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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Blogy o cestách do rozvojových zemí/Blogs about developing countries

Další nové odkazy na blogy z různých rozvojových zemí byly přidány do sekce odkazy ZDE.  Pokus píšete také svůj blog a máte zájem jej zde umístit napište mi na jirkapanek@gmail.com

Several few new blog links have been added HERE. In case you are interested to put your link to this page as [...]

“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 [...]

Krátké video (nejen) na zasmání: -D !

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.“ [...]