On 19 May, a one-day forum will be organised in Brussels with a focus on youth entrepreneurship. Up to 200 participants from the EU and China are expected in this event. In parallel, an EU-China conference on multilingualism will take place on the same day in Brussels. 50 Chinese delegates will be invited to attend [...]

The Social Entrepreneur Empowerment Network will be hosting a free webinar on ‘How to effectively use socail media to enroll new clients’. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 (10am Pacific, 11am Mountain, 12pm Central, 1pm Eastern) Register now, click here! DESCRIPTION OF THIS WEBINAR: Many of your ideal clients — those [...]

The 10th Student Summit for Sustainability (S3) 2011 will be held on March 1st to 6th 2011 in Bogotá – Colombia. The focus topic will be innovative solutions to address climate change. The conference will highlight issues of energy and development, adaptation and mitigation on climate change in developing countries, with a focus on Latin [...]

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Hallo! I just had a nice conversation on Skype with Elise and Nike and would like to share with all of you an inspiring video from Ted about new movements in general. How are we spreading our ideas?

Thought this was very relevant to the GreEn Forum, two interesting contributions on the history of innovation that point to the power of collaboration…. ENJOY ‘Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From’ Extract: Kelly: It’s amazing that the myth of the lone genius has persisted for so long, since simultaneous invention has [...]

Since all of us were very much impressed by the participatory methods used in the Art of Hosting during our Workshop, I wanted to share with you one more interesting toolkit in the form of an ebook: “Tools for knowledge and learning” by Ben Ramalingam. I hope to hear your personal examples about how you [...]

VIDEO INTERVIEW with Nina Nisar and Stien Michiels, Facilitators of the GEF Co-Creation Workshop during the Networking event.

Great school!! Take 5 minutes to get inspired http://www.greenschool.org/2010/07/07/making-a-difference/

The European Youth Programme is probably No.1 Source to finance youth related activities – basically it a sponsorship by the European Commission you apply with your NGO to. If you fulfill their criteria in regard to the programme aims you to receive a grant for a youth seminar, conference, training or e.g. exchange. Have a [...]