Welcome to Friends of JEF!
Bienvenue, Welcome, Willkommen!
Friends of JEF has been initiated by a group of former JEF activists from different places in Europe in order to bring together a network to keep its members in touch with each other and to provide support for today’s JEF. It brings together a group of people who spent time in JEF and want to keep in contact or get back in touch with each other.
Friends of JEF is a registered association
On 7th May 2009, the official founding act of Friends of JEF e.V. took place at Paulinenhof in Berlin. This followed the longstanding unofficial existence of the association with many members from across Europe.
Though registered in Germany, the association will be working with members from all JEF sections across Europe. The main objective of the association is to improve the networking of former JEF members as well as to setup a members’ database and will further function as a basis for today’s JEF network across Europe.
16 former JEF members took part in the foundation act, partly represented by delegating their voice to another person. The new board is led by Rainer B. GIESEL (Berlin) as president; the two vice-presidents are Nathalie LASNIER (Paris) and Joan Marc SIMON (Brussels/Barcelona). The board further includes Dries CALLENS (Brussels) as treasurer and Jan SEIFERT (Pinneberg). The JEF president Philippe Adriaenssens and secretary general (Ruben Loodts) are ex-officio members of the board.
Enter our community and help us find THE LOST
Please help to find THE LOST Friends of JEF. Check out for the missing addresses at our THE LOST page. The smartes way to stay in contact with "your Friends of JEF" is to register directly at our COMMUNITY.
Last Friends of JEF meeting was in July 2009 in Paris
Dear friends,
The last unofficial FoJ meeting took place on 4th July 2009 in and around Paris. It was kicked-off with a visit and tour at the Jean Monnet House near Paris. This will be followed by a dinner buffet. After that the group of around 30 former activists returned to Paris and joined the Parisian night life. On Sunday a Seine tour by boat was underatken.
10/19/08
Join our Friends of JEF Groups
Stay in touch with the Friends of JEF by joining our groups in the various social networks or follow us on 
Twitter. We will also try to keep this website as updated as possible.
Here is an overview of our various Friends of JEF groups:
facebook : Friends of JEF Group
XING : Friends of JEF GroupPlaxo : Friends of JEF GroupMeinVZ: Friends of JEF GroupLinkedIn : Friends of JEF Group
If there are social networks in which we are not present - and you think we should join them - please contact Jan Seifert or another member of the board.
Friends of JEF Meeting Berlin 2007
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Kim's picture show of our meeting in Berlin!
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JEF in the Historical Archives of the EU
JEF Europe's documents have been archived for a very long time at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. You can find them at the Historical Archives of the European Union - with the inventory list at wwwarc.eui.eu/pdfinv/inv-jef.pdf
Around 2006 there also was a PhD student and historian at the EUI who wrote his PhD about the history of JEF. His contact details can be obtained upon request.