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CEE Youth Group

CEE Youth Group — an initiative of the CEE Hub to informally connect young people (younger than 26 years old) from the Central and Eastern Europe across the region to support capacity building in this area. It is organised by CEE Hub coordinator Barbara Klen and SC member Klára Joklová.

The group was established in May 2023. We want to create a space for collaboration and sharing among young Wikimedians. For this reason, the Catch Up meeting held by CEE Hub and Wikimedia Foundation's Movement Communications regional specialist Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska on 16^th May 2023 was also focused on young people in the region.

Goals

CEE Youth Group initiative is planned to have bi-monthly meetings, starting from August 2023, focusing on creating a new opportunities for young editors and Wikimedia members from the region.

Possible ideas/goals open for discussion will be:

• organising an in-person event for young people from the CEE region during autumn 2023
• involvement of the young people in the upcoming Wikimania conference in 2024 in Poland
• better cooperation of young people in the CEE Region
• possible involvement of the group into Wikivibrance network

How to participate?

Everyone younger than 26 years old from the CEE Region can be part of this group. Please fill out the form.

Contacts

If you want to be in contact with our group, you can do that on following ways:

• Email: youth@wmceehub.org
• Telegram: @ceeyouth
• Instagram: ceeyouthgroup

Supporting members and staff

Barbara Klen

CEE Hub Coordinator
CEE Hub

CET/CEST
Croatian, English
BKlen-CEEhub
barbara.klenwmceehub.org

Klára Joklová (WMCZ)

Executive Director/Steering Committee member
Wikimedia Czech Republic/CEE Hub

CET/CEST
Spanish, English
Klára Joklová (WMCZ)
klara.joklovawikimedia.cz

Toni Ristovski

Programme and Administrative support
CEE Hub

CET/CEST
Macedonian, English
TRistovski-CEEhub
toni.ristovskiwmceehub.org

Lucie Schubert (WMCZ)

Education & Community Programmes Manager
WMCZ

CET/CEST
Czech, Slovak, English
Lucie Schubert (WMCZ)
lucie.schubertwikimedia.cz

Members

List of current members of the CEE Youth Group:

Some members of the Wikimedia CEE Youth Group with CEE Hub staff, Klára Joklová and Lucie Schubert

Members of the CEE Youth Group

Nr.	Name	Username	Country
1	Y. Caner Özyayıkçı	Kurmanbek	Turkey
2	Tomáš	V0lkanic	Czech Republic
3	Mari Avetisyan	Մարի Ավետիսյան Mari Avetisyan WMAM	Armenia
4	Wikimedia CEE Hub/Youth Group/en/Name	janbery	Czech Republic
5	Táda Bednarz	Plánovací kalendář	Czech Republic
6	Valentyn	Renvoy	Ukraine
7	Nikos Likomitros	NikosLikomitros	Greece
8	Lan Glad	Upwinxp	Slovenia
9	Toprak	ToprakM	Turkey
10	Denis Smajlović	Deni	Denmark
11	Kacper Szymański	Jamnik z Tarnowa	Poland
12	Martin Urbanec	Martin Urbanec	Czech Republic
13	Daryna	Rina.sl	Ukraine
14	Ege Atacan Doğan	Egezort	Turkey
15	Lumi	Gufo46	Turkey
16	Hanne İsna Sevinç	isnaaa	Turkey
17	Nino Turmanidze	Nina1009	Georgia
18	Mia Lovrec	The Yennefer	Croatia
19	Mariam Kvartskhava	Marikuna-115	Georgia
20	Elbek Khabibullaev	Элдин беги	Kyrgyzstan
21	Antony Fragakis	AntonyFragakis	Greece
22	Marija Mihailova	Macciiiiii	North Macedonia
23	Jan Myšák	Jan Myšák	Czech Republic
24	Muzaffar Turgunov	Muzaffar Turgunov	Uzbekistan
25	Nursultan	Malik Nursultan B	Kazakhstan
26	Apostolos Balanos	Χιονάκι	Greece
27	Nichita Onufriev	Fenikals	Moldova
28	Ofelya Hakobyan	Օֆելյա Հակոբյան	Armenia
29	-	Nemoralis	Azerbaijan
30	Aykhan Zayedzadeh	Solavirum	Azerbaijan
31	Aleksandar	Aca	Serbia
32	Qurbonbek Joʻrayev	Mirishkorlik	Uzbekistan

Working groups

Here you can find created working groups of the CEE Youth Group after the January 2024 meeting. If some other member wants to join them, please add yourself and notify the responsible CEE Hub members, if that is applicable.

Working groups	Members from the group	CEE Hub members
Wikimania 2024 youth program	Nikos, Mari, Nichita, Caner, Mia, Marija	Barbara, Klára
Project grant application	Mari	Barbara
Visual design	Caner	none
Game nights	Mariam, Caner	none
Communication (youth social networks/channels)	Nikos, Janbery, Rina	none
Contests	Ege	Toni

List of events

There is no scheduled a meeting for the next period.

Past meetings

Nr.	Day	Date	Time	Location	Topic(s)
23/01	Thursday	August 3, 2023	18:00 – 19:00 CEST	Google Meet	Introduction
23/02	Monday	August 28, 2023	18:00 – 19:00 CEST	Google Meet	Preparation for the CEE Meeting 2023
23/03	Friday	September 15, 2023	18:00 – 19:30 CEST	CEE Meeting 2023 + Google Meet	Planning concrete activities for the upcoming months as well as the timeline.
23/04	Friday	November 10, 2023	16:00 – 17:00 CET	Google Meet	Preparation meeting for Prague Meeting, new members introduction.
23/05	Friday Saturday	November 24, 2023 November 25, 2023	17:00 – 19:00 CET 09:00 – 17:00 CET	Prague Meeting 2023	First in-person meeting.
24/01	Wednesday	January 17, 2024	18:00 – 19:00 CET	Google Meet	Youth Group in 2024, plans, goals, next steps.

Information for the upcoming meetings

Link about the upcoming online meetings of the CEE Youth Group is written below.

Link for the upcoming online meeting
Google Meet link for the upcoming online meetings Video call link:

Outreach

Regional projects

• Youth Wikimedians, Czech Republic
• Wikipedia Student Clubs, Turkey
• School of Philosophy, NKUA Wikiclub, Greece
• Young Wikimedians, Greece

Articles by/about CEE Youth

• CEE Youth Group - capacity building, opinion article written by Nikos Likomitros, Y. Caner Özyayıkçı and Toni Ristovski (CEE Hub). Published in 7 September 2023.
• Meet the CEE Youth Group - Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023 slide about the CEE Youth Group.
• My CEE Youth Group Prague Meeting 2023 notes, article written by Y. Caner Özyayıkçı
• CEE Youth Group Meeting in Prague, 2023 – my first international Wikimedia gathering, article written by Nikos Likomitros