Do you live or work in a project that would like to to use solar power with D.I.Y. technique? Are you active against ecological destruction, climate change and capitalism in general and would you like to have an exchange about practical alternatives from below? Do you want to build up daily life alternatives as well as search for the weak points of the huge energy trusts?

Social centres, squats, infoshops, free parties, protest camps, hacklabs and convergence centres... Autonomous spaces come in many forms and have often served as important bases of resistance for popular movements and struggles. In this newsletter we take a closer look at social centres around Europe, examining some of their potential strengths and weaknesses as projects for social change and looking at current struggles around protecting autonomous spaces.

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Despite the unexpected level of police repression at the Climate Summit demonstrations in Copenhagen, Denmark, thousands of protesters kept up the fight for ten days of action against the bankrupt United Nations climate conference, COP15, at the end of 2009. With this newsletter we take a look back at what happened.

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On March 11 and 12 2010 the education ministers of 46 European countries will celebrate the 10-years anniversary of the Bologna-process in Vienna and Budapest. Considering the current situation and the ongoing protests in many European Universities this celebration is a mockery for all of us. Not only has the Bologna-process clearly failed to achieve the agreed goals of improved mobility; it also led to more restrictions for students and their studies and to greater social selection of access to higher education in general. This is an International call for participation:

Climate Justice Action and others in direct action radical climate movements are bringing together a meeting to evaluate recent resistance to climate colonialism and to consider what's next. Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th February 2010 in AMSTERDAM: Plantagedoklaan 8-12, 1018 CM.

Over the past few years Climate Action Camps have sprung up around Europe and around the world. Taking inspiration from the 2006 UK Camp for Climate Action, the camps tend to bring together the aims education, sustainability, direct action and movement. This summer EYFA got involved with the first Dutch-Belgian Climate Action Camp and this newsletter is a look back on it. You can also find links on the various other camps that took place this summer at the bottom of the newsletter. .on Climate Action Camps

European Coordination Via Campesina
Reclaim the Fields
European Camp To Cultivate Alternatives
30th of September - 4th of October 2009, Minerve (France)

As was announced at last year's Ecotopia camp, EYFA will no longer be involved with the organization of Ecotopia. We decided to put our energy into a different format. The outcome is a Climate Action Camp inspired by the UK and German climate camps and in collaboration with other Dutch and Belgian groups and organizations. See Climate Action Camp

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With the prospect of catastrophic climate change looming ahead in the not-so-distant future and free-market financial capitalism in big trouble, new markets in carbon have become every big businessman's new best friend. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will hold their 15th annual Conference of the Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen in December where they will negotiate the treaty to follow the Kyoto Protocol, so we're dedicating this newsletter to understanding their new money-making bag of tricks.

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Deadline for applications- 1st September 2009

Working in the EYFA office as a project coordinator gives an opportunity to develop, carry out and support projects, actions and campaigns across Europe; and requires involvement in the running of the EYFA office and development of EYFA as a network.

In addition, we are looking for someone who can take on some responsibilities with EVS, a program funded by the EU Youth Agency which provides young people with financial support for one year to work in NGOs in another country. EYFA regularly organises exchanges which support the activities of organisations or groups whose principles and direction are in line with our own. We also have several EVS volunteers working in our office.