This year the IYCamp will take place in the beautiful mountains of Italy.

We chose, together with the participants of the IYCamp 2009 in Latvia, this southern country for its rich culture and its nice comfortable climate. Located in a remote area, surrounded by nature, the IYCamp provides time and opportunity to share ideas, feelings and experiences. We have a few options for a campsite in the north of Italy. A few of the staffmembers will visit these campsites near Bologna were the IYCamp took place in 2002 and 2003.

Update:

In the last weeks we didn’t just sit and hang around drinking coffee, no, we actually did something not so quite unimportant. With three of our staff members we went down to the snowy mountains of Italy to imagine what, without a metre of snow, in high summer, would be a nice place for this years IYC. After a week of pushing our vehicle over the slippery roads of Toscana and Emilia-Romagna we came home with the answer to our quest: We will have a beautiful campsite!

Close to the highest peaks of the Apennine Mountains, between Bologna and Firenze, our camp will be situated in an area full of forests and picturesque villages. There are lakes to swim, peaks to climb, valleys to follow and trees for shadow in the hottest hours of the day.