JCI Luxembourg February 2010 Newsletter

Luxembourg
NEWSLETTER
ISSUE 13 | February 2010
JUNIOR CHAMBER INTERNATIONAL
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LUXEMBOURG
Time for loving hearts and caring thoughts...
Valentine’s Day!
Yes, it’s commercial –it’s romantic... but if you think about it – it also gives you the
opportunity to show your beloved ones how much they mean to you – to remember
the importance of warm-heartedness, solidarity and care...locally and globally!
It’s essential. It is so important and in everyday life we tend to forget this. We live
our lives, we think about ourselves and our own situation – and compared to so many
other places in the world – think of the situation in Haiti now - no matter what – our
situation is really good!
It’s a shame that we rarely “have time” to reflect and show a difference.
But on the 14th of February TIME has come! When you go shopping to find the special Valentine’s gift for your dear one – take 5 minutes extra – think big and show
the world that you care. Open your heart for a better world – as a JCI
Member or Friend - as the active citizen you are!
Inside this issue:
Happy Valentine’s Day!
MONTHLY MEETINGS
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(by Lene Pedersen)
JCI EUROPE
145, avenue du X Septembre
2551 Luxembourg
Tel: (+352) 26 38 920-1
Fax: (+352) 26 38 920-2
Email: [email protected]
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OUR PROJECTS
CREATIVE YOUNG ENTRPRENEUR LUXEMBOURG 2010
BRIC & LUX - EMERGING ECONOMIES IN LUXEMBOURG
ART 4 AID - SHOWING SOCIAL RESPONSABILITY
NOTHINGBUTNETS
MULTI-TWINNING
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EVENTS
CONFERENCE: LES COUPS TORDUS DE CHURCHILL
INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
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PAST EVENTS
JCI WINTER PARTY
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10-11
CALENDAR
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COMMUNICATION
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SPONSORS & WHO WE ARE
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M ONTHLY M EETINGS
City of Luxembourg - after (?) the Crisis
Is it true what they say about
Luxembourg?
– A dynamic video showing life
and opportunities in Luxembourg! This was the opening of
the very interesting and informative presentation on the
topic Luxembourg – after (?)
the crisis held by the Mayor of
Luxembourg City, Mr. Helminger.
It was a great honour and
pleasure to his clarification of
the situation of Luxembourg.
Openly and friendly he explained the situation today
and the improvements planned
in the near future and in the
long run.
His presentation briefed us on
various challenges Luxembourg
City is facing, as a Metro pole
having more than 100.000
people commuting – crossing
the border to come to work
here every day.
This special situation has an
impact on topics such as the
housing situation, where he
pointed out the plan to build
new urban areas and renovating other areas like at Centre
Hamilius, Bld. Royal.
Moreover, it was made clear
that the mobility was another
important issue, where Luxembourg City is focusing on
reducing the individual use,
improving the public transport system by renewing
‘Gare’, building new railway
lines in areas like Esch and
Kirchberg. Further the plan of
a tram in Luxembourg City
by 2016 was introduced to
us. Additionally, the mobility
also included the making of a
lift from Pfaffenthal to the
City Centre.
search.
The message that was clearly
given to us at the end of his
presentation was the importance of active citizens being
the future and the need to
getting Luxembourgish people integrated in JCI Luxembourg, which at the moment
only has members of foreign
nationality living in Luxembourg.
(by Lene Pedersen)
Further, integration is a highly
important topic because of
the
65%
of
nonLuxembourgers living in Luxembourg City. At this point
the modernisation and the
hotcity project were introduced as essential ways to
improve the networking and
living-together in the Centre.
Last but not least, Mr. Helminger commented on the difficult situation in the financial
sector today, why Luxembourg is now among other
areas concentrating on Re-
Next Monthly Meeting
March, 10th @ 19h30
“Brasserie Abbaye Neumünster” 28, rue Münster - Luxembourg
Special guest : Mr. Erich Francois
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ING Marathon
More events on page 12 >>>
JCI E UROPE
What is JCI Europe about?
As you may know, during the
last JCI World Congress in
November 2009 in Tunisia, I
had the chance to be elected
as a member of JCI EUROPE.
Many of you have already
asked: What is JCI Europe
standing for and what is
your task there?
Therefore I decided to write
shortly about it to give you
an overview and answer all
your questions.
JCI is present now in more
then 105 countries in the
world - from those 41 are in
Europe. Around 35 JCI countries in Europe are really
active and we have in total
32.000 members, which represent around 25% of the
worldwide membership.
In Europe, we are in the
lucky situation that the number of JCI countries is constantly growing as well as
the number of members.
JCI EUROPE was founded in
February 2004 and during
the World congress in Fukuoka/Japan in November
2004 all JCI-NOMs from
Europe became member of
JCI Europe.
Just one year later the 1st
Board of JCI Europe was
elected according to the new
constitution.
There are today 6 members
in the Board:
1. The President, who is always the current Executive
Vice President for Europe,
elected for one year
2. General Secretary, who is
always the current JCI Director for Europe, who can stay
in the board for many years,
depending on his contract
3. Four members, who are
always elected during a
World congress for the next
3 years, but each of them
can be re-elected by the
National
Presidents
in
Europe for another 3 years.
There is no time and age
limit
The four main goals of JCI
Europe are:
I. VISIBILITY / LOBBYING
WITHIN THE EUROPEAN
UNION
• To have a legal body
• To be recognized as the
leading organization of
young leaders and entrepreneurs in Europe
• To be in permanent contact
to European entities and
deputies
• To support NOMs and
LOMs with contacts to European political Institutions
II. SUPPORT FOR EU FUNDING
+
PARTNERSHIP/
SPONSORSHIP
• To be of assistance to JCINOMs in applying for EUfunds
• Watching/reviewing calls
• Assist to identify projects to
submit application
• Dispatch information's to
NOMs
• Work on experiences
• Get in touch with multinational companies across
Europe for partnership/
sponsorship
III. VISIBILITY IN THE MEDIA /
COOPERATIONS
• Pan-European
Newspapers / Websites
• Pan-European Radio- and
TV stations
• Our
own
website:
www.jci.cc/europe - under
construction
• Our own Newsletter – under construction
• Our own brochure in pdfformat
• To strengthen new and
already existing coopera-
tions:
Institutions of European
Union
International Chamber of
Commerce
Eurochambres
European sections of AIESEC/AEGEE
IV.
PROMOTE
PANEUROPEAN PROJECTS AND
CONFERENCES/TRAININGS
• European Conferences
• European Presidents Meetings
• Know-How-Transfer
in
Brussels
• Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs
• Support for CYEA / TOYP
promotion
• Academies:
- Göteborg Academy in
Sweden
- Media Master Class Academy in Catalunya
- Public Speaking and Debating
- Academy in Luxembourg
- COC Academy in Austria
- Francoformation
JCI Europe is also anxious to
start and deepen its cooperations and partnerships
like the existing ones:
http://www.coeura.
module.eu/main/networks/
cooperation-partners.html
Competence in EuroPreneurship
b. http://www.iccwbo.org –
International Chamber of
Commerce
http://www.erasmusc.
entrepreneurs.eu – Erasmus
for Young Entrepreneurs
d. http://www.coe.int –
Council of Europe
Or
possible
new
cooperations:
http://
a.
www.eurochambres.eu
–
Association of European
Chambers of Commerce and
Industry
b. http://www.aegee.org –
World wide students organization
c. http://www.aiesec.org –
European Students Forum
(15.000 members; 240 Universities; 43 Countries)
JCI EUROPE also has a Plan
of Action for the next 3
years, like the one shown
here for the year 2010:
PROMOTIONS AND ACTIONS
1.Promotion of the European
Conference in Aarhus/
Denmark and of the European Academies (European
Academy Göteborg; COC
Academy;
Francoformation; Political Academy;
Public Speaking and Debating Academy etc.)
2.6th edition of “Know-HowTransfer” in Brussels (till
now: 250 JCI members
from Europe met together
with 135 Deputies of European Parliament)
3.“ERASMUS Program for
Young Entrepreneurs”: This
programme shall enable
young, future Entrepreneurs
to learn about entrepreneurship in another European country
4.Promotion of CYEA +
TOYP in Europe
MEDIA
1.JCI Europe Website with
all “European” information
2.JCI Europe Newsletter +
Brochure/Flyer
3.Press-Release sent to PanEuropean- and country
press + radio + TVchannels
FUNDS
1.Already 450 EU programmes were checked!
There are 2500 calls each
year about 4 topics: Active
Citizenship; CSR; EDC;
Training – work will be
next page >>>
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Dear All,
O UR P ROJECTS
>>>JCI Europe continued...
continued and news as well
as calls will be put on the JCI
Europe website and in the
newsletter
PARTNERSHIPS
1.International Chamber of
Commerce – to strengthen
2.Eurochambers – to establish
3.AIESEC – World wide students organization
4.AEGEE – European Students Forum (15.000 members; 240 Universities; 43
Countries)
SPONSORING
1.Multi-National companies
in Europe – to be contacted
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To summarise: There is a lot
of potential but also a lot of
work for JCI in Europe and
for the team of JCI Europe.
The main goal of all the
planned or already completed actions and projects is
to be the most visible and
leading organization of
Young Active Citizens in
Europe and at the end, in the
world!
If you have any questions,
please contact me anytime!
Yours,
Artur
Immediate Past President JCI
Luxembourg 2010
Executive Board of JCI
Europe
O UR P ROJECTS
CYEL 2010 100% of the Young Entrepreneur winners have tried their chance!
Encore une bonne nouvelle
du côté de l’équipe CYEL
puisque ATOZ nous a confirmé en ce début de mois de
février une évolution de leur
sponsoring vers la catégorie
GOLD.
Tout comme BGL BNP Paribas l’avait fait il y a quelques mois, ATOZ récompense ainsi tout le travail que
les différentes équipes CYEL
ont accomplis par le passé
et nous prouve, par cette
action, à quel point ils
croient en ce concours et en
notre capacité à le porter
toujours plus haut.
Après une fin d’année axée
sur le budget, notre priorité
du premier trimestre va être
la recherche de candidats.
A ce jour nous attendons
encore le premier enregistrement et même si ce n’est
pas une surprise, puisque
nous avons ouvert les enregistrements beaucoup plus
tôt que les années précédentes, nous avons tous hâte
d’accueillir notre premier
jeune entrepreneur.
L’expérience nous a appris
que sans un long travail de
recherche et d’explication
de la part, non seulement
de l’équipe Jury-Candidats,
mais aussi
de l’équipe
CYEL, des membres de la
Jeune Chambre Economique
de Luxembourg et de l’ensemble de ses sponsors,
partenaires et amis, nous
n’aurons pas de postu
L’un de nous connait le futur
gagnant, il ne nous reste
plus qu’à le convaincre de
s’inscrire à l’édition 2010 du
CREATIVE YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR 2010 ! Et pour
cela qu’il n’hésite pas à
envoyer un email à
cyel.candidate@jcluxembour
g.com ou à se rendre sur
notre site internet
www.cyel.lu.
Isabelle
Responsable de projet
Réunion de Coordination
CYEL 2010 :
02 mars, 16 mars, 06 avril,
20 avril, 04 mai, 18 mai,
01 juin.
Soirée de Gala
2010 :
15 juin 2010
CYEL
even if it is not a surprise,
since we opened registration much more early than
the previous years, we all
have haste to welcome our
first young entrepreneur.
Experience taught us - the
whole Jury – Candidate
team, the whole CYEL team,
all members of the JCI Luxembourg and all sponsors,
partners and friends - that
without hard work of
searching and explaining
we will not get any applicants…
One of us know the next
winner, we just need to persuade him to register to the
2010 edition of CREATIVE
YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR
2010! And for that he
should not hesitate to send
a n
e m a i l
a t
cyel.candidate@jcluxembour
g.com or visit our website
www.cyel.lu.
Another good news on the
side of the CYEL team since
ATOZ confirmed us beginning of February an evolution of their sponsorship to
the GOLD category.
Isabelle
Project Manager
Just like BGL BNP Paribas
had made it some months
ago, ATOZ rewards in this
way all the work of the
different CYEL teams fulfilled in the past and prove
us, by action, to what extent
they believe in this competition and in our capacity to
carry it always higher.
CYEL 2010 Gala evening:
15 June 2010
After a budget-driven end
of year, our main priority of
the first quarter is the
search for candidates.
Today we are still waiting
for the first registration and
CYEL 2010 coordination
meetings:
02 March, 16 March, 06
April, 20 April, 04 May, 18
May, 01 June.
ATOZ, a high-end independent advisory firm offering a
comprehensive and integrated range of tax and
corporate finance services
becomes Gold Sponsor of
CYEL Award.
Keith O’Donnell, Managing
Partner, commented: “We
are delighted to be associated with this prestigious
yearly
event
“Creative
Young Entrepreneur Luxembourg”. Since our creation,
ATOZ has been recognized
as a leader in its field, notably
being
awarded
“Luxembourg Tax firm of the
Year” for the last four years.
Our growth and success in 5
years arose from a clear
strategy, the commitment of
our team, and the support of
our people and clients
around the world.
The founders of our firm had
an entrepreneurial mindset
and were ready to pursue a
market changing strategy
that of a high-end specialist
tax advisory firm. Our firm in
turn is delighted to encourage creative entrepreneurs.
Internally we promote Innovation, one of our core values. We have developed a
program
“Creating
Together” to help our clients
take advantage of Luxembourg’s unique framework
for encouraging the development of intellectual property.
Luxembourg is an attractive
place that stimulates and
creates research, is able to
offer a lot of opportunities
for Creative Young Entrepreneur. We wish to support
young entrepreneurs in this
adventure and share our
experience with them”.
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lants…
O UR P ROJECTS
BRIC in LUX
A glance at emerging economies
If you want to participate in
this project, please contact :
Commission director:
Jean-Christophe Vigneron
Email:
[email protected]
The project aims at organizing a series of conferences
on different aspects of the
BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India
and China) countries : mainly
business, but we could also
mix some culture and social
initiatives in order to be
compliant with Corporate
Social Responsibility principles.
Benefits for JCEL :
The project is intended to :
• Promote JCI Luxembourg
• Offer the public an over-
view of the four most
dominant economies
GSM:
• Promote
businesses between BRIC countries and
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
• Give the floor to promote
the BRIC countries economies, culture and social
life.
social and cultural rights
• Promote
organizational
and networking skills of
JCI members and project
participants
• Development of its own
network of business partners
• Target a new segment of
as actor in organizing
events based on a dynamic approach of economic,
potential members: among
Luxembourgish BRIC residents
+ 352 621 18 48 77
Art 4 Aid
Showing social responsibility
This project aims at supporting the professional development of young artists from
40 countries through a oneweek exhibition and international media attention.
Each young artist shall send
to the organization team his
portfolio and on it the indicated work of art shall be
offered.
The jury will base its selection on those elements and
on a short presentation of
the artist and his motivation
to participate to this event.
The pieces of art will be sold
at an auction led by an auction house during a gala
dinner
The funds raised hereby will
be donated to a social institution to promote projects
through which children get
quality primary education.
actor in organizing events based on
a dynamic approach of economic,
social and cultural rights
• Promote JCI Luxembourg as leader-
chapter of the Great-Region in major
projects
Purposes of the project:
Potential
chapter:
• Promote young artists
• Promote the relationship and col-
• Raise funds for the selected educa-
tional program led by one reputable institution
benefits
to
the
laboration between the JCI chapters
from the Great-Region
• Promote the creative and cultural
potential of JCI members and project
participants
Project starts in 2010
If you want to participate in this project , please contact:
Commission director:
Custodio Portasio
Email:
[email protected]
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• Promote JCI Luxembourg as main
GSM:
+ 352 621 73 40 26
• Development of its own network of
business partners
Target a new segment of
members:
• artists being a pool of creativity for
future endeavours
Potential benefits to the community:
• This project aims at offering the
public at large a panorama of Modern art from the D zone
• Giving the artists the floor to pro-
mote their art through a prestigious
exhibition and auction
• Funding programs for children
promoting educational improvement with an emphasis on primary
education
O UR P ROJECTS
New Project: NothingButNets Join the Team!
Not long ago, the community
project NothingButNets was
introduced to JCI Members and
Friends at a monthly meeting.
Under the event of the Summer
party the project was shortly
introduced - but let’s look a bit
deeper into the project, its partners and aims.
In March 2008 JCI World-wide
entered a partnership with the
United Nation Foundations in
order to support the Nothing But
Nets Campaign dedicated to
save lives by preventing malaria in Africa. The cooperation
between JCI and UNF focuses
on purchasing and
distributing Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (LLiNs), as
well as educating children under
five years and their families on
their proper use.
The target of JCI World-wide is
to donate 1 million LLiNs by
2015.
In Luxembourg JCI is only now
starting up the community project, and needs volunteers and
interested people to help making the project a great success.
As mentioned the JCI ABBA
Summer Party was the first
event in order to collect money
and make publicity for the project in our community.
Now further campaigns and
charity-events are needed to
keep the project going.
Among others, some ideas could
be:
- Contribute as an individual by
buying a bed net online on
http://www.jci.cc/nothingbutnet
s - one bed net only costs
$10,00.
- Sign up as an individual fundraiser.
- Sign up as a team captain,
raising money for the project.
These are only a few ideas,
given by the official campaign.
Surely, JCI Luxembourg Members and Friends can come up
with more!
The first meeting has already
taken place, but as we are
building up a specific team for
this project - you can still get
involved from the beginning Make a difference!
Save lives!
(by Lene Pedersen)
Contact the Project Manager:
Thomas Stackler:
[email protected]
So, think about how you and JCI
Luxembourg could contribute to
this important project and say
your opinion out loud!
- Creating ongoing local bed
net awareness campaigns.
Multi-twinning between small JCI countries in Europe (MILC-Summit)
1. Trainings
2. Local Community / Business
3. International visibility
The aim of this cooperation
is to create the best practice
platform to learn from each
other how to run projects
(TOYP, CYEL), how to develop partnerships/
sponsorships with governments, institutions and companies and how to get international visibility during
European Conferences and
World Congresses.
The first “MILC SUMMIT”
will take place between the
3rd and the 5th of September 2010 in Malta. During
this time we are going to
visit this beautiful island.
We will have one day for an
official JCI training and also
a workshop about sponsorship in small countries where
we will exchange experiences and future ideas.
Every year we will meet
according to a rotation principle. Maybe next year JCI
Luxembourg will welcome
Malta, Island and Cyprus.
I strongly encourage you to
be a part of Luxembourgish
delegation.
For further information,
details or if you want to
run a MILC-Working-Group
in Luxembourg, please contact the Director
(by Luiza Sosna)
Luiza Sosna:
[email protected]
GSM 691 410 371
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During the JCI World Congress in Hammamet/Tunisia
in November 2009, the first
Multi-Twinning
agreement
between small countries in
Europe was singed!
The initiative came from
Artur Sosna, 2009 National
President JCI Luxembourg
and was very fast accepted
by the other active members
of those three countries.
The idea behind this agreement is to exchange and to
learn from each other. Here
are the three areas of our
common future collaboration:
E VENTS
Les coups tordus de Churchill Conférence exclusive de M. Bob Maloubier
JCI Luxembourg a le plaisir
d’organiser une conférence
exceptionnelle à l’occasion
de la sortie du livre de Robert Maloubier à Luxembourg. La conférence se tiendra le jeudi 11 février 2010
à 18:30 à l’auditorium de
l’Espace Royal-Monterey de
BGL BNP Paribas.
Le conférencier, Robert Maloubier (plus connu d’après
son pseudonyme « Bob »),
87 ans, a traversé le siècle
dernier en aventurier. Fils de
famille, élevé à Neuilly, cultivé et polyglotte, il se retrouve à 17 ans, faute d'avoir
pu rejoindre de Gaulle à
Londres, en Afrique du Nord
où il est rapidement enrôlé
dans les services secrets britanniques. Il devient un saboteur de talent avant d'être
envoyé dans le Limousin pour
armer et former le maquis
communiste. Il rejoint ensuite
les services secrets français
puis travaille dans le pétrole.
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Six mois après la sortie de
son livre en France et en
Belgique, M. Maloubier lance son livre à Luxembourg
lors d’une conférence exclusive sur le thème de sa rencontre avec Churchill.
Tout le monde a en tête
l'image de Winston Churchill,
le « vieux lion » ministre dès
1905, qui fait le V de la
victoire en juin 1940. Mais
qui connaît l'autre facette du
personnage, le Mister Hyde
et sa politique de coups tordus ? Chez Churchill, les
coups fourrés, c'est pourtant
une vieille habitude. Où qu'il
se trouve, il s'inspire de ce
qu'il voit pour l'adapter à
ses besoins et à ceux de
l'Histoire.
De Cuba, il rapporte les
méthodes de la guérilla. De
la défaite des Dardanelles,
il apprend, bien plus tard,
comment faire de l'intox une
arme de prédilection. Pour
tromper les nazis, il a ainsi
l'idée de larguer au sud de
l'Espagne le corps d'un soldat anglais, afin de convaincre l'ennemi d'une présence
britannique dans le secteur,
alors qu'un débarquement
est planifié en Sicile. Autant
de ruses mises en oeuvre
avec plus ou moins de bonheur par son bras armé,
l'Intelligence Service, puis
par le SOE (Special Operation Executive), officine de
services secrets à sa dévotion.
Ancien membre actif du S0E,
Bob Maloubier a eu accès
aux archives des services
secrets britanniques pour
nous raconter les coulisses de
ces coups spectaculaires,
orchestrés pour certains avec
tant de discrétion qu'ils sont
jusqu'ici restés méconnus. Il
est déjà auteur de plusieurs
livres
autobiographiques
racontant sa trépidante carrière.
En tant qu’organisateurs,
nous estimons que cette
conférence, avec la rencontre d’un des derniers témoins et acteurs de la résistance lors de la seconde
guerre mondiale, est une
opportunité unique de recueillir son témoignage historique.
L’action de Robert Maloubier
est un exemple à suivre pour
les jeunes générations et
montre que même pendant
les périodes les plus sombres
de notre histoire, l’espoir
peut renaître par le courage
et la mobilisation de quelques uns. Les réponses que
M. Maloubier a apportées
en son temps sont autant de
messages d’encouragement
et de renouveau pour les
challenges de notre vie quotidienne.
La Jeune Chambre Economique du Grand-Duché Luxembourg asbl remercie ses
sponsors, et tout particulièrement BGL BNP Paribas pour
son hospitalité.
Pour plus d’informations:
JCI Luxembourg (Jeune
Chambre économique du
Grand-Duché a.s.b.l.)
Mark Balcke
Coorganisateur
[email protected]
Katia Jaggi-Maloubier
Coorganisatrice
[email protected]
www.jci.cc
* La conférence « Les coups
tordus de Churchill » compte
sur les sponsors et partenaires
suivants: BGL BNP Paribas,
Patrimonia
International,
Duckzone, la Maroquinerie
Corom et la librairie As-Tu Lu.
E VENTS
International Events!
International Events
JCI Area Conferences
JCI Members unite at JCI
international events to foster
cooperation across boundaries, engage in dialogue to
ignite global development
projects and unite the JCI
global network.
Every year, JCI Members
unite during JCI Area Conferences to exchange ideas,
learn how to maximize their
local impact and collaborate
with other National Organizations. The four Area Conferences give members a
chance to take advantage of
JCI’s international network
while enhancing their National Organizations.
JCI European President
Meeting
Riga, Latvia
February 18 -21, 2010
JCI Grande Région Events
Arlon, Metz, Nancy, Saarbrücken, Trier
Every Months, please contact
us for more information
JCI Africa and the Middle
East Conference
Abuja, Nigeria
May 12-15, 2010
JCI World Congress
2010 JCI World Congress
Osaka, Japan
November 2-7, 2010
Leadership Summits at the
United Nations
JCI and the United Nations
share a long and distinguished partnership. Since
2003, our two organizations
have joined forces at JCI
Leadership Summits at the
United Nations. At these forums, JCI Members have the
opportunity to hear from
experts and join current debates before committing to
action on critical issues ranging from the UN Millennium
Development Goals (UN
MDGs) to Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) and
climate change.
JCI Asia-Pacific Conference
Singapore
June 3-6, 2010
JCI Conference of the
Americas
Rosario, Argentina
April 21-24, 2010
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JCI Catalunya Public Relations & Media Master Class
Academy
Sitges(Barcelona), Spain
February 10-14, 2010
JCI European Conference
Aarhus, Denmark
June 9-12, 2010
P AST E VENTS
Hot Stuff and Happy Feet
for a Cool Idea!
Beginning of January, during
the winter party, 200 JCIpenguins and their friends
celebrated and danced all
night at the Marx Bar to
raise money for the project
“NothingButNets” – and to
definitely say “good-bye” to
their 2009 president Artur
Sosna and welcoming their
2010 president Pedro Castilho.
The entire benefit of 457 €
was donated for the purchase of insecticide-treated
bed nets to protect families
in Africa from malaria
spreading mosquitoes and to
support the eradication of
malaria, a disease which in
Africa causes the death of
one-fifth of all children un-
der 5 years.
and unforgettable happening!
A dance competition and an
award for the best costume,
sponsored by OrientX, were
the highlights of that night,
during which DJ Marco managed to maintain the vibe at
a peak. The bar and the
lounge offered the possibility to network, make new
friends and to welcome the
New Year in a warm ‘arctic’
atmosphere. At this point we
would like to warmly thank
Bülent Sen from OrientX for
the sponsoring, Marco Nobrega for the great music
and work and last but not
least Cameron Balnave and
the staff of Marx Bar for
their great commitment in
making the party a fantastic
Artur was deeply touched by
the film with interviews with
JCI members and VIP´s from
Luxembourg dedicated to his
presidential year. The film
assembled highlights and
events of last year, comments and reflexions on his
personality. Pedro Castilho,
the 2010 JCI National President: “Due to his outstanding
personality, Artur created a
supporting and innovative
atmosphere. This will be a
challenge and a benchmark
for me.” He added: “This
party was very important to
me, as it resembles members
and their friends and shows
how vibrate JCI is. I am certain that many more occa-
sions of this kind will follow...” And this is true! JCI
will surely be active in many
areas and come up with new
ideas again and again…
The next party will be organised in July, so watch out
for the announcement of the
date and be prepared!
Until then, we would like to
share some memories from
the Happy Feet Party with
you…
(by Christina Hagehülsmann,
Lene Pedersen and Luiza
Sosna)
P AST E VENTS
Hot Stuff and Happy Feet
Continued...
C ALENDAR
Calendar
Don’t miss it!
Date
Time
Event
Description
Address
10/02/2010
19h30
Monthly Meeting:
JCI Luxembourg meets regularly on the second Wednesday of the month and invites a
personality of the business, cultural, political
or social Luxemburgish scene to present
atopic to its members and friends.
Brasserie des Cultures de l’Abbaey de Neumünster | 28, rue
Münster |L - 2160 Luxembourg
+352 26 20 52 985
www.abbaye.lu
See page 8 for further information.
Contact:
Marc Balcke:
[email protected]
Meeting for the European Presidents.
Contact:
Pedro Castilho:
[email protected]
Special Guest: Mr. Hieronimus
INDR
11/02/2010
18h30
Conference .
Special Guest: Mr. Bob Maloubier
18-21/02/2010
-
European President Meeting in Riga, Latvia.
Members are welcome.
01/03/2010
19h30
BOD-Meeting
6-7/03/2010
19h00
Relais pour la vie
JCI Luxembourg is participating in the 24
hours run “Relais pour la Vie” at the Coque,
Kirchberg. If you want to participate, please
contact Jacob Edang.
Contact:
Jacob Edang:
[email protected]
10/03/2010
19h30
Monthly Meeting:
JCI Luxembourg meets regularly on the second Wednesday of the month and invites a
personality of the business, cultural, political
or social Luxemburgish scene to present a
topic to its members and friends.
Brasserie des Cultures de l’Abbaey de Neumünster | 28, rue
Münster |L - 2160 Luxembourg
+352 26 20 52 985
www.abbaye.lu
Special Guest: Erich Francois
ING Marathon
05/04/2010
19h30
BOD-Meeting
14/04/2010
19h30
Monthly Meeting:
Special Guest: Surprise!
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-
JCI Luxembourg meets regularly on the second Wednesday of the month and invites a
personality of the business, cultural, political
or social Luxemburgish scene to present a
topic to its members and friends.
Contact:
Pedro Castilho:
[email protected]
Contact:
Pedro Castilho:
[email protected]
Brasserie des Cultures de l’Abbaey de Neumünster | 28, rue
Münster |L - 2160 Luxembourg
+352 26 20 52 985
www.abbaye.lu
New Location for Monthly meetings
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Brasserie des Cultures de
l’Abbaye de Neumünster
28 rue Münster
L- 2160 Luxembourg
Tél. +352 262052-985
www.abbaye.lu
C OMMUNICATION
Communication
Join our journey!
With JCI Luxembourg growing the need for an efficient
an d s u c c e s s f u l c o m munication has increased as
well. Starting from a small
trip around the imparting of
information, it very quickly
became an exciting journey
full of challenges and adventures.
During the last two months
we have slowly but steadily
been busy building up a
new Communication team
for JCI Luxembourg. This
included identifying the
needs, finding the necessary
structure to support and
promote JCI and defining
the expected outputs.
Consequently, the coordination of the communication team is intended to
cover the needs and manage the outputs. In this context the communication coordinator is in charge of the
interacting of four subteams. One team is responsible for the website, another group takes care of
the ingoing media, a third
group manages the outgoing media, and a fourth
group ensures the editing of
what you are reading right
now - the newsletter. Every
part is im-portant, and
needs assist-ance…
Are you talkative? Are you
silent? Are you a skilled
writer? Are you a designer?
Are you skeptical? critical?
positive? adventurous... or
none of the above, but just
curious? Then you are the
right person. We need you...
please contact:
Join our journey!
Email:
[email protected]
For more information about
the communication team, its
activities and meeting dates,
Lene Pedersen
GSM:
+352 621 439 107
145, avenue du X Septembre
2551 Luxembourg
Tel: (+352) 26 38 920-1
Fax: (+352) 26 38 920-2
Email: [email protected]
Newsletter
Concept & Calendar of editions
If you have suggestions or if
you want to publish / update
project information, share
experiences on past events or
announce future actions in
the newsletter, please send
an email to : [email protected]
Contributions for this edition
made by :
Marc Balcke, Isabelle Durand,
Christina Hagehülsmann, Lene
Pedersen, Luiza Sosna, Artur
Sosna.
The communication commission is searching for collaborators who would like to
help to write and/or to improve the newsletter.
If you want to participate in
this commission, please
contact:
Lene Pedersen
Email:
Edition
Issue date
Deadline
to submit
content
10th of February
22nd of January
10th of
March
22nd of February
April 10
14th of April
29th of March
May 10
12th of May
26th of April
June 10
9th of June
24th of May
July 10
14th of July
28th of June
August 10
11th of August
26th of July
September 10
8th of September
23rd of August
February 10
March 10
[email protected]
Communication Manager:
Lene Pedersen
Email:
[email protected]
GSM: +352 621 439 107
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The JCI Newsletter is published 12 times a year on the
second Wednesday of the
month.
S PONSORS & W HO
WE ARE
Sponsors
It’s about solid partnerships
Partnering with corporate
sponsors magnifies the impact of JCI projects as JCI
create positive changes in
Luxembourg. "Sponsorship is
the key to moving forward,”
says Sponsorship Consultant
Jill Larson. “JCI can offer an
amazing amount of value to
partners. Companies want
to support noble causes.
And we can help to get
them there.”
But, what is in it for the
partners?
We aim at partnerships
more than at sponsorships.
The most important is what
kind of value our organiza-
tion offers to the potential
partner as a network of
young active citizens. The
main question is: “how will
the partner benefit from
their partnership with us?”
Therefore, we try to combine the value of JCI with
the need of a company in
order to create a partnership that is of mutual benefit.
Some partners put their
premises at our disposal at
meetings or events, others
provide drinks, others host
our websites…
Companies, that choose to
become a partner of JCI,
knows that they gain publicity and recognition in the
community, as we include
their name and logo in marketing materials and thank
them publicly.
Maintaining partnerships
Our aim is to sustain an ongoing dialogue with our
partners and make sure they
know their support is
Valuable to us. Therefore we
keep partners informed
of our project results and
show how their contributions
made the project possible.
Their help really makes the
difference.
Become a JCI Luxembourg
partner, contact :
Pedro Castilho
Email: [email protected]
GSM: 621 29 58 68
MBW a new Partner.
We hereby want to thank
Mr. Boris Markschläger, from
MBW, Techniques du bâtiment, for his support and
sponsorship, which allows JCI
Luxembourg to provide a
printed form of the Newsletter to its members, friends
and partners.
145, avenue du X Septembre
2551 Luxembourg
Tel: (+352) 26 38 920-1
Fax: (+352) 26 38 920-2
Email: [email protected]
JCEL
Who we are
JCEL is the acronym of
Jeune Chambre Economique
du Grand Duché du Luxembourg which is part of Junior Chamber International
(JCI)
JCI is the world’s largest
network of young leaders
and entrepreneurs with
about 200.000 members in
more than 5.000 communities across 120 countries
around the world.
Moreover it is a non governmental, non-profit organization with active participation in the United Nations System.
Through various local, national and international projects and events, JCI members meet, learn and grow.
JCI focuses on creating
strong principled leaders in
the world.
Its Vision is ”to be the leading global network of young
active citizens.”
It’s Mission is “to provide
development opportunities
that empower young people
to create positive change.”
Everything we do is based
on these principles.
CONTACT US
Jeune Chambre Economique
du Grand-Duché de
Luxembourg a.s.b.l.
Member of JCI
7, rue Alcide de Gasperi
L-2981 LuxembourgKirchberg
email :
[email protected]
Internet :
www.jcLuxembourg.com
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It is definitely worth it to
have solid partners. That’s
the way JCI Luxembourg
keeps its projects reaching
thei r full potenti al.