Global Dialogue, the Youth Training on Intercultural Dialogue and Cooperation. 21. – 27.6.2010 in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Dear Friends, I would like to remind you that Global Dialogue, the Youth Training on Intercultural Dialogue and Cooperation, organised by ISCA and supported by Council of Europe, is calling for participants on the role of sports associations in promoting active youth participation and enhancing intercultural dialogue.

UNESCO LITTERARY CONTEST: TEN IDEAS ON TOMORROW’S AFRICA!

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the African independencies, the Social and Human Sciences Sector of UNESCO is launching a ‘Call for ideas’ relating to prospective proposals for the development of Africa in the next ten years. Ten ideas on several subjects relating to the ongoing socio-economic and political trends in [...]

“Teach and Learn with Georgia”

The main goal of the project “Teach and Learn with Georgia” is to recruit 1,000 native English speakers who will be willing to help Georgian schoolchildren learn the English language for the years of 2010-2011. As we strive towards globalization and acknowledge the advantages of new technology, we still consider that human interaction and people-to-people [...]

International Youth Conference on Biodiversity in Japan 2010

The Ministry of the Environment of Japan („MOE“) will hold the „International Youth Conference on Biodiversity in Aichi 2010″ in Japan in August 2010 in order to promote communication among young people from around the world and to improve their mutual awareness of biodiversity. The conference is associated with the 10th meeting of the Conference [...]

The International Student Week in Belgrade

The International Student Week in Belgrade (ISWiB) is a one-week student festival open to students of all European Universities.

Association World Youth Wave has so far successfully organized two ISWiBs, first as a pilot project in 2006 and second in 2007. ISWiB 2007 has gathered around 150 students from all over Europe [...]

How is life in Borjomi – Georgia???

There are around 2000 internally displaced persons living for years in miserable conditions in old soviet buildings in Borjomi town in Georgia. Driven out of their homes by war in Abhazia in early 90s, they have little possibilities of finding jobs and integrating in the local society ad improving their living conditions.

Here we [...]

Interculture language courses – Russia, Turkey and Morocco

Intercultural competence and foreign language skills are seen as [...]

Local czech organisation is looking for the partner organisations to organise Youth exchange

1.    What is it?
Project called „True Story“ aims at connecting people from different cultural and geographical backgrounds while with the same interests. Its main objectives are:

-    to provide young people with an opportunity to experience different culture in a positive way
-    to enhance involvement of young people
-    to encourage discussion about some social issues
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This project [...]

Call for participants for Young Transformers International Youth Exchange – Hledají se čeští účastníci!!!

Více informací naleznete na / Please find more information ZDE/HERE !!!

Working Group Co-ordinator – CALL

Working Group Co-ordinator – CALL

Recognizing the recent successes of increasing the involvement of more YEU members in the daily work and co-ordination of the network, for example by appointing a specific Newsletter editor, YEU GB have also decided to develop the position of Working Group Co-ordinator.  In order to pilot [...]

Call for Applications: 16th ASEF University (Lodz, Poland)

This year’s theme is on “Public Health and Vulnerable Groups: Access to Quality Health Care Services,” and will be held on 29 June – 10 July 2010, in Lodz, Poland.

Formerly known as the ASEF Summer School, the AU aims at promoting inter-cultural exchanges among university students from Asia and Europe. This two-week academic [...]

We Are The World 25 For Haiti

Photo competition on Social Exclusion and Poverty

The André Kertész Photography Competition (AKPC) of the Szigetbecse Foundation has selected Poverty and social exclusion as a theme for the 2010 competition, in relation with the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion

This year the André Kertész Photography Competition (AKPC) of the Szigetbecse Foundation welcomes photos about the following two themes [...]

AEGEE – Summer University

A Summer University is a summer course offered in most cities where AEGEE is present. These courses are organised on a non-profit basis by AEGEE members, therefore the organization is different for each city.

It can be a language course, a cultural course, it can be sports or traveling. You will meet between 20 [...]

International Summer Camp in Palestine

We are pleased to invite you and your associates to our international voluntary workcamp „United for Empowerment“ from the 14th until the 28th of June 2010. This project  has been designed to give you the opportunity to meet with other people from around the world to share ideas, enhance practical skills, foster relationships, [...]

Earth Hour 2010

Turn out your light, show support

In 2009 hundreds of millions of people around the world showed their support by turning off their lights for one hour.

Earth Hour 2010 will continue to be a global call to action to every individual, every business and every community. A call to stand up, to show leadership [...]

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - YOUTH VOICES THROUGH INCLUSIVE SPORTS

What:        ENGSO YOUTH’S STUDY SESSION IN EUROPEAN YOUTH CENTRE
When:     19 – 25 APRIL 2010
Where:     IN STRASBOURG
For whom:     YOUTH BETWEEN 18-35 YEARS

Polská organizace hledá českého partnera na projekt!

The Jan Karski International Institute for Dialogue and Tolerance is searching for a Czech partner to co-operate on a project about dialogue and being neighbours. They are planning local journalism workshops and a film review about dialogue. They want to apply for the 15th of February to the Europe for Citizens Programme.

If you [...]

“Eastern Europe” - Wrongly labelled

From The Economist print edition

The economic downturn has made it harder to speak sensibly of a region called “eastern Europe”

IT WAS never a very coherent idea and it is becoming a damaging one. “Eastern Europe” is a geographical oddity that includes the Czech Republic (in the middle of the [...]

The Story of the Stuff - Cap&Trade

The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the „devils in the details“ in current cap and trade [...]

The Story of the Stuff

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make [...]

I am the hero of the day :-D

It seems that my little serious/funny blog really has changed my life!

Have fun and enjoy it!

Council of Europe Youth Foundation two calls for participants

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Training of trainers in human rights education

What? a training course “Training Trainers for Human Rights Education with young people”
When? 24 March-2 April 2010
Where? European Youth Centre, Budapest
Deadline to apply: 23 January 2010

AND

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Training course for facilitators in non-formal education

What? a training course for facilitators in non-formal education with young people in the [...]

European Voluntary Service 2010 IN ISCA

Here is an opportunity for you to: experience something new, broaden your horizons, discover a different culture and gain experience in the field of youth, sport and culture. Seize the opportunity to become an EVS volunteer with ISCA in Denmark.

The International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA) will apply for the next [...]

Masters of Science in Geospatial Technologies with Erasmus Mundus scholarships!

The International Masters Program (Master of Science, M.Sc.) in Geospatial Technologies is a cooperation of

• University of Münster (WWU), Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), Germany,

• Universitat Jaume I (UJI), Castellón, Spain, and,

• Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação (ISEGI), Lisboa, Portugal.

Internship in India – 10 week in summer at UNICEF project!

UNICEF India’s Knowledge Community on Children in India (KCCI)
Internship Programme 2010, scheduled to run from *31 May to 3 August 2010*

Between 60 and 100 graduate students from India and abroad participate in a ten-week long KCCI Summer Internship Programme.
Each team of interns comprises a combination of Indian and international students who [...]

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Africans in the Academia: Diversity in Adversity By Grada Kilomba.

The following article was presented by the author in the framework of the AfricAvenir Dialogforum on 09 May 2007 at the Heinrich-Böll- Foundation in Berlin.

Africans in the Academia: Diversity in Adversity
By Grada Kilomba, writer and psychologist from the West African Islands Sao Tomé e Príncipe, works predominantly as a writer and [...]

The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes

The following is the transcript of the speech that Severn Suzuki gave to the Plenary Session at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio Centro, Brazil. Severn was twelve years old. SASS feels there is no better example of a young person standing up and speaking on behalf of something in which they truly [...]

To Hell with Good Intentions by Ivan Illich - razantní názor na rozvojovou pomoc USA Mexiku

An address by Monsignor Ivan Illich to the Conference on InterAmerican Student Projects (CIASP) in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on April 20, 1968. In his usual biting and sometimes sarcastic style, Illich goes to the heart of the deep dangers of paternalism inherent in any voluntary service activity, but especially in any international service „mission.“ [...]