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Future Leaders Programme

Do you want to participate in Europe’s largest forum on development? Do you want to have a say in the debates that shape development policy? Apply to our Future Leaders Programme to be selected to come to European Development Days 2015 in Brussels!

A call to all young leaders

Are you playing an active role in the fight against poverty? Have you been involved in innovative projects to address global challenges in your community? Do you want to share your vision of the future with global leaders?

If yes, then you should apply for the Future Leaders Programme and win an invitation to the 2015 edition of European Development Days (EDD15), to speak about issues you are passionate about, alongside world leaders!

Can I apply?

We are looking for 12 extraordinary young people ages 21-26 from around the world who can represent the powerful impact that youth are having in the development field. The finalists will be ‘movers and shakers’ in their communities who are able to speak at a high-level about a topic they are passionate about, outlined in the EDD programme.

Share your vision with other global leaders

The 12 finalists will be invited to speak alongside key political leaders at EDD15 in Brussels on 3 & 4 June, all expenses paid. During your visit to Brussels, you will have the opportunity to visit the European Institutions and participate in debates with leading thinkers about development policy, as well as share your story.

Don’t wait; click here to start the application process.

Facilitation Skills for Youth Workers and NGO Leaders, TC ddl. 20.02.2015

The main aim of this training is to strength the role of youth work and Non Formal Education in employability by training near new 30 Facilitators in the field of Non Formal Education and Experiential Learning participants have the chance to further develop their competences as a facilitator.

Training Course “Facilitation Skills for youth workers and NGO Leaders” that will take place in the Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal from 9th to 18th March 2015 under the Erasmus+ program.

Specific Objectives of the Training:

– To experiment different Group Facilitation Methods and empower youth facilitators in implementing quality training activities using participatory methods;
– To develop facilitation skills and competencies in working with non-formal education above all at local level and disadvantaged areas like the islands and interior of each country;
– To share and exchange participatory methods and good practices in order to improve team work and group creativity;
– To provide a non-formal environment where facilitators can work in a cooperative way;
– To provide the opportunities for networking with partners interested in participative approaches;
– To find creative ways to involve facilitators in non-formal education and enhance motivation.

Methodology: will be based on the mutual cooperation between participants from different backgrounds and settings, invited them at exchanging proposals and working methods contributing to the European debate on validation and certification of non-formal learning.

During the Training will be approached different methods offered by the European framework of Non Formal Education: Group Dynamics and team buildings, Learning by experience methods, Open Space Technology, Theatre of the Oppressed, Learning Circles, Role play, Outdoors Activities, Scenarios simulations, round tables and practical facilitation workshops.
• Participants Profile (Very Important): The TC was designed for Youth and Adult community Workers, NGO Leaders, Project Managers that aim to empower their skills in the field of group facilitation and group dynamics. And also for participants that wish to be Youth and Adult community Workers and special if they are young’s with fewer opportunities, like NEET category (not in education, employment or training).

• Number/Participants: 3 persons by country – residents from Portugal, Hungary, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Lithuania, Greece, Romania and Croatia

‪#‎Charity a new initiative to support NonProfits‬

Original article from Forbes (written by Federico Guerrini) @fede_guerrini

Not long ago, after listening to a charity project at a TEDx conference, Prezi‘s director of engineering Jozsef Czapovics talked to the founder, offering him his help on a voluntary basis. Together with 20 engineers of the Budapest-based company, he was able to deliver a new web solution within one day, and the NGO could not be happier of the result.

The group wanted to do more, but with no other organizations asking for help, the team’s motivation started to fade. It all could have ended there but, in fact, it was just the beginning. What was needed to keep the momentum going, Czapovics envisioned, was a platform that would connect IT professionals from all over the world, willing to volunteer their skills, with high-impact NGO’s in need of tech-help.

This is how the initial idea of HashtagCharity (or #Charity) was born. It grew, first, into a few more successful pilot projects with NGOs like Action Against Hunger, and Moneythink.

“The overall launch of the project management platform, will be in late March. But in two weeks from now, tech volunteers will be able to create their #Charity’s profile pages via a LinkedIn authentication,”

“HashtagCharity’s SmartMatch algorithm will then match the profiles to the best-fitting NGO projects (nonprofits can directly sign up to the program through the homepage’s contact form).” There are already some 500 volunteers on board.

On the NGO side, the team is currently hand-picking NGOs and charities who actually need the help of volunteers, and who take their own impact metrics very seriously. “It’s sad, but unfortunately there are many NGOs out there who waste donor dollars, and we don’t want the same thing to happen to our engineers’ skills. Our number one priority is impact, and we have to build a community who shares that priority.”

 

Application for Global Youth Advocacy Workshop on GCED_ddl. 20.02.2015

WB Education proof 4_NEW_CS5-smallThe United Nations Global Education First Initiative (GEFI) will organize an advocacy training workshop for young leaders in Global Citizenship Education (GCED) from the 30th March to 4th April 2015, at the Geumjeong Cultural Center in Busan, Republic of Korea.

Organized in partnership with the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) and the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP), the workshop aims to build the capacity of dynamic young leaders from across the world to advocate for GCED.

Approximately 50 participants, between the ages of 18 to 24, will be selected on the basis of their current engagement and future commitment in educating youth at the local and national levels around GCED. Participants must have a minimum of two years’ experience in youth advocacy activities, an understanding of GCED issues and priorities, and a proven record of influencing change at the local or national levels.

The four day Advocacy Training builds on the outcomes of the second UNESCO Forum on GCED, held in Paris from 28 – 30 January 2015. As well as enabling participants to deepen their understanding of GCED, the workshop allows the young leaders to play a major role in the development of advocacy strategies for GCED implementation, and to become part of a wider network of youth advocates on GCED, to advance the agenda beyond 2015.

Attending participants will be asked to identify specific topics around GCED and advocacy, reflecting on the global challenges around post-2015. Working both individually and in groups, the young leaders will expand on these topics, devising advocacy goals and strategies for use at local and national levels. Participants will also engage in information sessions and workshops at the training to support them in this task, on areas such as ‘Advocacy tools to build strategies’, and ‘Bottom-up planning for advocacy campaigns’.

The Youth Advocacy Training is supported by Educate A Child and Geumjeong District of Busan City, Republic of Korea.

Applications for the Youth Advocacy Training must be received before 20 February 2015. Successful applicants will be notified by 6 March 2015. Travel and local expenses will be covered for all successful applicants.

About the Global Education First Initiative


The United Nations Secretary-General launched the five-year Global Education First Initiative (GEFI) in September 2012 to accelerate progress towards the Education for All goals and the education-related Millennium Development Goals. The Initiative aims to:

• Rally together a broad spectrum of actors for the final push to 2015;
• Put quality, relevant and transformative education at the heart of the social, political and development agendas;
• Generate additional and sufficient funding for education through sustained global advocacy efforts.

The initiative focuses on three priority areas:

  1. Put every child in school.  Education is a human right. Yet advances in education have not benefited everyone equally, leaving some 57 million children out of school. Barriers to school enrollment and completion must be removed.
  2. Improve the quality of learning. An estimated 250 million are not able to read, write or count, whether they have been to school or not. Urgent action is needed to ensure children have the skills they need to thrive in life and work.
  3. Foster global citizenship. Education must be transformative, cultivating respect for the world and each other. It should provide children with the understanding they need to cooperate in resolving the interconnected challenges of the 21st Century.

Euro Mediterranean Cooperation, Structured Participation in Democratic Processes

Social DOers is implementing in 2015, under the leadership of National Youth Council of Catalonia (CNJC) and in partnership with organizations from Spain, Italy, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunis, Israel, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Greece, Syria, Turkey, Macedonia and Belgium, the “Structured Participation in Democratic Processes”

The project is the result of cooperation between different organizations active in the past two editions of the Mediterranean University on Youth and Global Citizenship (MedUni) celebrated so far (2013, 2014 editions).

The MedUni is the common space launched by Euro-Mediterranean youth associations and platforms, together with the Council of Europe, European Union and Arab League support, where the key priorities for youth cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean area are discussed and agreed.
In this context, and in the light of the structural, political and social changes occurred in the region over the past three years, the network of partners do believe that it is mandatory to build capacities of youth organizations in the field of structured participation and political advocacy mechanisms, as well as to improve their capacities to shape public policy at the local, regional and regional levels.

Therefore, the ‘Structured Participation in Democratic Processes’ project seeks to meet this challenge by addressing the exchange of good practices and structured participation mechanisms in Europe and the Southern basin of the Mediterranean. In order to do so, the following phases and activities have been foreseen:

a. TRAINING COURSE – ACTIVITY 1 (13-21 February 2015, Barcelona, Catalonia)

The residential training course will gather together 32 young leaders and youth workers from 21 youtherasmus_logo organizations working in the Euro-Mediterranean area. Given the general topic of Structured Participation, participants will reflect upon key questions such as existing models of participation and how to strengthen youth councils and youth organizations in the region.

All these questions will be addressed through a framework of intercultural dialogue, mutual understanding and exchange of experiences among youth workers. Therefore, Non Formal Education tools will be used to address these topics, complemented by formal inputs such as conferences by guest speakers, institutional visits or associations’ fairs. However, NFE will be the methodology used throughout the whole project.

To summarize, the course aims that participants share good practices from their community or association in the field of political advocacy and participation.

b. Intermediate phase centered in the implementation of local actions.

The tangible results that stem from the course will be cooperation projects designed and planned by partner organizations that share similar needs in the field of structured participation. As a consequence, every single partner organization has committed to implement meetings, visits or activities that are needed to carry out the aforementioned projects. Moreover, partner organizations must evaluate and collect the results of the implemented activities.

c. JOINT ASSESSMENT AND CLOSING MEETING

Partner organisations are expected to meet at the 3rd Mediterranean University on Youth and Global Citizenship (expected June/July 2015) for the closing of the project, to assess the key achieved results and plan future follow up activities. The activity will gather together 32 young leaders and youth workers from the partners’ network.

Moreover, this activity will be a unique opportunity to share the results of the ‘Structured Participation in Democratic Processes’ project with key stakeholders involved in youth Euro-Mediterranean cooperation processes in the framework of the MedUni, and therefore feed into the 2015-16 Euro-Med cooperation cycle.

Expected results of the project

The immediate results of the ‘Structured Participation in Democratic Processes’ project will be the cooperation projects launched by partner organizations, and their subsequent local actions and results achieved throughout the intermediate phase. The expected outcomes are:

– Improved the youth workers’ and partner organizations’ capacities and competences in the field of political advocacy and participation (and in particular, Non Formal Education competencies as a working tool).

– Transferred good practices on structured participation to the local context of partner organizations.

– Increased the quantity and quality of the cooperation activities organized by youth organizations/platforms in the Euro-Med region.

Also, the following benefits are expected in the long term, since the project is part of the broader Euro-Med youth cooperation process:

– Increased the mutual awareness and knowledge on the realities and common challenges of youth at both sides of the Mediterranean.

– Increased the youth exchanges, mobility and cooperation projects in the Euro-Mediterranean region.

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