7th International Youth Summit, 1st to 12th of August 2012: Youth is one of the most important chapters in a life
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7th Summit 2012
We are at the last stage of preparation for the 7th International Youth Media Summit will be held in Serbia 1st to 12th of August 2012.
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Please note before you start to fill out Letter of Interest: International Youth Media Summit is not Foundation, we could not provide any scholarship and financial support for traveling and participation fee expenses. Every delegation have to be ready to cover traveling expenses and to pay Participation Fee (350 Euros/Participant). Participation fee include: Summit’s Accreditation, transfer from the Airport to hostel 1st of August 2012, accommodation in 2-4 bed rooms, meals from diner 1st of August to breakfast 12th of August and local transport. IYMS is nongovernmental, non political and non profit organization and use the Membership fee and Participation fee only for part of expenses of the IYMS. Other part of financial support is from the host organization of the Headquarter the Media Education Centre and some sponsors. If you like to support activities of the IYMS with donation please visit our page DONATION
Past and Future
By Evelyn Seubert,
President of the International Youth Media Summit
This year in Serbia we will gather for the Seventh International Youth Media Summit. Since the Summit first brought young people together in 2006, the world of technology has changed dramatically. Now we read books on e-readers, cell phones can tell you where they are when lost, cars will soon drive themselves, and filmmakers have already started to edit in “the cloud”.
But some things about the world haven’t changed: we still have too much war and too much poverty. Women still do not have equal rights in many parts of the world, and lack of education leaves many young people without hope. Our planet suffers, as do our bodies – illnesses both outside and in. And most sadly, we discriminate against each other for the color of our skin, our religious beliefs or our disabilities.
At the Summit, young people gather to use the latest in media technologies to shed light on the darkest parts of human existence. By working together with passion and conviction, the Summit delegates unleash energetic waves of hope and possibility that crash through borders long after the Summit’s closing ceremony.
Please join us and become part of the Summit Family. Experience what the young people of the world can create, together.
6TH SUMMIT’S CATALOG…
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IYMS is a meeting place for people from Japan and Korea to Brazil and USA, South Africa, Nigeria, Poland, Sweden… Our members, participants, young leaders in the Youth Committee, and volunteers are from different continents, different cultural, historical and confessional backgrounds and traditions. We are working with Buddhists, Hindu, Muslims, Jewish, Orthodox and Catholic Christians, Protestants and other faith traditions.
IYMS is a unique, safe and creative place where people from Iran, Israel, USA, Kosovo, Serbia, Turkey, Cyprus are working together for a better future and benefit to all of us. Media Education is our permanent activity:
Recent Blog Posts
April 27, 2012 |
Hong Kong: Teachers and students invited to go to the Media Summit
Teachers and students invited to go to the Media Summit The judging invited Yung Yau College teachers and students, attended ?the Seventh International Student Media Summit?held in Serbia in August this year, publicity of creative Media and learning outcomes of Hong Kong students, they can exchange the creative media culture with the team of the United States, Britain, Japan and other countries.
April 7, 2012 |
My Home, My Dish
I was thinking about what is good example of poverty. I cannot really tell you something new when it comes to this topic. We all know so many people starve in Africa. Sometimes people say: Oh, I overate. That meal was like one-week food consumption of Somalian kid. Another thing is health – we don’t think about it when we are in good shape. And when something is wrong – just call the doctor and walk for 5 minutes to the nearest drug store. Millions of people continuously suffer because of health-related problems that we can fix in couple of days in the western world. A home? Who doesn’t have one? Try to imagine survival without access to clean water. So my examples of poverty are commonly known, but recent. Just to remind you of the significance and the scale of the problem.
April 7, 2012 |
The Human Race-Cancer of the Planet
Frank Schätzing‘s Bestseller, „The Swarm“, begins with a short story of a fisherman who disappears in the ocean off the coast of Peru. The last thing he sees before disappearing is a massive swarm of mackerels which attack him. In the meantime, similar events occur in Norway and Kanada – the ocean is striking back after years of human abuse. While the plot is of course fictional, pollution is a reality all over the world. Dmitry Abramovic. Karega Omondi. Deependu Saxena. They all share the same problem: the lake where they live is polluted, since it is located next to industry. These people are also fictional, but there are real people who share their destiny. All three could have been real people who earned their living by fishing. They could have lived close to Lake Karachay in the 50s. Close to Lake Victoria in 2010. Or close to Poosaripalayam in 2011. Lake Karachay in Russia during the fifties became a dumping site for radioactive waste. Thousands of fish died in India in Lake Poosaripalayam because of effluents dumped by local factories into the water. And finally, Lake Victoria in Kenia was the terminus for all the runoff of surrounding farmland
April 6, 2012 |
What are the Young People Complaining About?
What are the Young People Complaining About? Author: Pol Guardia The first thing that we have to handle when we want to talk about Youth is INVISIBILITY. This is at the same time a need, but also a problem of Youth Discrimination. Youth discrimination doesn't exist as a concept, it's included in the general name 'ageism', which usually refers to the discrimination of the elderly. There are other terms and definitions such as Youth empowerment or Youth engagement, but they tend to be presented in the positive way, which is the direction in which we want to go. A video about the Ageism campaign: Even those activists who do recognise different ages in ageism, tend to be focused on children. More at our YOUTH page
April 6, 2012 |
Discrimination – an Issue That Comes in Many Shapes and Sizes
The last article I wrote on the topic of discrimination was a general introduction to the topic. Now it is time to go a bit more into detail with the problem of discrimination and look at some personal stories of people, who have suffered from discrimination. The first story is on the topic of racial discrimination: „My name is Nikola Bobann, I’m half Danish and half Bosnian. I want to write about an incident I had 3 years ago. I had just finished business college and was applying for this job in a big, well respected company. I had all the necessary diplomas and qualifications and was self-confident. So I delivered my application personally just to make a good impression.
February 12, 2012 |
Some Thoughts on Youth
Author: Pol Guardia 1. Who are Youth? What is youth? What does it mean to be young? The most traditional definition - taken from Wikipedia - goes like this: “Youth is the time of life between childhood and adulthood (maturity)” (See the wikipedia article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth), that is, between 12 and 24 years of age. But, as you can imagine, there are a lot of aspects to consider about that but this is not place for talk about them; I just want to share another definition proposed by Robert F. Kennedy: "This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease". And with that I want to excuse myself if some of the examples that I will give do not agree exactly with the age described and I also want to use it to clarify my first point: Youth represents an age, but it's also, and mostly, an attitude.
February 11, 2012 |
Sexual Harassment
Ambiguous words, embarrassing gestures or comments – sexual harassment does not have to include touch or direct contact with the perpetrator. In fact, it includes every situation when the offender, wanting to satisfy his own sexual needs, consciously harms a victim, extorts submission in sexual sphere, intimidates, blackmails, manipulates. The biggest problem in that case is that victims, mostly women, are not always aware that they are being harassed and that they have a right to oppose it. Harassment can have a form of undesirable sexual interest (personal comments with implied sexual meaning), or discrimination with regard to gender affinity (humiliation, offence against representative of opposite gender).