ACTIVE

ACTIVE - sobriety, friendship and peace (formerly EGTYF, European Good Templar Youth Federation) is a non-governmental umbrella organisation gathering European youth temperance organisations. ACTIVE is member of the Youth Forum Jeunesse and cooperates with IOGT International.

The main aim of Active is peace and tolerance in the world. Active considers alcohol and other drugs one of the main reasons for violence and conflicts in today's world and therefore members of Active promote a drug-free lifestyle by their own abstinence--to prove that having fun, making friends, and being free is possible without getting addicted and without any risk of hurting somebody or being hurt.

Active provides the space for self-realisation, for making new contacts, for exchange projects, education and for being active on political level in order to make a difference. Active is a support for each national organisation in reaching the main common goal--peace and human dignity.

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Activities

Political work on local, national and European level, training courses and social activities are the main activities of ACTIVE. It builds on international meetings, study sessions and workshops in order to foster intercultural learning and mutual understanding as well as to educate its members in terms of democracy, human rights or alcohol and other drugs. ACTIVE recognizes that mutual understanding creates the foundation of equality and peace.

Every year 2-4 seminars are held:

A summer camp takes place in one of the member organizations' country every summer, the congress every other summer. Every year a winter camp is organized by either Juvente Switzerland or Juvente Germany.

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Member organisations

In 2006, Active has 31 member organisations:

ACTIVE Board 2010-2012

History

In 1962 the International Good Templar Youth Federation (IGTYF) was founded. In 1990 IGTYF and IOGT merge to one organization: IOGT International. EGTYF (European Good Templar Youth Federation) is created. At the congress 2006 in Basel, Switzerland "EGTYF" changed its name into Active - sobriety, friendship and peace.

Former boards

ACTIVE Board 2008-2010

ACTIVE Board 2006-2008

EGTYF board 2004-2006

EGTYF board 2002-2004

ACTIVE/ EGTYF Presidents

EGTYF Office Managers 1992-today:

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