Deadline: March 25, 2024
Applications are open for the OSCE South-Eastern Europe Youth Dialogue Forum 2024. The Forum aims to build confidence and trust among young women and men across South-Eastern Europe and to enhance their participatory capacities, especially critical thinking, public speaking and presentation skills, which are crucial for their meaningful and effective engagement and participation in decision-making processes related to preventing organized crime and corruption.
The Forum seeks to gather up to twenty-five (25) young people aged 18-28 years old from South-Eastern European countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia) to discuss the challenges they face in regard to common security issues, such as organized crime and corruption, and share their ideas on how to strengthen the rule of law, integrity and crime prevention within their communities and the region as a whole.
The South-Eastern Europe Youth Dialogue Forum ‘Youth for Prevention of Organized Crime and Corruption’ will take place on 21-24 May 2024 in Durres, Albania.
Benefits
- Coverage of participation costs, including:
- travel to Durres: direct purchase of round-trip flight tickets (travel to and from departing cities is participants’ own responsibility) or reimbursement of ground travel expenses after the event,
- accommodation (for the duration of the event),
- meals during the entire stay in Durres (breakfast, lunch, dinner and coffee breaks).
- Capacity-building sessions on topics such as organized crime, corruption and youth crime prevention, public speaking and debating, as well as project development and pitching.
- Peer-to-peer exchanges and networking.
- Opportunity to pitch developed project ideas to relevant international actors supporting youth.
Eligibility
To be eligible for participation in the event, applicants must be:
- Between 18 and 28 years of age (by 20 May 2024);
- Citizens of one of the following OSCE participating States: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia;
- Fluent in English (the working language of the event is English; no translation will be provided);
- Experienced or have demonstrated interest in the topics of organized crime and corruption prevention;
- Active and engaged members of their local communities with an interest in promoting regional youth co-operation across South-Eastern Europe;
- Available to participate in person during the event.
Application
The deadline for applications is at 23:59 CET on March 25, 2024.
For more information, visit OSCE Youth Dialogue Forum.
