DEEEP Grand Finale event – Learn and celebrate

How best can we employ development education and awareness raising as a tool to address systemic transformation challenges? The last big conference under the DEEEP project will be the perfect opportunity to take stock of “The Best of Global Learning” from 28-29 October in Brussels.

Based on the ‘Art of Hosting’ methods and highly participatory appreciative enquiry, the Grand Finale event, organised jointly with EUCIS-LLL, will harvest 12 years of DEAR experiences from all around Europe. It will allow participants to positively inquire their experiences and learn from each other’s as they have probably never done it before.

At the end of this learning journey, you will be invited in the evening to celebrate collectively the biggest achievements of the DEEEP projects and let these key moments revival in a convivial and festive atmosphere. Join the event to learn and celebrate!

Full programme available here.

Registration is open until October 14th.

Information provided by DEEEP

Training: EU Project Management

finep - forum for international development + planning – invites you to a training on EU Project Management. The training targets NGO staff members working in development who want to apply for EuropeAid funds and would like to acquire the necessary skills and know-how to make the application a success.

The training modules are tailor-made for the practical needs of NGO staff and held in English. Participants will understand funding principles, guidelines and contractual obligations of EuropeAid and will approach the following challenges step by step:
• Defining the characteristics of a coherent project logic and a good logframe
• Drafting a well-structured proposal and budget
• Understanding key aspects of a successful project implementation, in line with EuropeAid regulations.

Dates: 21-25 September and 16-18 November 2015
Venue: Berlin
Deadlines for application: 31st August 2015 for module 1-3 and 30th October for module 4.

Further information and application here.

Information provided by finep: www.finep-akademie.eu 

Transformative Communication: Seminar for the Development Sector

DEEEP/CONCORD DARE Forum is organising a two day seminar “Why justice matters?” - transformative communication for the development sector on 13 and 14 October 2015 in Brussels.

This seminar targets communication officers but not only. Two persons from the same organisation will be invited to discuss communication matters as a transversal issue of their strategy. Do you feel that your communication about development is loosing its juice and consistency? This seminar will guide you out of the dark communication tunnel full of old-fashioned images and stereotypes and show you transformative practices for effective communication in the development sector.

The “Why justice matters” seminar will be focused on
• Empowering participants to talk about transformative communication at their organisational and members’ level
• Introducing a toolkit to participants (theory, practices and resources) necessary to apply transformative communication back home
• Exploring the narrative landscape and creating a common mapping of the frames we know, experiencing and practicing.

If you are interested in taking part in this seminar, please register until 21st July via this form.

Before registering, we recommend you to read the concept note and follow the guidelines for participants here.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact Helene Debaisieux, DEEEP Communication Officer.

TRIALOG Academic Breakfast Discussion – Trends Across the EU13 Region

If you are coming to Brussels for the CONCORD General Assembly, make sure you are there in time for the TRIALOG event immediately before - 9.15-10.45 on Wednesday 10th June 2015.

As a final event of the TRIALOG project, we are gathering academics (Dr Simon Lightfoot from the University of Leeds and Fabienne Bossuyt from the University of Ghent) specialised in EU13 development policy and practice and representatives of the national platforms from both EU13 (Inese Vaivare from LAPAS) and EU15 (Hans Zomer from DOCHAS) countries to look at the contribution EU13 civil society organisations have made to European development approaches over the past decade.
 The speakers will be guided though the discussion by Éva Bördős from Hungary, who will be standing in the CONCORD board election later in the day.

An event agenda will be available shortly on the TRIALOG and CONCORD websites. We look forward to seeing you there!

For more information please contact Rebecca Steel-Jasińska at Rebecca.TRIALOG@concordeurope.org


Information provided by TRIALOG

Round Table: Post-2015 Development Agenda as a New Reality – Opportunities for Small States

The Slovenian development NGO platform SLOGA, together with the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Brussels are organizing the round table “Post-2015 Development Agenda as a New Reality – Opportunities for Small States”, held before the start of the European Development Days.

It will take place on 2 June at 6 pm at the Embassy of Slovenia in Brussels (Rue du commerce 44). The round table is organized as part of TRIALOG project.

Please find the invitation here.


Information provided by SLOGA

TRIALOG Partnership Fair 2015: Application open

TRIALOG is now accepting applications for the 5th edition of the TRIALOG Partnership Fair on Development Cooperation. Deadline for submitting applications: 17th of April 2015.

TRIALOG will host the 5th edition of the Partnership Fair between the 4th and 6th of May 2015 in Vienna, Austria. This year’s Fair will represent a meeting space between donors and CSOs, an opportunity to exchange information about donors’ plans and priorities and civil society’s views on needs in the local context, as well as a partnership development event.

The Fair will facilitate partnerships, cooperation, learning and exchange at an international level for joint projects. Key actors engaged in the global efforts aimed at achieving
justice and equality and contributing to poverty eradication (donors, representatives of the European Commission and CSOs) will contribute either as speakers, facilitators or participants.

Over 100 CSO representatives are expected to attend the event. To facilitate the preparation prior to the Fair, TRIALOG has prepared for the applicants a list of funding options around which projects can be planned during the Fair. Representatives of all the listed foundations and funding institutions have been contacted and invited to take part in the Fair. However, their participation has yet to be confirmed; therefore TRIALOG cannot guarantee their presence at the event.

More information about the format, the focus and the aims of the Fair is available in the full description here.

Partnership Fair Agenda will be made available closer to the time of the event. Look out for updates on the TRIALOG website.

Who is expected to apply? All European CSOs looking to find new and strengthen existing partnerships with other CSOs and plan joint projects. Also, CSOs wishing to exchange with donors and learn about funding opportunities.
Download application form here. 


Information provided by Iulia Socea, TRIALOG

International Development Training Programme in Hungary: Summer 2015

Artemisszio from Hungary provides a training programme in the field of international development, intercultural communication and migration during summer 2015:

COURSES:

• Culture in Healing, Healing in Cultures, 22nd – 26th July 2015 Budapest:  Communication, cultural difference, holistic approach; For: medical care Doctors, nurses, psychologists, birth attendants, and other health professionals 
• Stories from the Field. Intercultural relations in international development, 4th – 7th August 2015, Budapest: International development, humanitarian aid, intercultural communication; For: Aid workers, professionals of international NGOs, volunteers 
• Art, Migration, Adaptation, 24th-28th August 2015. Budapest: Art, migration, adaptation; For: Trainers, teachers artists, social workers, youth workers 

Find more information here or contact Diana Szántó at trainings@artemisszio.hu


Information provided by Artemisszio

International Development Forum in Latvia

The central international event in the field of development cooperation organized during Latvian Presidency in EU Development Forum - will take place from 3rd to 5th of June, 2015, and will emphasize the idea of glocalization as the key to sustainable development in local to global levels.

The three day forum will gather 70 development cooperation NGO activists, local community grassroots representatives and opinion leaders from Latvia and 50 from European Union, Eastern Partnership countries, etc., eager to develop hopeful global and local futures. Participation is free of charge provided that the participant takes part throughout the whole 3 day event.

Reimbursement of travel expanses is available for limited number of participants from partner countries upon request. The number of places is limited. In case of a large number of applications, the participants will be selected based on the assessment of the participant's motivation and ensuring broadest possible territorial and participant's profile diversity.

Find the programme here.
Registration until March 24th, 2015.

Register now on LAPAS website.

Information provided by Inese Vaivare, LAPAS

International Tax Conference: ‘Pay your taxes where you add the value’

In co-operation with the Universities of Groningen and Tilburg and the Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable Development (VBDO) the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands organizes a one-day international tax conference. The conference will provide a forum for academics, companies, government officials and members of civil society to discuss effective ways to support developing countries’ tax policy and revenue collection. The conference aims to feed national policymaking as well as the international debate on domestic resource mobilization in the post 2015 area. The conference is held in the context of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, of which Lilianne Ploumen, the Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, is co-chair.

When: 2nd of July, 2015
Where: The Hague, Netherlands
Registration deadline: 17th of April, 2015

The conference is free of charge for registered participants. More information can be accessed here.

Source: Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation

Regional Workshop on EU Aid Volunteers Initiative: Ljubljana, 26 January 2015

As part of the Slovenian Development Days, organised by the Slovenian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and SLOGA Platform, a Regional Workshop will be held on the topic of EU Aid Volunteers Initiative on 26 January 2015.

Representatives of the MFAs and humanitarian NGOs from Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy and the Latvian Presidency of the EU Council will meet with an expert from DG ECHO to discuss the following topics:
(-) EU Aid Volunteers Initiative in general and lessons learnt from pilot projects;
(-) Upcoming call for proposals for capacity building and technical assistance;
(-) Eligibility criteria for certified organisations; and
(-) Capacity building opportunities.

The workshop will also present an opportunity to exchange view and experiences from pilot projects, search for future partnerships and liaise with ECHO.

For more information please see the invitation and the programme.


Information provided by SLOGA

Save the date: Third Humanitarian Congress in Vienna - "Humanitarian Aid under Fire"

One of the key aims of the Humanitarian Congress Vienna on 6th of March 2015 is to increase the visibility of humanitarian work. A second aim is to raise awareness among decision makers for the relevance of humanitarian aid and cooperation, both at the national, the European and international level. The Congress brings together experts from medical, humanitarian and international organisations, politics, media as well as a large number of students from different areas of study. Registration is open until 28 February.

More information is available here.

Source: AG Globale Verantwortung Newsletter

Call for papers: Development 2.0 or "Business as usual"? Private Sector, Institutions and Development

Location: University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Dates: 24, 25 and 26 June 2015

Both junior and senior researchers are invited to submit their contributions to the summer school. Contributions from different disciplines examining the role of private sector for development and how this role is mediated by institutions will be given priority, although contributions covering other topics will be considered as well.

A non-restrictive list of topics dealt with during the conference:
• Agricultural and food value chains: improving the lives of small-scale producers?
• Extractive industries and communities: corporate social responsibility and local development
• Certification and standards: tools for poverty reduction?
• Small and medium enterprises & industrial clusters in developing countries
• Private sector development
• Labour standards in global value chains
• South-South integration and the spill-overs on the private sector
• Aid for trade and global value chains

Deadline for submissions: 16th of March 2015.
More information on the conference and criteria for submissions can be accessed here.

Source: University of Antwerp

The 2nd Eastern Partnership Youth Forum 2015 in Riga, Latvia

The 2nd Eastern Partnership Youth Forum is organised in the context of Latvia’s Presidency of the Council of the EU and the Eastern Partnership Platform 4 'Contacts between people'.

The Forum will bring together about 200 participants: young persons active in youth organisations, youth workers, researchers, ministerial representatives, representatives of business field (unions, employers’ organisations, job services etc.), representatives of formal education, young journalist willing to spread the word about the 2nd Eastern Partnership Youth Forum.
Additionally, the Forum will showcase and further develop the Eastern Partnership and Erasmus+ Programme countries’ joint youth cooperation. The Forum will provide space to discuss and recommend steps to be taken as regards young people’s employability in this context.

Application deadline is 2 November 2014.
You can apply online here.

Before you apply you should check with the NA of your residence country if it is involved in this particular project and would be ready to support any candidate.


Source: Salto Youth

North-South Centre of the Council of Europe - e-learning course on the Intercultural Dimension of Global Education

This global education online learning course is designed for education practitioners, social workers, civil society, youth activists, as well as policy and decision makers, local authorities and intercultural cities. The course has been designed to complement the Global Education Guidelines, a pedagogical tool for educators and policy makers to understand and implement Global Education, and share with a wider audience concepts and approaches promoted by the North-South Centre’s Global Education programme.

The deadline for submitting the complete application is 3 November, 2014.
Details on the application process and the application form can be found here.


Source: North-South Centre - Council of Europe

Global Education Week 2014: Food Security and Food Waste

Whilst in many parts of the world food is scarce, in Western industrial nations a great deal of faultless food gets thrown away in the trash. What some have in abundance, lacks for others. Estimates show that about a third of the worldwide produced food ends up in the garbage without being consumed. This has consequences not only for the climate and the environment, but also causes hunger and food insecurity in the countries that export the raw materials. In those countries you often encounter extreme inequality in the access to food products.

This year’s Global Education Week (from the 15th to the 23rd of November 2014) will address this issues and the implications that food waste has on a global scale. The aim of the European week is to introduce topics on Global Learning to educational institutions and other organizations.

In Germany, the World University Service coordinates the Global Education Week and supports the various actors of Global Learning and Development Education by promoting their activities on www.globaleducationweek.de. There you can also find a calendar of events with seminars, workshops and other activities on the issue of food security and food waste. In addition to that we provide a list of relevant school materials and background information on the matter.

For further information, please contact the National Coordinator of the Global Education Week in Germany: Word University Service.

Information provided by Word University Service 

Beyond 2015 Copenhagen CSO Conference, 13 – 14 November

The Beyond 2015 Copenhagen CSO Conference will be a key moment for global civil society to take stock of progress on the creation of the new Post-2015 framework and influencing the final stage of negotiations, raising the ambition and ensuring that governments are committed to an ambitious, transformative agenda which tackles the key issues of our time; inequality, environmental sustainability, poverty eradication, human rights, peace and security and participation.

To find out more and to apply for participation at the Beyond 2015 Copenhagen CSO Conference, please click here.

Deadline: All interested applicants must send the application form as soon as possible, and latest by 26th September 2014 (Midnight ECT).

Source: Beyond2015

AidEx 2014 – Brussels, 12-13 November

AidEx is a major international conference and exhibition for humanitarian and development professionals of all stripes. Held annually in Brussels, the event brings together different voices whether they be NGO fieldworkers, the public and private sectors, long-established thought leaders or brand new start-ups. AidEx encourages organisations to network with one another, connect with suppliers and attend topical sessions to facilitate discussions on the current challenges they face. It’s also a great place to establish important, durable business relationships. Find out who will be crowned king or queen of Aid Innovation and who will win the coveted Humanitarian Hero of the Year Award at the AidEx prestigious awards ceremony.

This year the theme will be ‘Innovation in Aid & Development’. Dialogue sessions will be held with experts to question and understand what innovation is, whether its application is feasible in the aid and development arena and where future trends will lead us.

Receive your free entry by registering today.

Source: AidEx

Council of Europe – World Forum for Democracy

From 3-5 November 2014, the Strasbourg World Forum for Democracy - an annual gathering of leaders, opinion-makers, civil society activists, representatives of business, academia, media and professional groups - will debate key challenges for democracies worldwide. The insights gathered during the World Forum meetings inform the work of the Council of Europe and its numerous partners in the field of democracy and democratic governance. The SWFD 2014 will engage with young people and with decision-makers and opinion-formers in a reflection on current patterns of exclusion and involvement and will explore new ways of engaging young people in re-visioning the democratic arenas of today.

Deadline for applications: 1 October 2014.
Click here for more details and registration.

Source: Council of Europe

Youth Forum “New Generation for EU Enlargement”

From 25 – 30 October 2014, the Youth Forum “New Generation for EU Enlargement” will take place in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia. This Forum is organized by the European Center for Peace and Development (ECPD) of the University for Peace established by the United Nations, the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR) and Youth Association of Serbia (OSS), in cooperation with Euroregion Nisava and Euroregion Drina. Applications are open for youth between 20 and 30-year old, who have studied or are working in the following fields: cross-border cooperation, politics and diplomacy, economics, culture, media, tourism, sports, peace and conflict resolution.

Deadline for submitting applications: 29 September 2014.

More details, detailed agenda and application form are available here.

Source: Edu-Active

Eastern Partnership: Young Leaders Forum at the European Parliament – apply now!

The Eastern Partnership-EU Young Leaders Forum will be held at the European Parliament in Brussels on December 8-11, 2014. The Forum – attended by young leaders from both the EU and the Eastern Partnership countries – consists of several round tables where participants discuss among themselves or with Members of the European Parliament, representatives of other EU Institutions or experts and external guest speakers.

The deadline for applicants is 10 October. To read more, click here.

Source: EU Neighbourhood Info Centre