Federal Youth Representation
Federal Youth Representation (BJV) |
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purpose | Representing the interests of children and young people |
Seat | Vienna |
founding |
January 1, 2001 |
place | Vienna |
President | Derai Al Nuaimi, Caroline Pavitsits, Isabella Steger, Jakob Ulbrich |
Manager | Magdalena Black |
Members | 54 (as of May 8, 2020 ) |
Employee | 11 |
Website | bjv.at |
The Austrian Federal Youth Representation (BJV) is the legally anchored representation of interests and political lobby for people up to 30 years in Austria . The BJV has 54 children's and member organizations. It wants to bundle the political, social, economic and cultural interests of young people and make them heard in politics and the public. The member organizations have one million young people.
In its current form, the BJV was set up on January 1, 2001 by the Federal Youth Representation Act (B-JVG) as the successor to the Austrian Federal Youth Council. The Association of Austrian Children and Youth Representation (ÖJV) takes care of the agendas of the BJV.
The focus is on: education, training, employment, social security, ecology, participation, political education, diversity, anti-racism, anti-fascism, gender equality and children's and youth rights.
At the European level, the Federal Youth Representation represents the interests of Austrian children and young people as a member of the European Youth Forum and is involved in the Advisory Council on Youth (AC) of the Council of Europe .
organization
According to the Federal Youth Representation Act , the decision-making body is a presidium that comprises the youth organizations of the parties represented in parliament , the two largest religious youth organizations and two other youth organizations to be elected, as well as federal student representatives , Austrian university students and Austrian trade union youth . Since the law also provides that an association can carry out the tasks of the federal youth representation, the Association of Austrian Children and Youth Representation (ÖJV) was founded, whose operational body, the board, is democratically elected by the member organizations and not determined by law.
The board consists of the four chairmen (chairing team) and a maximum of eight other board members who are elected every two years and who manage the day-to-day business of the federal youth council. The chairing team, which is made up of gender parity, represents the BJV externally.
Chairing team
The chairmanship elected in 2019 consists of:
- Isabella Steger ( Scouts and Girl Scouts of Austria )
- Caroline Pavitsits ( Socialist Youth Austria )
- Jakob Ulbrich ( Catholic Youth Austria )
- Derai Al Nuaimi ( Muslim Youth Austria )
Member organizations
The BJV has 36 children and youth organizations, 3 interest groups and 15 state youth councils and ethnic group representatives as members (54), as well as 2 extraordinary members:
- Academic Forum for Foreign Policy
- Action of critical pupils
- Alevi Youth Austria
- Austrian Players League
- Bnei Akiva
- Nationwide network of open youth work (bOJA)
- Association of European Youth Austria / Young European Federalists
- Federal Student Council (BSV)
- Protestant Youth Austria
- Youth policy think tank PROGRESS AUSTRIA (formerly: Generation Future Austria)
- Hashomer Hatzair Austria
- Young People's Party
- JUNOS - Young liberal NEOS
- Catholic youth Austria
- Catholic youth group Austria
- Kinderfreunde Austria / Rote Falken Austria
- Kolping Austria
- Coordination Office for Open Youth Work and Development (KOJE)
- Rural youth Austria
- Middle School Cartel Association
- Muslim youth Austria
- Naturefriends Youth Austria
- Austrian Alpine Club Youth
- Austrian brass music youth
- Austrian trade union youth
- Austrian Student Union (ÖH)
- Austrian Youth Red Cross
- Austrian young workers' movement
- Austrian young farmers
- Austrian children's world
- Austrian nature conservation youth
- Austrian youth in costume
- Austrian Pennäler Ring
- Austrian Scout Association
- Scouts and Girl Scouts of Austria
- Ring Freedom Youth Austria
- Student union
- Socialist youth Austria
- Association of youth for a united world
- Working group of Carinthian youth organizations
- Provincial Youth Advisory Board Upper Austria
- State Youth Council Salzburg
- State Youth Advisory Board Styria
- State Youth Council Vorarlberg
- State Youth Forum Burgenland
- Lower Austrian Youth Council
- Tyrolean youth council
- Provincial Youth Council Vienna
- Croatian ethnic group
- Slovak ethnic group
- Slovenian ethnic group
- Czech ethnic group
- Hungarian ethnic group
- Roma ethnic group
Extraordinary members:
- Young Greens - Young Alternative
- Association of Jewish Youth
Predecessor structure of the Federal Youth Association
The Austrian Federal Youth Association (ÖBJR) was founded on December 5, 1953 by seven youth organizations (Catholic youth, Catholic youth group, socialist youth, union youth, scouts, Protestant youth, Austrian youth movement) and is the predecessor organization of the federal youth association. In addition to the possibility for the youth to speak with one voice, thereby giving more weight to the government on youth issues, the prohibition of many youth organizations during the Second World War was a decisive motivation for the establishment of an umbrella organization for youth organizations. As with the Federal Youth Council, the aim of the Federal Youth Association was to represent the interests of children and young people and their organizations, as well as to develop common points of view as a platform for young people with different ideological, religious and social convictions.
Among the active members of the Federal Youth Association are well-known names such as Franz Küberl , Josef Höchtl , Erhard Busek (chairman 1966 to 1969), Fritz Verzetnitsch , Othmar Karas , Johannes Hahn , Werner Amon , Alfred Gusenbauer and Josef Cap .
After 47 years of advocacy, the Federal Youth Council passed its business and tasks over to the Federal Youth Representation in 2001 with the installation of the Federal Youth Representation Act, which by law has more say and a stronger involvement of youth organizations in politics.
Web links
- Official website
- BGBl. I No. 127/2000 : Federal Youth Representation Act (B-JVG)
Individual evidence
- ↑ bjv.at .
- ↑ The Federal Youth Representation has over 50 member organizations! Federal youth council, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ a b About the BJV. Federal youth council, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Europe & International. Federal youth council, accessed on May 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Federal Youth Representation: Ensure youth participation in the Council of Europe! APA-OTS , May 3, 2019, accessed May 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Federal Youth Representation Act (B-JVG). (PDF) Federal Chancellery, accessed on March 4, 2014 .
- ^ Statutes of the Austrian Children and Youth Representation. (PDF; 77 KB) Federal Youth Representation, p. 6 , accessed on May 3, 2002 .
- ↑ Current chair team. Retrieved March 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Federal youth council: new chairman and board of directors elected! Austria Press Agency , March 25, 2019, accessed on March 26, 2019 .
- ↑ The Federal Youth Representation has over 50 member organizations! Federal youth council, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Entry on Bundesjugendring, Österreichischer in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- ↑ Erhard Busek: Pictures of Life . Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-218-00953-9 , p. 98 (288 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ 60 years of lobbying. (No longer available online.) December 5, 2013, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 9, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The very last festival of the Austrian Federal Youth Association! Austria Press Agency , September 18, 2001, accessed on December 9, 2013 .
- ^ ÖGJ and KJÖ welcome agreement in youth promotion and representation. Austria Press Agency , November 2, 2000, accessed on December 9, 2013 .