Event: Steering Time Banking Through Europe Venue: Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic Dates: 4. 1. - 10.1. 2016 Background: This event is a follow up activity after project “It is time for time banking” which we organized in 2014 in Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod. The project shown need for a support system for European time banking movement and it paved the way to a network called Timebanking Europe (TBE) which is now being born and the official kick-off of the network is planned to this autumn after STBTE. Aim: Main Aim of STBTE is to bring time bankers together to participate on shaping of the TBE that it includes all features time banks in Europe need from such support network, especially in field of youth. Objectives: · To plan cooperation in the field of youth (youth time banks, youth study visits and exchanges among time banks) · To touch EVS (European Voluntary Service) topic, and its use for learning by exchange of staff among time banks · To create structured plan for future cooperation in the field of youth · To outline basic values of time banking (what it means to us; to find a common ground) · To explore advantages of uniting Time Banks all across Europe into one network and to find out what are the needs and motivation of Time Banks to be members of the network · To draft tools for operating and management of the networking: structure, documentation, webplatform, fundraising strategy · To discuss what are the possibilities of "youthification" of Time Banks, how youth can empower Time Banks and how Time Banks provide young people with better possibilities of transition to adult life · To work off future projects to increase youth participation in European TimeBanking