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Keywords: Leaflet.jpg European Environmental Bureau http //www eeb org European Youth Forum http //www youthforum org CEEWEB http //www ceeweb org Taiga Rescue Network http //www taigarescue org YEE History YEE was founded as the European regional branch of the International Youth Federation for Environmental Studies and Conservation IYF on the 3rd of August 1983 in Stockholm The first office of the federation was based in Copenhagen The origins of the organisation lay in the year 1948 when IUCN was funded by United Nations This event made possible founding many organisations from which later YEE was constituted The reasons of creation of YEE were connected with the problem of the international organisations thato couldn't reach all the areas in the world where they wanted to be represented That is why a need for local activities appeared and as the result there was the necessity to divide the world in 5 regions YEE was established by IYF with the cooperation of 15 organisations Four fouder organisations are still members of YEE Faltbiologerna Sweden Liga Ochrony Przyrody Poland DJN Germany JNM Belgium In 1986 as a consequence of work of research group on the forest new organisation was born from YEE - European Youth Forest Action EYFA that is still active In 1990 YEE office was moved to Utrecht in the Netherlands to locate it more centrally to the member organisations being united in the federation that time In 1991 as a further subgroup from EYFA the A SEED started to work as separate network so YEE started to have grandchildren The fourth cooperation was cooperation among YEE A SEED YDC and EYFA some of the results obtained were World Bank campaign A SEED YDC YEE Climate Change A SEED EYFA YDC YEE Magazine the Verge YEE and EYFA grant applications For some years in the 90s there was a second office of YEE hosted by the member organisation from Malta in order to deal with the Mediterranean issues closely In 1998 the third change of the location of the office occurred This time for the residence of YEE's office a medieval stronghold Toulcuv Dvur based in Prague was chosen The ecological center establised there joins together a range of ecological educational and cultural activities The area includes eight hectares of land including wetlands around a little stream YEE office is still located there nowdays In 2001 there was a dispute among the board and it was problematic to organise the AM There were financial problems and it was hard to rule the organisation The secretary general left the organisation not being able to solve the situation After that critical year many new improvements were done in the organisation Every year more and more organisations attend Annual Meeting the budget is growing more projects are run and more participants attend them In 2009 we had 49 member organisations from 28 countries In 2003 new changes happened in the office - YEE started to host EVS volunteers who help as members of the office team in daily work of the organisation In 2008 another worker part time started to work in the office and in 2009 one more coordinator joined the office team YEE YEE Office 2010-07-29 Logos of organizations Environmental organizations Non-governmental organizations Youth organizations International organizations Logos of student organisations
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