The Catholic radio station domradio.de has interviewed Vasyl Savka, Managing Director of the Kolping Society of Ukraine and President of our partner organization Kolping Europe. He is coordinating Kolping Ukraine’s support for citizens that had to flee from eastern Ukraine. The interview was conducted in German and translated into English by Kolping Youth Europe.
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On the 25th of November, two delegates of Kolping Youth Europe participated in a dialogue session on the European Green Deal with Frans Timmermans, Vice President of the European Commission. The dialogue session was initiated by the COMECE Youth Platform – an organization closely cooperating with Kolping Youth Europe – as part of an interfaith youth initiative.
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The board of Kolping Youth Europe published its annual report 2020/2021, providing an overview about the activities in the last 12 months. The key content of the report was presented at the Membership Meeting 2021 of Kolping Youth Europe and, in a shortened version, at Kolping Europe’s Continental Assembly 2021. Positive feedback from the delegates of both events encouraged the board in their efforts for an active youth work at European level.
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From October 1st to October 3rd, the annual Membership Meeting of Kolping Youth Europe was held in the very center of the world, Ludbreg. It was the first gathering after two years of only online meetings, and looking back on it we only can say that we would like to turn back time.
Would you like to meet young Kolping members from all over Europe and make lasting memories? Then register for the next Membership Meeting of Kolping Youth Europe, which is going to take place in Ludbreg, Croatia from 1st to 3rd of October 2021.
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On the 24th of June, Kolping Youth Europe hosted the fourth Kolping Talk. Two young youth workers from Novi Sad (Serbia), Mladen Ilic and Stefan Strbac, presented their work in this field and shared their experiences regarding youth work and volunteering during the pandemic.
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On the 27th of May, Kolping Youth Europe hosted the third Kolping Talk, the online event where members of Kolping societies worldwide have a chance to listen about different topics and expand their Kolping community network. This time we talked about the Kolping Youth Community Services with our special guest Annette Fuchs, head of this organization.
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For more than one year, the whole world is still in the same situation – prevented from functioning as before, for people to hug each other, to have a regular education, to breathe without masks… It seems that nothing is under our control. Young people especially feel unmotivated because they are prevented to live the best years of their lives the way they want to. For those who love to be active, to do some good stuff for society, it seems that there is no chance for it anymore. Pandemic has stopped many planned activities and, although everything seems uncertain and unpredictable, life cannot be stopped. Life always flows and gives us a second chance for things we truly want.
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Dear Friends, Kolping Youth members!
We feel very excited to invite you to the next European Kolping Youth Week!
As many of you know, European Youth Week is the main event of the Kolping Youth Europe and the idea is that young people from Europe get in touch with each other, to learn together and spend quality time.
This year, the host of the Youth Week will be Serbia, and the event will take place in the Sremski Karlovci (Novi Sad) between the 19th and 25th of July!
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On the 25th of March at 18:30 (CET) Kolping Youth Europe hosted its 2nd Kolping Talk with more than 30 participants from 13 different countries. Patrycja Kwapik and Magdalena Szczudło (Kolping Poland) were invited to share their experience from an international Erasmus+ project and talk about the topic “TATICO – Fair Trade Coffee from Honduras”.
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