Something is changed in Baia Mare: now our team is smaller. Juan left the boat! The fantastic six turned into the amazing five and they left for their Mid Term Evaluation Meeting in Predeal. After 12 hours in the train, they finally arrived at their destination in the beautiful mountains of Brasov County. Predeal was [...]

YMCA Romania Federation is  proudly sharing the guidebook on strategic participatory planning for organizational development created based on the capacity building experiences (training, pilot activities, online seminar & lessons learned) from the project "DO it for the Youth! - Organizational Development from the grassroots!" co-financed by the European Commission through the Erasmus Plus Programme. The [...]

English: At the beginning of September 2017, I began my volunteering stage with the YMCA Bournemouth. Together with other 7 volunteers from 5 different countries (Germany, Italy, Spain, Turkey and Czech Republic), I started a 12 month adventure. Four of us, including me, are volunteers in the youth department. This means that we work in [...]

YMCA Romania is invited by YMCA Bournemouth -UK, to delegate a representative to an Advance Planning Visit to discuss the arrangements for the ‘Reaching Out in Dorset Through EVS Initiatives’ EVS programme 2018-19. APV Aims and Objectives - To significantly enhance communication between the project partners. - To bring all of the coordinators from each [...]

Empowering Summer Camp Youth Leaders (ESYL for short) is a short training course, hosted by YMCA Nederland, to strengthen the YMCA summer camp work in Europe. The training course takes place from 9 – 13 of May, and is located on one of the national camp sites of YMCA Nederland in Leusden, in the middle [...]

EVS is the European Commission’s mobility Program allowing young people to spend up to 12 months volunteering  in another country. We are looking to host 2 young people from Palestine , 1 from YMCA Romania and 1 from YMCA Macedonia for 12 months from 1 May 2018. Two people (1 from Palestine, 1 from Romania) [...]

The first week of the new year was a peaceful one. We had few activities, and we had all the world to reflect on our future and to prepare our workshops. We rediscovered the Library. This place has become an anchor-point in Baia Mare and is now one of our favourite places in the city. [...]

Here we are, back towards our Romanian reality. How long ago was it, since we published our last Blog? How much did we live, what did we see, to what extend did we discover new things? During the few days before the start of the holidays, we committed ourselves to our last activities. The last [...]