European Youth Peace Forum 2015, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, December 8 – 12 2015
(Cluj is the EU Youth Capital 2015)

We are now discussing the organising of the European Youth Peace Forum 2015 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The aim will be to organise a massive forum / gathering bringing together at least 1000+ youth actively involved/engaged in peace movements, peace building, and working for positive social change and transformation from across Europe as well as internationally. The Forum itself will be a platform for hundreds of workshops, seminars, events and practical design and planning sessions organised along 10 themes, together with a parallel ‘Peace Festival’ with arts, music, film across the city. There will be themes of the Festival on:

– overcoming and addressing discrimination and violent extremism within Europe and internationally;
– building a real student/youth peace movement across Europe and around the world;
– peace education – in schools, universities and our societies;
– overcoming, countering and transcending militarism and militarisation ;
– Solidarity in Peacebuilding with Ukraine, Libya, Iraq, Syria and Palestine-Israel (with participants from these countries and focusing on how to build, support, strengthen European-wide and international engagement to support people’s nonviolent and peace movements within these countries);
– Living Peace: focusing on how to be, live, practice peace within and in our lives, communities, countries and the world;
– Peace and the Arts: which will involve a huge peace festival through the week including poetry, photography, theatre, living art, a film festival and more;
– Doing Peacebuilding: including practical training, sessions on in-depth review and learning from lessons and experiences in the field, and gaining, growing, deepening PRACTICAL expertise, skills and knowledge in DOING applied peacebuilding, violence prevention, reconciliation and healing after war and violence and conflict transformation

Our vision in preparing the EYPF is to make it a ‘platform’ where incredible organisations, individuals and movements from across Europe and bring in their experiences, lessons, work, inspiration – where we can organise forums, sessions, working groups on key issues and themes important to us and on bringing peacebuilding forward practically – in our countries, across Europe and internationally.

This will be one of the major milestones in the peace movement, in engagement for true/real change in our countries, Europe and internationally, and in peacebuilding….and strengthening, growing a new generation of youth engagement in peace across Europe and the world.

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The United Nations Alliance Of Civilizations is now selecting emerging leaders and young professionals from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and North America to participate in the 2015 edition of the Fellowship Programme.
With the objective of fostering intercultural dialogue and interfaith understanding, the Fellowship offers its participants a first hand exposure to diversity and the opportunity to experience cultural immersion while interacting with a wide range of actors and partners.
Participants from Europe and North America (EUNA) and from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) will travel for two weeks to their counterparts’ region where they will acquire crucial knowledge and experience to understand their host countries’ culture, society and diversity. 

Call for Applications for Participants from the Middle East and North Africa:
MENA participants’ trip to EUNA countries will focus on Migration and Integration. Please read the 2015MENA Call for Applications

Eligibility criteria:
– Be a citizen from the Middle East or North Africa
– Born between January 1^st 1977 and December 31^st 1990
– Fluent in English
– Directly involved at a professional level within the field of Migration and Integration.

Start your application.

Application Deadline: Friday, July 10^th 2015 at 11:59PM GMT

Call for Applications for Participants from Europe and North America:
EUNA participants’ trip to the MENA region will focus on Youth Development. Please read the 2015EUNA Call for Applications

Eligibility criteria:
– Be a citizen from Europe or North America
– Born between January 1^st 1977 and December 31^st 1990
– Fluent in English
– Directly involved at a professional level within the field of Youth Development

Start your application

Application Deadline: Friday, July 10^th 2015 at 11:59PM GMT

Find out more here!

Deadline: 8 June 2015 / 17 August 2015
Open to: Teams of investigative journalists consisting of at least one Sub-Saharan African and one European journalist
Grant:  EUR 100 000

Connecting Continents is a pilot project offering working grants for mixed teams of African and European journalists to investigate financial governance in Africa. The project is launched by Journalismfund.eu in cooperation with Oxfam Novib, which provides the money for the grants.

Eligibility
Only intercontinental journalist teams consisting of at least one Sub-Saharan African and one European journalist are eligible to apply. Preference goes teams of which the African member(s) is/are working in DR Congo, Uganda, Nigeria or Mozambique, although others are also eligible. In order to be eligible for application, the teams have to ensure that their story will be published in at least one African and one European country. Therefore, during the application procedure they will be asked to upload letters of intent for publication from at least one African and one European news platform.

Grant
There is EUR 100,000 to distribute over two application rounds, so for each round approximately €50,000 in working grants is foreseen.

How to apply?
Before you can start with your application, you will need to register. Write down a username and enter your e-mail address. An e-mail will be sent to you with a link through which you can choose a password. Once you’ve done that, you’re ready to start your application. There will be two application rounds for the pilot project, one on 8 June 2015 and one mid-August (see rules and timing here)

For more information, please check the official web-page.

Read more: http://www.mladiinfo.eu/2015/05/28/connecting-continents-grants-to-african-and-european-journalists/#ixzz3bVdjOcIN

5th Euro-Arab Youth Forum – Learning and Practicing Citizenship
Young people’s values and commitments to intercultural and inclusive societies

The 5th Euro-Arab Youth Forum aims to foster mutual cooperation and dialogue among young Arab and European leaders, representatives of associations and decision-makers, on the meanings and practices of citizenship by young people and the challenges they face in their paths to autonomy.
Objectives of the forum:
    To contribute to the development of shared knowledge and to increase the awareness about meanings and practices of active citizenship by young people
    To reflect on the meanings of citizenship within the context of Euro-Arab cooperation.
    To exchange on realities and challenges faced youth organisations engaged in the education and promotion of citizenship and human rights
    To explore the role and practices of education for citizenship  and human rights in building peaceful cohesive societies and preventing discrimination, hate speech, islamophobia and extremism leading to violence or terrorism
    To present and give visibility to projects and meaningful practices in the Euro-Arab region that educate and promote citizenship by and for young people.
    To develop proposals which aim to involve young people in the issues on the Arab-European dialogue agenda (social, economic, spiritual, cultural, and political) based on their ability to challenge stereotypical images.

Where: European Youth Centre Strasbourg, France

When: 2 – 5 September, 2015

PARTICIPANTS profile

 Be aged between 18 and 30 years

 Have a demonstrated experience in civil society and youth work

 Be actively interested in the forum aims and themes and in following up of the forum within their organisations.

 Ability to communicate and communicate in English or Arabic.

The co-organisers aim to select and invite:

 36 participants from member states of the Arab League

 36 participants from the Council of Europe member states, co-recruited by the Council of Europe and the European Youth Forum

APPLY HERE!