Annual Report 2008 - European Youth Parliament

MTÜ Tegusad Eesti Noored
The National Committee of the European
Youth Parliament in Estonia
Tegusad Eesti Noored (TEN) is a youth association created and managed by young
people, whose main goal is to raise interest and awareness in societal affairs, while
not having political affiliations. TEN was created as an NGO in Tallinn in 2001, but
today our events take place all over Estonia. Our membership has grown to more
than 240 people between ages 14 – 25. We emphasise European values, tolerance,
cooperation and constructive debate between different world views. We participate
in the creation of a strong and functioning civil society, which is the basis of democratic,
free and successful development of Estonia. To achieve our goals we organise
diverse educational events, in which we wish to include as many young people
as possible. We are founding members of the Estonian National Youth Council and
actively cooperate with other youth organisations. We gain experience by participating
in international youth cooperation projects such as the European Youth Parliament.
EYP Estonia 9th National session
took place in Tartu October 25 - 28.
The session motto was Dare to care!
History starts now! and dealt with issues
of human rights and their violation and
protection, because 2008 was the 60th
anniversary of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights. The patron of the
session was Estonian Chancellor of
Justice.
Number of participants: 120
Partners: Open Estonian Foundation,
State Chancellery, University of Tartu,
Human Right Centre, Coca Cola
Regional session in Russian was
held in Kohtla-Järve October 3 - 5
with approx. 80 Russian-speaking
delegates and officials. Session got an
highly positive evaluation both from delegates
and organisers. Russian session
was also positively covered in Estonian
media, because of it’s high integrational
value. Event was sponsored by Europan
Youth Programme and SEB
Bank.
Active Estonian Youth also organised
on May 13 park-cleaning initiative
together with physically disabled
youth in three biggest cities in Estonia-
Tallinn, Tartu and Pärnu. The aim was
both to clean the parks and better
integrate physically disabled youth into
society. The event was patronaged by
the vice-speaker of the Estonian Parliament
Jüri Rattas.
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Contact
MTÜ Tegusad Eesti
Noored
Toompuiestee 17a
10143 Tallinn.
Phone: +372 5645 6405 /
Homepage: www.ten.ee
Email: info@ten.ee, eric.
katskowski@ten.ee, mariliis.orav@ten.ee