EVENTS: European Youth Summit

CfA: European Youth Summit: 100 for the Next 100 in the Danube Region, Sarajevo, 4-8 June 2014

Europe is, just as 100 years ago, at a crossroad. This June, Sarajevo, just as one century ago, will be the center of the World. Only this time, the reason will be much more pleasant. European Youth Summit, with a symbolic title "100 for the Next 100 in the Danube Region" will be held in Sarajevo from 04-08 June 2014. This event will bring 100 young leaders from the countries of the Danube region and South-East Europe.

Participants of the Summit will have a unique opportunity to discuss the challenges Europe and the region are facing nowadays, not just among themselves, but also with the key decision makers with different backgrounds - politics, civil society and extinguished academic members of the community. Another aspect of the Summit are the workshops, which will provide participants with an opportunity to acquire more practical knowledge and skills from wide range of areas. Organizers of the event are regional members of the Forum Alpbach Network from Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Partners of the project are European Forum Alpbach, Danube Competence Center and University of Sarajevo.

We are pleased to invite all the interested young people, students, graduates, entrepreneurs, young professionals and civil society representatives to send their applications until 20 April 2014.

The application form and all other information regarding the project and organizers are available at www.alpbach.org/en/sarajevo2014

FESTIVALS / CALL FOR ENTRIES / OPPORTUNITIES: Call for Entries: Sarajevo City of Film Project 2012

The call for entries to participate in the Sarajevo City of Film 2012 project will be open from 3^rd November to 9^th December 2011.

The goal of the project is to support and instigate cooperation between young filmmakers in Southeast Europe, and the call for entries will be open, as in previous years, only for the participants of one of the two previous editions of the Sarajevo Talent Campus.

In this way, the Sarajevo Film Festival wishes to give the chance to directors, screenwriters, actors and producers, who attended the Sarajevo Talent Campus during the 16th and 17th editions of the Sarajevo Film Festival, to present their talent and gain additional experience by making short films.

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OPPORTUNITIES / EVENTS / SEMINARS: Young Media Makers Preach and Practice Peaceful Journalism (GEORGIA, ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN, BELARUS, BIH, GERMANY, ITALY, MACEDONIA, MOLDOVA, POLAND, ROMANIA, RUSSIA, SERBIA, SPAIN)

Kobuleti, Georgia, 19-26 June 2010

European Youth Press – network of young media makers in cooperation with Academy for Peace and Development invites you to participate in the seminar “Young Media Makers Preach and Practice Peaceful Journalism”. The implementation of the seminar is possible due to kind support of the European Youth Foundation, Council of Europe.

The aim of the seminar is to explore what peace journalism is and how it can be used by young journalists to foster peace building and conflict transformation.

The seminar will consider the ways in which peace and conflict transformation is to be represented in the media and will discuss the the role of young media makers in engaging in promoting peace building, conflict prevention and transformation. The participants will not only get a better comprehension of the peaceful journalism concept, but also will have the opportunity to put into practice their freshly gained skills. In addition to that, the seminar will tackle the issues such as Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue as major factors in supporting stability and intercultural understanding in Europe. The workshops will be led by CoE trainers’s pool and experienced journalists in field of peace and conflict reporting.

Good to know:

Who can participate: 22 young people (age 18-27) interested in peace journalism, journalists, bloggers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Spain.

Where: Kobuleti (20 km north of Batumi), Georgia.

When: 19 – 26 June 2010

Costs: Accommodation and food will be fully covered by organisers. Travel costs – participants will be reimbursed up to 200 euro upon presentation of relevant proofs.

Participation fee: 100 euro

If you are interested send your CV + letter of motivation (max 200 words) to Andrei Ioniță ( a.ionita@youthpress.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) until Sunday 9 May 2010. Mention in the email subject: “Application Peace Journalism”

Applicants will be informed about the selection decision on 11 May and will be asked to confirm their participation in the seminar by 17 May.

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OPPORTUNITIES / FELLOWSHIPS: Fellowship open for young Eastern European writers

Posted on: 24/03/2010 Fellowships and Awards, International Experience, Study Abroad Deadline: 01/06/2010 Country: Moldova, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine, Albania, Belarus

Young writers from Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine are invited to apply for a fellowship for writers. Applicants should be no older than 35. Deadline: June 1.

The CEI (Central European Initiative) Fellowship is an award aimed at encouraging cross-border cooperation and promotion in the field of literature for young writers from Central European countries that are not yet a part of the European Union.

It is awarded by the CEI in cooperation with the Slovene Writers’ Association.

The fellowship is endowed with a cash award of EU€5,000 (about US $6,750) for a three-month stay in any of the Central European Initiative Member States, selected by the candidate.

To get more information, visit http://www.vilenica.si/files/1267629747CEI_fellowship-2010.pdf

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NEWS: European Commission supports Kids Festival

European Commission supports Kids Festival

The press conference announcing the 6th Kids Festival 12-17 June 2009 in Sarajevo, took place today at Zetra Olympic complex. Mr Constantino Longares Barrio, First Secretary, Head of Operations Section for Democracy and Social Development of the European Commission Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina expressed his satisfaction that the European Commission has again been able to support Kids Festival.

“The European Commission has donated 100,000 € for Kid’s Festival”. “The Festival aims to create much better conditions for our children, and that is our ultimate goal when we provide financing such as this.”

Mr Barrio said the Festival represents “a very good example of cooperation among different donors” and he mentioned other participating organisations, including the OSCE, the Swiss cooperation development agency, NATO, UNICEF, and civil society organisations, as well as the City of Sarajevo, the Sarajevo Canton Ministry of Culture and Sports, and private institutions such as Raiffeisen Bank and others, that are helping to make this year’s Festival a success.

The NGO ViaKult is organising Kids Festival, which brings together children from different cultures and geographical backgrounds from all over the country.

“We believe that bringing children together is the most important element,” Mr Barrio said. “We hope that initiatives like this will help establish links which may not exist today, or reinforce small links that have already been established.”

Noting that BiH has signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Children, Mr Barrio pointed out that there were still a number of important institutional and legislative steps that had to be taken in order to comply with UN norms on the children rights, as well as norms applied in the European Union.

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