Deadline: 04/10/2010
Open to: Young people, Youth leaders, Youth workers from Youth in action programme countries
Cost: covered by national agency from sending and hosting country

Get in net – training course for ” Transnational Youth initiatives” aims to improve international co-operation and consequently increase the quality of Transnational Youth Initiatives. The training course will be held from 23 – 28 November 2010 in ARNHEM, Netherlands

Why such a training course?

This training course is aimed at enabling the participants to develop and realise an Action 1.2 Transnational Youth Initiatives from Youth in Action Programme.

The specific objectives of the course are:
1) To acquire project management and communication competences for international activities;
2) To develop an understanding of the principles of networking;
3) To learn about the YOUTH in Action Programme and the “Quality criteria of Action 1.2”;
4) To share and transfer experiences of activities undertaken in the local community;
5) To create a space for contact making and finding potential partners for Transnational Youth Initiatives;
6) To develop an action plan for creating a Transnational Youth Initiative project.

Eligibility
Young people, Youth leaders, Youth workers who:
* are resident in one of the YOUTH in Action countries (27 EU countries + Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Turkey);
* have experience in local projects, ideally ex-beneficiaries of local youth initiatives;
* have an idea to develop into a Transnational Youth Initiative project;
* are motivated and have the possibility within their organization to set up a Transnational Youth Initiative project after the training course;

Cost
Sending costs (travel costs, insurance) can be covered by the National Agencies sending participants to the training course (please check with your NA) Hosting costs (accommodation, food, program activities, and local transport) will be covered by the hosting National Agency.

Application procedure
To apply the applicants need to create an online account and register directly through the SALTO-YOUTH online system.

The application deadline is 4th October 2010.

Training course co-organised by the Dutch National Agency and SALTO Participation

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Deadline: 13/10/2010
Open to: postgraduate students
Fund: covering tuition fee and/or accommodation

Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI) invites you to participate in the course Power and Dynamics of Civil Resistance. The course will be held in the frame of EMUNI Professional School, prepared in cooperation with the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) from the United States of America and the EMUNI Foundation.

The course will be held from 8 to 12 November 2010 at EMUNI University, Portorož – Piran, Slovenia. Participants that will successfully complete their study obligations will obtained ECTS credits.

Target group
Postgraduate students and others interested in any of the broadly defined subjects on the role and impact of non-state actors, and purposeful agency, civil society organizations, social movements, civic mobilization, nonviolent actions and civil resistance.

Course
This course is designed to provide an in-depth and multi-disciplinary perspective on the dynamic of civilian-based movements and campaigns that defend and obtain basic rights and justice, halt political oppression and facilitate democratic transitions and accountable governance. The course will examine the nature and attributes of civil resistance, its historical record and effectiveness when compared to that of violent insurgency, factors that determine successes as well as failures of civil resistance, etc.

Main topics
* Idea of Power and Consent in Civil Resistance
* Historical and Contemporary Cases of Civil Resistance
* Strategic Planning and Nonviolent Tactics
* Agency / Skills versus Structures / Conditions
* Campaigns and Movements for Social and Economic Rights and Rule of Law
* Enduring Impact of Civil Resistance
* Mediatization and Media Framing of Civil Resistance

Cost and Funding
Registration fee: 100 EUR
Participants can ask for financial aid in the form of a tuition fee and/or accommodation in the Student Residence. Grants will be awarded on the basis of a recommendation letter and the grade point average of the current or previous study and the availability of financial resources.

Application procedure
Participants should apply for the course through e-registration and attach following documents:
* curriculum Vitae (recommended is Europass CV)
* copy of the transcript with grade point average of current or previous study

It is also recommended that you enclose:
* Motivation Letter (between 300-500 words) and
* Recommendation Letter(s) (of teacher or employer), which will increase your enrolment possibilities in case of enrolment restriction.

In order to apply for grants (for the tuition fee, accommodation and meals in the Students Residence) participants need to enclose a Recommendation Letter(s).

The application deadline is 13 October 2010 or until the vacancies are filled.

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Deadline: 17/09/2010
Open to: young professionals in the fields of international relations, defense/security, journalism, international business, and academia
Cost: accommodation will be provided and allowances will be available to help cover travel cost

From November 19-20, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal will be the center of the transatlantic relationship as Heads of State, top diplomats, military figures, and others will convene for the 2010 NATO Summit.

The Atlantic Council of the United States’ Young Atlanticist Program, in partnership with the Portuguese Atlantic Commission and the Atlantic Treaty Association /Youth Atlantic Treaty Association, will be hosting a young professionals’ event for the Summit, and is currently soliciting applications from exceptional candidates from all NATO and Partnership for Peace (PfP) countries, as well as Mediterranean Dialogue members.

The Young Leaders Summit will take place on November 18th – 20th in Lisbon, Portugal. Participants will arrive on November 17th, and leave on the 20th or 21st.

Aim of the Young Leaders Summit
* connect emerging leaders with one another and with Alliance leaders to discuss NATO’s strategic concept and other pressing issues facing the Alliance;
* in addition to a series of high level speakers and panel discussions, participants will have opportunities to network with one another during meals and cultural events;
* participants will also be invited to join the Atlantic Council’s Young Atlanticist Network, and be encouraged to remain engaged with one another, and connect with other Young
Atlanticists online

Target group
* exceptional young professionals, aged 22-35, and are targeting individuals who have started careers in the fields of international relations, defense/security, journalism, international business, and academia. Successful candidates will possess a strong passion for international engagement and have demonstrated leadership abilities.

Eligibility
* Young professionals who have begun a career in a related field (graduate students may also be considered);
* Between 22 and 35 years of age
* NATO or PfP country citizenship, Mediterranean  Dialogue citizenship
* Past experience and/or studies relating to: security of defense policy; democratic transitions; international law; international energy policy; electoral politics; humanitarian issues; or any other fields of relevance to the transatlantic partnership.
* Working knowledge of English
* A willingness to provide running commentary of the summit via blog and video blog
* An interest in long-term engagement with peers on issues pertaining to transatlantic relations
* Applicants who have previously participated in a Young Atlanticist Summit are not eligible to apply for this opportunity

Application procedure
All interested applicants should submit following documents:
1. current CV, including nationality and age;
2. Application form and essays;
3. one English language writing sample, no longer than 5 pages in length

All the documents need to be submitted to yanapplications@acus.org no later than 17th September 2010. Write “2010 Young Atlanticist Summit Application” as the e-mail subject heading

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Deadline: 27/09/2010
Open to: trainee teachers, young teachers, activists and advanced students engaged in education and training work
Cost: travel expenses up to 80 € for participants from old EU member states and 50 € for participants from new member states have to be paid by the participants, additional costs are covered

Network Migration in Europe organizes a transnational European Forum: Advanced Training on (Forced) Migration and Human Rights: Challenges and Approaches for European Citizenship Education; 27 – 31 October 2010, Berlin.

During the European Forum Program in Berlin the participants will be offered five days of educational training and educational site visits in order to learn about learning approaches, learning/teaching models and educational project work on the topic of how European societies deal with migration and integration in past and present.
Good active and passive command of English is mandatory. The European Forum looks for participants who are at ease with intense, constant group activities and interaction.

The participation in the educational training seminar requires:
1. Preparation work with the training seminar reader.
2. Active (educational and methodical) team work during the seminar
3. Elaboration of a short working-sheet or project for school, adult or community education to be published on an internet platform (www.migrationeducation.org).

Target group
*  trainee teachers, young teachers, activists and advanced students engaged in education and training work.

Application process
Each applicant need to submit:
1) application form
2) curriculum vitae (no more than one page)

and send it to: info@network-migration.org ; applications must be submitted by 27 September 2010

Cost
Travel expenses up to 80 € for participants from old EU member states and 50 € for participants from new member states have to be paid by the participants, additional costs are covered by Network Migration. Costs and expenses for accommodation and food are covered.

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Deadline: undefined
Open to: any adult citizen who is a national of (permanently residing in) one of the Grundtvig Programme countries
Fund: covers the travel expenses, appropriate board and lodging

22 – 28 November 2010, Kütahya, Turkey

DPUSEM (Dumlupinar University Lifelong Training Centre) is organizing a Grundtvig Workshop called “Valuing Art, Respecting Culture” under the framework of the Lifelong Learning Program – Grundtvig.

This workshop promotes the use of visual art, particularly “Filigree”, as a tool to increase knowledge, skills and cognitive abilities, cultural understanding and aesthetic appreciation for the targets via the use of non-formal tools and methodologies.

Consequently, art in all its forms and expressions, provides not only the opportunity, but also the fundamental means for breaking down the dividing walls, which are not visible in everyday life, but which are still strongly entrenched in people’s minds and for this very reason harder to attack- such as racism and xenophobia. This is why we believe that “Filigree” as a visual art can represent a means of creating channels of communication between different cultures within a context of mutual respect, so as to enhance reciprocal knowledge and expression.

Eligibility
* Grundtvig Workshop is open to any adult citizen who is a national of or permanently residing in one of the Programme countries, namely: the 27 Member States of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway (EFTA-EEA countries.
* The Grundtvig Workshop will be realised in English.

Cost
* there is no participation fee;
* workshop is funded by the EU Lifelong Learning Programme, the Workshop Organizer covers the travel expenses and  appropriate board and lodging.

Application procedure
All interested applicants should send an email to Contact Person of Grundtvig Workshop Sezgi ÖZTOP at: pearlsez@gmail.com in order to get the application form to submit.

Scanned, signed and completed learner application form need to be submitted to the National Agency Grundtvig Programme Coordinator of the host country; that is Turkey, and home country as well.

Turkish National Agency Grundtvig Programme Coordinator Ismail Hakki Bilgen, E-mail: hakki.bilgen@ua.gov.tr

Organizer: DPUSEM (Dumlupinar University Lifelong Training Centre)

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Minorities of Europe invites you to participate on study session: Migration and Youth in Europe – New Realities and Challenges, which will take place from November 28 – December 5, 2010 in Budapest.

Minorities of Europe (MoE) is a pan-European minority youth platform which seeks to support and assist the co-operation, solidarity and exchange between different minority communities and young people in Europe. MoE’s main international activities are: training courses, study sessions, seminars, youth exchanges and other activities in which young people are involved, especially those ones from minority background.

Eligibility
All participants must:
* be project managers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth Policy Makers, Youth workers;
* have experience in the topics of the study session
* be highly motivated to participate and contribute to the event and to implementation of its results
* be ready and able to work as multipliers
* be aged between 20 and 30
* be able to attend the full duration of the training course
* be able to work in English
* reside in a Council of Europe Member State

Study Session objectives
* To exchange and analyse practice and experience, methodologies and approaches of youth work in the field of migration
* To review the opportunities provided by Council of Europe, European Youth Centres and European Youth Foundation in the field of migration and youth work
* To improve youth workers’ skills in tackling migration and integration with young people
* To develop an understanding of different aspects of migration and the relations in the context of class, race, north-south, east – west and EU/non-EU relations
* To develop new projects related to integration of young people from immigrant background
* To build new partnerships between participating organisations
* To develop a European work programme of youth projects dedicated to migration

Cost
An enrollment fee of 50 Euros is payable by each participant, aditionally travel and visa expenses will be fully reimbursed.

Application procedure
All interested applicant should fill in the application form and submit it to: migrationandyouth@gmail.com

The application deadline is 10th September 2010.

The team will notify successful applicants by October 4, 2010. Please note that due to the usually high number of applicants we will only be able to inform selected participants.

Organizer: Minorities of Europe

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Deadline: 15/10/2010

European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) organizes 16th ESPE Winter School. The course will be held over 5 days (6 nights) and will include interactive lectures by ESPE members, aiming to cover all main topics in paediatric endocrinology; case presentations by the ‘students’; introduction into clinical research; small group session to discuss teachers’ cases. All students are expected to stay for the entire course.

Eligibility
* paediatricians who have entirely or partially completed their paediatric training and who are established in the field or intend to develop a deep and continuing interest in paediatric endocrinology and diabetes.
* winter School is very kindly sponsored by Ferring Pharmaceuticals.
* the meeting will be conducted entirely in English and a good command of this language is a prerequisite.

Cost
Accommodation and meals will be provided free of charge, and travel grants will cover a train or reasonably priced plane ticket to Ankara.

Application procedure
All the applicatns should submit following documents:
1. Application form
2. CV
3. Letter of recommendation from the Department Director
4. Good quality passport-style photograph as a separate *.jpg file

The applications should be sent to the Winter School coordinator, Dr. Malcolm Donaldson, Glasgow, UK: mdcd1t@clinmed.gla.ac.uk

The application deadline is16th OCTOBER 2010

This year, applications from Turkey, The Middle East including Iraq and Iran, the Balkan countries, and the Caucuses will be given preference.

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Deadline: 10/09/2010
Open to: student between the age of 16-19 years
Costs: Accommodation, travel expenses (for the participants from Satu Mare) and lunch is covered

Click it and fix it!
A Seminar on Intercultural Communication in Romania
Cluj-Napoca, 17-19. September, 2010

Project holder: Balkans let´s get up!
Partner: Centrul Cultural German Cluj-Napoca

Romania offers home to eighteen officially registered ethnic groups among which the Hunga-
rians, making out 6.6 % of Romania`s inhabitants, are the most represented. This huge num-
ber of different ethnic groups enriches the country and its inhabitants with the chance of re-
cognizing a multitude of perspectives that are created through cultural diversity. The living-to-
gether of various groups of people speaking different languages, having their own scale of
values, traditions and expectations can generate easily prejudices, lack of interaction and fi-
nally conflicts.

If you recognized that these issues are present in our society and you want to discuss about
them with other young people and search for possible solutions in a relaxed and inspiring at-
mosphere, you have now the unique chance to do it!

The project “Click it and fix it” invites you to attend a dynamic and creative seminar which
deals with the intercultural communication between the Romanian community and the Hun-
garian minority. During the seminar we will try to find out where the roots of the existing pre-
judices and conflicts are and what we can do as individual citizens in order to combat them.
The participants will represent in an equal number both sides: the Romanian and the Hun-
garian and the working language will be English. Your contribution is extremely important
because the main topic of the seminar is the cohabitation of Romanians and Hungarians
which is best reflected in personal experiences and you have the power to make a change!

If you feel concerned by the Romanian- Hungarian (non?)communication or you want to learn more about it, please do not hesitate just participate!!!

Who can apply?

Any high school student between the age of 16-19 years able to work in English is highly
welcome. If you have already graduated, please do not worry you still have the possibility to
apply.

How to apply

As the title of the project shows, photos will play a role in the seminar. For application please
send a photo that reflects one topic of the seminar(or a topic we did not mention, but you
think should be discussed ) on the following e-mail address: clickitandfixit@gmail.com.
Beneath the photo please write down: your full name, your home town, your schools name
and your age. Based on the photos you send us we will select 8 participants for the seminar. Just use your
imagination and creativity to express how you perceive the living-together of Hungarians and
Romanians in our country. We are excited to see your great photos!
Potential participants who are not 18 years old yet are in case of selection kindly requested
to send us via e-mail the written allowance of the parents respective tutors.
The writing should contain the phone number of a parent or tutor that enables us to contact
the family.

Application deadline: 10th of September 2010

In case of selection we will inform you via e-mail until the 12th of September and will give
you further details related to the travel and accommodation.

Costs

Accommodation, travel expenses (for the participants from Satu Mare) and lunch will be orga-
nized and supported by the project holder. Please make sure that you can provide breakfast
and dinner.

For more information or questions on the seminar you may like to contact us by:
clickitandfixit@gmail.com

Call for: papers
Deadline: 15/09/2010

University of Vienna, Institute of Political Science Research Platform POTREBA and Karl-Franzens University of Graz Centre for Southeast European Studies organise International Conference: Democratization and Europeanization in the Western Balkans: Ethnic Diversity as a Factor of Democratic Consolidation.

The effects of ethnic diversity on democracy have been a subject of democratic theory since John Stuart Mill. The Western Balkans have served as an important example for the challenges of the complex and often antagonistic interrelationship between democracy and ethnicity. Due to the ethno-nationalist features of the democratic transformation and the incomplete nation-state building processes the region has become a “showpiece” on how “playing the ethnic card” may complicate democratization.

Today, the Western Balkans have adopted international standards of minority protection and are on their way towards European integration. Yet, ethno-nationalist discourses remain a threat to democratic stability in the region, preserving a sense of conflict.

Objectives of the conference
In order to explore this relationship, this conference aims at reflecting on the development of democracy and ethnicity in the Western Balkans over the last decade, exploring patterns of inclusion and exclusion of the “ethnic other”, the legal protection of minorities and the implementation of minority rights, external dimension of democratisation (Europeanisation) and its effect on the situation of national minorities.

There are three panels at the conference (focusing on three themes):

1. Forms and Challenges of Minority Inclusion/Exclusion in Plural Societies
Looking at the theoretical framework of “dealing with ethnic difference”, drawing on examples of the inclusion/exclusion of religious, ethnic or national minorities in the Western Balkans, analysing the discrepancies between the de jure provisions and de facto implementation of minority protection and the forms of behaviour by the state and ethnic majority towards the “ethnic other”, embedding it into considerations on the processes of nation-state building and post-conflict societies.

2.  Exclusion/Inclusion of the “other” during Europeanization
Looking and comparing examples of how the protection of minority rights and the inclusion/exclusion of “others” is evolving during the EU accession process, how EU-conditionality supports and/or obstructs the situation of national minorities, what form of external demands internal actors in dealing with “ethnic difference” exist in the context of Europeanization, what the strategies and practices used by the internal actors as a reaction to external demands are and how external institutions (in this case the EU) may pressure and react to strategies and practices of the internal actors.

3. Case studies: Political Representation and Socioeconomic Situation of National Minorities in the Western Balkans
Looking at case studies from the Western Balkans on how challenges of democratization impact national minorities, how the relationship between political, socioeconomic elites and the citizenry is reflected in the situation of minorities, the positioning of minorities in the national political context, forms and challenges of political representation of minorities and the socio-economic situation of national minorities.

Funding
Bursaries will be available to selected paper givers, though these might not cover the full cost of travel and accommodation.

Submission procedure
Organizers would like to invite you to submit paper-proposal of max. 800 words, indicating the preferred panel, and a short (150-200 word) bio via email to angela.wieser@univie.ac.at

The submission deadline is 15 September 2010. Contributors will be notified by the end of September.

Organizing Committee: Prof. Dieter Segert, Prof. Florian Bieber, Dr. Vedran Dzihic, Angela Wieser

Organizers:
Institute of Political Science Research Platform POTREBA
Centre for Southeast European Studies, Karl-Franzens University of Graz

Are you working with people at risk of social exclusion?
Do you want to discover yourselves skills and abilities which will keep you integrated in actual social-economical life?
Do you want to discover the beauty of being “Santa Claus”?

Just apply for our International Grundtvig 2010 Workshop called: “Integrate Santa Claus”, which will be held from 23th to 29th October 2010 in Iasi, Romania. The workshop is organised by Resource and Consultancy Centre in Education (CRCE).

CRCE (Resource and Consultancy Centre in Education), Romania is an institution with a higher interest in developing the adult education field. The use of information technology in the learning process and in the evaluation process in all seminar and courses (non-formal, informal and formal) that we are developing since 2005, is a very important method for the generation of learners that is coming.

Eligibility
Eligible programme only for EU, EFTA and Turkey citizens.

Cost
All expenses are covered.

Application procedure
In order to get more information and application form should all interested applicants contact Cristina Victoria Chert, Programme Director CRCE at: cchertz@crceromania.ro or crceromania@yahoo.com

Cristina Victoria Chert,
Programme Director CRCE
Romania 00 4 0727 850 691
crceromania@yahoo.com