Nominate your Award representatives!

Dear PTPI members,

you are welcome to submit your nomination for a deserving member or chapter for achievements made in 2011. Categories include outstanding leadership, chapter programming, website and more! Also remember to nominate an outstanding person or organization for two of our highest honors: the Eisenhower Medallion and the Make a Difference Award. View all awards and nominate online by April 1.

Have also a look to our community chapter awards; university chapter awards or student chapter awards.

PTPI's Board of Trustees Meeting 2011 in Brussels: Marc Stansberry, Hannelore Büchler from Berlin, who received the Chapter Leadership Award, and Mary Eisenhower.

All Ukrainian Meeting in Kiev

PTPI’s Kiev Student, University and Community Chapters hosted the first All Ukrainian Meeting from November 25 to27. All ten chapters in Ukraine were represented: the student chapters in Cherkasy, Kharkiv, Khmelnitsky, Kiev, Konotop, and Zalishchyky, the university chapters in Khmelnitsky and Kiev as well as the community chapters in Kharkiv and Kiev. In addition, PTPI’s Vaslui, Romania Student Chapter sent a strong delegation of 14 members. Special international guests were Regional Chair Valeria Magistrelli and Pierluisa Ranchi from Milano, Italy, Verena Denk from Berlin, Germany and Sunday Odessa from the U.S. Virgin Islands. In total, 42 members and PTPI leaders took part in the event. Read more in our newsletter...

Global Youth Forum 2011

In November, PTPI’s Global Youth Forum was held in Kansas City. Among the delegates was Arbi Mucaj of PTPI in Albania.

After having accommodated to my room I went to the hotel lobby to meet some of the delegates, who were very sociable and I felt very comfortable. The Global Youth Forum was attended by 140 delegates, 14 of them were international. Some of the participating countries were Albania, India, Lithuania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Greece, Egypt, Serbia, Malaysia, etc. The theme of 2011 GYF was “Cultural Diversity". On the first night, we had a welcome dinner. On the second day, we saw a video clip in which we were supposed to recognize the differences between two cultures. Read more in our newsletter...