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A lot of clubs also sent us great inputs to their latest social projects. Have a look at their reports and the pictures!We also got a new so called „district project“ named „Intarconnect“. The initiators are very busy to present it to clubs all over Austria or abroad and will present it for the first time at the MDPC to our bosnian Rotaractors. In addition to Intarconnect we will have on the 29th of May the 6th (!!!) „Ich Helfe Laufend“ Charity Run in Vienna. The coproduction of several viennese Rotaractors from different clubs will be even better, bigger, more culinary than before.And do you know already the concept of the Rotaract KidsCamp? To be honest…it was not us who invented the idea of this great project…it were our german colleagues. But thanks to an ambitious Rotaractor of our multi district who brought the idea to us, we will have the 3rd Rotaract KidsCamp the upcoming August in Austria with a new organizing team from Styria.So make sure you have enough time to read all about whats old and whats new in our multi district. We are very much looking forward to seeing you at the one or another event!And do not hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any further questions.

Yours rotaractly, JudithMDRR 1910/[email protected]

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A NEW YEAR IN ROTARACTDear Rotaractors! Dear Friends!

Spring is a very busy season in Rotaract. The board and the organizers from Rotaract Club Tuzla’99 are working very hard to make the upcoming MDPC (Multi District Presidential Conference) the best ever. So if you did not book your ticket yet, you should do so asap at www.mdpc2016.com. But not only the MDPC is keeping us up all night. Next week will be the Rotaract Pets/Sets (President & Secretary Elect Training Seminar) in Seggau/Stmk for all austrian Rotaracters, right after Tuzla a lot of us are coming together at the Rotaract European Convention in Milan and also

clubs in the districts have major news to tell. Therefore you can read in this newsletter about the Charter of the new Rotaract Club Bihac

in January, the Charter of the new Rotaract Club Brcko in March and we will have a third Charter this year of the new Rotaract Club Weinviertel on the 23rd of June. So we will have 3 new clubs chartered within 6 months!!!

Besides new clubs we celebrated charters of „old“ clubs like RAC Wien-Oper, RAC Wien-Graben and on the 4th of June RAC Salzburg will follow.

ROTARACT MULTI DISTRICT NEWSLETTER SPRING 2016


RAC TUZLA ‘99

After the summer break Rotaract club Tuzla ’99

started with new projects and activities.

As you already know MDPC Conference 2016.

is taking place in our town and that we are the

hosts. Facing a huge task Rotaract club Tuzla ’99

with many planned project, aims and activities

gave most attention and time to the organization

of MDPC Conference.Glad as we are that after 3

years MDPC conference will be held in Bosnia and

Herzegovina.We work hard to make your arrival

and your visit as convenient and enjoyable. Our

desire is to have a good time with you, to present

tu you our city, our culture and way of life.

MDPC Conference 2016 will be held in Tuzla on

15-17 April 2016.

TUZLA

Tuzla is a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is

the seat of the Tuzla Canton and is the economic,

scientific, cultural, educational, health and tourist

centre of northeast Bosnia.[ After Sarajevo and

Banja Luka, Tuzla is the third largest city in Bosnia

and Herzegovina. Preliminary results from the

2013 Census indicate that the municipality has a

population of 120,441.

Tuzla is an educational center and is home to two

universities. It is also the main industrial machine

and one of the leading economic strongholds of

Bosnia with a wide and varied industrial sector

including an expanding service sector thanks to

its salt lake tourism. The city of Tuzla is home to

Europe’s only salt lake as part of its central park

and has more than 100,000 people visiting its

shores every year.

The history of the city goes back to the 9th century;

modern Tuzla dates back to 1510 when it became

an important garrison town in the Ottoman Empire.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tuzla is also regarded

as one of the most multicultural cities in the country

and has managed to keep the pluralist character

of the city throughout the Bosnian War and after,

with Bosniaks, Serbs, Croats and a small minority

of Bosnian Jews residing in Tuzla.

MDPC TUZLA 2016

ROTARACT MULTI DISTRICT NEWSLETTER


WE WANT YOU!!

NEW BOARD MEMBERS WANTED!Here are the candidats for the next MD-Board:

MDRR: Multi District Rotaract RepresentiveBernhard Pribyl

MDICO: Multi District Information & Coordination OfficerJohannes Steininger

RER: Rotaract Europe Representative: Austria Claudia Fallmann

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RER: Rotaract Europe Representative: B&H Vojislav Gligic

ADRR AUSTRIA WEST: Assistant District Rotaract RepresentativeSimon Georg Schrüfer

ADRR AUSTRIA SOUTH EAST: Assistant District Rotaract RepresentativeMarkus Brunner

ADRR AUSTRIA NORTH EAST: Assistant District Rotaract RepresentativeElisabeth Krassnigg

ADRR B&H: Assistant District Rotaract Representative #1Davor Pavlic



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ADRR B&H: Assistant District Rotaract Representative: #2Tijana Bjeljac

PLEASE VOTE

NEWS FROM THE CLUBSRAC Wien OperRotaract Vienna Opera is a Vienna-based club with currently 52 members. Most of its members are studying in Vienna, however there are also several young professionals participating. The member’s professions cover many different fields including pharmacy, business and engineering. Therefore, the discussions during Tuesday eve-ning meetings in Hotel Regina are usually very



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RAC Wien SeccessionOur Winter-Social-Project this year was dedicat-ed to homeless people in Vienna.We collected donations and money and orga-nized giftbags that were distributed to home-less people all over Vienna through the CARI-TAS. We started our project in the beginning of December and collected donations for about a month – we did not only collect scarfs, hats and sanitary products like tooth brushes and tooth paste, but also money, with which we bought a lot of items fort hem. We promoted our project in person but also via social media. Therefore we could reach far more people and a lot of people

interesting.An important part of the club is the social com-mitment of its members. Rotaract Vienna Op-era aims to support children with special needs. Therefore, the walk-in clinic of St. Anna Chil-dren’s hospital and MOKI Vienna, a mobile chil-dren’s nurse service, are among the social proj-ects.However, there are also regular “outdoor meet-ings” such as field trips or skiing weekends in other regions of Austria. Guests are always wel-come to attend a meeting. The meetings and their topics are usually announced on facebook or on our webpage.

in need could profit from our project. We want to thank the CARITAS a lot for their support, be-cause it would have been too much for one Rot-aract Club. Also we want to say thank you to our Rotary Club Partner (Rotary Club Wien-Nordost) which supported our Project with a very gener-ous donation.

RAC Wien BelvedereLouise-BusDue to the fact that our Club celebrates soon its 35th-years anniversary, we proudly announce that we support on a weekly basis the so called „Louise Bus“ since 20 years. This bus contains medical care for homeless people in front of the Viennese „Gruft“ in co-operation with doctors and Caritas. Because of our long term involvement with this project we therefore donated money for a new „Louise“-model.

Christmas-hutOur „Adventstand“-„Christmas-hut“ - takes place every year from last weekend in November till New Years Eve (daily from 11am – 9pm) and is based on selling delicious hot wine, snacks and Rotarian goodies like cups next to the famous Albertina Building. Concerning current world affairs, our Partner Ro-tary Club „Wien-West“ an we donated this year



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the whole money which we raised for education of refugees. So this project helps to improve the connection between the Rotaract and Rotary Club because of the mixed teams serving in shifts.

Hospice-trip to Schloss MühlbachThis summer a trip with patients from the „Hos-pice Rennweg“ in a wheelchair bus to the pittor-esque Schloss Mühlbach will take place for the fourth time in a row. We `re going to stroll around the landscape with the elderly people, having a good day and going to make them laugh in a beautiful surrounding. This Social Event was founded as an co-operation project between our RAC Club and our Partner Rotary Club „Wien-West“.

RAC BijeljinaMembers of the Rotary Club and Rotaract Club Bijeljina have attended on the “Rotary’s sau-sage-making” on 19th February 2016,in Srems-ka Mitrovica.On that occasion, we have signed a charter on fraternization of our Club with the Rotaract Club Sremska Mitrovica. The governor of the District 2483 Dejan Cikara, Tijana Pantelic DRR RAC of the District of Serbia and Alen Ibralic ADRR RAC BiH were attendend at the celebration.This is a second twinning this year between Rotarctors from Serbia and rotaractors from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Charter ceremony RAC Brcko1 TURNOUT OF GUESTSRotaract club of Brcko B&H belongs to Rotary district 1910 eastern Austria with Bosnia andHerzegovina. Brcko is located at the northeast part of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the coast ofSava river.Charter ceremony took place in Hotel “Evropa” which is 2-3 km away from the cities center.Guests are invited from all Rotary clubs in Bos-nia along with guests from Croatia, Serbia,Montenegro, Slovenia as well as district Gover-nor Gerhard Hellmann and secretary DijanaBajrovic.Charter ceremony of Rotaract club Brcko visited more than one hundred guests and Rotaryfriends.

2 ELECTED BOARD OF ROTARACT CLUB BRCKORotaract club Brcko has 14 members who have chosen: President, Vice-President, Secertary,treasurer and other members of board of direc-tors along with committees.Main roles are:President of RAC Brcko: Vanja SolajaVice-President: Vladimir VarcakovicSecretary: Nikola TodorovicTreasurer: Senka Meric3 SPONSORING ROTARY CLUBSponsoring RC of Rotaract Brcko is Rotary club



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Brcko – Alpe Adria. Which initiated andsupported the formation of this youth club. Mem-bers who mentored Rotaract club Brcko andmembers who are responsible for good orga-nization and functioning of Rotaract club Brcko are:Osman Osmanovic, Velimir Beres, Zeljko Lozic, Enver Abadzic, Predrag Solaja.

4 SPECIAL THANKSSpecial thanks for organizing this Rotaract club goes to: district Governor Gerhard Hellmann andsecretary Dijana Bajrovic, along with ADRR Bos-nia and Herzegovina Anela Ibralic and helpfrom other friends who gave their support for or-ganizing this club for example is fraternal Rotaryclub of RC Brcko – alpe adria, Rotary club Zag-orje KUM.

Charter ceremony RAC BihacOn Saturday, January 16th 2016, a charter cere-

mony of Rotaract Club Bihac was held in Bihac,

Bosnia and Herzegovina. Forming of Rotaract

Club Bihac was supported by Rotary Club Bihac,

and at the moment RAC Bihac has 12 young

members from the world of economy, law, busi-

ness, medicine and science.

The charter ceremony was attended by the Gov-

ernor of Rotary District 1910, Mr. Gerhard Hell-

mann. Charter was sponsored by Rotary Club

Bihac. With this ceremony Rotaract Club Bihac

became a part of international Rotary commu-

nity. The ceremony was also attended by Anel

Ibralić, ADRR, and friends from Rotary Club

Banja Luka Gloria, and Rotaract Clubs Bijeljina,

Brčko, Banja Luka, Tuzla and Tuzla 99.

During the ceremony, members of RAC Bihac,

RC Bihac and guests were greeted by the Pres-

ident of RC Bihac, Mrs. Ljjiljana Mehic and Gov-

ernor Mr. Hellmann. Mr. Hellmann congratulated

the newly chartered Rotaract Club Bihac on pre-

vious successful activities, and awarded them

with suitable donation as an incentive for their

future activities. Members and guests were also

greeted by Adi Salihagic, newly-elected presi-

dent of RAC Bihac, who presented activities of

the Club, and thanked the District and Rotary

Club Bihac for their support.

RAC Wien Graben

Rotaract Club Wien-Graben celebrated its third

anniversary on Saturday March 12th. The club

organized a party tramway through the center

of Vienna and Rotaractors from all over Austria

joined. Partying in the tramway to the beats of

music was a great way of combining fun with

charity, and Rotaractors from outside of Vienna

experienced the beauty of the city at night.

The drinks and snacks had been acquired

RAC Salzkammergut

Since its reactivation one year ago, the Rota-

ract Club Salzkammergut has gained not only in

experience in both organising the club activities

and working for society but has also gained in

members: As of now, 23 young and motivated

people are registered with the Club, many of

whom were present at the visit of RECOM, a

regionally leading enterprise specialised in elec-

tronics, on March 22. The Club was very glad to

have friends from the Rotaract Club Salzburg,

the Rotaract Club Linz, and the Interact Club

Gmunden joining them on this occasion.

RAC Wien -StadtparkThanks to numerous guests and friends visiting our Charity-Punsch in December, we could do-nate € 1.000 to the Mother-Child-Home Imman-uel, represented by Caritas executive director Klaus Schwertner. Additionally, we were cele-brating 1.000 fans at the club Facebook page as one of the most prominent RAC on social media in the German speaking region.We continue to branch out to all RAC and IAC clubs in the Viennese region. With joint meetings with RACs Wien, Wien-Belvedere, Wien-Hof-burg, Wien-Graben and Wien-Secession, IACs Wien-Eins and Vienna-City and RC Klosterneu-burg, we try to actively connect to create more synergies. Alongside participation in the Rotary Day Hunga-ry in Budapest, RYLA in Golling, PETS/SETS in Seggauberg, MDPC in Tuzla, District conference in Bruck/Mur and EUCO in Milano, members of Wien-Stadtpark visited numerous club charters and other clubs in 2015/2016. Our social activities continue once a month by spending time with the children of the aforemen-tioned Mother-Child-Home and we would like to cordially invite interested volunteers for the SOS-Children Villages Vienna Family Festival at the 10/11.06. this summer.

through sponsorships – therefore, all donations

went directly to the Ronald McDonald House Vi-

enna, which RAC Wien-Graben has been sup-

porting since its establishment in 2013.

After the tramway party RAC Wien-Graben and

many of its guests went to Lutz Club and contin-

ued the celebration there.

RAC Wien-Graben is already looking forward to

the next 3 years serving the Rotary community!



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RAC Sarajevo In the end of 2015 Rotaract Club Belgrade Ču-karica and Rotaract Club Sarajevo decided to become twin clubs. Members of these two clubs wanted to bring the twinning process on much higher level by implementing one project togeth-er on two locations - Belgrade and Sarajevo. We wanted twining process to reflect closeness and friendship built by members of two clubs, and so we started planning one big project. As the decision to become twin clubs was made in November, the project we started masterminding was the project about was Movember in Rotaract way. Firstly name of the project was derivative of Movember and Rotaract - Movemberact. Campaign was designed to have two main phases: social networks and live theatre perfor-mance. As the Movember is about raising awareness of prostate cancer and other male diseases and is generally about men, first activity of the project was to do a photoshooting of girls of both clubs



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wearing male clothes and mustaches, ofcourse male members also had to grow mustaches and having pitures taken. All the members replaced their profile pictures with the one professionally taken, having hashtag Movemberact on the pic-ture. This was the first phase. Second phase was the theatre performance done by the script and directed by Emilija Ivančajić, student of fifth year of medical faculty and member of Rotaract Club Belgrade Čukari-ca. The show in an interesting, entertaining and humorous way points to the neglect of health, particulary male health. All the actors in the play were members of two Rotaract clubs. Premiere of the show took place in Belgrade in November 2015, and then again in Sarajevo in February 2016. The show was sold out, and ac-tors got great applause. The official part of the twinning process was done in Belgrade, in November 2015, where Rotaract Club Sarajevo was special guest on charter cel-ebration of Rotary Club Belgrade Čukarica.

INFORMATIONIch Helfe Laufend - Charity Run Get ready for this years big charity running event “Ich Helfe Laufend” on May 29th! More than 1.000 people will gather in the Viennese “Augar-ten” funding the kids hospice “Momo” with every single kilometre! Be there and have fun running and helping - get your ticket here https://www.eventbrite.de/e/6-ich-helfe-laufend-spenden-lauf-2016-tickets-16927032209This charity running event is a mutual initiative of the Viennese Rotaract Clubs and is supported by all Clubs of the district.

Rotaract KidsCamp Austria – holiday from everyday life for socially disadvantaged chil-dren In 2008 the german Rotary District 1830 orga-nized its first Rotaract KidsCamp for 53 children. Three years ago the Rotaract Club Linz brought the Rotaract KidsCamp to Austria and therefore we will have our third Rotaract KidsCamp in St. Georgen/Attergau in Austria this year.In the meanwhile Rotaract Club Graz is the main organizer for the tent camp for about 50 children between 8 and 14 years who come from social-ly disadvantaged families, some of them never been on holidays before. Besides having fun and experiencing bonfires, night walks and a paper chase, they learn how to interact with others.

Rotaract KidsCamp 2016 will be from 25 to 28 August 2016 in St. Georgen/Attergau, Upper Austria.How can you support our project?As a Rotarian you can sponsor the holiday of a kid and/or take part in our Rotarian Night on Sat-urday, August 27.As a Rotaractor or Interactor (over 18) you can help us at the camp in St. Georgen taking care of the kids, play with them, helping out in the kitch-en or just assist the team. Whether you want to have close contact to the kids or not, we will find the right task for you ☺For more info go to https://www.face-b o o k . c o m / K i d s C a m p - % C 3 % 9 6 s t e r r e -ich-1769695789921722/?fref=ts or get in touch with [email protected]



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June 23 at 19:00 in Wolkersdorf, Lower Austria. For more info check: https://www.rotary.at/ver-anstaltungen/1160_charterfeier_des_rac_wein-viertel

Rotaract Club Weinviertel (to be founded on June 23)Rotaract Multi-District 1910/1920 is getting ist 33rd Rotaract Club, which will be the 5th Rotaract Club in the region Lower Austria. The name will be Rotaract Club Weinviertel and will have three sponsoring Rotary Clubs (RC Weinviertel-March-feld, RC Korneuburg, RC Hollabrunn-Weinland). About 25 young founding members will meet ev-ery second thursday at Hotel Klaus in Wolkers-dorf. They already had some discussion about future social project and came to the conclusion that they mainly want to support local project and institutions. For the beginning they will support the Rotary Club Weinviertel-Marchfeld at their golf tournament in June and will for sure have a christmas hut to serve punch in winter.You are all invited to thei charter ceremony on

Rotaract Club Innsbruck 2015/2016In the current club year 2015/2016 social en-

gagement and further education are in the center

of attention of the Rotaract Club Innsbruck. Our

club is offering our members and guests a var-

ied lecture program which orientates oneself to-

wards current political world events (lecture from

the coordinator of voluntary work and integration

from the “Innsbrucker Soziale Dienste”,…). On

the other hand, we had presentations from vari-

ous occupational groups, such as the leading se-

nior public prosecutor from Innsbruck. Moreover,

we are offering our members the opportunity to

talk about their work experience (e.g. Mag. Julia

Fuith, B.A., LL.M. – Traineeship European Com-

mission).

The main focus lies once again on creative ac-

tivities and is carried out with the “Innsbrucker

Soziale Dienste” in form of a hands-on-activity in

the home for senior citizens Hötting in which we

are going to brighten up the old people’s home.

In addition to that the Rotaract Club Innsbruck is

offering a varied environment of social network-

ing which will be completed with jointly theatre

visits and ski days.

Mentoring and Generation ProjectsFor the first time, the newly founded Rotary youth project Intarconnect brings together Rotaract and Interact with mentoring programs, workshops, as well as social and generation projects. The project stands on two pillars: on the one hand, a mentoring program and on the other hand, in-tergenerational community projects. Modelled after Rotary, the Mentoring provides versatile development opportunities to the Rotaracters as mentors and Interactors as mentees: Interac-tors benefit from the experience and knowledge of Rotaractors, receive support and perspectives in academic and professional life and get a first impression of Rotaract. Rotaractors afford active service to the youth and young talent of Rotary and the future society. They keep in touch with the next generation and maintain on the cutting edge. In addition, workshops and training for the mentoring participants offer the opportunity to develop their skills for

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current leadership and professional challenges. Generation projects such as meetings through-out the Rotarian Youth and joint social projects of Rotary, Rotaract, Interact and ROTEX like build-ing a house in Bosnia and Herzegovina in April 2016 enable the exchange between the different clubs and strengthen the community and its ser-vice to society. In the upcoming Rotarian year, Intarconnect will expand to include all welcoming clubs in Austria and beyond, including Rotary Clubs in the future. The resulting cohesion in the district is support-ed by Governor Gerhard Hellmann. Intarconnect is a Rotary NPO project, registered association and member of the board of the Multiple Districts 1910 & 1920 for Austria and Bosnia and Herze-govina.Visit the official start of the program at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41s5wPkQng0Intarconnect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/intarconnect/



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UPCOMING EVENTS

15.-17. April 2016MDPC in Tuzla, BiH www.mdpc2016.com

20.-24. April 2016EUCO Milano www.euco2016.it

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6.-9. October 2016Autumn REM, Athens https://www.

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13. May 2016 Charter Interact Srebrenica https://www.rotary.at/veranstaltungen/1154_charter_iac_srebrenica

4.+5. June 201640th Charter of Rotarac Club Salzburg in Salzburghttps://www.facebook.com/events/196716830700677/

8.+9. April 2016Rotaract Pets/Sets in Seggauberg

28. May 2016 Gala Bal of Rotaract Club Sarajevohttps://www.facebook.com/events/1567623113548159/

26. May 2016RYLA Seminar in Innsbruck

29. May 2016Ich Helfe Laufend – Charity Run in Viennahttps://www.facebook.com/events/854035538048565/

17.+18. June 2016 District Conference 1920 in Kitzbühel, Tyrol https://www.rotary.at/veranstaltungen/918_

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10.+11. June 2016 District Conference 1910 in Bruck/Mur, Styria https://www.rotary.at/veranstaltungen/963_distriktkonferenz_d1910

25.-28. August 2016Rotaract KidsCamp in St. Georgen/Attergau, Upper Austria https://www.facebook.

com/KidsCamp-%C3%96sterreich-1769695789921722/

23. June 2016Charter of Rotaract Club Weinviertel in Wolkersdorf, Lower Austriahttps://www.rotary.at/veranstaltungen/1160_charterfeier_des_rac_weinviertel

January 2017Winter REM, Bratislava https://www.facebook.com/REM2017Winter/?fref=ts

Infos for Austrians to international Rotary Camps:https://www.rotary.at/5_dienste/jugenddienst_1/austauschprogramme/camps_lager_croisieren_

handicamps/camps_im_ausland

Infos to Rotaract Trips:h t t p : / / r o t a rac teu rope .eu /ge t -involved/rotaract-trips/



THE ACTING MD-BOARDTHE ACTING MD-BOARD

Multi District Rotaract Representative (MDRR) D1910&1920Judith [email protected]

Multi District Information & Coordination Officer (MDICO) Paul [email protected]

Assistant Dist. Rotaract Representative (ADRR) Bosnia-HerzegovinaAnel [email protected]

Assistant Dist. Rotaract Representative (ADRR) Austria North EastBernhard [email protected]

Assistant District Rotaract Representative (ADRR) Austria South EastJohannes [email protected]

Assistant District Rotaract Representative (ADRR) Austria WestClaudia [email protected]

Rotaract Europe Representative (RER) Bosnia and HerzegovinaFedja Oručević[email protected]

Rotaract Europe Representative (RER) AustriaBernhard [email protected]

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