Deadline: 11 July 2018
Open to: citizens between the ages of 18 – 30 years from Europe Member States
Venue: 10 – 14 September 2018 at Mollina, Spain
DESCRIPTION
The Youth Cooperation Programme of the North-South Centre promotes youth participation through training and capacity building courses aimed at facilitating young people and youth organizations’ involvement in decision and policy making processes at all levels of governance.
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The training course will give space to the participants to reflect upon political, economic, social and environmental issues developing in this way a critical understanding of their role, responsibility, and lifestyles of in relation to a globalized and interconnected society.
Being grounded in this approach, the training course aims at providing youth multipliers and youth organizations with new tools and knowledge to play a greater change-making role in their communities within the current global interconnected context.
The specific objectives of the course are:
- to understand the skills, values, and knowledge behind the concept of GDE;
- to provide youth multipliers with a series of competencies and tools to promote and disseminate principles of GDE to other young people;
- to raise awareness about the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN Agenda 2030) and the role that young people and youth organizations have in implementing, monitoring and evaluating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) in their local communities following a “glocal” approach;
- to offer a platform for youth peer-education and for the development of multilateral youth activities that promote peaceful and inclusive societies.
ELIGIBILITY
The training course targets 30 participants.
Candidates will be considered for the selection phase on the basis of the following eligibility criteria to be fulfilled by the deadline for applications:
- are aged 18-30 years;
- are able to fluently communicate in English;
- play an active role within a youth organization/platform or a youth-related institution;
- are supported by an organization which has youth as a main target group and which will support the candidates in the follow-up phase.
The call is open to Citizens of the 47 Council of Europe Member States. However, a 20% quota is available for citizens from the Southern Mediterranean region 1 and a 10% quota for citizens the African continent.
Candidates accepted on the basis of the above eligibility criteria will then
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