Head Organisers' Vision - Vantaa 2021

Head Organisers’ Vision - Vantaa 2021 VNS21’s priority is to engage people towards a more active young Europe. We want to promote inclusivity and enable participants to explore their differences, which will be achieved through discussions between international individuals with different views and beliefs. Due to the international environment of the 6-day session, participants will be encouraged to self-develop, and by the end of the session, they will have improved their communication skills. VNS21 will be a safe and welcoming space where participants will be able to express themselves without judgement and a space that can be used as a learning environment, where we can all share knowledge and experiences. For both of us, as well as EYP Finland, participant welfare is something of high importance and will be a key priority in VNS21. We want to make sure that all participants are comfortable with all the session activities, and that physical and mental health are not neglected throughout the session. In addition, we want to maintain the typical, welcoming, judge-free, EYP environment, and we will have absolutely no tolerance for any sort of discrimination.

With 2021 being EYP Finland’s 20th anniversary, our plan is to celebrate the organisation’s birthday by hosting a session during which the Finnish culture will be introduced to and embraced by national and international participants, which is why we will dedicate one of the session days to be a Culture Day. We want to apply the theme of the session even further than solely the academic output, and incorporate it into our everyday lives. Therefore, our goal is to keep VNS21’s as sustainable as possible, by maintaining our ecological footprint to a minimum, which is why the session will be vegetarian/vegan and zero-waste. All participants will be influenced and encouraged to embrace the “giving-back” mindset, and hopefully change their habits to a more sustainable lifestyle.

As Head-Organisers, we aim at applying all these above mentioned values to the Leadership Team, and we invite individuals who share the same values to work with us towards creating such a session. Our aim is to have very inclusive and equal cooperation between officials’ teams, which we hope to achieve through teamwork, conversation and transparency.

With your help, we can create such an environment for all session participants, and lead VNS21 to success. We look forward to your applications and hopefully welcoming you to join our VNS21 team!

Best of luck, Karoliina Kondylis & Eveliina Kyllönen Head-Organisers of VNS21, Vantaa National Session of EYP Finland

Head Organisers’ Vision - Vantaa 2021 About VNS21 • The session will take place from 29th June to 4th of July, in Vantaa, Finland.

• The session will have around 150 participants, 50 of which will be officials and 100 will be delegates.

• Officials will arrive on Tuesday morning with a day of CMOJ-training and delegates will arrive on Wednesday afternoon, where they will start with Teambuilding activities and continue with Committee Work. On one of the days, there will be a Culture Day, where the session participants will have the opportunity to visit a variety of places that will help them unravel the Finnish culture and explore the Finnish lifestyle. On Sunday, the General Assembly will take place, which will be followed by a Closing Ceremony.

About the session theme

“The faces of sustainability: Reconceptualizing sustainable development to meet the needs of tomorrow.”

In the past decades, sustainable policy-making and agenda-setting have been a demanding area for Europe and the rest of the world. With sustainability being one of today’s “hot topics”, we thought that it was important to host a session during which all of its pillars, economic, social, human and environmental, are discussed. The main focus of VNS21 will be broadening the concept of sustainability and making known that only by the collective working of all pillars will sustainability be achieved. Together with the leadership and the rest of the officials’ team, we want to pose a challenge for delegates to think about and discuss important topics that directly affect themselves and the future of Europe.