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The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe is promoting a capacity-building activity for young leaders in organisations working with youth diaspora communities in Europe. The course will take place in in the framework of the 6th Mediterranean University on Youth and Global Citizenship in Tunis, Tunisia, from the 7 to the 12 May 2018.

The training course will empower diaspora youth and their representatives with knowledge, skills and tools related to Global Development Education in order to be recognised as relevant actors to build inclusive societies in a context of increasing migration flows.

The course will analyse the situation and the challenges diaspora youth face in Europe and strengthen knowledge and competences on advocacy and youth participation to allow a greater participation of youth diaspora in the policy making processes.

This training is part of the iLegend, a project co-funded by the Council of Europe and the European Union. The iLegend project strengthens global development education in EU Member States and potential member states by promoting dialogue, networking strategies, capacity building and exchange of good education practices.

The training course targets 20 youth representatives/multipliers from organisations working with or for migrant and youth diaspora communities willing and able to initiate follow-up projects/initiatives after the conclusion of the course.

Applications for the course are open until 9 of April 2018 through the submission of the online application form.

For more information, please read carefully the call for participants.

29/03/2018

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The Youth Cooperation Programme aims at increasing youth participation and international cooperation in the youth sector to build more peaceful societies and more inclusive decision-making processes.

The activities promoted fall under three complementary dimensions: youth empowerment, networking and confidence building.

The youth empowerment schemes target youth workers and youth-multipliers improving their capacity to identify and address challenges related to human rights, global citizenship, democratic participation, peace, development and intercultural dialogue.

The networking activities provide spaces and opportunities for youth-led organisations and youth-related institutions to meet, debate, share good practices and cooperate, fostering partnership and joint actions to advance the global youth agenda.

The confidence building initiatives facilitate a structured dialogue between youth leaders and institutional representatives, creating a common ground on youth policies based on an increased awareness about each other's roles, challenges and priorities.

The Council of Europe human-rights approach is at the center of all initiatives promoted, while the non-formal education methodology is greatly used, following a peer-to-peer and participants-centred approach.

The projects and the activities are developed in close cooperation with various youth stakeholders (international organisations, youth networks, youth-serving institutions, national youth institutes, national youth councils… ) with the objective of enhancing multilevel governance structures based on more coordinated and inclusive processes.
In this sense, the North South Centre acts as facilitator providing a common framework of cooperation and interaction, privileging the interregional dimension.