EYP Switzerland is in the middle of one of its most exciting years: the International Session in Zurich in July and our NSC in Romanshorn in September will follow this spring’s Regional Sessions. We hope that you still enjoy being a part of our organisation and are kindly asking you to pay your membership fee for 2013.

Please wire CHF 30.- via e-banking to EYP CH, Vignettaz 38, 1700 Fribourg

IBAN number: CH68 0483 5119 3450 8100 0

Please send you membership fee until 31 May 2013. Thank you in advance. If you have any questions concerning your membership fee, please get in touch with us. We also remind you of the possibility of claiming one of our Alumni Travel Grants (up to CHF 80.-) when travelling to a session abroad – it’s worth it being a member of EYP Switzerland.

We are looking forward to seeing you at one of our events this summer!

Do you know that one school you would badly want to apply to Romanshorn 2013, our next National Selection Conference? Have your friends been asking you how to join EYP? And are you ready to enthuse new people for our organisation? We want you to help us diversify and extend the pool of schools that participate in our events.

Become a Regional Promoter of our Regional Sessions and National Selection Conferences now! Your tasks are simple and you decide how much you will get involved: Let us know about schools we missed so far and volunteer to give short presentations about workshops to interested students. You only need to get involved whenever you have the time to.

More details can be found here!

Ms Kerstin Mathias (DE) was selected to be the president of Zurich 2013, the 73rd International Session of the EYP, taking place in Zurich 19th – 28th July 2013. The selection was made unanimously by a Selection Panel composed by a representative of the National Organising Committee, the president of the past International Session and a representative of the Governing Body of the EYP.

EYP Switzerland has previously had the pleasure of working with Kerstin and is looking forward welcoming her as the president of its summer session. Further information concerning Zurich 2013 can be found on the session website.

The members of EYP Switzerland elected a new board at the annual General Assembly which took place on Sunday, 3 March 2013. The assembly confirmed the incumbent candidates in their positions and elected Julie Huissoud and Nora Willhelm as new candidates, who will take over from Filip Winzap and Delia Berner. EYP Switzerland is much obliged to Delia and Filip for their longstanding dedication to the organisation. The board of EYP Switzerland for 2013 is composed as follows:

— Ueli Staeger (President)

— Sophie Debrunner Hall (Vice-President, International Coordination)

— Cecilia Mihaljek (Support International Coordination)

— Konrad Staeger (Communication)

— Nora Willhelm (External Affairs)

— Lukas Bock (National Events)

— Dominic Degen (National Conferences)

— Julie Huissoud (Finances & Membership)

The assembly approved of the minutes of last year’s GA and the annual account, discharged the board and confirmed Patrick Geiger and Kathrin Munz as auditors. Furthermore, an open open discussion about improvements for school recruitment and regional sessions took place.

With the upcoming year bringing many exciting opportunities for EYP Switzerland, namely the International Session taking place in Zurich in July, and given the recent cancellation of a Regional Session, the board decided to set “balancing high ambitions and limited resources” as its motto for 2013. All whilst taking into account the limited personal and financial resources of EYP Switzerland, the board aims at maintaining its high quality standard at all events.

In addition to our early invitation to the General Assembly 2013 of EYP Switzerland, we are glad to invite all of our members to the annual General Assembly. Please find the agenda for the GA here, including links to the attachments in the file.

The General Assembly 2013 of EYP Switzerland will take place at the legendary Bahnhofbuffet Olten on Sunday, 3 March 2013, at 14:00. We are looking forward to welcoming as many members as possible. In order to take part, you need to be a member of EYP Switzerland (i.e. you must have paid your membership fee of CHF 30.- for 2013) and sign up using this form.

GA is a vital part of EYP Switzerland’s associative life. Use this opportunity to mingle with old friends during the assembly and the drinks that will follow it!

EYP Switzerland is happy to launch the call for Organisers of its 17th National Selection Conference. Every session requires dedicated and talented invididuals who put their minds and hands into the project in order to make it happen — and so does Romanshorn 2013. For the organising of the 17th National Selection Conference hosted in Romanshorn, we are looking for organisers who will join Head Organiser Julia Badertscher in this great opportunity to create a unique session.

The session will place 3rd – 8th September 2013, with several meetings of the Organisers’ Team beforehand. Both individuals from the region of Romanshorn as well as from the rest of Switzerland are invited to apply until 30th of January 2013 by filling out this form.

The Board warmly encourages all members of EYP Switzerland to apply as Organisers.

If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch with Julia Badertscher (julia.badertscher@eyp.ch) or to send an e-mail to info@eyp.ch.

Call for Officals: PDF

We are very happy to be welcoming, once again, four international alumni of the EYP to bring their experience and charisma to our Regional Sessions this year. The Presidents will be:

Max Karpf (DE) – Basel 8.2.13
Monika Ghosh (UK) – St. Gallen 1.3.13
Irem Tümer (TR) – Bern 8.3.13
Célia Poncelin (FR) – Geneva 8.3.13

These four individuals are now looking to complete their chairs’ teams with younger alumni of the EYP. No previous chairing experience is necessary and there will be a chairs’ training for the chairs of all four Regional Sessions on the 12th-13th of January in Winterthur with Franziska Maier, President of EYP Germany.

For more information, please look at the Call for Chairs and submit your application here by Saturday, the 29th of December.

General Assembly 2013 

The General Assembly 2013 of EYP Switzerland will take place at the legendary Bahnhofbuffet Olten on Sunday, 3 March 2013, at 14:00. We are looking forward to welcoming as many members as possible. In order to take part, you need to be a member of EYP Switzerland (i.e. you must have paid your membership fee of CHF 30.- for 2013) and sign up using this form. Please sign up until 24 February 2013 the latest.

Call for Board Members

Do you want to be more active in EYP on a national level? Do you want to change certain things in EYP Switzerland? Do you want to join the Board of EYP Switzerland? In order to run for the 2013 board election, fill out this form until 17 February 2013. The portfolios Finances & Membership as well as External Affairs are vacant as of March, while all other board members will be available as candidates for another year.

As Ueli Staeger, President of EYP Switzerland, announced on at the Christmas Dinner on Saturday, 8 December 2012, the 17th National Selection Conference of EYP Switzerland will take place in Romanshorn from the 4th-8th of September 2013. Congratulations to Head Organisers Julia Badertscher and Sonja Geiger and everyone from the Kanti Romanshorn!

We were very happy to welcome 65 EYPers to our Christmas Dinner, which took place in Basel last Saturday – a pleasant and sociable end to a successful year for EYP Switzerland. The first round of Regional Sessions, the National Selection Conference in Aarau as well as several social events and trainings would not have been possible without the dedication and involvement of our alumni. Thank you to all those who organised or attended one of our events.