Deadline- October 31st, 2012
Countries/Region- Japan, Indonesia
The Japan Foundation, Jakarta invites applicants for Youth Competition for Disaster Education, because Indonesia and Japan are the most effected countries due to lot of natural disasters.
The youth, are the agents of change that determine what the future will be. In Indonesia, the wave of young people’s participation in giving social contribution is growing fast in various issue-areas, including disaster as one of the major problem faced by Indonesia, today.
Seeing this spirit and momentum of fast-growing youth participation, The Japan Foundation, Jakarta and Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) encourage Indonesian youth proactive involvement on disaster reconstruction and to convey knowledge on education for disaster prevention through a competition in showing past activities as well as proposing what they can build as improved or new projects for disaster education.
Eligibility & Criteria–
- Organization or group which has records of activities in the field of disaster and education in Indonesia, or in helping post-disaster reconstruction including charitable fund-raising. Application is based on organization or group, not on individual.
- Applying organization does not need to hold formal legal status. Both formally registered organization or informal group under an organizational name are eligible.
- Applying organization/group and members are eager to learn from Japan’s experience of disaster and disaster prevention.
- Each applying organization/group should be consisted of 4 individual members. The composition of the 4 individuals has to be 2 male and 2 female.
- Individual members have to be equal or under 28 years old.
- Each individual member has to be an active university or graduate student (who presents student ID and an official letter from university certifying that he/she is a student there) and has Indonesian nationality.
- Each individual member has to play and present his/her role within the organization.
- One application from one organization/group only. (If there are several organizations/groups within a university, it is ok that more than one organization/group applies from the same university, as far as they are different organizations/groups.)
- Individual members have to be able to participate in the whole program in English.
- The individual members have to be in good physical and mental condition.
- If late for deadline, or be absent from the second screening (group presentation), the application will be considered as withdrawn and will automatically fail.
- Please make sure that all members can participate in the whole screening process as well as in case of being accepted, also to the trip to Japan.
- In case any individuals cannot join the selection process due to an inevitable circumstance, the applying organization/group may change the participating individuals, if this is prior to the 2nd selection.
Documents Required-
- Group Application Form (Form A).
- Individual Application Form/Curriculum Vitae (Form B).
- Attachments (brochure, annual reports, etc.), if any.
- Photos that shows organization/group activities in a separated A4 paper size, if any.
Note-
- Group Application Form (Form A) and Individual Application Form (Form B), both can be downloaded at the end of this page.
- There are two downloadable files, those files are having the same content but one of them is in 97-2003 Ms. Excel format (.xls) and another one is in Ms. Excel Worksheet (2007) format (.xlsx).
- The content of each files consist of two different worksheets, one is for the Group Application Form (Form A) and another one is for 4 (four) Individual Application Forms (Form B), please check it clearly and make sure to fill all the blank before submitting, as once it is submitted there is no chance for correction.
How to apply?
Applicant can submit either by postal mail, or by email attachment.
- By postal mail– The documents are submitted in a brown envelope with “YOUTH COMPETITION FOR DISASTER EDUCATION” written at the top left of the envelope.
- To be submitted by post to address provided in website.
- By email-Please email the whole documents to provided email ID in website with the title of the email “YOUTH COMPETITION FOR DISASTER EDUCATION”.
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