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European Opportunities

Highlights

Upcoming Events

October 2012

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Reference

number Deadline Programme Title

EU0010000494 26 October 2012 European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) Civil Society Prize-2012

EU0010000087 31 October 2012 Financial support for European environmental organisations

EU0010000263 31 October 2012 Internships at the World Bank

EU0010000234 31 October 2012 Traineeships at the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade marks and Designs)

EU0010000150 31 October 2012 Internship programme at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

EU0010000267 31 October 2012 European E-learning Award – EureleA

EU0010000528 31 October 2012 Competition - Show Me Inclusion

EU0010000372 1 November 2012 Euro-Med Youth Programme

EU0010000528 1 November 2012 Student Grants Programme

EU0010000381 7 November 2012 Culture (2007-2013) : Strand 3 - Support for analysis and dissemination activities

EU0010000165 7 November 2012 Culture (2007-2013) : Strand 1 - Support for Cultural Actions

EU0010000178 15 November 2012 Translation Traineeships at the European Parliament

EU0010000082 15 November 2012 YOUTH IN ACTION - Action 4.1 - Support to bodies active at European level in the field of youth

EU0010000320 15 November 2012 Traineeships at the European Free Trade Association - EFTA

EU0010000322 15 November 2012 Europe for Citizens - Active Civil Society for Europe (Action 2)

EU0010000493 16 November 2012 MEDIA 2007-Audiovisual Festivals

EU0010000050 22 November 2012 People (FP7) - Marie Curie Actions

EU0010000522 22 November 2012 European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants

EU0010000091 30 November 2012 Traineeships at the Council of Europe

EU0010000031 3 December 2012 Lifelong Learning - COMENIUS

EU0010000331 8 January 2013 Researchers night

EU0010000358 15 January 2013 Internship at the European Commission Delegation to the United Nations in New York

EU0010000413 15 January 2013 Bogliasco Fellowships Programme

Deadlines up to 15 January 2013

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EU Youth Report 2012

The EU Youth Report, adopted on 10th September 2012, calls for youth

employment, social inclusion, health and the well-being of young people to be top

priorities in Europe's youth policy. The report, which is produced every three years

by the European Commission, underlines that the EU and Member States must do

more to support young people, who have borne up against the economic crisis.

The report will be submitted to the EU Council and is scheduled to be adopted as a

Joint Council–Commission Report in November 2012.

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/news/20120910_en.htm

Key Data on Teaching Languages at School in Europe 2012

According to the Eurydice/Eurostat publication, produced in close cooperation with

the European Commission, children in Europe start learning foreign languages at an

increasingly early age in Europe, with most pupils beginning when they are 6-9

years old. The report confirms that English is by far the most taught foreign

language in nearly all European countries, with French, Spanish, German and

Russian following far behind. It also highlights that an increasing number of pupils

now learn two languages for at least one year during compulsory education. The

report also confirms a rather surprising finding: few countries require their trainee

language teachers to spend an immersion period abroad.

http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/education/eurydice/documents/key_data_series/143EN.

pdf

EU Employment and Social Situation Quarterly Review – September 2012

According to the latest EU Employment and Social Situation Quarterly Review, the

employment and social situation in the EU remained very serious in the second

quarter of 2012 with unemployment rising overall but also displaying significant

differences between Member States, households' financial situation deteriorating

and child poverty increasing. The EU has been in recession or on the verge of it

since late 2011 and the overall economic sentiment is at its lowest level in three

years. In this context, job-finding prospects remain poor compared to pre-crisis

years. Greece and Austria recorded the highest number of hours worked by full-

time employed persons in the first quarter of 2012, while Finland, Italy and Ireland

recorded the lowest number.

http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=8885&langId=en

UNESCO eAtlas of Gender Equality in Education

With over 120 maps, charts and tables, the UNESCO World Atlas of Gender Equality

in Education enables readers to visualise the educational pathways of girls and boys

in terms of access, participation and progression from pre-primary to tertiary

education.

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002155/215522E.pdf

Documentation

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Video - EU Cyprus Youth Conference

The third phase of the Structured Dialogue cycle on "Youth Participation and Social

Inclusion, with an emphasis on the young people with migrant background" was

concluded at the EU Youth Conference hosted by the Cyprus Presidency in Nicosia

on 11th-13th September 2012. More information on the joint recommendations can

be obtained from the video from the event.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljxZKxRNFAw

http://www.cy2012.eu/index.php/en/political-calendar/areas/education-youth-

culture-and-sport/eu-youth-conference

e-Twinning revamped Portal

The free and safe platform for teachers to connect, develop collaborative projects

and share ideas in Europe has been totally restructured. New layout, a better

navigation and a more friendly user interface.

http://www.etwinning.net

Share My Lesson

Portal containing free high quality teaching resources in a variety of formats

(images, web pages, pdfs, music, text files) for every level of education from

kindergarten to high school and with a section for students with disabilities.

It provides an online community where teachers can collaborate with, encourage

and inspire each other. The members of the community can download and share

user-generated resources free of charge.

http://www.sharemylesson.com

Preparing for Work

Because of a lack of access to education and training, young people in the

developing world often do not obtain the foundational skills needed to participate in

family, civic and community life. This database of resources not only provides

materials for youth work-readiness and life skills programmes, but also consolidates

these resources so they are immediately and easily available to compare, review,

and obtain.

http://www.preparing4work.org

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Danceweb Scholarship Programme 2013

The Scholarship Programme is a 5 week residency taking place from 10th July to

14th August 2013 in Vienna within the frame of ImPulsTanz festival. The Programme

offers around 65 young professional dancers and choreographers from mainly

European but also from non European countries the possibility to take part in an

intense multinational further training programme.

The scholarship is addressed to dancers and choreographers with professional

ambitions from European, Eastern European and non European countries preferably

between 22 and 30 years of age and a good knowledge of English. The quality of

the applicants’ dance background is the main criteria for participation in the

Programme.

Deadline to apply is 15th December 2012.

For more information: http://www.jardindeurope.eu/index.php?id=71

"It's About Ability!" UNICEF Youth Video Contest

Each year UNICEF publishes a report called State of the World’s Children. Next year

the theme is on children with disabilities and UNICEF is therefore inviting young

people worldwide, up to 25 years old, to join this contest and make a video

reflecting on the theme of children with disabilities, whether their own personal

experience or in the world at large. Videos must be one minute in length and can

be anything from drama to comedy, fiction or documentary, animation or live-

action. A jury of professionals and youth from around the world will select the

winning video that will be featured in the State of the World’s Children campaign.

Deadline: 15th December 2012.

Find out more: http://www.unicef.org/videoaudio/video_videocontest.html

World of 7 Billion International Video Contest

Students from all over the world are invited to join this contest and create a 30-45

second video Public Service Announcement (PSA) that illustrates the connection

between world population at seven billion and one of the following three topics:

Food security, The global status of women and girls, or Wildlife habitat.

Entrants can participate individually or in a group. For each topic there will be three

winners that will be awarded with cash prizes.

Deadline: 21st February 2013.

Find out more: http://www.worldof7billion.org/student_video_contest

European Opportunities European Opportunities

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Eurodesk Awards 2012

"Champions of European Youth

Information"

On 27th September 2012, the

Eurodesk Awards 2012 for

"Champions of European Youth

Information" were presented at a

ceremony during the annual European

Seminar for Eurodesk Multipliers in

Brussels. Eurodesk established these

awards in 2011 to celebrate the day-

to-day work of the local multipliers,

who are helping young people

discover and seize the numerous

opportunities Europe has to offer. A

jury of experts awarded three local

partners, or "multipliers", for their

outstanding information and

dissemination activities over the past

year, while a fourth partner received a

special recognition award. The

Information & Dissemination

Champion award went to aha - Tipps

& Infos für junge Leute, Dornbirn

(Austria) who delivers comprehensive

services directly informing and

counselling young people on mobility

issues. During its "Globehopper"

project, aha informed more than

2,700 young people in the region of

Vorarlberg: during an information fair,

with online advice and direct mobility

counselling. The jury appreciated in

particular that young people have

been empowered to further inform

their peers about European

opportunities. The Multimedia &

Online Activity Champion award went

to The Oficina Municipal de

Información Juvenil Ayuntamiento de

Jaca (Spain). Their “Rural Youth

Facilitators” offer a concrete non-

formal education opportunity for

young people in the rural areas of

Aragon to gain skills and competences

of online radio journalists. Their

"Vozcasters" web radio project also

enables young people to be the

disseminators of local and European

news they are concerned with,

supported by information

professionals and youth workers.

The Volunteer Involvement Champion

award went to Izmit Municipality

Youth Information and Counselling

Centre “Genç-iz”(Turkey), awarded

for displaying a clear method of

involving young volunteers in

information dissemination. Their

project trained already 100 young

people to be information multipliers,

thus clearly linking information and

participation through volunteering. In

the course of the project, those young

multipliers go local and voluntarily

reach out at universities and high

schools, reaching more and more

youngsters with information on

European opportunities.

The Special Recognition Award went

to The Centre Europa Jove, Consell

Comarcal del Barcelonès (Spain) for

their specific focus on providing

information and counselling for young

people in the area of employment and

opportunities to gain further skills and

competences. The overall information

and counselling services are complete

and professional and, thus, an

example of good practice, also in their

way of using online information

services (e.g. online job centre and

online video advice on European

opportunities in the field of training,

learning and employment),

complementary to 'classical' offline

information activities.

Awards were handed by Chiara

Gariazzo (Director for Youth and

Sport, European Commission),

Carmen Paun (European Youth Press),

Peter Matjašič (President, European

Youth Forum) and Reinhard

Schwalbach (Eurodesk President).

http://youtu.be/4_v84gpn_m0

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eurodes

kbrusselslink/sets/721576316382115

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No conclusions from the 9th

Council of Europe Conference of

Ministers responsible for Youth

The 9th Council of Europe Conference

of Ministers responsible for Youth,

which took place in St. Petersburg,

Russia from 23rd to 25th September

2012, failed to agree on a final

declaration while youth delegates

produced important inputs to the

discussion on better access of young

people to their rights in the youth

event conclusions. The European

Youth Forum and the Advisory Council

on Youth expressed their willingness

to continue their work on advocating

for a better access of young people to

their rights at all levels and ensure

that the lack of consensus on the final

declaration does not put into question

the work done in this field by the

Council of Europe. Both the Youth

Forum and the Advisory Council fully

agreed to build their future advocacy

on the very good proposals that

emerged from the youth event. A

youth event was held prior to the

Ministerial Conference in St.

Petersburg jointly organised by the

National Youth Council of Russia, the

Advisory Council on Youth and the

European Youth Forum. It gathered

around 100 young people from all

parts of Europe, including

representatives of national

delegations, international youth NGOs

and several Russian youth NGO,

aiming at giving direct input to the

conference. The inputs of the youth

event include references to the

establishment of a “youth guarantee”,

the promotion of co-management

mechanisms involving youth at any

level of decision-making, the

development of an action plan

combating hate motivated violence,

the improvement of youth mobility by

reducing visa restrictions, the call for

lowering the voting age at 16 and the

need of having a comprehensive legal

framework at European level in order

to ensure the full protection of young

people’s rights.

http://www.youthforum.org/images/s

tories/Documents/0675-

12_COEMinConf_YouthEvent_Conclusi

ons.pdf

Paphos (Cyprus) and Aarhus

(Denmark) to be the European

Capitals of Culture in 2017

The Cypriot city of Paphos was

recommended for the title of

European Capital of Culture in 2017

by an independent selection panel on

14th September. The other Cypriot city

in contention was Nicosia. The other

proposed city is Aarhus (Denmark).

The formal nomination of both

winning cities by the EU's Council of

Ministers will take place in May 2013.

http://tinyurl.com/95u8ata

‘Yes Europe’ would keep a

separate youth in action

programme

On 19th September, the European

Parliament’s Education and Culture

Committee (CULT) met to discuss MEP

Doris Pack’s draft report of the

‘Erasmus for All’ proposal. The

proposal was launched at the end of

November 2011 by the European

Commission and will be implemented

by January 2014. Before it is

however, the European Parliament

has the chance to amend the

proposal. Doris Pack, as chair of the

CULT committee, took the lead by

welcoming the simplification of the

new programme’s structure, but also

voiced her concerns. Doris Pack’s

recommendations included the

renaming of the programme to ‘YES

Europe’, an abbreviation for youth,

education and sports. This would

prevent much confusion the current

name has provided. Importantly,

Pack’s proposal also focuses on the

need for different sub-programmes

within, to keep them as separate

brands. Pack refers here to Grundtvig,

Leonardo but also to Youth in Action.

On the latter, the CULT Committee

called for an increase in the support

for young people in the voluntary

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sector and the non-formal education

activities they undertake. Pack’s

proposal was received positively in the

committee. A final vote in the

European Parliament is expected by

the beginning of December.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/

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EU Aid Volunteers: Commission

proposes new global humanitarian

initiative

On 19th September 2012 the

European Commission set out its

plans to develop a global initiative

that will create opportunities for some

10,000 people from 2014 to 2020 to

volunteer worldwide in humanitarian

operations.

The EU Aid Volunteers initiative will

provide a path for Europeans eager to

help practically where help is most

urgently needed. The number of

natural and man-made disasters in

the world has significantly increased

over the last years and this trend is

unfortunately likely to continue.

Humanitarian organisations need

more well-prepared people to support

them helping communities struck by

disasters. The Commission proposes

to develop European standards for

managing volunteers in humanitarian

projects, and a training programme to

prepare volunteers for deployment.

Only well-prepared volunteers will

have the possibility to be deployed as

'EU Aid Volunteers' in humanitarian

projects. The EU Aid Volunteers

initiative will be implemented in close

cooperation with humanitarian

organisations that adhere to the

standards and would need to be

certified to become 'sending

organisations'.

These standards will notably include

provisions for safety and security of

the volunteers which is of paramount

importance in humanitarian

operations. Interested European

citizens and long-term residents in the

EU above 18 will be able to apply to

become EU Aid Volunteers.

http://ec.europa.eu/echo/news/2012/

euaidvolunteers_en.htm

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24th-26th October 2012: Zero Waste Youth International meeting,

Florianopolis, Brazil

The event aims to promote and encourage discussion of ideas and concepts on the

subject of zero waste and sustainability among youth from different countries. It

will empower students, youth representatives, civil society organisations and

government organisations to find alternatives for planning and development of

youth groups and Zero Waste Communities.

There is a registration fee of 25$.

Find out more: http://www.zerowastemeeting.org/2012/en/index.php

12th-18th November 2012: Global Entrepreneurship Week

For one week, millions of young people around the world will join a growing

movement of entrepreneurial people to generate new ideas and to seek better ways

of doing things. Dozens of countries are coming together for the first time to host

Global Entrepreneurship Week, a global initiative to inspire young people to

embrace innovation, imagination and creativity.

For more information on how to get involved, please visit:

http://www.unleashingideas.org

22nd-23rd November 2012: 6th Equality Summit “Promoting Equality for

Growth” Nicosia, Cyprus

The summit will promote equal rights and equal opportunities for all in the EU. It

will be an occasion for sharing knowledge and experiences with the goal of

developing more effective ways of counteracting all forms of discrimination. It will

target particularly discrimination on the grounds of racial or ethnic origin, religion

and belief, age, disability, sexual orientation and gender.

Participation is by invitation only.

Find out more:

http://ec.europa.eu/justice/events/equality-summit-2012/index_en.htm

27th-28th November 2012: European Employment Forum, Brussels, Belgium

The forum targets anyone involved in the employment sector, whether from a

national or local government department, regional institution, social body or the

corporate sector. This 19th edition will see featuring a range of expert speakers both

from the EU Commission (giving updates on EU policy) and from a wide range of

organisations across the employment spectrum. The Forum’s 2012 conference

programme, entitled “Creating Jobs for Growth”, will cover all of the key areas

around the issues of unemployment, including ageing workforce, youth mobility

across borders and improving social inclusion.

Find out more: http://www.europeanemploymentforum.eu/cms.php

Upcoming Events

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28th-30th November 2012 – Online Educa Berlin, Germany

The conference focuses on fostering a bright and inclusive future for lifelong

learning in which technology enables learners globally to improve themselves.

Under the theme ‘Reaching beyond tomorrow’ it will explore the effects of the

multitude of changes in the fields of technology and education, as learners and

learning experts are asked to respond to challenges in society today.

Find out more: http://www.online-educa.com

9th-15th December 2012: UNITED Study Session "Step In! Be Active Against

Racist Propaganda and Hate Speech" Strasbourg, France

UNITED is organising a special study session at the European Youth Centre

Strasbourg, in cooperation with the Youth Department of the Council of Europe. The

session aims to train 35 young people to recognise and combat hate speech online.

It will motivate and enable them to step in when they witness situations where

racism, discrimination and hate speech are spread online.

Deadline to apply: 15th October 2012.

Find out more:

http://www.unitedagainstracism.org/pages/Strasbourginv.htm

6th-11th January 2013: 25th International Youth Leadership Conference,

Prague, Czech Republic

This is a week-long youth forum on world politics, international relations and

justice. One hundred and twenty students from more than 35 different countries

will join the conference and get the opportunity to exchange their ideas, test their

leadership skills, debate current issues, deliver speeches, make executive decisions,

and realise through experience the complexities of international relations.

Applications are handled in rounds, with deadlines every 10 days (the 10th, 20th and

30th of each month).

For more information on how to apply, the fees and the deadlines please visit:

http://www.iylcprague.org

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European Citizenship Training Courses 2013

The courses are meant to support youth workers and youth leaders developing their

critical understanding of European Citizenship and encourage them to integrate the

topic in their practical work.

List of proposed Courses for 2013:

•Training Course 6: ECTC-TR in Turkey (8th-14th April 2013)

Deadline: to be announced;

•Training Course 7: ECTC-PT in Portugal (13th-19th May 2013)

Deadline: to be announced;

•EXTRA: ECTC-FR in France (25th Febraury-3rd March 2013)

Deadline: to be announced.

All details are available here:

http://www.salto-youth.net/rc/training-and-cooperation/tc-rc-

nanetworktcs/europeancitizenship

Salto-Youth: Training Calendar

The European Training Calendar contains current training offers of different

institutions and organisations, such as SALTO, the National Agencies for the YOUTH

IN ACTION Programme, non-governmental youth organisations, the European

Youth Centres of the Council of Europe and the Partnership Programme on

European Youth Worker Training. They are addressed to young people, group

leaders, mentors, trainers and other specialists.

Find out more:

http://www.salto-youth.net/tools/training/find-a-training/?&pagerOffset=90

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