Deadline- 10 June 2012
Countries/Region- Europe and Africa
The 8th Africa-Europe Training Course is one of the activities being held in the 4th African University on Youth and Development. Encouraged by the success of the previous Africa-Europe Training Courses and the demand for capacity building opportunities expressed by youth leaders in the Africa-Europe Youth Summits (2007 and 2010) and the Africa-Europe Youth Leaders Meeting (2011), the North-South Centre will run the 8th edition of this programme. Coimbra, Portugal (2005, 2008) Almada, Portugal (2006), Polokwane, South Africa (2010), this 8th Africa-Europe Training Course is going to be held between 10 and 20 July 2012, once again, in Cape Verde. During the course participants will develop competences and tools to strengthen their political participation in the context of the Africa-EU Strategic Partnership and with regard to poverty eradication and social cohesion on the Euro-African context, developing also competences for the capacity-building of their organisations as civil society actors in the development process.
Furthermore, the course and the African University are unique moments of practical and political follow up and implementation of some of the outcomes of the Africa-Europe Youth Summits and the Africa-Europe Youth Leaders Meeting that took place in Ethiopia in April 2011. The course will also provide an excellent space for strategic networking and finding partners; Participants will compare their approaches to youth work and youth participation, engaging in the implementation and evaluation of the programme with the team of trainers. This Training Course is an opportunity given to youth leaders from Africa and Europe to share, better understand and integrate the objectives settled at the international level and better contribute to their achievement. Some of these objectives (mentioned above), inscribed in the Africa-EU Strategic Partnership help enable youth to take an active part in these strategies at the national and regional level and be further equipped to participate in cooperation project.
The training course aims to strengthen the role of youth organisations as civil society actors and youth ability to organise and take action as well as strengthen its political participation and identify educational principles to promote the global citizenship of young people in Europe and Africa.
Eligibility-
- should be a key multiplier playing an active role within a youth organisation, network or service at local, national or regional level, and plan to continue this work in the near future; seeking gender balance; diverse social and geographical background (including disadvantaged and minority groups);
- aged between 18 and 30;
- have already some qualification or experience in terms of international youth work and project work;
- be committed to attend the full duration of the course and be supported by a youth organisation or service;
- be able to present the context of their work, their way of tackling problems, the challenges they meet;
- be able to work and communicate in English and/or French.
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