)

blog

Hello to all!

I am happy for this initiative of communication between us, before the training. Till now, yource seems for me very limitated in options, since i don't know how to reply to other posts ... and i think i deleted somebody else's comment :)

Since it is a good idea to organise this blogs in such a platform, i think we could give some feedback to the administrators of yource, so they can use it to create even a better platform, because i really caught my years in this thing trying to figure out how it works :)

I am really looking forward seing everybody in Paris and having a great time! :)

Sorin

PS: why are just a few names at participants (one of the folders of this blog)?

Problems with emails!

Do you have problems with emails?

If you can´t reach us via email to nk@isca-web.org, please try to send it to eysf2008@gmail.com
We have made a new email address for the forum. So if you have troubles emailing to isca email, please try google email. We strongly hope, this will solve our email troubles.

A big THANK YOU to Robert

I just would like to thank Robert. He helped me to make post. I hope know I'm on the map !!
I'm very excited to see all of you in Paris !!
See you.
Simon Lévêque (from France !)

trying it out

Hi.

I'm still trying to get a COMMENT added, not a new post :D

When I open those comment(s), I don't have any box or anything, where I could write on! Neither is there a button "add a new comment" or so... I also asked my friend to help me, but he couldn't find it! So is there any possibilieties, that as long as I'm logged in as youth, I can't add a comment?

-Sanna from Finland (haha, I do have blonde hair!)

Travel information

I've tried those 2 ways now; to send it from my other address and to send it to that other one u gave me. I always get the same answer :(

So what now?

-Sanna Kokkonen-

PS. Seem's like I can't even get this yource to work... how can I answer/add a new comment to this thread?? I guess I already have edited my earlier post, where I had that question :(

Am I truly this hopeless with computers? :D

How do I add a comment?

Hi!

As u all may have find out, I seem to be terrible with computers, or at least with this yource.net...

How can I add my comment to someone else's post/thread? I found out, that when I was trying to add new comment on my earlier post "travel information", all I managed to do was to update my own post and it changed the whole message!

Don't laugh at me too hard! It's not easy ;)

-Sanna Kokkonen-

Active blogger

Well I'm quite an active blogger! I do indoor soccer every week, 1 hour of dance lesson, 1 hour of dance class evry week and i go to my job by public transport! Talking about beeing active! And i'm a blogger too! My god I hope there's nobody more active then me.

C U all in Paris!

Thank to our partners

Thank to our partners

The European Youth and Sport Forum 2008 has been funded with support from the European Commission.

Besides the European Commission we would like to thank also to our partners mentioned bellow.

Organisational partners:
o ISCA - International Sport and Culture Association
o ENGSO Youth - European Non-Governmental Sports Organization Youth
o CNOSF - Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français (French Olympic Committee)

Associated partners:
o FFEPGV (Fédération Française d’Education Physique et de Gymnastique Volontaire)
o FSCF (Fédération Sportives et Culturelle de France)
o FFSU (Fédération Française du Sport Universitaire)
o USEP (Union Sportive de l’Enseignement du Premier degré)
o UNCU (Union Nationale des Clubs Universitaires)
o UFOLEP (Union Française des OEuvres Laïques d’Education Physique)
o UNSS (L’Union Nationale du Sport Scolaire)

How to get to the EYSF 2008

Map of European Youth and Sport Forum venues

EYSF T-Shirt

Do you want to get EYSF T-Shirt?

The most active blogers at eysf2008.yource.net blog will get EYSF 2008 T-Shirt in Paris.

This blog is meant to be a wide platform for your questions about EYSF, practical issues, new ideas, projects, etc. If you miss any information in infomail you got, or you are curious to know more? Ask here on blog and we/you will answer it as soon as possible.

Practical Information

Programme and information letter

The European Youth and Sport Forum 2008 is almost here. In case you need detailed information and you can´t find it in attached documents, feel free to start a new post here at Yource and we will answer you as soon as possilbe.

White paper on Sport

The White Paper on Sport

The European Commission adopted its first comprehensive initiative on sport. The White Paper aims at providing strategic orientation on the role of sport in the EU. It recognises the important social and economic roles of sport while respecting the requirements of EU law. The White Paper is the result of extensive consultations over the past two years with sport organisations such as the Olympic Committees and sport federations, as well as with Member States and other stakeholders, including an online consultation.

You can download english version here or in your language on this web page:
http://ec.europa.eu/sport/white-paper/index_en.htm

EYSF 2008

EYSF2008 - huge interest

We have recieved more than 310 applications to the European Youth and Sport Forum 2008 at the ISCA-website

"The interest for the 2008 edition of the European Youth and Sport Forum looks to be very high", says ISCA's project manager Jean-Luc Frast. "It is good to see that our networks are growing and that our contacts in the sport and youth field take interest in what we are doing."

The application deadline for the EYSF2008 was on the October, 1 and at this point slightly more than 300 young people from 36 different countries had applied to participate in the Forum. Applicants will we notified until October 15, if their application was accepted.

EYSF 2008

European Youth and Sport Forum 2008

The Forum will take place from the 30th December to 6th of December 2008 in the French capital, Paris. Famous for its Eiffel tower, its architecture and often referred to as a city of romance, Paris will enable youth to show their true colours in sport.

The forum will take place in the ‘House of Sport’, residence of the French Olympic and sport committee located next to the ‘Cité Universitaire’ (the University city) an ideal environment, vibrant and filled with youth energy.

The EYSF 2008 will demonstrate how youth and sport put the spirit and the words of the white paper into practice, whilst uncovering further trends. The forum will additionally, act as a platform where good practices from local, national and European levels will be identified and discussed. These ‘best practice examples’ will be collected to form the ‘pink paper’ which will be a catalogue gathering information on various initiatives and will serve as impetus for GOs and NGOs to join these efforts in a political and structural sense.

The EYSF2008 will deliver much more than recommendations, it will deliver options, solutions for citizens, volunteers, professionals and decision makers to put into action what has been formulated by the “White Paper”. On the final day of the EYSF2008 the ‘pink paper’ will be presented to French and European political institutions and representatives. It is hoped that the recommendations will influence the future European and national agendas and be discussed during the Czech Republic EU presidency at the next sport directors meeting and youth ministers meeting. Through networking, participants can learn about different projects and programmes that may assist them with their work through promoting active citizenship and facilitate future European integration. In this regard it will be essential to focus on the European youth, sport and cultural programmes and the impact that they could have on civil society in the coming years.