Following a seven (now eight) year tradition EYP Austria held its annual Strategy Meeting this past weekend on 18 March in Vienna. 

Like its predecessors, the 8th EYP Austria Strategy Meeting focused on the organisation’s medium-

and long-term perspective. We invited our members – new and long-time alike, as well as alumni to share their ideas on important focus areas to improve our organisation further whilst staying in

touch with the wishes and needs of the volunteers who keep it alive.

Based on an analysis by the Board and the input of members the topics of this years meeting were Fundraising and Event Formats. All of the Strategy Meeting outcomes will be further discussed within the Board, which is committed to implementing ideas stemming from the meeting. A full report about the outcomes of the meeting will be published at a later date and shared with the members of EYP Austria. 

The Board would like to thank the engaged members who attended the event and thereby invested their time in the future of EYP Austria!

We are beyond excited to announce the 2nd Training Event as well as the Strategy Meeting of EYP Austria 2023!

Training Events like this are the perfect opportunity to develop strengths and abilities, to get to know EYP even better and, most importantly, to meet new friends and reconnect with old ones. This Training will take place in the beautiful city of Vienna at Lassingleithnerplatz 2/3 on 18 and 19 March 2023. The Strategy Meeting will be held in the afternoon of 18 March. 

The event aims to give Austrian EYPers the chance to develop their skills in high-quality training modules covering the classic EYP positions and the most basic knowledge needed. However, also training transversal skills will be a focus, thereby forming a link to the world outside the EYP bubble.

There will also be a special program for Newcomers focusing on introductions to EYP as an organisation, trainings on being a Delegate and on writing applications.

We also invite you to our yearly Strategy Meeting 2023! Like its predecessors, the 8th EYP Austria Strategy Meeting is going to focus on the organisation’s medium and long-term perspective. We invite our members – new and long-time alike, as well as alumni to share their ideas on important focus areas to improve our organisation further whilst staying in touch with the wishes and needs of the volunteers who keep it alive. If you plan on joining us exclusively for this event please arrive at the venue (Lassingleithnerplatz 2/3, 1020 Vienna) no later than 13:00 CEST on Saturday 18 March 2023. 

Registrations are open until Wednesday 15 March, 23:59 CEST, so start signing up!

To sign up click here: https://forms.gle/P9AqRXkCtbXRnpvEA 

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us!

Marcel Kranixfeld (Board Member for Human Resources)

marcel.kranixfeld@eyp.at

+436603430203

Emily Usner (President of EYP Austria)

emily.usner@eyp.at

+436641188587

We can’t wait to meet you at the 2nd National Training and 8th Strategy Meeting of EYP Austria!

Dear Delegates/Members/Participants, 

It is our sad responsibility to inform you that the Regional Session Salzburg 2023 will not be taking place. We regret confirming that the event has been indefinitely cancelled due to a variety of reasons but primarily a lack of funding. 

As the Board of EYP Austria it is our responsibility to have the long-term interest of our organisation in mind. Sadly, this sometimes means making undesirable decisions for individual events in order to ensure the financial stability of the organisation as a whole, not only for now but also for the future. This is in no way a reflection of the people responsible for the event but rather of an ongoing difficulty in securing significant funding for large scale projects such as the RS Salzburg 2023. 

Nevertheless, deciding to cancel a large-scale, in-person event such as a Regional Session is never a desirable outcome and not one we ever wanted to have to make. It took the Board of EYP Austria and the Advisory Board many long nights and discussions to conclude that even with much internal restructuring, executing this Regional Session would put the organisation and its financial future at considerable risk. Therefore, together with the Leadership of RS Salzburg 2023 as well as with their individual teams, we have concluded that the Session is officially cancelled.

We hereby want to express our utmost gratitude to all the people that had already put in so much time and effort to create the Regional Session Salzburg 2023. This includes our Head-Organiser Oliver, the President Nina, the Vice-Presidents Seoyoung and Arslan, the Core-Organisers Liza, Selina and Natalia, as well as the Organisers and the Chairpersons. It saddens us deeply that their work will not be able to come to fruition the way it was intended to and we will work to ensure that situations like these can be prevented in the future. 

Once again we thank you for your participation in the Session up to this point and we hope to see you at other events of the European Youth Parliament in the future, either in Austria or somewhere in Europe and beyond. Please feel free to contact the Board directly if you may have further questions or concerns.

Yours sincerely,

The Board of EYP Austria