IYC 2001

The International Youth Congress 2001 took place at Haraldvangen close to Olso, Norway from the 21. - 28. July. More than 70 participants from 22 countries found "The Power in you" and broke a lot of barriers......

Articles about the congres:

Articles from Newsletter no. 7 - August 2001

• IYC 2001 is over, by Dorte Rønsler, chair of IOYR

• Once upon a time, by Gábor Kürtösi, Hungary

• The week was too short, by Signe Bicule, Latvia

• Breaking barriers, by Camilla Ladestam, Sweden

• You are accepted, by Ingrid Kósová, Slovakia

• A sense of belonging, by Richard Jeffery, United Kingdom

• Heavy, cosy and relaxing by Lucinda Blauw, Sylvia Langbroek and Juul van der Veen, the Netherlands

• The whole wide world at one place, by Tina M.-L. Mortensen, Denmark

Download the entire Newsletter no. 7 here.

Other articles:

• At my first IYC, by Halla Hrund Himarsdóttir, Iceland

• Youth rheumatics breaking barriers in Norway, by Lars Espen Rath Vestad, Norway

• Meeting of Young Rheumatics in Norway by Romana Lukasova

• More to come - if you have any articles please mail them to ioyr@ioyr.org.

Interesting links concerning the IYC

• Haraldvangen (only in Norwegian, but there are nice pictures)

• Center for mothers with rheumatic disease (in English. There will be a talk about this center during the congress)

Folder - organisations/groups at IYC 2001
The folder about the organisations/groups participating at IYC 2001 is ready. Read more here...

Special Edition

A speciel edition of the IOYR-Newsletter is published. It´s about IYC and Norway. It has also been send to all the partcipants by mail. If you want to recieve the newsletter you can send a mail to postmaster@ioyr.org.

Program for the congress

• Read the program as .PDf (409KB)

PDF-formate demands Adobe® Acrobat® Reader, which can be downloaded here.