The year begins in August and ends in June, including workshops, projects, international internships and local community engagements.
Explore the Curriculum
You must be 19–25 years old to apply for YIP. Start by filling out the online application form. The application for YIP 2012–2013 will remain open until 10 June 2012. Apply Now!
Participants
YIP 2011–2012 has 40 participants from 18 countries on six continents. The participants are posting online at participants.yip.se.
Organization
YIP is organized by The YIP Association, as a program under the Swedish Folk High School Vårdinge By.
Soil, Food & Agriculture With Nikolai Fuchs
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Open For All: Public Lectures and Open Courses
Most of the weekly courses are accompanied by Public Lectures with the Course Leader.
Some of the courses are also open for external participation: A great opportunity to experience YIP for a week! Read more about the Open Courses.
Recommendations to Rio+20 from YIP4 Participants
Memorandum to the organising committee of the Rio+20 conference, June 2012, from the Participants of the International Youth Initiative Program in Järna, Sweden
Make a Buzz about the Bees
Bees are having a hard time lately; they’re dying in droves. YIP and Initiative Forum are collaborating with Nature & More to help the bees! Nature & More sponsored all of the organic fruit and most vegetables at Initiative Forum, and provides us with organic flower seeds. Now we ask for your help in this campaign to help the bees!
Initiative Forum 2012 Harvest
250 people gathered in Järna for the Initiative Forum, organized by the YIP Participants, 7–14 April 2012. Did you miss it? Here is a 10 minute harvest video!
Process Reflections Initiative Forum 2012
One thing is for sure, no matter what the outcome of Initiative Forum 2012, the planning and organizing process that we have gone through has been intense.
