IYP Network

 

Welcome to the International Young Professionals Network (IYPN)!

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IYPN’S NEW CHAPTER – Transition and Gratitude

Dear friends,

It’s remarkable how intense life seems to be since the pandemic has ebbed away. Even if it has turned calmer and more focused in some areas, it has sometimes become even more frenetic in others. This has been the case for all our IYPN team members. This situation has pushed us towards the need for new personal priorities and also a new chapter in IYPN’s history:

With a heavy heart, we will reduce our activities to occasional local meetings in Vienna, where we are based, and where we have held our regulars’ tables for a couple of years already. For our Viennese network, we also have WhatsApp and Facebook groups that are open to anyone who wishes to easily get in touch with other like-minded young professionals and who wants to share or look for upcoming events, job offers, and the like. In the future, we will definitely maintain these two channels for exchange and we encourage you to join!

Furthermore, we will always happily support anyone who wants to restart activities in Austria or abroad, as we have conducted them since 2016. Please simply approach us personally or via email at iypn.teamATgmail.com.

Of course, these changes are not an easy step for us. All past and present team members have poured their heart, fervent motivation, and time into connecting like-minded people. We have truly enjoyed meeting all our event participants! Young professionals from the most diverse backgrounds and representing more than 25 nationalities have enriched us with their personal stories, personalities, and openness!

We want to thank every participant who has joined us since 2016 for an IYPWeekend, in 2018 and 2019 for an IYPEvening, and since 2019 for our regulars’ tables (both in-person and online)!

We would particularly like to thank all our past team members for their invaluable help and time, especially F. George and the Zentrum JPII, for their unwavering support and encouragement from the very beginning.

We also wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to everyone else who has supported us, our mission, and vision – whether practically, financially or with their ideas. The smallest acts of support have sometimes meant the world to us. We feel truly blessed to have seen our ideas transform into approximately 40 events, both small and large, and we are immensely grateful for the friendships formed there. Some of these friendships have even evolved into new platforms for ideas and events. What a joy and blessing!

Lastly, we ask you a favor: Even if our events diminish, the importance of our vision won’t. It’s of such an importance, especially for young professional Christians today, to celebrate and foster a culture where reaching out to others and supporting one another with our gifts, talents, and opportunities is second nature. Please continue to share your contacts, knowledge, and ideas, especially with like-minded people. When just two individuals with such a generous attitude meet, there’s an incredible potential for deep friendships, new ideas, and projects that could transform their lives – and those of many others. We have witnessed this over the past few years and sincerely hope you experience the same.

Lots of blessings!

Your IYPN team

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UPCOMING EVENTS

We will inform you as soon as the dates of our next Viennese regular’s table (in German/English) are set. In the meantime, look with us forward to a lovely evening with great chats, networking and socializing with a “gemütliche” atmosphere! For more detailed info, please drop us a mail at team.iypnATgmail.com. 

Please always re-check our website on the day of the event since time, date and location might be subject to change.

Moreover, feel very warmly invited to join our Facebook community, where young professionals from Vienna share ideas & info that could be useful for any Catholic young professional especially in Vienna area. 🙂

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MAYOR PAST EVENTS

Our 5th International Young Professionals Weekend with participants from 10 countries took place in Vienna from the 17th to the 19th of June 2022. For more information on our past IYPW please click here.

On November 5th 2019, the IYPN co-organized its second big networking evening in the Katholische Hochschulgemeinde Wien. Around 25 organizations networked with students and young professionals. For more more info please click here.

We are a young and dynamic network aiming to connect young Catholic professionals from all around Europe. We believe that every encounter of like minded people is a breeding ground for new friendships, projects and / or job opportunities.

Our team consists of volunteers who dedicate their time, passion and creativity to serve young adults who strive to deepentheir knowledge in their field of expertise, who wish to share their Catholic faith and who are open to new friendships from all over Europe.