Hey friends,
again i had a good and really imteresting meeting with a lot of young people in Lueneburg near Hamburg. Met here with more than 25 people for the annnual conference of YOIS,an very active group of youth in Germany wanting to talk abou MDG and Sustainability. So again i met some people I never saw befor who are very engaed in this toppic. We had a lot of workshops and dicussions on Friday and Saturday – like we also visited three interesting discussion pannels bout MDG – and had a good election for the board of Yois at Sunday, too. I was ellected for the board of YOIS and now are coordinating the actions from YOIS in Germany, working together with 4 other board members to achieve the goals of YOIS. (by the way: more information about YOIS you can find at: http://www.yois.de

visiting three discussion pannels about MDG:
The three discussion pannels about MDG had been interesting if even sometimes not really good explained. At the first discussion forum a man, near 30 years old talkes about MDG. Jan Szcycinski, studied in Poland, is working as Communication officer at the UNDP in Poland. He talked about the emplemention of the MDG goals in Germany and spoke about some interesting campaigns in Poland. Than the second session was about the Global Marshall Plan Initiative explained by Frithjof Finkbeine. With a nice presentation he expalined us the topic of the work of the initiative. Later on there was an open debate with some people from Austria, a women working on MDG very long and two other interesting people. I liked it and i also got informed about the working from different ngos on the MDG.

During the day we talked about possible campaigns to achieve the MDGs and possible initiatives to get the attenntion of youth and to motivate them to get involved and start some action. Everyoneone came here is also involved in some other projects and presented it here. So we got some hints how to think about possible problems and how to react in difficult situations, finding possible co-op parrtners and think about developping own strategies.

Again with a lot of work I got home to berlin and had a nice meeting with Franziska from tig, but that´s an other blog.

Nice greetings and heaer from you

Marc