18th May 2011: IRISH YOUNG PLANNERS NETWORK

We had our second meeting of the Irish Young Planners Network in DIT, Bolton Street, Dublin.
It has been a busy week with Dissertation deadlines submitted last Friday. Many students have Exams so the turn out was quite low averaging twelve people. In summary the following points were discussed:

• Must be a member of the Irish Planning Institute (IPI) before being eligible for the (IYP) Committee.
• Cannot be an (IPI) member just by being on the (IYP) networks emailing list. 
• The (IYP) has 30 members on the Committee
• 4 people on the Committee and elections will re-open in September.
• An (AGM) will be held in September to formally adopt the (IYP) network.
• Facebook have steady growth with 206 members and Linkedn is slow with 50 members.
• The Employability Seminar will run in early November.
• Encourage the submission of articles to the (IPI). 
• Education: Involvement in the community employment schemes, liasise with the Greater Dublin area (GDA) branch, attend courses for example www.skillnet.ie to serve as refresher courses for young graduates and planners.  

The meeting concluded with some more enthusiastic members joining the (IYP) Network.

It was nice to see a few new faces!