At the weekend I had been on a rhetoric workshop in the south of Germany somewhere very far away from Berlin. I meet more than 30 people from all over Germany there and we had been divided into two groups, to talk about presentation techniques and to find out more about our work we are doing. I had a lot of nice conversations, talking about the future of young people decision making and how young people could be involved. We spent the time in a youth hostel in a small village and it really begun to fall snow. :-)
On Sunday just 4 people and I stayed there, all the others left home because the workshop was finished. The people who stayed, organized the explanation for the meeting of our servicegroup youth with the German government, thought about which projects should be shown there and what to say opposite to them. It was quite good how we noticed later from our team in Berlin, but we did not have time to celebrate because we had to organise the meeting which took place immediately behind this from Tuesday to Wednesday.
It was the meeting of 15 theme coaches working on all the different topics for the national action plan for a youth friendly Germany 2005-2010. They presented their work the have done the last month, e.g. supervise youth projects and finding money for them, they voted their 15 projects which will get an start-payment for ongoing work and they talked a lot more…

It was so nice to meet them all, all the people with the same idea! I also met Wolfi again, who I met just one week before in the near of Hamburg and we planned our work for YOIS.

To find out more about Wolfi click here --> http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/wgruendinger

To find out more about YOIS click here --> http://www.takingitglobal.org/resources/orgs/view.html?OrgID=866

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

Hey friends,
Well I am trying to write not just a lot of formal thinks that’s why I have to make an announcement. I will be at my new flat here in Berlin at Christmas and New Years Day. So if you would like to visit Berlin or even Germany than just come here. We have a big flat; already had the first big party last weekend here. I would be very proud to show you Berlin and to have a party with you at the night going into New Years Day.

Don’t hesitate and contact me if you like

http://kontakt.marcludwig.de

Sometimes I get really shocked how many projects about youth here are in Berlin. Last week I met Eric Schneider who has created an own ngo called PNYV ::: Positive News & Youth Views (Website: http://www.pnyv.org)


He forwarded me an Email in the beginning of this week. It was about youth in UNO and I thought it is some kind like a joke. But than I went there to the meeting this evening and I was really surprised. We really have the possibility to send two youth delegates to the UNO conferences who are representing the thoughts of youth in Germany. I never thought about this, but I am sure I will try to apply.

This two young people will have a lot of travellings to different cities in Germany where they will meet a lot of young people to talk with them about their ideas and there thoughts. They will speak about the UNO and about the rights of children. Than later they will prepare themselves for going to the UNO congress in New York in September 2006 and than in October they will return to Germany and they will write a publication and will bring some advices home to our national parlament.

I think it’s really a good idea to include young people like this.

If you want to read more about this just look up the German site: http://www.jugenddelegierte.de

Today we relaunched our internet site www.shout-for-your-right.org. We are still working hard to present you also a version in English upcoming next year, but at the moment it’s still a lot of work even just for the German one (www.schrei-fuer-dein-recht.de). Anyway from today on we hove uploaded a lot of new photos and if you are really interested you can find our concept in a English version at http://concept.shout-for-your-right.org .

At the moment we are also trying to influence some other ngo´s like we are looking to make some forums in 2006 in all big cities in Germany. Active youth should meet each other and talk about different themes. In the end of the year we will have a big meeting for bringing together all the input the youth have here in Germany. We are trying to speak with some high levelled people if the would like to participate this meeting. Anyway we already have the support from ashoka Germany and Yois Germany. Also a lot of NGOs and the National Coalition for the realisation of the youth action plan 2005-2010 would like to join us.

I am also trying to bring these NGOs together and to make an INTRANET between us all. I already talked to inwent but at the moment they can’t help us. Hm… I will ask other computer related people. We can already use the Intranet from Yois Germany and Aktion weißes Friedensband but we have to look how we can sort all our comments.

More about all our plans you can find in a German version at: www.schrei-fuer-dein-recht.de

Today I started my work for the questionnaire for Kindernothilfe. I have to finish some last thinks and than I will send it to all the NGOs I have to ask. I hope they will have time, even if it’s winter holiday… :-(

Anyway I am trying to build up some kind like open forum about this topic because I already found a lot of different PDF documents about the topic of youth involvement and how to grow up the motivation of youth to join a organisation and to participate. That’s why I built up a site about this topic which can be found if you look under my internet site http://www.marcludwig.de or if you look up directly at http://studie.marcludwig.de . There you can find the ended version of my questionnaire and also all the PDF documents I am working with – and there are really a lot of interesting ones. There are even some in English like the ones I found at tigs internet site. Later you will find there e a short summary about this topic.

Please look up: http://studie.marcludwig.de

Hy everybody,
so this was London in October this year. Quite nice but a lot of meetings... I met a lot of people from amnesty inetrnational (the IS) and also a lot of people from takingitglobal. Hope i will meet them again in Tunis this year.
Well flying home today will hurt me, becouse evry connection from the last week here in London i will leave here :-((

But life has to go on, with a new flat in Berlin, with new frieds moving to it, and with new projects...

i hope we all will keep in touch!

greetings from the best internetcafe here in London in teh Oxford Street...

hey everybody,
nice grretings from london. I am here till next wednesday having a lot of meetings to talk about a new amnesty social spot in a international level, meeting a lot of friends and talking a lot about amnesty work, like i am trying to get a job for the IS in germany.

see you
Marc

On Friday, Saturday and Sunday (23.-25. September) I am organizing to have you meeting of young independent filmmakers here in Berlin, Germany. We are going to have a lot of Workshops (the plan you can find here: http://treffen.berliner-filmgruppen.de/ ).

Its going to be great becouse lots of different groups are involved, even more than 70 people wrote a postal announcement that they will come. On Friday and Saturday we will also have screenings where a lot of no budget films will be shown. On Sunday all the national filmschool will present themselves on a opened forum.

This all will start with a press conference on Friday, presented together from all the filmgroups