Transcript Barents Regional Youth Council BRYC

Barents Regional Youth Council
BRYC
Alexey Tsykarev
Republic of Karelia, Russia
Kirkenes Declaration 2013
Kirkenes Declaration 2013
Barents Regional Youth Council
• BRYC consists of 14 representatives: 13 from the regions and one for the
indigenous peoples. The representatives are 18-29 of age and are elected
in their own regions.
• The aim of BRYC is to make Barents youth connect and get to know each
other and help them with networking across the borders. BRYC works on
decreasing prejudices and creating unity among Barents youth.
• BRYC organizes international events and projects and also supports and
cooperates with such projects organized by other bodies.
• BRYC is mostly funded by the regions, but also by project funding and the
Barents Secretariat.
• Once a year, BRYC organizes a big
event for Barents youth. There is no
participation fee and all travel costs
are covered by BRYC. About 80
youngsters take part in the three or
four-day event.
• The objective of the event is to help
the youth to make border crossing
people-to-people contacts – and
have fun together! The event
usually features all kinds of activites
together and a variety of work
shops on art, music, society and
entrepreneurship.
• The event is held in autumn and all
Barents youngsters that are over 18
are welcome to participate!
• This autumn we’ll meet in Tromsø,
Norway in November.
Information exchange
Focus on culture and skills
development
Annual events
Maintaining youth in major activities
Challenges
Contacts
• Chair of BRYC Sunna Kokkonen [email protected]
• Deputy Chair Olga Egorova
[email protected]
• BRYC homepage http://www.barentsyouth.org/ You can find the
contacts of your representative here!
• BRYC Facebook page, hit like!
https://www.facebook.com/barentsyouth
• Barents Youth Cooperation Office, Zhanna Guzenko [email protected]
• Please feel free to contact us and get to know what is happening in
Barents for youth!
• For those who want to know more about Barents
– A prezi on Barents cooperation: http://prezi.com/yaenryljawm/international-and-interregional-cooperation-in-barents/
– Additional information on Barents on the official BEAC page
– http://www.beac.st
Thank you!