7th International Yuth Summit, 1st to 12th of August 2012: Youth is one of the most important chapters in a life
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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…
…AND PSA’s
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
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).
February 11, 2012 |
Walk to end poverty
What do you think of when you hear the word poverty? No money? No food? No water? No humanity? Every three and a half seconds one person dies due to hunger-related causes (1). About 1.7 billion people are estimated to live in absolute poverty today. That means they cannot afford basic needs such as clean water, nutrition, health care, education and shelter. Millions experience relative poverty lacking a usual or socially acceptable level of resources or income as compared with others within a society or country (2). Today, poverty reduction is a major goal and issue for many international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Bank.
February 8, 2012 |
What You Need to Know About Health
Maintaining health is one of the key factors in living a long and high quality life. One of the most important things we can do to maintain our health is having a healthy lifestyle.First of all - getting enough exercise via sports activities can really lengthen your life span. At least 60min a day is enough to keep your body working as it should. For example, Dr. Mydin from Malaysia said that "Exercise is an important entity in sports medicine. As a start, we propose to bring in an expert on exercise who will explain how to optimize the human and genetic potential, towards greater endurance and strength." This indicates how the general public can benefit from sports medicine. Also, getting enough sleep is more important than we think. Our body is under constant stress and like any machine it runs out of energy and needs to refill its batteries. We refill our batteries by sleeping and if we don’t sleep enough it won’t work properly. Many conditions, from exhaustion and stress to skin problems and gaining weight, can all be caused by the lack of sleep (the normal amount of sleep for an adult is considered to be between 8 and 10 hours).
February 8, 2012 |
Every day is Earth day
Media love strong headlines, and using eye-catching words like „crisis“. Currently two crises (caused by humans) are the favourite of media: the financial crisis – and the crisis of the environment. There‘s no week passing by without articles about politicians making statements about CO2-emission or scientists presenting new statistics about fossil fuels. There comes that the majority of people are chased off and skip reading these articles. However, every one of us should care – like Albert Einstein said, environment „is everything that isn‘t me.“ Environment is our surroundings, from our family and friends to our house and our city to air, water, nature. All our acts have an influence on our environment – the studies of the interaction between a living organism and the environment are called ecology. The unity of living organisms and the non-living ones with which they interact is called an ecosystem.