LYMEC individual members have the right to vote as an elected delegation of three representatives. Individual members currently have three votes on LYMEC Congress. IMS delegates are elected once a year via online voting booth.
Frequently asked questions
About LYMEC
Can I vote as IMS?
What can individual members do to support LYMEC and its work?
Individual Members can actively participate in LYMEC's events. All seminar have places reserved for Individual Members. You can nominate and get elected as LYMEC IMS Delegate to our Congress and in that function participate on our Congresses. Also IMS can form thematic IMS Clubs with other individuall members
If you want more you should contact Mireia Huerta I Sala, the Bureau member responsible for LYMEC individual members sections
How can I become Individual Member?
Via our web site you need to apply to become our individual member. Bureau will then discuss your application and if approved you will receive information how to finalize your application and pay the membership fee.
What is LYMEC?
LYMEC is short for European Liberal Youth. It is the one and only liberal youth organisation on the European level. We represent more than 210.000 young liberals from across Europe. LYMEC has about 57 member organisations in most of the European countries. LYMEC was founded in 1976 in The Hague, the Netherlands.
In brief, our organisation aims to:
- create a liberal and federal Europe;
- educate its member organisations and individual members through the realisation of seminars, publications, group travel, symposia, courses and meetings;
- increase the common understanding among young people throughout Europe of liberal ideas;
- promote tolerance between cultures and individuals;
- increase the level of political awareness and involvement of young people in politics including the promotion of active citizenship.
Recent activities organized include seminars organised in various European countries, conferences and symposia organised in the European Parliament, missions, demonstrations…
Can my organisation become member of LYMEC?
There are three types of membership in LYMEC
Full and applicant membership
Any organisation that applies for LYMEC membership must be based in a European country and must be a national political youth organisation, or a regional political youth organisation, which is not part of a national political organisation. It also may not be a member of any other pan-European political organisation that is not based on liberal ideas. There are also other rules, such as young people must play the only role in the decision making process in the organisation and it must be democratically organised.
Technical process of applying for LYMEC membership includes sending LYMEC details of the organisation from political (copies of its Statutes and Political Program in its original form and a copy in English), financial (information on its sources of finance) and technical (membership figures and how membership is defined) point of view. An applying organisation must have been present at a minimum of five events, which shall include at least one statutory meeting, organised by LYMEC prior to the Autumn Congress where the application is considered, and also LYMEC Bureau member has had to visit at least one statutory event organised by the applying organisation.
Observer status
The observer status is not a stepping-stone towards applicant membership or full membership. It is especially meant for European organisations that want to have a closer relationship with LYMEC. They may either be organisations that do not comply with the criteria for membership or ones who cannot accept the Statutes or Manifesto in full, but share a common interest.
Any youth organisation based in a European country can apply for observer membership when it complies with the criteria for observer status as set out in the Rules of Association
