Author : Levan Doliasvhili
Training Course “Be(e) the Change”
After successful campaign Right to Be(e),
Georgian Youth Eco Movement became partner of the international European training
mobility youth workers Training Course - “Be(e) the Change”. Youth
and Environment Europe (YEE) is a network of 42 environmental youth
organisations from 26 European countries. Our organisation - SAEM is a Full member of this “big green family” since 1995.
The training-course was held in Toulcův
Dvůr, Prague, which
made perfect atmosphere for non-formal education and development of new skills.
There were 32 participants, from 14 partner
organisations of 13 countries, taking part in the training. Among them
“Georgian Youth Eco Movement” was represented by two delegates: Ketevan
Kochladze - Vice President of the organisation and a quality manager at JSC
«BORJOMMINWATER»; and Levan Doliashvili – Member of the organisation, PhD
student in Geology at Ilia State University and a geologist at the
environmental company – GAMMA CONSULTING LTD.
Training was well organised and planned ,where
two trainers were sharing their experience: Ilona Olehlova and IlzeJece .
Throughout the training course there were
held many informative sessions about improvement of organisational skills of
environmental campaigning.
Training course took place during August
23-30, 2016. The course consisted of various events, such as Team Building
activities, group and individual works. The sessions were about following
issues which are needed to organize successful campaigns: familiarizing with
funding opportunities, youth motivation, time management, activity planning,
sharing of knowledge.
The days were followed by pleasant evenings
with the events given in the picture below
Within the intercultural evening participants
presented their traditional cuisine. Among others our cuisine got high
appreciation. Apart from tasting different cuisine, there were questions about
each product, that made the evening even more pleasant.
YEE Annual Meeting 2016
YEE Annual Meeting is a statutory meeting of YEE
which takes place every year and where the delegates of the Member
Organisations gather and plan together the future activities of the Federation.
Based on elections, a status in the network is given to various member organisations.
For each organisation, the elective decisions are based on the wish and
activity history during last years. There also happens elections of YEE board
members.
The meeting was held after the end of the
training course. It lasted three days. SAEM is a full member of YEE and
respectively invited to the annual meeting. After successful training course
and conclusive meeting, General Assembly with its maximum vote number elected
Ketevan Kochladze as a board member and Member Organisation Officer ( Read here) . Among General Assembly SAEM
was represented by Levan Doliashvili.
Future projects were planned within the
annual meeting. SAEM will be partner of Finnish NGO – Nature League
(Luonto-Liitto). We plan together training course - „International
Environmental Action Days“,
which will take place in Finland. Although, appropriate planning and finding
the source of funding (Erasmus+ etc) is needed for the project approval. For
all of this, SAEM, as a partner, participates actively in the processing phase.
