"Water, Air & Earth - Celebrating Nature, Improving the Future"
15-22 August 2004 - Durham, UK
The Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe (EYCE) held a summer school on the theme "Water, Air & Earth - Celebrating Nature, Improving the Future" in Durham, UK, 15-22 August 2004. The event was prepared in co-operation with ECEN.
How are we using/misusing nature? How can we live together? What are the things I can do to improve my relationship to the rest of the nature? How do everyday actions impact my future? These are some of the questions EYCE dealt with during the summer school.
EYCE Press Release 24.08.2004
The Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe can gladly report that the EYCE Summer
School 2004 was successfully implemented from 15th to 22nd of August 2004 in
Durham, England, UK. It was an event held in close co-operation with the
European Christian Environmental Network (ECEN – www.ecen.org) and was welcomed
by Churches Together in England (CTE). 37 participants from 15 European
countries and the U.S.A. came together. “Be Eco – It’s Fun!” was the motto that
was created by the participants in the beginning of the week and later even
turned into an easy to remember jingle.
The second EYCE Summer School focused on the theme “Water, Air and Earth –
Celebrating Nature, Improving the Future”.
Indeed, the participants looked into the environmental problems related to
water, air and earth. And as one of the participants said: “Yes, we celebrated
the Nature”. Ideas were gathered and projects were proposed that will help to
improve the future and sustain our environment. The summer school was intended
to not only bring about more knowledge on how to better care for Creation as our
environment, but it was meant to be full of creative elements.
Participants therefore received input from various guest speakers but they were
also experts themselves. It was learning by heads, hands and hearts!
Participants investigated closely the issue of Climate Change, learnt how to
re-use and recycle various resources themselves, learnt about the needs of
Eco-systems and gained insight on how the Bible looks at Creation.
37 young people will act as multipliers as they committed themselves to improve
our future and this is only the beginning… Momentum was gained and encouragement
was received as all participants got ideas how they can make a difference:
“We have not inherited the earth from our parents, we are borrowing it from our
children!”
More detailed information will be made available in the Final Report. You can
now view the first pictures in the gallery on the EYCE website.
For further information and to express
interest, please contact EYCE office:
Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe
Rue du Champ de Mars 5
B - 1050 Bruxelles
BELGIUM
Tel: +32 (0) 2 510 6187
Fax: +32 (0) 2 510 6172
Mob: +32 (0) 485 915895
Email: general.secretary@eyce.org
Web: www.eyce.org
This page was created on 24 August 2004
