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LYNC IN GERMANY1THE PURPOSE OF OUR VISIT TO GERMANYThe LYNC Team was invited to Germany to the BuKo (BundesKongress) of young liberals in Saarbrücken to present the newly created regional network and to establish new official relations and partnership.

2THE ADVENTURES OF LYNC TEAM IN KÖLN, DÜSSELDORF AND SAARBRÜCKENFrom 15th to 21st of March 2012 “the lyncing young respresentatives” travelled to 4 cities in 2 countries. Changed 5 different types of transportation and met lots of interesting young people.

3WHAT PLANS DO WE HAVE NOW?We have agreed to realize a range of joint actions with the liberal youth from Germany. Currently we are working on the concrete action plan of future campaigns.

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LYNC DELEGATES JULIA MUZHICHENKO AND YEGANE HAJIYEVA SHARE THEIR IMPRESSIONS !

ADVENTUROUS AND FRUITFUL TRIP

Two participants from LYNC Team Julia Muzhichenko and Yegane Hajiyeva share their opinion about the trip to JuLis BundesKongress. Particularly, Ju l ia ment ions that the congress was well organized and very interesting. Everyone had a chance to speak up and there was a good atmosphere of discussion there. She has gained a lot of experience in the field of debating and would like to use this format of congress in Georgia later some time. In her words, that was very useful to get to know the point of view of the European citizens. Julia also values the opportunity to meet the LYMEC president, also Ivo Thijssen and Andreas Goffin, who share a lot of experience with the LYNC delegates.

Yegane shared that she was impressed with the amount of information regarding future partnership with LYNC and local political party. Yegane empha s i z ed t he un ique o p p o r t u n i t y t o s t a r t a friendship with the liberal youth of different European countries. It was a good c h a n c e t o p r e s e n t t h e perspectives of LYNC to develop network in the South Caucasus countries, tell about the tools and methods of possible support for triggering peace process in the region.

JULIA

YEGANE

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What impressions do you have from the BuKo Congress?

I was impressed by seeing such a big motivation and wish of young people to make something important in their country. I liked their method of discussions, the atmosphere of freedom and democratic decisions. It was really very good example of democratic congress and interesting young people, who care for their organization so much, that stayed until late hour in order to make right decisions.

What did you take with you home from BuKo?

The way of questioning, the style of congress in general. It was very effective from the point of active participations of BuKo members, it's another way of giving opportunity to the members to feel that they are very important part of Julis in general. I like it and already think About adopting this style in our congress.

What was especially useful for you as a LYNC member?

The meeting with international staff , where we had a chance to present LYNC, I got good friends and people with whom we will cooperate in future.And I liked the BuKo book, which they've printed before the congress and sent to delegates, I think it's useful tool and this experience needs to be used in case of LYNC too.

AFTER MORE THAN 400 STAIRS NOW I AM READY TO SURVIVE

WITHOUT ELEVATOR.

LILIT MELKONYAN

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What kind of contacts and networking did you make at BuKo?

Meeting Julis young activists, who are already active on international level, was a good achievement for us, because besides people, who had visited South Caucasus, we talked with other people, who had never been to the South Caucasus region but were interested to help us in our projects. For me it was just great to met there Alexander Plahr, the president of LYMEC, I'm sure now he'll be active in South Caucasus too.And old good friends from IFLRY, who already helped us with smart ideas connected to our future activities. I can't miss LHG, their international officer's great input to our work in general, I'm really happy that he was there and we had a chance to have another meetings with him in Düsseldorf.

This event was very successful for LYNC, it was full of great ideas, good examples, important contacts and positive feedback. That was great. And I need to write again, Cologne Cathedral was a

magic, after more than 400 stairs now I am ready to survive without elevator. :)

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LYNC is joining the world liberal youth society

Generating a youth community is a task for enthusiasts. Moreover, the fact of being a regional organization brings additional challenges. Being a dislocated team and working towards one purpose with a joint ideology of liberalism triggers to seek for partners worldwide.

For this purpose LYNC just couldn’t miss the invitation from JuLis to visit the BundesKongress in Saarbrücken. Our delegation arrived in Düsseldorf on 16th of March and headed to Köln, where we joined other young participants of the Congress and traveled to the final destination Saarbrücken. The three days of Congress were full of new experience and impressions. We were lucky to see how the youth events of this format take place internationally and we will undoubtedly take this experience back to the South Caucasus with us, to our local Congress of LYNC, which is planned to take place by the end of 2012.

At CongressHalle, where the event was taking place, the LYNC

team was presented to JuLis, IFLRY and LYMEC members. During the Congress days a range of potential and actual partnership relations were established with the above mentioned organizations. In April and May 2012 LYNC will try to make this arrangements work particularly for the upcoming joint campaigns in the countries of the region and in several European countries.

We had the chance to visit the h e a d q u a r t e r o f F D P i n Düsseldorf. There the local JuLis office and the activities of LHG were presented in details. This meeting was a great achievement for the LYNC team, as we managed to agree with the international officer of LHG Andreas Goffin on actua l coopera t ion p l an for the upcoming v ir tual and real campaigns.

After this trip LYNC team keeps on being greatly motivated to raise the community and share its ideology in the region. Now it is expected to be easier with our partners from Europe.

MOMENTS FROM THE TRIP

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