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Falkor I.C.Y Annual Report 2006 1

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Annual Report 2006Colofon

Stichting Falkor I.C.Y (International Cooperation Youth)Established: 04-12-2001 in Groningen, NetherlandsFounders: Marij Kloosterhof, Janita Top Board: Theo Kurstjens, presidentWike Been, secretaryHarm van der Veen, cashier Postal address: P.O Box 16499701 BP Groningentelephone: office + 31 (0) 50-5890899e-mail: [email protected]: www.falkor.org

Annual report: text: Marij Kloosterhof, Janita Toplay-out: Janita Top

Stichting Falkor I.C.Y.- Groningen -Bank nr. 9222144 IBAN nr. NL52 PSTB 0009 2221 44 - BIC/SWIFT Code: PSTBNL21 address bank: Postbank Foreign Operations - P.O. Box 1800 - 1000 BV Amsterdam KvK: 02075681

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Annual Report 2006

Mission 4Aims 4Activities 5Falkor projects 6 Biking Beyond Borders Goes East 6 EVS-projects in Georgia 8 BEM Youth Progressive Action Centre 11Activities 12Publicity 13People 15Partner organizations 15

Contents

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Falkor is constructing and supporting an international network of youth protecting the environment, protecting and developing independent media and active in human rights, antiracism, pro-tolerance issues and development of civil society in general.

Falkor brings individuals and organizations into contact with each other through exchange projects and information servi-ces, with the aim to start and keep up cooperation in projects improving the environmental/social situation both nation-wide in different countries and region-wide throughout entire Europe including Caucasus.

1. To build the fundaments for successful cooperation bringing youth, active in environmental/human rights organizations and inspired individuals from Europe and Caucasus in contact with each other, forging partner-ships between Caucasus and European NGOs. A better mu-tual understanding between different cultures is the first, necessary step on the way to successful cooperation and implementation of projects. 2. To find new, more effec-tive, strategies to work for

protecting the environment, human rights, to foster or be independent media, anti-ra-cism and advertise tolerance, while working and relaxing together, learning from each other in our volunteer-ex-change projects, and those offered by other NGOs. 3. To provide a larger au-dience (not youth only) with accessible, not seen in main-stream media in Europe/Cau-casus, news-items covering environmental and human rights protection, anti-racism, tolerance and youth culture. The larger audience reached will increase the attention for (awareness-raising) and im-pact of (by readers acting in

Mission

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support) the issues published about. 4. To support youth, who are, or want to be more active in protecting the environment, human rights, anti-racism and pro-tolerance issues, who want to be (or to be sup-porting) independent media together with the bigger audience, “watching” through the network. 5. To share information about cultural life and activities in other countries (music, literature,films, theatre, small-scale tourism and more…) Better known makes more loved?

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1. Falkor “contact agency” -locating active members of NGOs and inspired individu-als, encourage, guide and train them in cooperation in the international network-connect NGOs with each other to forge partnerships

2. Falkor “volunteer-job-cen-ter” We implement exchange pro-jects under the YOUTH pro-gram of the EU (mainly “east-west” oriented projects) and send volunteers/participants to projects implemented by other NGOs: -EVS: young persons gain experience by volunteering for 6-12 months in an NGO in another country, while the host organisations benefit from the skills, energy, new ideas and inspiration of the volunteers.-Young people visit another country or host a group of foreigners during one or two weeks and exchange know-ledge, satisfy curiosity, do practical tasks, perhaps some action and relax!

3. Falkor “info-centre” -publishing and distributing news especially covering is-sues concerning youth, envi-ronment, human rights, inde-pendent media, anti-racism, tolerance and youth culture-publishing information about activities, conferences, mee-tings in Europe and Caucasus on our website and in our newsletters to encourage and guide young people from Europe and Caucasus to join in such events-providing online information not only with various ‘serious’

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links, articles and reports, but also about cultural life and activities in other coun-tries (music, films, theatre, literature,small-scale tourism and more…)-producing and and distri-buting video documentaries about the above mentioned subjects in Europe and Cau-casus

4. Falkor “online-support facilitating the sending of support letters by fax or e-mail via our network of NGOs and media in case of pressing issues, in co-operation with the involved NGOs/ activists

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Biking Beyond Borders Goes East

Falkor Projects in 2006

International Youth Exchange project in Georgia2-10 July, 2006 in Batumi and Tbilisi

The most used reason nowadays for Georgians to be late on appointments is:” I was stuck in the traffic jam”. In daytime many cars are standing still on the main streets, causing even more air pollution and noise they would normally do, leaving pedestrians and a single cyclist behind coughing and sick of the gases. One of the key priorities of the Tbilisi government for 2007 was improvement of infrastructure. But will they include strategies to reduce car traffic and give more space for pedestrians and cyclists, will they think of making the city more clean and safe for children to play and in ge-neral for people to live in?

After having organized youth exchanges about cycling in Netherlands and Poland (1999), and a seminar about cycling with partner groups from Eastern-Europe and Caucasus in Groningen, Netherlands (2004), now it was time to really Go East!From 2 till 10 July 30 young people from Netherlands, Estonia, Hungary, Moldova and Armenia came together in Georgia to be involved in a youth exchange project on the subject ‘cycling in cities’.

What have we actually done?

The young participants and youth leaders worked together in intercultural games, discussions, workshops, presentations and public actions and made some small bike-tours in Georgia.There have been presentations about cycling in Groningen (Ne-therlands), Budapest (Hungary) and Talinn (Estonia) and about the European Mobility Week (an initiative of the European Com-mission). A Hungarian participant has done a presentation about his biketour from Budapest to Ba-tumi, about the especially for this biketour produced “Sustai-nable Mobility Guide for Munici-palities”, and reported about his

meetings with local authorities in Bulgaria and Turkey on his way to Georgia.Every country has presented their culture during one evening with music, drinks and dances. During the biketrips, excursions and in their free time the partici-pants got the opportunity to ex-change ideas on more personal level. Two members of the Tbilisi Cyclists League attended the whole project and were actively involved in the activities.During these activities all got better acquainted with each others living environment, cul-tures, history and wishes and dreams for the future.

Active citizenship

The (relatively) in-experienced participants have learned from the more experienced partici-pants about active citizenship. They exchanged experiences about the activities they have done in their own cities regar-ding developing a more healthy living environment and sustai-nable transport. The presenta-tion and video from Budapest showed a very recent, very fast development of cycling culture, infrastructure and increase num-

ber of cyclists, initiated by just a few people, and this amazed many participants and made them realize that the unexpec-ted is possible! We have seen also images of Bulgaria where car-free city-centres are being developed and heared about en-thusiastic NGOs in Bulgaria and Turkey (who helped to translate the Sustainable Mobility Guide in their own language.)During the preparations for the street actions the partici-pants learned how to develop their own ideas and wishes into concrete messages to the public (and politicians) in Georgia.

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Cycling promotion

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cling has been promoted as a cool, clean, fast and healthy way of transport for Georgian citizens during the exchange project via street actions in Tbilisi and Ba-tumi and in Georgian media.The street action in Batumi (a town at the Black Sea cost) was on and around the boulevard, where we were handing out leaflets, speaking with people, and drawing bicycles on the pa-vement together with children. We distributed some posters in

the town before the action, and we were all wearing T-shirts with images and slogans of our pro-ject. Most reactions were very positive. Some people wanted to know where they could take bicycle lessons!During our cycling in and around Batumi we noticed that it would be very well possible to develop cycling culture and infrastructure in Batumi because the city is not that big, and the streets are flat. Our planned meeting with theBatumi media and authorities was cancelled, because at that same day some important poli-tician visited the town and they said they were occupied with this completely. So we cycled ourselves to the city hall, just to show ourselves and make a statement, and were on the way almost run over by this politician and his police escort. We stood there for a while, made a lot of noise and gave leaflets to the passers-by.

In Tbilisi we cooperated with students from CYEN (Caucasus Youth Environmental Network) and our street action was a part

of their ”Footprints festival”. Apart from our participants, there were more cyclists from the Tbilisi Cycling League, students from CYEN, a group of percussionists and Jumber Lezhava, the famous Georgian World Traveller by bicycle. After a meeting in front of the City hall with all participants, press and the Dutch ambassador, we went all together with police escort to Republic Square, with live music, whistles, and a Georgian student explaining our action in a me-gaphone on the way. At Republic Square a concert followed and more interviews were taken by Georgian media. The festival and the action were covered three times on national TV (Channel 1 and Imedi), one time on Satur-day (as announcement) and two times on Monday (a report).

The project was financed with support of the European Com-munity and the Royal Nether-lands Embassy in Tbilisi. The bicycle accessories were partly sponsored by Refide Bicycle shop in Groningen.

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EVS-projects in Georgia

European Voluntary Service (EVS) projects of Dutch volunteers in Georgia.

Nikolai Pushkarev’s 6 month-EVS-project, that started in 2005 at the HRIDC (Human Rights Information and Documentation Centre) in Tbilisi, ended per 1 march 2006.. His main program related activities at or connected to the HRIDC were: English editing of daily informational bul-letins, setting up a project for empowerment of socially excluded women with a local newly established women’s organization, making two short documentary films - one on (il)legal woodcutting and the other on river poisoning, compiling the Center’s annual human rights re-port on Georgia (so the one of 2005) and gathering information on a possible project on ethnic conflict resolution in the regions.

In May 2006 Tabitha van den Berg started her 8 months of EVS in Georgia at the CENN office (Caucasus Environmental NGO Network) in Tbilisi. Her activities were mainly in the framework of CYEN, the Caucasus Youth Environmental Network, a new initiative of CENN established in 2005. Tabitha organized together with CYEN a youth festival named “Footprints festival” in Tbilisi in July and a Youth Ecological Camp in Bakuriani in August. In December she coordinated together with a group of young Georgian volunteers the “Footprints Documentary Film Festival” in the main cinema hall in Tbilisi. See her personal reports below.

Weekend Full of Footprints!!

CENN has been fostering the Caucasus Youth Environmental Network, CYEN, for almost a year now. Many activities hap-pened over the past year and we are confident next year will bring many more!But now, at the end of the “Academic Season”, we all felt it was time to make some noise! To make people know we exist and to make them aware of those things we care for. Early June we decided to host a festival called “Foot-prints”, in the weekend of July 8 & 9th. In less than 6 weeks we managed to put together quite a program.

On Saturday we “took over” Mziuri Park in Tbilisi. In the afternoon people/youth could get informed about the work of all sorts of NGOs on the NGO-info market and take a look at the open-air CYEN Photo exhibition. Later in the afternoon it was time for some noise and we watched how four bands of quite different styles took on stage and entertained about 400 young people.The Sunday was perhaps even more exciting: Tbilisi wit-nessed its first “Reclaim the Streets”. About sixty people cycled from Freedom Square to Republic Square, joined by another 50 people on foot, giving out leaflets to rather astonished by pas-sers…

Both days we tried to show that first of all “we”, those participating and organis-ing the festival CARE about the environment (in a broad sense) that we live in. And not only that, we also believe that young people have a right and a responsibility to form their own opinion about those things that matter in their lives. Our slogan was for that reason “Watch your steps,

choose where you are going”.

We organizers, all young volunteers supported by the organizations CENN, HRIDC, Falkor and APD are very satisfied with our results! We learned a lot from this first time experience organising a festival, and we managed to attract quite an audience and some really good media coverage!”

Tabitha van den Berg

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6 days of camping in Bakuriani..

Tuesday morning August 29th, 6.45: 26 sleepy faces are waiting for a train at Borjomi Railwaystation in Tbilisi. For me some are vaguely familiar, most of them unknown. What will happen in the next few days? Where are we going and who are these people?

These people were old and new CYEN members and some of their interested friends and me, a European Volunteer at CENN. At this early hour we were on our way to Bakuriani, to participate in the first CYEN Eco(logical) Action Camp! Bakuriani is a popular ski resort in winter, located in the mountains in the south of Georgia. In summer it is how-ever quite a pleasant place to escape from heat and crazy city life as well!

Six days long we took part in workshops during the day, and enjoyed ourselves singing and joking at the

campfire at night. Workshops varied in topic, from “what is biodiversity” to “how to get what you want; lobby and campaigning strat-egies”. All workshops were aimed at empowering the ecological youth movement. To give us the capacity and confidence that we CAN make a difference and we CAN act to protect nature and those things important to us!

Of course having an ecologi-cal action camp without action and filled with nothing but talking is a bit silly, so we also organized some activities. First we cleaned the “pick nick” area around our campsite (8 trash bags of 120 liters were FULL after this spontaneous clean up). After that we hosted an environmental movie night in the school of Bakuriani. A documentary on Corruption and Forest Destruction in Pirin Mountains in Bulgaria (quite similar to what is happening in the region in and around Bakuriani) and after that a documentary on what hap-pened in Chernobyl in 1986.On the last day before depar-

ture we went for some REAL action. After a night full of preparing, painting banners, designing leaflets and decid-ing on slogans we were ready! On Saturday morning we went to the parc in the centre of Bakuriani and CLEANED.All of us took a binbag and simply started to gather the mess around us… After that we cre-ated an artistic “trash mon-ster” with the help of some lo-cal children. We put him at the entrance gate of the parc as a sign to those using the parc! “We want a clean Balkuriani and no “Trash monsters”!

All in all, we had quite a week full of Fun and Action and I think most of us will need a few days to recover sleep ;-). But beware, as soon as the universities start again WE WILL BE THERE!!! With new actions, campaigns and criti-cal minds to what WE and YOU do with our environment!”

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Festival Madness at CENN!!!

After months of preparations and moments of wondering “what are we doing?” last week it finally happened. From 5 till 8th of December we hosted the footprints docu-mentary film festival here in Tbilisi. Over 50 movies from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Geor-gia were shown in two halls from 14.00-22.00 each day. Movies were subdivided in three categories: Man versus Nature, Heroes of Our Time and Cultural Identity and Globalisation.

We had two main aims when this plan first arose. First of all we wanted to support and

promote young documentary makers in this region. Docu-mentaries can be an impor-tant tool for free and inde-pendent media. We believe documentary mak-ing can really contribute to better informed citizens and therefore help the strengthen-ing of civil society and democ-racy as a whole. Only when you know what happens you have the possibility to form and express your opinion. So our second aim was to make a contri-bution to a better informed audience, about environment, about culture and in general about many inspiring and remarkable human beings in and from the South Caucasus.

Throughout our festival we have tried to entertain and interest people in the themes we were covering. And per-haps it is not wise to say but we had not expected to be so lucky with our first festi-val. The team of volunteers worked fast, smooth and reli-able. Every minute of the day they were hanging around, discussing about the movies, attracting regular visitors of the cinema to come to our fes-tival instead of a Hollywood movie and giving informa-tion about the movies in the program.

One of our biggest worries was not to be noticed by media and empty halls. Well, neither of them came true. Every evening we witnessed full halls and media kept us so busy giving interviews we hardly had time to do anything else! All together we estimate we had over 800 visitors all through the festival.

The opening evening was per-haps most spectacular. With our charming host and head of the Jury “Vladimir Lozinski, a well known Australian news maker who filmed all over the world, we announced the winners of the British Council “Hero of My Time”- Award, the Youth-Film-competition con-nected to this Festival: Ms Yevgenia Shekoyan from Ar-menia (1st prize), Irakli Tsana-va and Levan Jobava from Georgia (2nd prize) and Igbal Mammadaliev from Az-erbaijan (3rd Prize).

We will try our best to con-tinue the work we started and hope all our participants as well as our audience will con-tinue to film, to discuss and to think. We hope to have sent a sparkle of positivity around, showing there is both a need as well as an interest in Docu-mentary making in the South Caucasus! See you next year at Foot-prints Documentary Film Festi-val 2007!!!!??? “

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The BEM Youth Progressive Ac-tion Centre, an initiative from Falkor I.C.Y. started up in 2004, faced a year of many internal changes, resulting in a total new staff at the end of 2006. Nevertheless projects and ac-tivities continued as much as was possible thanks to active volunteers and board mem-bers.

In the beginning of 2006 BEM (old) staff and volunteers took part in a Loesje creative ex-change project in Berlin.

On Press Freedom Day, May 1, 2006, BEM participated in writing texts for the interna-tional project “A Book in 1 Day”, organized by Loesje. Topics for textwriting were: Freedom, Untyped Thoughts, Alternative ways of self expression, Anarchy and Press, Blogs, Ethics in journal-ism, Freedom/Accessibility of Information. Printed books were received in August 2006 and spread in Armenia, rais-ing interest to the project itself, Loesje and activism in general. BEM’s team was one of hundreds which partici-pated in creating the book. It attracted some new people in Loesje text writing. It was interesting for them to express their opinion, and find their messages printed in thou-sands and spread over the world. More info can be found on www.1-day.org

In June and July 5 BEM mem-bers (1 leader and 4 partici-pants) took part in the prepa-ration meeting and the youth exchange project “Biking Beyond Borders” in Georgia, see page 6 and 7.

From 13-23 October 2006 the international youth exchange project “Great ideas, get even better, when you share them”, a project of BEM and Loesje, took place in Armenia, in Tsakhkadzor and Yerevan. All local preparations

for the exchange were done by BEM.The participants were from 4 countries, of 9 nationalities. The goal of the project was to develop a handbook on organ-izing street actions. Everyday, participants were writing down and filmingactivities. There were theoreti-cal workshops, discussions, brainstorming, preparations, street actions and evaluation of these actions. The participants divided in four working groups: Environ-ment, Globalization, Culture and Politics. Four street ac-tions were done, which had a much better feedback, then we could expect, especially taking into account that only 1/3 of each group could speak languages widely spoken in Yerevan (Armenian and Rus-sian). Several reportages dur-ing street actions, and inter-views after the project were shown on TV and on radio (AR, Internews-H1, Radio Liberty,

HAIFM). A lot of people were interested in the project, idea, and in BEM activities.For 60% of the participants it was the first youth exchange in their life, and for all people directly involved in organising and leading of the exchange it was also their first organi-zational experience. So this exchange gave really a lot of experience, contacts and in-spiration for all participants. The electronic version of the handbook can be found here: http://greatideas.loesje.org/greatideas.pdf.It will be hard-printed in November 2007, and spread through the network of Loesje and BEM. For more information about BEM’s activities: www.bem.am

BEM Youth Progressive Action Centre

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Activities 2006Sustainable Mobility Guide and personal delivery by bicycle

Falkor assisted Justin Hyatt from our partner organiza-tion ZOFI in Hungary with the production of the “Sustainable Mobility Guide for Municipal Leaders”, and his personal de-livery by bicycle, as part of the “Biking Beyond Borders Goes East”-project in Georgia.

The Sustainable Mobility Guide is a packet of information, articles, suggestions and sta-tistics, designed to paint a pic-ture of sustainable and beauti-ful urban landscape, complete with positive sustainable transportation developments, carfree areas, bike-friendly and green improvements. The aim of the Guide is to catch the attention of city officials, urban planners, and interested citizens.The guide is divided up along several topics, in-cluding environmental impact of widespread private car use, healthy cities infrastructure, pedestrian areas, public areas, green areas, traffic evapora-tion, traffic calming measures, sustainable urban transport strategies. Many examples and best practices from around the world are given.

Justin Hyatt undertook a bi-cycle ride between Budapest,

Hungary, and Batumi, Geor-gia, the location where “Biking Beyond Borders goes East”, took place. On the way to Batumi and back to Hungary, he has met with both munici-pal and NGO representatives, handing out copies of the Guide, engaging in dialogue with local citizens and making public presentations.

The plan is to distribute the guide in local language ver-sions in South-East Europe, Turkey and the Caucasus. Due to unsufficient funding and time, during the BBB-project the guide was made avail-able only in English, Bulgarian and Turkish. PDF-formats are downloadable from the Falkor website.

Participation in 10 years EVS event of the Dutch National Agency

On 26 October 2006 the Dutch National Agency of the Eu-ropean Commission YOUTH program organised en event called ´10 jaar Europees Vrijwilligerswerk: Verleg je grenzen.´(10 years Euro-pean volunteer work, extend your borders). Both Falkor staffmembers took part in this event, which was partly a training on EVS and the new YOUTH program starting in 2007, and a party of the NA including “EVS-awards” for Dutch sending and hosting organizations.

Falkor presentation at the ‘Develop your World’ infomarket in Groningen

Falkor presented its activities on the ‘Develop your World’ infomarket in Groningen on 13 November, an annual event organized by “De Club van 2000”, a Dutch youth-initiative for development work.

Orphaned Sources’ in the program of the Footprints Documen-tary Film Festival in Georgia

The Falkor documentary “Orphaned Sources”, about uncontrolled radioactive waste in Georgia, was included in the program at the “Footprints Documentary Film Festival” in Georgia, for their “Man-versus-Nature”- section.This festival was initiated by our EVS volunteer Tabitha van den Berg. Though the video was shot in 2003, the subject is still actual due to some new events in Georgia in this sphere, and the still not much improved state control. New requests to buy or use the documentary are still occur-ring.

Justin with the mayor of Istanbul

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On 8 March 2006 the article ”Biking Beyond BordersGoes East; Fietsen op hetkruispunt van Europa en Azie”, appeared in Dutch local news-paper ‘de Groninger Gezins-bode’.Also LA21 published an article about BBB in their monthly newsletter. Futher there were several announcements of the BBB-project in mailing lists and on websites of other NGOs. Also the Royal Netherlands Em-bassy in Georgia, a sponsor of BBB, described the project on their website. Tabitha wrote an article about her EVS-project in the LHUMP magazine, a publication of the LHUMP students platform in the Netherlands. Also several articles written by her were published in CENN magazine, a montly publication of the CENN network in Caucasus.

In October 2006. an interview with our EVS-volunteer Nikolai Pushkarev was published in SALTO EECA magazine, >>

a publication of the Eastern Europe and Caucasus Resource Center in Warsaw (see page 14).

Throughout the year we have sent an average of 3 Falkor email-newsletters per month about our own projects and about projects of our partner organizations.

Participation in Train-ing Course and Con-tact Making Seminar in Georgia

Falkor has sent one Dutch par-ticipant to the Training Course “Youth Workers in Training - Improving Working Skills for Intercultural Youth Exchanges” from December 7-12 in Tbilisi, Georgia.Soon after that we send one Dutch participant to the Con-tact Making Seminar “Youth Across Europe - New Partner-ships for a common future”, from December 14-18, also in Tbilisi.Both events were organized by our partner organization Academy for Peace and Devel-opment (APD).

Publicity

Roeland at the training course in Georgia

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People Staff: Marij Kloosterhof (pro-jects, finances), Janita Top (projects, publicity, website) Board: Theo Kurstjens (pre-sident), Wike Been, Harm van der Veen In 2006 Wike Been has repla-ced Paul Giesen as secretary.

Advisors: Willem Tjebbe Oos-tenbrink, Roel van den Bosch (Netherlands)

Besides the staff, volunteers from different countries have contributed or are contributing to the activities of Falkor with e.g. translations, computer as-sistance, financial advice and (assisting in) coordination of youth exchange projects.

Netherlands: Willem Pinkaers, Eric Brinkman, Jasper, Nina Tchkheidze, Martin Lambeek, Lut van der Molen, Jitske Hoogen-boom, Sanne de Kieviet, Marieke Kitzen, Tabitha van den Berg, Nikolai PushkarevGeorgia: Nino Gvedashvili, Rusu-dan Chkheidze, Nata Kajaia, Irina KitiashviliArmenia:Bella Avetisyan, Yeva Sargsyan, Maria Poghosian, Ru-zanna Poghosian, Armen Sargsy-an, Henry Karagyozyan, Arthur Barseghyan, Vahagn Vardumyan, Aleksey Chalabyan, Angela Ha-kobyan US/Armenia: Mark Belinsky United Kingdom: Pippa Gallop, Benjamin Diss Hosting website: Menno van den Bergh (Stichting Ideeel Internet)

Since 2005 there is also a Geor-gian branch of Falkor, ‘Falkor Georgia International Youth Union’. The board consists of: Nata Kajaia (chairman), Nino Gvedashvili, Rusudan Chkheidze, Irina Kitiashvili and Janita Top.

Partner organizations

Armenia:BEM Youth Progressive Ac-tion Centre (initiative of Falkor I.C.Y.)BURG Youth Environmental CenterCaucasus Media InstitueEspaces youth centre Yere-vanHelsinki Citizens Assembly, VanadzorInternews ArmeniaREC infopoint ArmeniaStepanavan Youth CenterYnternet.org

Czech Republic:Cycling and Energy FuturesWorld Carfree Network, Pra-gue

Denmark:Odense Youth House (‘Ung-domshuset’ )

Estonia:EHTE, TalinnEstonian Students Society for Environment Protection “Sorex”SAK

Georgia:Academy for Peace and Development (APD)Caucasus Centre for Con-temporary ArtCENN Caucasus Environmen-tal NGO NetworkThe Union “Century 21”Helsinki Citizens Assembly, TbilisiHuman Rights Information and Documentation Centre (HRIDC)The Regional Environmental Centre Caucasus (REC C)Greece:Erkyna Youth Group

Hungary:Young Greens (Zofi)

Moldova:Association European Youth Exchange

Netherlands:Action for Solidarity, Equality Environment Development (Aseed)European Youth Forest Ac-tion (EYFA)KeyoneMilieudefensie GroningenMilieukontakt Oost EuropaGroningen One WorldGroverpopVereniging Milieudefensie Amsterdam (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) World Information Service on Energy (WISE/Laka)

Poland:Green Federation Warsaw

Romania:TPN - Tinerii Prieteni ai Na-turii

United Kingdom:Baku-Ceyhan Campaign, Oxford

Ukraine:SVIT, Ukraine

Links to their websites are on www.falkor.org/organisa-tion/partners.html