Rotaract - Action - Leadership - Service - Fellowship - Fundraising - Developement - International - Europe What the world needs now? ERIC NEWS spring 2015/16 1 FRIDAY JAN 8th WEDNESDAY APRIL 20th 08.00 – 9.00 Breakfast 08.00 – 20.00 Arrival Enjoy your meal at the hotel restaurant Check-in and registration at the Hotel 09.00 – 13.00 ERIC Plenary Session 21.00 – 04.00 Welcome “Hawaian party” (con- Keynote Speaker Holger Knaack, RI Director bo package) 2013-2015, Chairman of the RI New Generation Pelledoca, Viale Enrico Forlanini Committee (coach from 19.00 for Combo package) Visconti hall foor -1 , Crown Plaza THURDAY APRIL 29th 14.00 – 16.00 Rotaract Business Workshop: Intel- lectual Property and Entrepreneurship – how to 08.00 Breakfast deal with it Enjoy your meal at the hotel restaurant Brera room, foor -1 , Crown Plaza 09.00 – 13.00 ERIC Meeting 14.30 Free guided tour Visconti hall foor -1 , Crown Plaza Duomo, City center, Castle 14.00 – 16.00 Workshop - Leading the Organic 19.45 – 00.55 EuCo Opening Ceremony! Organisations of Tomorrow - with Patric Palm coach from 19.00 to go and from 23:55 to come Visconti room, foor -1 , Crown Plaza back Old Fashion, Viale Emilio Alemagna,6 14.00 – 16.00 Rotaract Creatives Network (RCN) EUCO 2016 Photography Workshop Parini room, foor -1 , Crown Plaza 14.00 – 16.00 Rotaract Public Speaking Work- shop Brera room, foor -1 , Crown Plaza 19.45 – 00:55 Seven deadly sins party! (conbo package) coach from 19.00 to go and from 23:55 to come back Tocqueville, Via Alessio di Tocqueville, 13 EuCo MILAN 2016 agenda 2 SATURDAY JAN 9th SUNDAY JAN 10th 08.00 – 9:00 Breakfast Enjoy your meal at the hotel restaurant 07.00 – 10.00 Breakfast Enjoy your meal at the hotel restaurant 09.00 D2042 tours! “Como”, “Bellagio and Varenna”, “Bergamo” de- 11.00 Check out parture at 9.00 from Hotel We know you would love to stay longer but that is the time to say goodbye. 09.30 EUCO CUP Football tournament 5vs5 Check-out is not permitted after 11.00 “Sporting Corvetto”, Via Fabio Massimo 15/4 extra changes may apply 10.00 Free guided tour Duomo, City center, Castle 12.00 Service: San Vincenzo food collection Istituto Gonzaga, close to Milano Central station 19.30 - 3.00 Gala Dinner and party 3 course dinner, wine open bar, coffee EuCo MILAN 2016 agenda 3 Welcome to... European Conference 2016 1) How did you decide 3) What is the stangest question you received from to host euco in milan? a participant ? I would like to know if Mister X is coming.. I would not like The idea of EuCo Mi- to be alone at the party (YES, luckly you will be able to skip lan was borned in June merting the other 550 participants) 2013 when a skilled In- coming RDR of MDIO 4) What are you the most proud of? 2041-2042, Francesco Hosting a one thousand people event with a group of pe- Ascioti, decided that ople that has also to work and care about their families... Milan and Northern it was not easy at all! This will last in the memories of Lombardy had to be as many rotaractors, and in particular of many rotaractors ambitious as possible from my club and my district and try to do the best possible for our Districts. He chosed to be in charge of this as I was the only 5) What is your best souvenir and why? Rotaractor crazy enough to believe in this project. Gathering together people from 50 countries and almost We lost our frst bid at the 2nd voting round with 350-400 clubs it’s something the fellows of Bucharest and the year after we ap- that is more unique than rare Create a good team plied again with almost every available vote from with motivated and posi- CRs. 6) Give us 3 atjectives to de- tive fellows, do all of your scribe this event best... and hope it will 2) What has been your biggest challenge while or- Global, exciting, unique be enough :) ganizinig this event ? We faced many challenges.. the two biggest were: 7) What would you suggest (i) managing the budget with increasing and un- to the next organizer ? planned costs and fxed price tickets; (ii) coordina- Create a good team with motivated and positive fellows, te a team without being exactly sure of what peo- do all of your best... and hope it will be enough :) ple should do perform the activities (some of them It will be for sure one of the most exciting activities done quite complex or not clear)... and doing everything in your life so far with a positive attitude :) Grazie! 4 5 The EuCo generation is building the future and the real Europe Dear European rotaractors: we have been published! Here you go , we decided to share the article that you can anyway fnd in this link . Special thanks to the the Edi- tor, Salvatore Todaro, and to all of you for making it possible! I had the opportunity to take part in the organisation of did it because they love Rotaract. They were absolutely EUCO and I do believe this is a great story, worth being not obligated by job reasons, or anything formal: but they told. A few people know that last Saturday night, in Milan, one thousand people co- ming from every corner of Europe were having dinner altogether. Yes. You have got it right, one thousand. Mainly young people aged 18 to 30, representatives of ffty nationalities. EUCO is the Rotaract European Conven- tion, and Rotaract is the young branch of Rotary, that – in turn – is the association, philanthropy foundation and the most important service of the world. Well: EUCO this year took place in Mi- lan, and the strings vibrating among the round tables of Crowne Plaza in San Donato were vibrating as never before. It was a week full of emotions, started on Wednesday 20th and fnished Sunday 24th. That was a visionaries’ work: visionaries such as a professional named Edoardo Guida, President of HOC the organising move around, spend, invest and live following values in committee. A Leader like Francesco Ascioti, District Repre- which they believe and they identify as their own. sentative of the year when Milan gained the appointment of hosting EUCO. Great women as Veronica Bradaschia, Those one thousand people aged 18 to 30, for fve days, Italian and President of ERIC, that is the European Ro- have discussed how we can be a gift to the world. They di- taract. All of these people are less than 30: and these scussed how to serve the others. To serve poorest people, records show you a meaningful fgure of their value in to serve those who need help in the furthest countries, being able to achieve all that. And – since I know them to serve weak children, to spread education, to spread personally – I can give witness. treatments, to encourage leaderships, to use technologies in favour of the values. One thousand people aged 18 to Because, you know, those one thousand young people 30 ask themselves these questions, which are – actually- are representing a clear and really concrete snapshot of a the Rotary and Rotaract questions. They do that during generation standing off across the reality we are experien- conventions and conversations, and then, of course they cing. The young people having taken part into the organi- dance, have fun, and of course go round Milan, go for a sation, such as those landed in Milan for the “fve days”, trip to Lago Di Como, to Bergamo Alta, to Navigli area. 6 lingua franca mixing together. They are young peo- I have seen the EUCO generation, and this sight instilled ple born this way, without having known the old politics great hope. You know how this daily is questioning away , without having known the old communication, without about the decaying aspects of our society. You having known bureaucracy: and who – running know how this daily day after day looks for so- into the ancient legacy – want to change it. lutions to the truths we have to cope with, not in a Europe problems, abuse of power, lack of aware- made of rules, of And meanwhile take the best of it. ness: well, I can see in this EUCO gene- powers, of slow economic And these young people make mistakes ration the real and actual possibility to recovery and of debt or taxes as well. They have one too many as change things. laws. But in the Europe of Era- well. And they are human beings as smus, the Europe of Schengen, the well. But I realised – during these Europe of the single currency, one days of EUCO – that my genera- They’re people who will get married, English language to communi- tion care for itself. That my genera- who will have childrens, who are starting cate among us, and many tion can get it. That we spoke a common to enter companies, who are professionals, lingua franca mixing language. who run start up companies, who overcome together. obstacles, who travel from Sweden, from Turkey, That we looked after existential and social pro- from Russia, from France or Belgium pursuing a dream. blems. That we were listening to each other even speaking Fifty nationalities were represented made of different languages. I got moved, and I realised that we young people from 18 to 30 years old who do be- can make it. From Italy, from Milan, from everywhere in lieve in they own realisation, who help the others, Italy, from everywhere in Europe.