What is the EMT?

Our history
The idea to bring together one chapter from every state of the European Economic Community (EEC), now the EU, was born during a meeting of Belgian and Dutch JCI members at the European Conference in Antwerp in 1978. During a “preparation weekend” in Hasselt in January 1979, the principles of the twinning agreement were discussed. In May 1979, the first European Multi Twinning meeting took place at Alphen aan den Rijn in the Netherlands: it was the year of the first elections to the European Parlement. During this weekend, 9 European chapters founded the EMT (Alphen aan den Rijn, Dusseldorf, Hasselt, High-Wycombe, Kolding, Luxemburg, Malahide (now Fingal), Paisley and Villefranche en Beaujolais). From that moment on, the EMT has become a yearly conference, each year organised by a member-chapter treating a particular theme.
Today the EMT includes following local organisation members
JCI Alphen aan den Rijn
Founding member in 1979
JCI Edinburgh
Member since 2015
JCI Fingal
Founding member in 1979
JCI Hasselt
Founding member in 1979
JCI Lappeenranta
Member since 1995
JCI Mannheim-Ludwigshafen
Member since 1981
JCI Reykjavik
Members since 2013
JCI Sabadell
Member since 2017
JCI Villefranche et du Beaujolais
Founding member in 1979
Want to join the EMT?
Want to join the EMT?
The EMT yearly welcomes new visiting JCI chapters. If you are interested to join the EMT with your local organisation, please send us a message and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
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