Fully funded program for 18-22 years old Digital Creators, Influencers, Activists and Journalists from Europe in Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

⏳Deadline - 2 June !!

📢 Fully funded program for Gen Z Digital Creators, Influencers, Activists and Journalists from Europe in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - 19-23 June

🌎Eligible countries - #Europe

📌DCN Global invites Gen Z Digital Creators, Influencers, Activists and Journalists from Europe to meet up, work, and network together with like-minded peers! 

🟢The agenda of the retreat will be based on three important pillars: creativity, personal growth, and well-being! In a green environment in Sarajevo, the participants will join masterclasses, will learn how to combine mindfulness in their everyday workflow, will brainstorm in groups, and have a chance to work together!

❗TOPICS👇

👉In a world where news consumption habits change fast, we want to bring together young voices of the future to discuss digital skills, content creation for young audiences, communicating online, social media, and the future of journalism.

🔎ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA👇

👉Up to 30 participants from Europe 

👉Applicants can come from Civil Society, New Media, Academia, Technology Fields, Journalists, Digital Creators and Influencers and have expertise or interest in Digital Content Creation, Social Campaigns, Combating Disinformation 

👉Preferred ages 18 - 22 

👉Proficient in conversational English.

💰All costs are covered. 

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« Ensuring safe and secure environment for European Solidarity Corps Volunteers» Seminar in Latvia

 

⏳Deadline - 2 June !!

📢« Ensuring safe and secure environment for European Solidarity Corps Volunteers» seminar in Latvia - 22-26 September !!! 

🌎Eligible countries - #Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries , Partner Countries Neighbouring the EU . 

📌Activity open to professionals within the ESC programme willing to collaborate on developing safeguarding policies in order to ensure safety through feedback, expertise, and knowledge exchange.

❗There are various challenges that European Solidarity Corps (ESC) volunteers can face. Difficult and challenging situations in which hosting organisations need to provide support. Different crises may impact volunteers' security, which is why SALTO ESC and National Agencies gathered in the Strategic National Agency Cooperation on Volunteering are initiating the development of a document on safeguarding policies.

🎉To ensure the most relevant and accessible safeguarding policies and approaches, we need all of the best minds and passionate individuals at the table. Bringing both experience and motivation to work toward strengthening the safe and secure environment for ESC volunteers. 

🔎Organisers are seeking individuals with the following qualifications👇

👉Active involvement in the European Solidarity Corps programme (sending and hosting organisations, mentors, NA/SNAC partners).

👉Expertise in safeguarding policies with practical experience.

💰This project is financed by the participating National Agencies (NAs) of the Erasmus+ Programme. ❗The participation fee varies from country to country.👉 Please contact your National Agency to learn more about the participation fee for participants from your country. 

❗The hosting NA of this offer will organise the accommodation and covers the costs for accommodation and food.

❗Please contact your NA in order to know whether they would support your travel costs. If yes, after being selected, get in touch with your NA again to learn more about the overall procedure to arrange the booking of your travel tickets and the reimbursement of your travel expenses.

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Fully funded program for Young Peacebuilders from South Caucasus and Central Asia

 

⏳Deadline - Jule 31 !!

📢 Fully funded program for Young Peacebuilders from South Caucasus and Central Asia!!! 

🌎Eligible countries - #South_Caucasus ( Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia); #Cental_Asia ( Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan). 

📌The 8th edition of the Young Peacebuilders programme in South Caucasus and Central Asia (SCCA) 2024-2025 is designed to strengthen the skills of young people from the region in tackling stereotypes, prejudice, and xenophobia while providing them with access to regional and global peacebuilding networks and raising visibility of their innovative and effective peace work. The long-term goal is the integration of young peacebuilders in governmental peace processes/policies.

🔎This is a call to youth aged 18-25 from South Caucasus and Central Asia wanting to tackle violent extremism and violence by building inclusive societies with understanding and respect among cultures and religions.

👉Are you between 18 and 25 years old? 

👉Are you a citizen of a South Caucasus and Central Asia** (SCCA) country, and/or do you currently live in this region?

👉Are you interested in participating in an intercultural learning experience with other young people from SCCA region and improving your actions to promote peace?

👉Are you part of a youth-led organization, network or initiative?

👉Do you want to increase your ability to contribute to peace and social inclusion in your community, country, and region?

👉Are you in the beginning stages of your involvement in this type of work and want to learn more?

💰All selected youth participants will be provided with👇

👉Round-trip travel (international or domestic flight, economy class) to the city of the face-to-face workshop and to the city of the symposium;

👉Accommodation in the city of the face-to-face workshop and the symposium

👉Meals and coffee breaks during the official duration of the workshop and the symposium

👉Shuttles or reimbursement of transportation to/from the airport and hotel in the city of the face-to-face workshop and in the city of the symposium.

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13th Eastern European Academy for Social Democracy

 

⏳Deadline - 20 May !!

📢13th Eastern European Academy for Social Democracy in Brussels ( 🇧🇪Belgium)- 8-12 Jule !!! 

🌎Eligible countries - #EaP ( Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine) and Germany. 

📌🇩🇪The FES Regional Office “Dialogue Eastern Europe” is pleased to invite young politicians, civil society activists, political scientists, researchers, journalists and other young professionals from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Germany to participate in our upcoming Eastern European Academy for Social Democracy “The EU Enlargement Odyssey: Unlocking New Horizons in Turbulent Waters”.

📌13th Eastern European Academy for Social Democracy is designed to provide young actors from the EaP region with both crucial information about the transformative power of EU enlargement and the challenges that have to be overcome to become a member of the European Union. Participants will gain valuable insights into the complexities of European integration and the socio-economic, political and practical implications of EU enlargement.

🎉We will dig into the “Brussels bubble”, visit EU Institutions and gain first-hand information from well-informed experts. Moreover, through collaborative projects and simulations, participants will have the opportunity to delve into real-world scenarios, grappling with the complexities of negotiations and decision-making within the EU context.

🔎Eligibility Criteria👇

👉Citizenship of an EaP country ( Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine) , or Germany

👉Age between 25 and 35 years old

👉Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences, Political Science, Law, Environment or related fields

👉Applicant should demonstrate a strong commitment to the processes of European integration, foreign policy, civil society, democracy building, social justice, and sustainable development, with a track record of relevant work and experience.

👉Full professional proficiency in English 

💰All costs related to the seminar are covered by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. 

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Fully funded program for entrepreneurship ecosystem leaders and practitioners in Stockholm and Online

 

⏳Deadline - 31 May !!

📢Fully funded program for entrepreneurship ecosystem leaders and practitioners in Stockholm ( Sweden) and Online!!! 

🌎Eligible countries - #AFRICA ( Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia) #ASIA (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam); #EUROPE ( Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine) . 

🟢Are you dedicated to nurturing and growing the ecosystem for impact entrepreneurship? Impact Pioneers is a leadership programme that welcomes you to exchange experiences with an international network of peers and gain first hand insights and experience from Sweden’s most successful impact entrepreneurship leaders and environments. The programme mixes online learning modules with a one-week onsite summit in Stockholm.

❗Impact entrepreneurship refers to the efforts to create, develop, and sustain new business that pursue environmental and/or social goals as an integral part of the business model, along with financial success. It is a global phenomenon in many ways rewriting the rules of traditional business with its much broader and bolder ambition. It is a potential driver of both economic and social development, as well as a force that can help accelerate the global green transition. If nurtured and empowered, it has great potential to bring forward new businesses needed today and in the future, bringing sustainable innovation, growth and jobs to local communities. 

📌Impact Pioneers’24 seeks to strengthen leaders and enablers working in organisations and networks that want to promote the nurture and growth of local impact entrepreneurship. The programme aims to grow participants skillset through exchange of experiences, perspectives, cases, tools and frameworks. A central component of the programme is also networking across an international cohort of peers and with the Swedish impact entrepreneurship ecosystem. This component is key, as is the programme hopes to plant seeds for future partnerships, to the benefit of impact startups and scaleups as they seek to expand their growth, reach and overall impact.

🎉The longterm programme objective is connected the SDG 8, target 8.3, which includes promotion of activities and policies that support entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation to encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and mediumsized enterprises, ultimately contributing to job creation and sustainable economic, social and environmental development.

🔎Applicants must meet the following requirements👇

👉Be a citizen and resident of one of the 22 programme countries

👉Work in an organisation or business systematically working to nurture and grow entrepreneurs.

👉Have the mandate to develop new international partnerships for your organisation/business.

👉Have a good working knowledge of both written and spoken English.

👉Be willing to actively participate, provide support and share their experience and knowledge with other participants.

👉Have identified opportunities and challenges that could be worked on during the programme to help their organisation improve its contribution to the local entrepreneurship ecosystem.

💰The Swedish institute arranges and covers costs related to👇

👉Learning programme

👉Flights to and from Sweden for the Sweden week onsite visit

👉Accommodation, meals, transportation and insurance while in Sweden. 

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Fully funded Summer School in Germany

 

⏳Deadline - 20 May !!

📢Viadrinicum Summer School in Frankfurt ( Germany)- 17 August - 1 September!!! 

🌎Eligible countries - international 

🟢Viadrinicum is an annual summer school at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), devoted to the countries of the Eastern Partnership and the larger context of Central and Eastern Europe. Building on the discussions around the notion of learning city during the last year’s edition, in 2024 the school focuses on urban space as the space for various (un)learning practices, activating different modes of knowing, sensing and being/becoming together. 

❗It invites students, young researchers, civil society activists, artists and cultural workers to critically reflect upon the experiences of (un)learning as a vehicle of urban transformation through constant re-imagining of the cityscape contours and trajectories. Attentive to the promises of participatory pedagogics and spatial aspects of knowledge production, the school looks into the ways how learning infrastructures are constructed through institutions of formal and non-formal education, as well as into their potential for creating diverse and transgenerational learning communities. 🎉Following the idea of experiential learning, a combination of academic and non-academic formats will allow the participants of the school to actively explore the possibilities for a dialogue between different kinds of knowledge from academia, civil society and the arts. 

❗In a more practical sense, the school offers opportunities for applied experimentation in the setting of a participatory urban intervention engaging local communities in the heart of the German-Polish twin city Frankfurt (Oder)-Słubice. This happens in the frame of three lab.workshops (Community.Lab, Doc.Lab, Planners.Lab), where the participants will be able to develop their own small (team) projects with the assistance of facilitators from the respective fields. Besides that, the school‘s program features round tables with researchers from the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS, Berlin), film screenings, public events, and Open Space sessions, where participants will have a chance to discuss their own academic, civic or cultural work.

💰Successful applicants will be able to receive a travel scholarship. 👉Accommodation costs will be covered by the organizers.

🔎You can apply if you meet the following requirements👇

👉You are a student, a PhD candidate, an NGO activist or an artist up to 35 y/o;

👉You have a genuine interest in transsectoral and transdisciplinary approaches to the topics of the school;

👉Your knowledge of English is sufficient to take an active part in discussions.

📝Application Form 

Transparency International School 2024

 

⏳Deadline - 15 May !!

📢Transparency International School 2024 in Vilnius ( Lithuania), or Online - 20-25 June!!! 

🌎Eligible countries - international 

🟢Transparency International School on Integrity is an annual state-of-the-art anti-corruption and accountability training for future leaders. The School exposes its participants to the latest developments in the field of anti-corruption and accountability and offers real opportunities to try and implement their ideas in practice.

🎉This year the Transparency School will provide opportunities for the participants to explore certain aspects of the International Anti-corruption Conference (IACC), which will be hosted in Lithuania on 18-21 June. 

🎓After successful completion of the programme, 6 ECTS can be obtained.

❗Following a rigorous selection process, students will attend interactive sessions and learn from leading anti-corruption and accountability professionals. Transparency School seeks to create a peer-to-peer learning and integrity-building environment that links theory with practice and helps young leaders to acquire skills to better convey the message of anti-corruption.

🔎The Transparency School is open to senior students, graduates and young professionals. 

👉We welcome individuals from public, private, non-governmental and academic sectors, from all academic backgrounds.

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Young Bled Strategic Forum 2024 in Slovenia

 

⏳Deadline - 2 June!!

📢Young Bled Strategic Forum 2024 in Pokljuka (Slovenia) - 30 August - 1 September!!! 

🌎Eligible countries - international 

🟢The Young Bled Strategic Forum is a unique meeting place for diverse young leaders, offering them a platform to share their visions, exchange ideas and network with other prominent young politicians, activists, diplomats and academic from all over the world. Each year, it attracts a group of young leaders and engages them in interactive discussions on pressing challenges and addresses inventive approaches to developing creative solutions. As a generator of ideas, the Young Bled Strategic Forum has become an engine of change.

❗The Young Bled Strategic Forum model is growing and changing every year. Topics change and ideas evolve, but the main objectives of the Young Bled Strategic Forum are clear. Young Bled Strategic Forum aims to bring together the most prominent young leaders from Slovenia and abroad and offer them a creative atmosphere for discussion and networking.

🙌The main theme of the 2024 edition of the Young Bled Strategic Forum (working title: Restoring Common Ground) is a reference to the title of the 2024 edition of the Bled Strategic Forum international conference (Parallel Realities). In essence, at this year’s Young Bled Strategic Forum, participants will be looking for ways to make our realities converge once again so that a space for positive social action can re-emerge. You can find more information on the theme of the 13th Young Bled Strategic Forum here. 

🔎Who can apply?👇

Field of profession: whoever committed to bringing positive change within society, ranging from students and young academics, NGO representatives and civil society members (active citizens on the local, national and international level), activists, politicians, engineers, young members of public administration and governmental institutions, athletes, members of international organisations, entrepreneurs, and all other inspiring young future leaders.

❗Age: 18 – 35 years

💰There is no participation fee and all the costs of your participation are covered by us.👉 This includes the cost of transportation, accommodation, and meals at the Young Bled Strategic Forum and the Bled Strategic Forum. 

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