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Euskal Etxeak GAZTEMUNDU GAZTEGARAGAZTE • GAZTEGARAGAZTE • GAZTEGAR This year, the organizers have made special efforts G A Z T E M U N D U is a pro- –as they did last year– in relation to the English speaking gram organized by the General Secretary of Foreign Ac- countries, overcoming the language barriers, so that tion of the Basque Government and specifically ad- they can also send their representatives without any dressed to the young members of the Euskal Etxeak. The problems. program was born in 1996 and in this fifth edition it keeps offering the Basque young men and women a chance to express themselves in an international background. A new impulse for the Program The representatives of the Basque centers, gathered in the 2nd World Congress of Basque communities 1999, celebrated in Vitoria-Gasteiz last October, suggested the promotion of pro- grams addressed to the younger members of the centers in order to give them a deeper knowledge of the present reality of the country their ances- tors left so long ago (sometimes these young pe- ople belong to the fourth and even fifth gener- ations). This proposal from the Congress has become the first of the 70 items of the Four-year Institu- tional Action Plan (2000-2003). A part of the grants program for the Euskal Etxeak will be set aside to finance specific actions such as Gaztemundu. Therefore, the Direction of Relations with the Basque Communities has created a specific bud- get for Gaztemundu, which is a sort of guarantee of a certain future for Gaztemundu. A double goal The Program’s bases a) Give the young men and women aged between 20 The bases for year 2000 were sent to all Basque centers and 30 from the Basque communities the chance to get a in December 1999, for the members can only receive them direct knowledge of the Basque Country and establish re- through the Euskal Etxeak. After all, one of the main re- lations with organizations, companies and people working quirements to take part in it is to have been a member of the in Euskadi, promoting new exchanges between the young corresponding center for at least three years. people from outside and inside Euskal Herria. The requirements are the same as they were in the b) Attract and encourage the participation of these preceding years: the participants young Gaztemundu men and women in the active life of must be aged between 20 and the Euskal Etxeak, which are generally Gaztemundu 30 and they must prove they in need of a change of generation. are effectively related to the During their stay, (from September Objectives of Basque center. 11th 2000 to September 23th 2000, 56 applications have been Bringing thecommunities younger members closer to theof presentthe Basquepartici- Eus- pre-selected and the appli- these young Gaztemundu people from Gaztemundu the Basque Communities will visit dif- kadi. cants have been given a three- ferent places all over Euskal Herria Encouragingpants these to takeyoung part in the activities of the month term to prepare the (Basque Autonomous Community, Euskal Etxeak research works that have been Navarre and Iparralde) and they will take proposed. In the present edition there will be 50 part in the presentation and debate of participants at most, who will stay here between many subjects and in many other activities such as tourist September 11th and 23th. visits and other free time activities in a friendly atmosphere. After this year’s edition, a percentage of the applica- More than 200 young people from Argentina, Australia, tions will be reserved for the students of the «Argentinan Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, The United States, Mexico, Pe- Euskaraz» program, developed by the General Secretary ru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela, have al- of Foreign Action in collaboration with HABE, so that the ready taken part in this program, one of the best, accord- future Argentinean Euskera teachers will have their own ing to the Basque communities abroad. space inside the group. 4 GAZTEMUNDU RAGAZTE • GAZTEGARAGAZTE • GAZTEGARAGAZTE New requirements of Gaztemundu – 2000 who will contribute with their efforts to the better knowledge of the history and reality of the Basque communities There have been some changes in the requirements to abroad. take part in the fifth edition, Gaztemundu-2000. The The increasing number of applicants has convinced changes have come as a result of the experience provid- the Gaztemundu Organizing Commission that, not only ed by the four preceding years, and also following the sug- have they been successful in their new proposals, but al- gestions of the participants through the question papers so that the quality of the surveys will get better and better. they fill in at the end of their stay in Euskadi. One of the changes is about the subjects of the works the candidates must present. Several new subjects have been included this year, leaving the list as follows: Aurtengo ediziorako zenbait aldaketa egin dira. ✓ History of the Bas- que center the appli- cant belongs to. Asmoa da partehartzaileen aldetik ere ekarpenak egitea. ✓ History of any other Basque institution in euskal etxeen aldetik oso ondo baloratu izan den ekimena da. their country Gaztemundu ✓ Experiences and sto- ries of Basque immi- Fruituak ikusten hasi gara: gazteak Zuzendaritzetan, interneten... grants/ Basque exile ✓ Elaboration of a spe- cific project to be ap- Hamabost egunetan zehar egindako lagunekin harremanetan jarraitu izan dute. plied in or by their Bas- que center ✓ Future of the Basque centers ✓ International relations of the Basque centers A fruitful program ✓ Institutional policies in Euskadi in a particular sector ✓ Ways to promote economic relations between Eus- kadi and the applicant’s own country Gaztemundu is above all a reciprocated bet of mutual ✓ Basque presence in the Internet attraction between Euskadi and the young Basques living ✓ Any Basque subject related to the Basque center. all over the world; this is a medium and long-term project, organized in order to ensure a fruitful future. In fact, this The pre-selected applicants have now three months to future exists already, for although this is a relatively new elaborate their papers, which must be at least 25 pages program (born in 1996, this is the fifth edition), it has al- long. During the inauguration of the World Congress in ready generated remarkable consequences, such as the October, when he was given the «Lagun Onari» distinc- creation of solid personal links among the participants, tion, Professor William A. Douglass told the representa- and between them and Euskadi as well. We should also tives of the institutions and the Basque communities mention the suggestion of organizing a meeting of ex- abroad that: «it is urgent to document the history of gaztemundus in Uruguay, «Salto 2000», which we hope the particular colonies in specific periods, and all will soon be a reality, there is also the recent creation of a their associations. We mustn’t forget the importance forum in the Internet which is fed practically on a daily ba- of the biographies sis by the young participants of previous editions, who constructed both chose the Internet as the most immediate and attractive from the archives way of keeping their relationship alive. There have also and aural sources; been some reports, such as the one published about the For more information about and this task is ur- Basque Country in the March issue of the Brazilian travel Gaztemundu, gent –the professor magazine Terra by the Gaztemundu 1999 Xavier Bartabu- please ru, which describes the fruits the program is already gen- consult the page underlines– becau- www.euskadi.net se the sources get erating. , in «Basques in the world» or lost with time». And finally, although this is probably the most impor- contact this address This suggestion has tant goal, we can already notice the friendly attitudes, the [email protected] given a new point of slow but constant incorporation of the young generations view to the surveys (many of them ex-gaztemundus) to the management of of the young Gazte- the Basque centers, which had until then been somewhat mundu participants, lukewarm to give way to the new generations. 5.
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