Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe
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| Formation | December 2002 |
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| Headquarters | Rue Wiertz 31 1050 Brussels Belgium |
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Membership
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17 member organizations (March 2016) |
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Network coordinator
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Petra Škuljević |
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Office coordinator
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Katarina Pavlović |
| Affiliations | 7 partner organisations (March 2014) |
| Website | www.cdnee.org |
The Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe (Acronym: CDN) is a network of green youth organisations from Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe as well as the Caucasus.
CDN was founded in December 2002 with the goal of developing and supporting green youth organisations in Eastern and South Eastern Europe through cooperation and exchange of knowledge. Mainly the development of a network which was able to work independent from Western European approaches to green politics should support the further development of the existing competence and enlarge the field of political work for greens in Europe. Also differences in methodology of educational work and cultural differences made it clear, that the green ideology in practice has to be differently implemented in Eastern Europe then in the West.
The first activity done by CDN was the Summer Camp 2003 "Peace and Reconciliation on the Balkan" in Jahorina, Bosnia and Hercegovina, with 80 young participants from all over Europe. The Summer Camp since then became the main activity of CDN held on a yearly basis. Following Summer Camps were held: "Sustainable Peace & Prosperity in The Balkans" in Ohrid, Macedonia; "Human trafficking in Eastern Europe", in Costinesti, Romania, and "European cultures - Strengthening diversity" in Kopaonik, Serbia. The Summer Camp 2007 is held in Ukraine with the topic Youth Mobility and Visa problems. The Summer Camp 2008 was held in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina with the title "Youth Culture as a sustainable path to democratic societies". Further approved projects are "Minorities rights, youth and ethnic conflict prevention" - Belgrade 2009 and joint Study Session "Youth and time consumption" - Budapest 2009 (with FYEG).
CDN was built through the structure of the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG). Both organisations are forming a close connection, mainly because of common educational and political work. Also a lot of CDN member organisations are member of FYEG.
CDN is a network build of Member and Partner organisations. Partner organisations are those organisations with seat in a country of the European Union. This distinction aims on focusing the work on organisations from non-EU countries and on showing a signal towards these organisations. It was decided on the Network Meeting 2005 in Bitola, Macedonia. In difference to Member organisations Partner organisations do not have voting right on the network meeting and only one of the member of the CDN Executive Committee can come from a Partner organisation.
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